---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 924"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "924"
heading: "Threat assessment screening of port truck drivers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/924"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Security and Accountability for Every Port"
  - "Subchapter I — Security of United States Seaports"
  - "Part B — Port Operations"
---

# §924. Threat assessment screening of port truck drivers


Not later than 90 days after October 13, 2006, the [Secretary](/usc/6/901.md?p=15) shall implement a threat assessment [screening](/usc/6/901.md?p=13), including name-based checks against terrorist watch lists and immigration status check, for all port truck drivers with access to secure areas of a port who have a commercial driver’s license but do not have a current and valid hazardous materials endorsement issued in accordance with section 1572[^1] of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, that is the same as the threat assessment [screening](/usc/6/901.md?p=13) required for facility employees and longshoremen by the Commandant of the Coast Guard under Coast Guard Notice USCG–2006–24189 (Federal Register, Vol. 71, No. 82, Friday, April 28, 2006).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “part 1572”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–347, title I, § 125, Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1900.)