49 CFR § 1544.228 - Access to cargo and cargo screening: Security threat assessments for cargo personnel in the United States.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t49/s1544.228"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "49 CFR § 1544.228 - Access to cargo and cargo screening: Security threat assessments for cargo personnel in the United States."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "1544.228"
section_name: "Access to cargo and cargo screening: Security threat assessments for cargo personnel in the United States."
chapter_name: "TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY"
part_number: "1544"
part_name: "AIRCRAFT OPERATOR SECURITY: AIR CARRIERS AND COMMERCIAL OPERATORS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "49 U.S.C. 114, 5103, 40113, 44901-44905, 44907, 44913-44914, 44916-44918, 44932, 44935-44936, 44942, 46105."
regulatory_source: "67 FR 8364, Feb. 22, 2002, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "1544"
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# 1544.228 Access to cargo and cargo screening: Security threat assessments for cargo personnel in the United States.
This section applies in the United States to each aircraft operator operating under a full program under § 1544.101(a) or a full all-cargo program under § 1544.101(h).
(a) Before an aircraft operator authorizes and before an individual performs a function described in paragraph (b) of this section—
(1) Each individual must successfully complete a security threat assessment or comparable security threat assessment described in part 1540 subpart C of this chapter; and
(2) Each aircraft operator must complete the requirements in part 1540 subpart C.
(b) The security threat assessment required in paragraph (a) of this section applies to the following:
(1) Each individual who has unescorted access to cargo and access to information that such cargo will be transported on a passenger aircraft; or who has unescorted access to cargo that has been screened for transport on a passenger aircraft; or who performs certain functions related to the transportation, dispatch, or security of cargo for transport on a passenger aircraft or all-cargo aircraft, as specified in the aircraft operator's security program; from the time—
(i) The cargo reaches a location where an aircraft operator with a full all-cargo program consolidates or inspects it pursuant to security program requirements until the cargo enters an airport Security Identification Display Area or is transferred to another TSA-regulated aircraft operator, foreign air carrier, or indirect air carrier; or
(ii) An aircraft operator with a full program accepts the cargo until the cargo—
(A) Enters an airport Security Identification Display Area;
(B) Is removed from the destination airport; or
(C) Is transferred to another TSA-regulated aircraft operator, foreign air carrier, or indirect air carrier.
(2) Each individual the aircraft operator authorizes to screen cargo or to supervise the screening of cargo under § 1544.205.
[74 FR 47704, Sept. 16, 2009]