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title: "Mark a vessel or facility security plan against the opened statutory items"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport/review-a-maritime-security-plan-before-submission-or-after-a-change-in-o/united-states"
type: "task_jurisdiction_version"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "A37-R20261018-3-US"
practice_area: "Maritime, Shipping & Transport"
tier: "yellow"
lawyer_review: "required"
jurisdictions: ["US"]
last_reviewed: "2026-10-22"
---

# Mark a vessel or facility security plan against the opened statutory items

> Mark whether the draft already names a qualified individual, physical and access controls, a cybersecurity provision, training and unannounced drills, an update at least every five years, and resubmission for a change…

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Last reviewed: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Practice area | [Maritime, Shipping & Transport](https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport.md) |
| Human involvement | Yellow: Lawyer and AI draft together |
| How AI is used | Mark whether the draft already names a qualified individual, physical and access controls, a cybersecurity provision, training and unannounced drills, an update at least every five years, and resubmission for a change that may substantially affect security. Write no new plan sentence and do not say the plan will be approved. |
| What the lawyer must review | 46 USC section 70103(c) requires an owner or operator of a vessel or facility described in paragraph (2) to submit a security plan. Paragraph (2) covers vessels and facilities the Secretary believes may be involved in a transportation security incident, and it excludes Department of Defense vessels and facilities. You decide whether this vessel or facility is in that class. Paragraph (3) requires the plan to be consistent with the national and area plans, to identify the qualified individual, to include physical, passenger, cargo, and personnel security, access control, procedural policies, communications, cybersecurity risks that may cause a transportation security incident, and other security systems, to identify security measures, to describe training, periodic unannounced drills, and security actions, to provide a strategy and timeline for that training and those drills, to be updated at least every five years, and to be resubmitted for approval of each change that may substantially affect security. A facility plan is also resubmitted for a change in ownership or operator that may substantially affect security. The Secretary reviews, may require amendments, and approves a plan that meets the subsection. Part 104 of title 33 of the CFR was not opened. The tool does not write the plan and does not predict approval. Opinion 512. |
| Written for | United States |
| Applies to | [Review a maritime security plan before submission or after a change in operations](https://ailawframework.com/practice/maritime-shipping-and-transport/review-a-maritime-security-plan-before-submission-or-after-a-change-in-o.md) |

## Checking plan

- What the AI does: Mark whether the draft already names a qualified individual, physical and access controls, a cybersecurity provision, training and unannounced drills, an update at least every five years, and resubmission for a change that may substantially affect security. Write no new plan sentence and do not say the plan will be approved.
- Basis: Checked against the linked sources on 22 October 2026. Confirm the current instrument before reliance.

## Notes

- Do not decide that the Secretary believes this vessel may be involved in a transportation security incident. That is paragraph (2).
- Paragraph (5) states a 12-month operating limit measured from the prescription of interim final regulations. That prescription date was not opened. Do not calculate it.

## Sources

- [46 USC 70103 (maritime transportation security plans)](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/46/70103) (checked 2026-10-22)
- [ABA Formal Opinion 512, Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools (29 July 2024)](https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/professional_responsibility/ethics-opinions/aba-formal-opinion-512.pdf) (checked 2026-10-22)

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*