Coordinate airport incident management with TSA and affected operators

Use this document to connect an official requirement or behavior to observable evidence: Coordinate airport incident management with TSA and affected operators. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.

Source fact:

The official 49 CFR 1542.307 — Airport Security from Transportation Security Administration via eCFR supports the following bounded statements:

• Under 49 CFR 1542, the rule requires that airport operators required to have a security program under section 1542.103(c) but not subject to 14 CFR part 139, develop emergency response procedures to incidents of threats identified in paragraph (a) of this section. The research record locates this support at 49 CFR 1542.307(c) (eCFR anchor p-1542.307(c)).
• Under 49 CFR 1542, 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 immediately notify TSA of acts, or suspected acts, of unlawful interference to civil aviation operations, including specific bomb threats to aircraft and airport facilities. The research record locates this support at 49 CFR 1542.307(b)(3), read with 49 CFR 1542.307(b) (eCFR anchor p-1542.307(b)(3)).

Keep the evidence boundary at these traced claims. They support a review of essential functions, upstream providers, recovery sequences, alternate work paths, and tested recovery objectives; they do not support conclusions outside the source’s stated conditions.

What the source does not establish

Applies only to airport operators, tenants, personnel, and areas covered by 49 CFR part 1542 and the cited section. Confirm the TSA-approved security program and current directives; this is not legal advice or a universal access-control standard. Do not read the source as proof of implementation or permission to change production. Its guidance remains conditional on identity, DNS, communications, facilities, suppliers, and the people authorized to invoke recovery and the environment’s recorded constraints.

Applicability questions

• For source statement 1 at 49 CFR 1542.307(c) (eCFR anchor p-1542.307(c)), which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?
• For source statement 2 at 49 CFR 1542.307(b)(3), read with 49 CFR 1542.307(b) (eCFR anchor p-1542.307(b)(3)), which observable configuration, record, or test can confirm applicability here?
• Which owner can attest to the recorded state of essential functions, upstream providers, recovery sequences, alternate work paths, and tested recovery objectives, including exceptions?
• What baseline for identity, DNS, communications, facilities, suppliers, and the people authorized to invoke recovery must accompany the source-specific observation?
• Which success, stop, and escalation criteria are written before testing begins?

DSE recommendation:

DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Anchor the review in the cited section and keep observation separate from interpretation. Record the source location, examined part of essential functions, upstream providers, recovery sequences, alternate work paths, and tested recovery objectives, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.

If the review warrants change, use a bounded implementation with prerequisites, test population, monitoring, abort criteria, and a rehearsed reversal. Sequence checks for identity, DNS, communications, facilities, suppliers, and the people authorized to invoke recovery and sanitize protected material before retention.

Verification and evidence

Evidence should let another reviewer reproduce this decision. Retain observations beside the traced locations 49 CFR 1542.307(c) (eCFR anchor p-1542.307(c)); 49 CFR 1542.307(b)(3), read with 49 CFR 1542.307(b) (eCFR anchor p-1542.307(b)(3)). Favor business-impact records, dependency maps, exercise results, recovery timings, and open corrective actions, linked to stable identifiers, time, and operator.

Retain the starting state, authorization, execution record, outcome, deviation, and final state as one review package. Move disruptive checks to an approved test path. Reopen the decision when versions, design, dependencies, ownership, or official guidance changes.

Official references

• 49 CFR 1542.307 — Airport Security — Transportation Security Administration via eCFR