SEC. 4071. WATCH LISTS FOR PASSENGERS ABOARD VESSELS.
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Subtitle D--Maritime Security
SEC. 4071. WATCH LISTS FOR PASSENGERS ABOARD VESSELS.
(a) Watch Lists.--
(1) In general.--As soon as practicable but not
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall--
(A) implement a procedure under which the
Department of Homeland Security compares
information about passengers and crew who are
to be carried aboard a cruise ship with a
comprehensive, consolidated database containing
information about known or suspected terrorists
and their associates;
(B) use the information obtained by
comparing the passenger and crew information
with the information in the database to prevent
known or suspected terrorists and their
associates from boarding such ships or to
subject them to specific additional security
scrutiny, through the use of ``no transport''
and ``automatic selectee'' lists or other
means.
(2) Waiver.--The Secretary may waive the
requirement in paragraph (1)(B) with respect to cruise
ships embarking at foreign ports if the Secretary
determines that the application of such requirement to
such cruise ships is impracticable.
(b) Cooperation From Operators of Cruise Ships.--The
Secretary of Homeland Security shall by rulemaking require
operators of cruise ships to provide the passenger and crew
information necessary to implement the procedure required by
subsection (a).
(c) Maintenance of Accuracy and Integrity of ``No
Transport'' and ``Automatic Selectee'' Lists.--
(1) Watch list database.--The Secretary of Homeland
Security, in consultation with the Terrorist Screening
Center, shall develop guidelines, policies, and
operating procedures for the collection, removal, and
updating of data maintained, or to be maintained, in
the ``no transport'' and ``automatic selectee'' lists
described in subsection (a)(1) that are designed to
ensure the accuracy and integrity of the lists.
(2) Accuracy of entries.--In developing the ``no
transport'' and ``automatic selectee'' lists under
subsection (a)(1)(B), the Secretary shall establish a
simple and timely method for correcting erroneous
entries, for clarifying information known to cause
false hits or misidentification errors, and for
updating relevant information that is dispositive in
the passenger and crew screening process. The Secretary
shall also establish a process to provide an individual
whose name is confused with, or similar to, a name in
the watch list database with a means of demonstrating
that such individual is not the person named in the
database.
(d) Cruise Ship Defined.--In this section, the term
``cruise ship'' means a vessel on an international voyage that
embarks or disembarks passengers at a port of United States
jurisdiction to which subpart C of part 160 of title 33, Code
of Federal Regulations, applies and that provides overnight
accommodations.
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