Sec. 7. Public availability of Secretary of Transportation's responses to safety recommendations
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Section 1135 of title 49, United States Code, is amended— by amending subsection
(a)to read as follows: Not later than 90 days after the date that the Secretary of Transportation receives a recommendation about transportation safety from the National Transportation Safety Board, the Secretary shall submit to the Board a formal written response to the recommendation. Each response under paragraph
(1)shall indicate whether the Secretary intends— to carry out procedures to adopt the complete recommendation; to carry out procedures to adopt a part of the recommendation; or to refuse to carry out procedures to adopt the recommendation. ; by amending subsection
(b)to read as follows: A response under— subparagraph
(B)or subparagraph
(C)of subsection (a)(2) shall include a copy of a proposed timetable for completing the procedures; subsection (a)(2)(B) shall detail the reasons for the refusal to carry out procedures on the remainder of the recommendation; and subsection (a)(2)(C) shall detail the reasons for the refusal to carry out procedures. ; in subsection (c), by striking a copy of each recommendation and response available to the public at reasonable cost and inserting publicly available on its website each recommendation and response under subsection
(a); in subsection (d)(2)(B), by striking a response under subsection (a)(2) or (a)(3) and inserting a response under subparagraph
(B)or subparagraph
(C)of subsection (a)(2) ; and by striking subsection (e).