MARITIME INFORMATION.

SEC. 803. MARITIME INFORMATION.(a) Maritime Intelligence.—Section 70113(a) of title 46, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “The system may include a vessel risk profiling component that assigns incoming vessels a terrorism risk rating.”.(b) Vessel Tracking System.—Section 70115 of title 46, United States Code, is amended in the first sentence by striking “may” and inserting “shall, consistent with international treaties, conventions, and agreements to which the United States is a party,”.(c) Maritime Information.—Within 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives containing a plan for the implementation of section 70113 of title 46, United States Code. The plan shall—(1) identify Federal agencies with maritime information relating to vessels, crew, passengers, cargo, and cargo shippers, those agencies’ maritime information collection and analysis activities, and the resources devoted to those activities; (2) establish a lead agency within the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate the efforts of other Department agencies in the collection of maritime information and to identify and avoid unwanted redundancy in those efforts; (3) identify redundancy in the collection and analysis of maritime information by agencies within the department in which the Coast Guard is operating;(4) establish a timeline for coordinating the collection of maritime information among agencies within the department in which the Coast Guard is operating; (5) include recommendations on co-locating agency personnel in order to maximize expertise, minimize costs, and avoid redundancy in both the collection and analysis of maritime information; (6) establish a timeline for the incorporation of information on vessel movements derived through the implementation of sections 70114 and 70115 of title 46, United States Code, into the system for collecting and analyzing maritime information; (7) include recommendations on educating Federal officials on the identification of security risks posed through commercial maritime transportation operations; (8) include an assessment of the availability and expertise of private sector maritime information resources;118 STAT. 1081(9) include recommendations on how private sector maritime information resources could be utilized to analyze maritime security risks;(10) include recommendations on how to disseminate information collected and analyzed through Federal maritime security coordinators, including the manner and extent to which State, local, and private security personnel should be utilized, which should be developed after consideration by the Secretary of the need for nondisclosure of sensitive security information; and (11) include recommendations on the need for and how the department could help support a maritime information sharing and analysis center for the purpose of collecting and disseminating real-time or near real-time information to and from public and private entities, along with recommendations on the appropriate levels of funding to help disseminate maritime security information to the private sector.(d) Limitation on Establishment of Lead Agency.—The Secretary may not establish a lead agency within the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate the efforts of other Department agencies in the collection of maritime information, until at least 90 days after the plan under subsection (c) is submitted to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.