---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 1132"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "1132"
heading: "Findings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/1132"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Transportation Security"
  - "Subchapter III — Public Transportation Security"
---

# §1132. Findings


Congress finds that—

- (1) 182 public transportation systems throughout the world have been primary targets of terrorist attacks;
- (2) more than 6,000 [public transportation agencies](/usc/6/1131.md?p=5) operate in the [United States](/usc/6/1111.md?p=6);
- (3) people use public transportation vehicles 33,000,000 times each day;
- (4) the Federal Transit Administration has invested $93,800,000,000 since 1992 for construction and improvements;
- (5) the Federal investment in transit security has been insufficient; and
- (6) greater Federal investment in transit security improvements per passenger boarding is necessary to better protect the American people, given transit’s vital importance in creating mobility and promoting our Nation’s economy.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XIV, § 1403, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 401.)