PASSENGER MANIFEST.

SEC. 203. PASSENGER MANIFEST. (a) Mandatory Availability of Passenger Manifest.—Section 410 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 (49 U.S.C. App. 1380) is amended to read as follows: “SEC. 410. PASSENGER MANIFEST. “(a) Requirement.—Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall require all United States air carriers to provide a passenger manifest for any flight to appropriate representatives of the United States Department of State— “(1) not later than 1 hour after any such carrier is notified of an aviation disaster outside the United States which involves such flight; or “(2) if it is not technologically feasible or reasonable to fulfill the requirement of this subsection within 1 hour, then as expeditiously as possible, but not later than 3 hours after such notification. “(b) Contents.—For purposes of this section, a passenger manifest should include the following information: “(1) The full name of each passenger. “(2) The passport number of each passenger, if required for travel. “(3) The name and telephone number of a contact for each passenger.”. (b) Implementation.—In implementing the requirement pursuant to the amendment made by subsection (a) of this section, the Sec-104 STAT. 3083retary of Transportation shall consider the necessity and feasibility of requiring United States carriers to collect passenger manifest information as a condition for passenger boarding of any flight subject to such requirement. (c) Foreign Air Carriers.—The Secretary of Transportation shall consider a requirement for foreign air carriers comparable to that imposed pursuant to the amendment made by subsection (a). (d) Information from United States Passports.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to the extent provided in appropriation Acts, for each fiscal year not more than $5,000,000 in passport fees collected by the Department of State may be credited to a Department of State account. Amounts credited to such account shall be available only for the costs associated with the acquisition and production of machine-readable United States passports and visas and compatible reading equipment. Amounts credited to such account are authorized to remain available until expended. (e) Conforming Amendment to Table of Contents.—The table of contents contained in the first section of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 is amended by striking the item relating to section 410 and inserting the following: “Sec. 410. Passenger manifest.”.