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the respondents and the Federal 

Government; 

• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of 

concern to other Federal agencies; 

• Any collection is targeted to the 

solicitation of opinions from 

respondents who have experience with 

the program or may have experience 

with the program in the near future; 

• Personally identifiable information 

(PII) is collected only to the extent 

necessary and is not retained; 

• Information gathered is used only 

internally for general service 

improvement and program management 

purposes and is not intended for release 

outside of the agency; 

• Information gathered is not used for 

the purpose of substantially informing 

influential policy decisions; and 

• Information gathered yields 

qualitative information; the collections 

are not designed or expected to yield 

statistically reliable results or used as 

though the results are generalizable to 

the population of study. 

Feedback collected under this generic 

clearance will provide useful 

information, but it will not yield data 

that can be generalized to the overall 

population. This type of generic 

clearance for qualitative information 

will not be used for quantitative 

information collections that are 

designed to yield reliably actionable 

results, such as monitoring trends over 

time or documenting program 

performance. Such data uses require 

more rigorous designs that address: the 

target population to which 

generalizations will be made, the 

sampling frame, the sample design 

(including stratification and clustering), 

the precision requirements or power 

calculations that justify the proposed 

sample size, the expected response rate, 

methods for assessing potential 

nonresponse bias, the protocols for data 

collection, and any testing procedures 

that were or will be undertaken prior to 

fielding the study. Depending on the 

degree of influence the results are likely 

to have, such collections may still be 

eligible for sub mission for other generic 

mechanisms that are designed to yield 

quantitative results. 

Current Action: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Individuals and 

Households, Businesses and 

Organizations, State, Local or Tribal 

Government. 

Estimated Total Annual Respondents: 

10,000. 

Estimated Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 7,582 hours. 

Frequency: Once per request. 

Kusum Dhyani, 

Director, Office of Management Planning. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Prevention of Alcohol Misuse and 

Prohibited Drug Use in Transit 

Operations 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), United States Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of calendar year 2025 

random drug and alcohol testing rates. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

calendar year 2025 drug and alcohol 

random testing rates for specific 

recipients of FTA financial assistance. 

The minimum random drug testing rate 

will remain at 50 percent, and the 

random alcohol testing rate will remain 

at 10 percent. 

DATES: Applicability Date: January 1, 

2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Iyon 

Rosario, Senior Drug and Alcohol 

Program Manager in the Office of 

Transit Safety and Oversight, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590 (telephone: 202–366–2010 or 

email: Iyon.Rosario@dot.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 1, 1995, FTA required large 

transit employers to begin drug and 

alcohol testing of employees performing 

safety-sensitive functions and to submit 

annual reports by March 15 of each year 

beginning in 1996, pursuant to drug and 

alcohol regulations adopted by FTA at 

49 CFR parts 653 and 654 in February 

1994. The annual report includes the 

number of employees who had a 

verified positive test for the use of 

prohibited drugs and the number of 

employees who tested positive for the 

misuse of alcohol during the reported 

year. Small employers commenced the 

required testing on January 1, 1996, and 

began reporting the same information as 

the large employers beginning March 

15, 1997. 

FTA updated the testing rules by 

merging them into a new 49 CFR part 

655, effective August 1, 2001 (66 FR 

42002). The regulation maintained a 

random testing rate for prohibited drugs 

at 50 percent and the misuse of alcohol 

at 10 percent. The Administrator may 

lower the random testing rate to 25 

percent if the violation rates drop below 

1.0 percent for drug testing and 0.5 

percent for alcohol testing for two 

consecutive years. Accordingly, in 2007, 

FTA reduced the random drug testing 

rate from 50 percent to 25 percent (72 

FR 1057). In 2018, however, FTA 

returned the random drug testing rate to 

50 percent for calendar year 2019 based 

on verified industry data for calendar 

year 2017, which showed that the rate 

had exceeded 1 percent (83 FR 63812). 

Pursuant to 49 CFR 655.45, the 

Administrator’s decision to determine 

the minimum annual percentage rate for 

random drug and alcohol testing is 

based, in part, on the reported positive 

drug and alcohol violation rates for the 

entire public transportation industry. 

The information used for this 

determination is drawn from the Drug 

and Alcohol Management Information 

System (MIS) reports required by 49 

CFR 655.72. To ensure the reliability of 

the data, the Administrator must 

consider the quality and completeness 

of the reported data, obtain additional 

information or reports from employers, 

and make appropriate modifications in 

calculating the industry’s verified 

positive results and violation rates. 

For calendar year 2025, the 

Administrator has determined that the 

minimum random drug testing rate for 

covered employees will remain at 50 

percent based on a verified positive rate 

for prohibited drug use of 1.23 percent 

for calendar year 2023 and 1.090 

percent for calendar year 2022. Further, 

the Administrator has determined that 

the minimum random alcohol testing 

rate for the calendar year 2025 will 

remain at 10 percent because the 

violation rate was lower than 0.5 

percent for the calendar years 2023 and 

2022. The random alcohol violation 

rates were 0.18 percent for 2023 and 

0.18 for 2022. 

Detailed reports on FTA’s drug and 

alcohol testing data collected from 

transit employers may be obtained from 

FTA, Office of Transit Safety and 

Oversight, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, (202) 366–2010, 

or at: https://transit-safety.fta.dot.gov/ 

DrugAndAlcohol/Publications/ 

Default.aspx. 

Veronica Vanterpool, 

Deputy Administrator. 

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