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2 CIS H 75153
TITLE: Implementation of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act with a Focus on the 60-Day Deadline for Screening Checked Baggage

CIS-NO: 2002-H751-53  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Jan. 23, 2002  
LENGTH: v+145 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-60  
 
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-29011-7.

SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-60. Hearing before the Subcom on Aviation to examine DOT and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) efforts to implement various Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) requirements, including a requirement to screen all checked airline baggage for explosives.
 
Supplementary material (p. 66-145) includes witnesses' written statements, submitted statements, and correspondence.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Air transportation system security measures, DOT and Transportation Security Admin implementation review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON AVIATION. HOUSE;  AIRLINES; AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ACT; AVIATION SECURITY; CIVIL AVIATION; DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; EXPLOSIVES; TRANSPORTATION REGULATION; TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

02-H751-53 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Jan. 23, 2002 p. 18-65, 75-81, 91-104, 120-126
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   MAGAW, JOHN W. (Under Secretary, Security, DOT)
   MEAD, KENNETH M. (Inspector General, DOT)
   HALLETT, CAROL B. (President and CEO, Air Transport Association)
   PLAVIN, DAVID Z. (President, Airports Council International, North America; also representing American Association of Airport Executives)
   BARNETT, ARNOLD (Professor, Management Science, Sloan School of Management, MIT)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Review of DOT implementation of ATSA requirements; description of challenges facing TSA in implementing ATSA, including screening of all checked baggage; summary of airline industry priority concerns relating to ATSA implementation; concerns of airports regarding various ATSA implementation issues.
   Merits of positive passenger bag match as method of preventing airplane sabotage, with recommendations; elaboration on issues related to aviation security measures and ATSA implementation.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Air transportation system security measures, DOT and Transportation Security Admin implementation review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION; AIRPORTS AND AIRWAYS; AIRPORTS COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL, NORTH AMERICA; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES; OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, DOT; SABOTAGE

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