WASHINGTON – Everyone who took a commercial flight within the United States in June will have his travel information turned over to the government so it can test a new system for identifying potential terrorists, federal officials announced yesterday.

The Transportation Security Administration plans to order airlines to turn over the information in November. Passenger names will be checked against watch lists maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center, which is administered by the FBI, as part of a new screening system called “Secure Flight.”

Those lists include names of people to be selected for additional screening, known or suspected terrorists, and people prohibited from flying because they pose a direct threat to aviation.

Airlines currently check passenger names against watch lists. Because intelligence information is classified, however, airlines don’t have access to names of all known or suspected terrorists. The September 11 commission, in its July report, urged the government to take over the task of checking the lists.

Secure Flight replaces a previous plan that would have checked passenger names against commercial databases and assigned a risk level to each. That plan, which cost $103 million, was abandoned because of privacy concerns and technological issues.

Justin Oberman, who heads the TSA office that’s developing Secure Flight, said he hopes the program can be implemented by spring. Air Transport Association spokesman Doug Wills said airlines are reviewing the plan and will comment formally later.

Privacy advocates say the new plan has many of the same problems as the one that was scrapped. Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the system is too intrusive.