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PUBLIC LAW 108–176—DEC. 12, 2003 circumstances they may be shared with other governmental, nongovernmental, or commercial entities. (3) The role airlines and outside vendors or contractors will have in implementing and operating the system, and to what extent will they have access, or the means to obtain access, to data, scores, or other information generated by the system. (4) The safeguards that will be implemented to ensure that data, scores, or other information generated by the system will be used only as officially intended. (5) The procedures that will be implemented to mitigate the effect of any errors, and what procedural recourse will be available to passengers who believe the system has wrongly barred them from taking flights. (6) The oversight procedures that will be implemented to ensure that, on an ongoing basis, privacy and civil liberties issues will continue to be considered and addressed with high priority as the system is installed, operated, and updated.

SEC. 609. ARMING CARGO PILOTS AGAINST TERRORISM.

49 USC 44921 note.

49 USC 44921 note.

(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that members of a flight deck crew of a cargo aircraft should be armed with a firearm or taser to defend the cargo aircraft against an attack by terrorists that could result in the use of the aircraft as a weapon of mass destruction or for other terrorist purposes. (b) ARMING CARGO PILOTS AGAINST TERRORISM.—Section 44921 is amended— (1) in subsection (a) by striking ‘‘passenger’’ each place that it appears; (2) in subsection (k)(2) by striking ‘‘or,’’ and all that follows before the period at the end and inserting ‘‘or any other flight deck crew member’’; and (3) by adding at the end of subsection (k) the following: ‘‘(3) ALL-CARGO AIR TRANSPORTATION.—In this section, the term ‘air transportation’ includes all-cargo air transportation.’’. (c) TIME FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—In carrying out the amendments made by subsection (d), the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security of the Department of Homeland Security shall ensure that passenger and cargo pilots are treated equitably in receiving access to training as Federal flight deck officers. (d) EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.—The requirements of subsection (e) shall have no effect on the deadlines for implementation contained in section 44921 of title 49, United States Code, as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 610. REMOVAL OF CAP ON TSA STAFFING LEVEL.

The matter appearing under the heading ‘‘AVIATION SECURITY’’ in the appropriations for the Transportation Security Administration in the Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 2003 (Public Law 108–7; 117 Stat. 386) is amended by striking the fifth proviso. SEC. 611. FOREIGN REPAIR STATIONS. Deadline.

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(a) OVERSIGHT PLAN.—Within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure a plan containing an

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