---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 969"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "969"
heading: "Revalidation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/969"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Security and Accountability for Every Port"
  - "Subchapter II — Security of the International Supply Chain"
  - "Part B — Customs–Trade Partnership Against Terrorism"
---

# §969. Revalidation


The [Secretary](/usc/6/901.md?p=15), acting through the [Commissioner](/usc/6/901.md?p=4), shall develop and implement—

- (1) a revalidation process for Tier 2 and Tier 3 participants;
- (2) a framework based upon objective criteria for identifying participants for periodic revalidation not less frequently than once during each 4-year period following the initial validation; and
- (3) an annual plan for revalidation that includes—
  - (A) performance measures;
  - (B) an assessment of the [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15) needed to perform the revalidations; and
  - (C) the number of participants that will be revalidated during the following year.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–347, title II, § 219, Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1913.)