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			Your search for Documents of type Rule and affecting 49 CFR 200-299

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			Alcohol and Drug Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing Rates for 2000 (Final Rule)
			Using data from Management Information System annual reports, FRA has determined that the 1998 rail industry random testing positive rate was .82 percent for drugs and .21 percent for alcohol. Since the industry-wide random drug testing positive rate...
						Revised Docket Filing Procedures for Federal Railroad Administration Rulemaking and Adjudicatory Dockets (Final Rule)
			The Federal Railroad Administration has consolidated its docket operations with those of other Department of Transportation operating elements. DOT's nine separate docket facilities have been consolidated into the Centralized Docket Management System...
						Annual Adjustment of Monetary Threshold for Reporting Rail Equipment Accidents/Incidents and Other Technical Amendment (Final Rule)
			This final rule establishes at $6,600 the monetary threshold for reporting railroad accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur during calendar year 2000. There is no change from the reporting threshold for calendar year 1999....
						Inspection and Maintenance Standards for Steam Locomotives (Final Rule)
			FRA is issuing new Steam Locomotive Inspection and Maintenance Standards in order to update and enhance its steam locomotive regulatory program. In recognition of the reduced frequency of use of steam locomotives in today's transportation system, the...
						Qualification and Certification of Locomotive Engineers (Final Rule)
			FRA is making miscellaneous amendments to its requirements for the qualification and certification of locomotive engineers. These amendments are largely based on recommendations made by an advisory committee comprising rail industry and labor...
						Credit Assistance for Surface Transportation Projects (Final Rule)
			The Department of Transportation (DOT) is implementing the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act of 1998 (TIFIA) to provide credit assistance to surface transportation projects. The TIFIA authorizes the DOT to provide secured...
						Passenger Equipment Safety Standards (Final Rule)
			FRA is issuing comprehensive Federal safety standards for railroad passenger equipment. The purpose of these safety standards is to prevent collisions, derailments, and other occurrences involving railroad passenger equipment that cause injury or death...
						Magnetic Levitation Transportation Technology Development Program (Final Rule)
			FRA published an Interim Final Rule with request for comments on October 13, 1998 (63 FR 54600), implementing the Magnetic Levitation Technology Deployment Program. The Interim Final Rule established a deadline of December 31, 1998, for the submission...
						Annual Adjustment of Monetary Threshold for Reporting Rail Equipment Accidents/Incidents (Final Rule)
			This final rule establishes at $6,600 the monetary threshold for reporting railroad accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur during calendar year 1999. There is no change from the reporting threshold for calendar year 1998....
						Random Drug and Alcohol Testing: Determination of 1999 Minimum Testing Rate (Final Rule)
			Under FRA's regulations on drug and alcohol testing, each year the Federal Railroad Administrator (Administrator) determines the minimum annual percentage rate for random drug and alcohol testing for the rail industry. Currently, the minimum rates for...
						Magnetic Levitation Transportation Technology Deployment Program (Final Rule)
			The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA 21) adds a new section 322 to title 23 of the United States Code. Section 322 provides a total of $55 million for Fiscal Years 1999 through 2001 for transportation systems employing magnetic...
						Technical Amendments to the Track Safety Standards (Final Rule)
			The Federal Railroad Administration published in the Federal Register of June 22, 1998 (63 FR 33992), a final rule to revise the Track Safety Standards contained in 49 CFR part 213. On August 28, 1998, FRA published a notice of corrections to correct...
						Railroad Communications (Final Rule)
			The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) amends its radio standards and procedures to promote compliance by making the regulations more flexible; to require wireless communications devices, including radios, for specified classifications of railroad...
						Technical Amendments to the Track Safety Standards (Final Rule)
			The Federal Railroad Administration published in the Federal Register of June 22, 1998 (63 FR 33992), a final rule to revise the Track Safety Standards contained in 49 CFR part 213. The publication included several inadvertent errors which this notice...
						Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness; Correction (Final Rule)
			This document contains a correction to the text of the final rule amending the safety glazing standards for locomotives, passenger cars and cabooses that was issued jointly with the new final rule on passenger train emergency preparedness and was...
						Track Safety Standards (Final Rule)
			FRA amends the Track Safety Standards to update and enhance its track safety regulatory program. To address today's railroad operating environment, these amendments present additional regulatory requirements, including standards specifically addressing...
						Two-Way End-of-Train Telemetry Devices and Certain Passenger Train Operations; Correction (Final Rule)
			This document contains a correction to the preamble of the final rule on two-way end-of-train telemetry devices (two-way EOTs) and certain passenger train operations, which was published on Friday, May 1, 1998 (63 FR 24130). The final rule specifically...
						Passenger Train Emergency Preparedness (Final Rule)
			FRA is issuing minimum Federal safety standards for the preparation, adoption, and implementation of emergency preparedness plans by railroads connected with the operation of passenger trains, including all railroads hosting the operations of rail...
						Two-Way End-of-Train Telemetry Devices and Certain Passenger Train Operations (Final Rule)
			FRA is revising the regulations regarding the use and design of two-way end-of-train telemetry devices (two-way EOTs) to specifically address certain passenger train operations where multiple units of freight-type equipment, material handling cars, or...
						Civil Monetary Penalty Inflation Adjustment (Final Rule)
			FRA is implementing the requirements of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, as amended by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 in this final rule. FRA is adjusting the maximum civil monetary penalties it issues for...
						Random Drug and Alcohol Testing: Determination of 1998 Minimum Testing Rate (Final Rule)
			Under Secs. 219.602 and 219.608 of FRA's regulations on drug and alcohol testing (49 CFR Part 219), each year the Federal Railroad Administrator (Administrator) determines the minimum annual percentage rate for random drug and alcohol testing for the...
						Annual Adjustment of Monetary Threshold for Reporting Rail Equipment Accidents/Incidents (Final Rule)
			This final rule increases from $6,500 to $6,600 the monetary threshold for reporting railroad accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur on or after January 1, 1998. This action is needed to ensure and maintain comparability...
						Alcohol/Drug Regulations: Technical Amendments; Qualifications for Locomotive Engineers: Correction (Final Rule)
			FRA issues a final rule containing technical amendments to its regulations on control of alcohol and drug use (49 CFR part 219), and amends its regulations on locomotive engineer qualifications (49 CFR part 240) to delete an outdated cross-reference to...
						Two-Way End-of-Train Telemetry Devices (Final Rule)
			On January 2, 1997, FRA published a final rule revising the regulations governing train and locomotive power braking systems at 49 CFR part 232 to include provisions pertaining to the use and design of two-way end-of-train telemetry devices (two-way...
						Roadway Worker Protection (Final Rule)
			On December 16, 1996, FRA published its Final Rule on Roadway Worker Protection (61 FR 65959), which was the product of the agency's first regulatory negotiation. This rule promulgates standards to protect roadway workers while working on or near...
						Random Alcohol and Drug Testing: Determination of 1997 Minimum Testing Rate (Final Rule)
			Using data from Management Information System annual reports, FRA has determined that the rail industry random drug testing positive rate for 1995 was .93 percent. Since the industry-wide random drug positive rate continues to be below 1.0 percent, the...
						Two-Way End-of-Train Telemetry Devices (Final Rule)
			FRA is revising the regulations governing train and locomotive power braking systems to include provisions pertaining to the use and design of two-way end-of-train telemetry devices (two-way EOTs). Two- way EOTs provide locomotive engineers with the...
						Railroad Accident Reporting (Final Rule)
			On June 18, November 22, and November 29, 1996, FRA published final rules amending the railroad accident reporting regulations at 49 CFR Part 225. 61 FR 30940, 61 FR 59368, 61 FR 60632, respectively. These final rules aim to minimize underreporting and...
						Roadway Worker Protection (Final Rule)
			FRA is issuing rules for the protection of railroad employees working on or near railroad tracks. This regulation requires that each railroad devise and adopt a program of on-track safety to provide employees working along the railroad with protection...
						Railroad Accident Reporting (Final Rule)
			This final rule increases from $6,300 to $6,500 the monetary threshold for reporting rail equipment accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur on or after January 1, 1997. This action is needed to ensure and maintain...
						Railroad Accident Reporting (Final Rule)
			On June 18, 1996, FRA published a final rule amending the railroad accident reporting regulations. FRA now makes technical corrections to the final rule and responds to certain concerns raised in petitions for reconsideration of the final rule, which...
						Federal Railroad Administration Enforcement of the Hazardous Materials Regulations: Penalty Guidelines (Final Rule)
			FRA is publishing the penalty guideline amounts it uses in initial determinations of proposed civil penalty assessments for documented violations of DOT's Hazardous Materials Regulations. This action will make those against whom FRA enforces the...
						Railroad Accident Reporting (Final Rule)
			On June 18, 1996, FRA published a final rule (61 FR 30940) amending the railroad accident reporting regulations at 49 CFR Part 225. The amendments to these regulations are effective January 1, 1997. Railroads are required to use the FRA Guide for...
						Amendment to Definition of ``Substance Abuse Professional'' (Final Rule)
			Each of the Department's alcohol testing rules include a definition of a substance abuse professional. By this action, the Department is consolidating these definitions into its Department-wide testing procedures rule and adding to the definition...
						Signal and Train Control; Miscellaneous Amendments (Final Rule)
			In accord with President Clinton's Regulatory Reinvention Initiative, FRA is amending FRA's signal system reporting requirements to reduce signal system reporting burdens on the rail industry. FRA is also amending its regulations governing applications...
						Grade Crossing Signal System Safety (Final Rule)
			FRA is amending the final rule requiring that railroads comply with specific maintenance, inspection, and testing requirements for active highway-rail grade crossing warning systems. The final rule being amended also requires that railroads take...
						Railroad Accident Reporting (Final Rule)
			FRA is amending the railroad accident reporting regulations in several ways. First, railroads are required to adopt internal control procedures to ensure accurate reporting of accidents, casualties, injuries, illnesses and highway-rail grade crossing...
						State Safety Participation Regulations; Federal Regulatory Reform (Final Rule)
			In connection with the President's Regulatory Reform Initiative, the FRA has reviewed all of its existing regulations. This review identified a portion of the regulation governing state participation in the Federal Rail Safety Program that can be...
						Decision of the United States Supreme Court Concerning an Agency Interpretation of the Federal Hours of Service Laws; Change in Agency Interpretation; Enforcement Policy Regarding Violations of Laws as Previously Interpreted (Final Rule)
			Notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe R.R., all time spent awaiting the arrival of a deadhead vehicle for transportation...
						Locomotive Visibility; Minimum Standards for Auxiliary Lights (Final Rule)
			FRA amends the locomotive safety standards to increase train visibility. This action requires that certain locomotives be equipped with auxiliary lights to enable motorists, railroad employees and pedestrians to recognize approaching trains at a...
						Removal of Federal Railroad Regulations Pursuant to Regulatory Reform (Final Rule)
			In connection with the President's Regulatory Reform Initiative, the FRA has reviewed all of its exiting regulations. This review identified regulations in 49 CFR Chapter II that are being removed because they are obsolete or the authorization for them...
						Random Drug Testing: Announcement of 1996 Minimum Testing Rate; Designation of New Laboratory for Post-Accident Toxicology Testing (Final Rule)
			Using data from Management Information System (MIS) annual reports, FRA has calculated that the rail industry random drug testing positive rate for 1994 was 0.808 per cent. Since the industry-wide random drug positive rate continues to be below 1.0 per...
						Qualifications for Locomotive Engineers; and, Railroad Safety Enforcement ProceduresDisqualification Procedures: Procedural Changes to Accommodate FRA Hearing Officers (Final Rule)
			This interim final rule amends two different regulations to clarify the procedures that will be employed in hearings involving the determination of an individual's fitness for performing safety- sensitive functions and those regarding certification of...
						Protection of Utility Employees (Final Rule)
			On March 1, 1995, FRA published an amendment (49 CFR 218.24) to the final rule on safety standards for utility employees working as temporary members of train and yard crews. The amendment, which permitted one-person crews to work within the...
						Event Recorders (Final Rule)
			In response to petitions for reconsideration, FRA is amending its regulation on event recorders. FRA is removing the requirement that, following an accident reportable to the National Transportation Safety Board, the railroad must refrain from...
						Suspension of Pre-employment Alcohol Testing Requirement (Final Rule)
			The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently issued a decision that vacated the pre-employment alcohol testing requirements of the Federal Highway Administration's alcohol testing rule. The Court remanded this provision to the...
						Policy on the Safety of Railroad Bridges (Final Rule)
			FRA issues an interim statement of policy for the safety of railroad bridges. FRA establishes suggested criteria for railroads to use to ensure the structural integrity of bridges that carry railroad tracks. FRA will subsequently make the interim...
						Post-Accident Toxicological Testing; Amended Procedures (Final Rule)
			FRA's new ``post-accident shipping boxes'' (formerly designated ``post-accident testing toxicology kits'') are now available for distribution to railroads. Each shipping box contains supplies, instructions, and custody and control forms that have been...
						Protection of Utility Employees Response to Petitions to Reconsider (Final Rule)
			On August 16, 1993, FRA published safety standards for utility employees working as temporary members of train and yard crews. FRA now amends a definition, responds to the concerns raised in petitions to reconsider the final rule, issues an amendment...
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