TO:
Docket Management System
U.S. Department of Transportation
Room Plaza 401
400 Seventh Street, SW.
Washington, DC 20590-0001

Docket No. TSA-2006-26514

FROM: 
Society of Environmental Journalists

DATE: 
February 20, 2007

RE: 
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Rail Transportation Security

These comments are submitted on behalf of the Society of Environmental Journalists and its 
approximately 1,450 members.

The Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) is the world's largest and oldest organization 
of individual working journalists covering environmental issues. Founded in 1990, SEJ consists 
of journalists, educators, and students dedicated to improving the quality, accuracy, and 
visibility of environmental reporting. Working through its First Amendment Task Force and 
WatchDog Program, SEJ addresses freedom of information, right-to-know, and other news-gathering 
issues of concern to journalists reporting on environmental topics.
 
SEJ is concerned about the excessive and largely unchecked secrecy this proposed rule would 
impose through those provisions relating to "Sensitive Security Information."

We want to associate ourselves with the detailed comments of the Coalition of Journalists for 
Open Government on this rulemaking.

Sincerely,

Joseph A. Davis
Director, SEJ WatchDog Project
on behalf of 

Tim Wheeler, President, SEJ
Ken Ward Jr., Chairman, SEJ First Amendment Task Force
Robert McClure, SEJ Board First Amendment Liaison