§ 1982.101 Definitions. As used in this part: ( a ) *Assistant Secretary* means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health or the person or persons to whom he or she delegates authority under NTSSA or FRSA.
( b ) *Business days* means days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays.
( c ) *Complainant* means the employee who filed a NTSSA or FRSA complaint or on whose behalf a complaint was filed.
( d ) *Employee* means an individual presently or formerly working for, an individual applying to work for, or an individual whose employment could be affected by a public transportation agency or a railroad carrier, or a contractor or subcontractor of a public transportation agency or a railroad carrier.
( e ) *FRSA* means Section 1521 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Public Law 110-053, August 3, 2007, as further amended by Public Law 110-432, October, 16, 2008, codified at 49 U.S.C. 20109.
( f ) *NTSSA* means Section 1413 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Public Law 110-053, August 3, 2007, codified at 6 U.S.C. 1142.
( g ) *OSHA* means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
( h ) *Public transportation* means regular, continuing shared-ride surface transportation services that are open to the general public or open to a segment of the general public defined by age, disability, or low income; and does not include: Intercity passenger rail transportation provided by the entity described in chapter 243 (or a successor to such entity); intercity bus service; charter bus service; school bus service; sightseeing service; courtesy shuttle service for patrons of one or more specific establishments; or intra-terminal or intra-facility shuttle services.
( i ) *Public transportation agency* means a publicly owned operator of public transportation eligible to receive federal assistance under 49 U.S.C. chapter 53.
( j ) *Railroad* means any form of nonhighway ground transportation that runs on rails or electromagnetic guideways, including commuter or other short-haul railroad passenger service in a metropolitan or suburban area and commuter railroad service that was operated by the Consolidated Rail Corporation on January 1, 1979; and high speed ground transportation systems that connect metropolitan areas, without regard to whether those systems use new technologies not associated with traditional railroads; but does not include rapid transit operations in an urban area that are not connected to the general railroad system of transportation.
( k ) *Railroad carrier* means a person providing railroad transportation, except that, upon petition by a group of commonly controlled railroad carriers that the Secretary of Transportation determines is operating within the United States as a single, integrated rail system, the Secretary of Transportation may by order treat the group of railroad carriers as a single railroad carrier for purposes of one or more provisions of part A, subtitle V of title 49 and implementing regulations and order, subject to any appropriate conditions that the Secretary of Transportation may impose.
( l ) *Respondent* means the person alleged to have violated NTSSA or FRSA.
( m ) *Secretary* means the Secretary of Labor or person to whom authority under NTSSA or FRSA has been delegated.
( n ) Any future statutory amendments that affect the definition of a term or terms listed in this section will apply in lieu of the definition stated herein.