TSA requires a full legal name from RT Program applicants for the purpose of conducting a security threat assessment. The following biographic information is also requested in order to positively identify the individual, eliminate false watch list matches, and to communicate with the individual in the event of a possible match: other names used, Social Security Number, citizenship status, alien registration number, current home address, primary and secondary telephone numbers, current e-mail address, date of birth, place of birth, gender, height, previous home addresses, employer name, employer address, and driver’s license number. TSA will use the applicants’ information for the following purposes: to pre-screen travelers by conducting STAs; to accept applicants who receive an approved STA finding; to expedite security screening at airport checkpoints for approved Registered Travelers by using advanced identification technologies, including biometrics; to assist in the management and tracking STA results for RT applicants and RT participants; to permit the retrieval of STA results; and to refer to the appropriate intelligence and law enforcement entities the identity of RT applicants or RT participants who pose or are suspected of posing a threat to transportation or national security.

Participating Service Providers (SPs) may collect additional information from you for customer service purposes. The collection of excess data by SPs is neither required nor endorsed by TSA. The identifying information requested by TSA is a voluntary collection but failure to provide the requested biographic information may delay or prevent an "approved" determination of the security threat assessment necessary to join RT. TSA estimates that the total average burden per response associated with this collection is approximately 20 minutes. If you wish to comment on the accuracy of that estimate or submit suggestions for reducing the burden, you may write to TSA, Registered Traveler Program, 601 S. 12th St., Arlington, VA 22202-4220. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB control number. The OMB control number assigned to this collection is 1652-0019, which expires 03/31/2009.