[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 8]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR1542.307]

[Page 322-323]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
   CHAPTER XII--TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                            HOMELAND SECURITY
 
PART 1542_AIRPORT SECURITY--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart D_Contingency Measures
 
Sec. 1542.307  Incident management.

    (a) Each airport operator must establish procedures to evaluate bomb 
threats, threats of sabotage, aircraft

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piracy, and other unlawful interference to civil aviation operations.
    (b) Immediately upon direct or referred receipt of a threat of any 
of the incidents described in paragraph (a) of this section, each 
airport operator must--
    (1) Evaluate the threat in accordance with its security program;
    (2) Initiate appropriate action as specified in the Airport 
Emergency Plan under 14 CFR 139.325; and
    (3) Immediately notify TSA of acts, or suspected acts, of unlawful 
interference to civil aviation operations, including specific bomb 
threats to aircraft and airport facilities.
    (c) Airport operators required to have a security program under 
Sec. 1542.103(c) but not subject to 14 CFR part 139, must develop 
emergency response procedures to incidents of threats identified in 
paragraph (a) of this section.
    (d) To ensure that all parties know their responsibilities and that 
all procedures are current, at least once every 12 calendar months each 
airport operator must review the procedures required in paragraphs (a) 
and (b) of this section with all persons having responsibilities for 
such procedures.