Repair reports

(a) In general With respect to any individual or entity that repairs damage to a submarine cable, a landing station of such a cable, or a terrestrial telecommunications cable, such individual or entity shall, not later than 7 days after the date on which such repair is commenced, submit to the Commission through the Network Outage Reporting System of the Commission a report on the nature of such damage (which shall include information known with respect to the cause of such damage). (b) Information sharing Not later than 7 days after the date on which a report required by subsection (a) is received by the Commission, the Commission shall transmit such report— (1) to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; and (2) in the case of a report relating to a submarine cable or a landing station of such a cable, to the Department of the Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (c) Format The report required by subsection (a) may be submitted in classified form.