110 STAT. 3254 PUBLIC LAW 104-264—OCT. 9, 1996 "§ 44916. Assessments and evaluations "(a) PERIODIC ASSESSMENTS. —The Administrator shall require each air carrier and airport (including the airport owner or operator in cooperation with the air carriers and vendors serving each airport) that provides for intrastate, interstate, or foreign air transportation to conduct periodic vulnerability assessments of the security systems of that edr carrier or sdrport, respectively. The Administration shall perform periodic audits of such assessments. "(b) INVESTIGATIONS. — The Administrator shall conduct periodic and unannounced inspections of security systems of airports and air carriers to determine the effectiveness and vulnerabilities of such systems. To the extent allowable by law, the Administrator may provide for anonymous tests of those security systems.". (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT. —The table of sections for such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 44915 the following: "44916. Assessments and evaluations.". SEC. 313. REPORT ON AIR CARGO. (a) REPORT.— Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress a report on any changes recommended and implemented as a result of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security to enhance and supplement screening and inspection of ceirgo, mail, and company-shipped materials transported in air commerce. (b) CONTENTS. —The report shall include— (1) an assessment of the effectiveness of the changes referred to in subsection (a); (2) an assessment of the oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration of inspections of sMpments of mail and CEirgo by domestic and foreign air carriers; (3) an assessment of the need for additional security measures with respect to such inspections; (4) an assessment of the adequacy of inspection and screening of cargo on passenger air carriers; and (5) any additional recommendations, and if necessary any legislative proposals, necessary to carry out additional changes. (c) SENSE OF THE SENATE.— I t is the sense of the Senate that the inspection of cargo, mail, and company-shipped materials can be enhanced. SEC. 314. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING ACTS OF INTER- NATIONAL TERRORISM. (a) FINDINGS. —The Senate finds that— (1) there has been an intensification in the oppression and disregard for human life among nations that are willing to export terrorism; (2) there has been an increase in attempts by criminal terrorists to murder edrline passengers through the destruction of civilian airliners and the deliberate fear and death inflicted through bombings of buildings and the kidnapping of tourists and Americans residing abroad; and (3) information widely available demonstrates that a significant portion of international terrorist activity is statesponsored, -organized, -condoned, or -directed.
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