384 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 2 / Friday, January 3, 2025 / Notices 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 

1.87. 

Thomas P. Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31549 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2001–11213, Notice No. 

29] 

Drug and Alcohol Testing: 

Determination of Minimum Random 

Testing Rates for 2025 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notification of determination. 

SUMMARY: This notification of 

determination announces FRA’s 

minimum annual random drug and 

minimum annual random alcohol 

testing rates for covered service, 

maintenance-of-way (MOW), and 

mechanical (MECH) employees for 

calendar year 2025. 

DATES: This determination takes effect 

January 3, 2025. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gerald Powers, FRA Drug and Alcohol 

Program Manager, by email: 

gerald.powers@dot.gov or by telephone: 

202–493–6313; or Melissa Van Dermeir, 

FRA Drug and Alcohol Program 

Specialist, by email: 

melissa.vandermeir@dot.gov or by 

telephone: 312–720–9491. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year, 

FRA sets its minimum annual random 

testing rates after considering the last 

two complete calendar years of railroad 

industry drug and alcohol program data 

submitted to its Management 

Information System (MIS). FRA, 

however, reserves the right to consider 

factors other than MIS-reported data 

before deciding whether to lower annual 

minimum random testing rates. See 85 

FR 81265 (Dec. 15, 2020). 

FRA is announcing that its minimum 

annual random drug and alcohol testing 

rates for calendar year 2025 will 

continue to be the same as those for 

calendar year 2024, as follows: 

• Covered service employees—25 

percent for drugs and 10 percent for 

alcohol. 

• MOW employees—25 percent for 

drugs and 10 percent for alcohol. 

• MECH employees—50 percent for 

drugs and 25 percent for alcohol. 

These rates are minimums, and 

railroads and railroad contractors may 

conduct FRA random testing at higher 

rates. 

Discussion 

Random Testing Rates for Covered 

Service Employees 

The industry-wide random drug 

testing positive rate for covered service 

employees remained below 1.0 percent 

for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator 

has therefore determined the minimum 

annual random drug testing rate for 

covered service employees will remain 

at 25 percent for the period January 1, 

2025, through December 31, 2025. 

The industry-wide random alcohol 

testing violation rate for covered service 

employees remained below 0.5 percent 

for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator 

has therefore determined the minimum 

random alcohol testing rate for covered 

service employees will remain at 10 

percent for the period January 1, 2025, 

through December 31, 2025. 

Random Testing Rates for MOW 

Employees 

The industry-wide random drug 

testing positive rate for MOW 

employees remained below 1.0 percent 

for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator 

has therefore determined the minimum 

annual random drug testing rate for 

MOW employees will remain at 25 

percent for the period January 1, 2025, 

through December 31, 2025 

The industry-wide random alcohol 

testing violation rate for MOW 

employees remained below 0.5 percent 

for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator 

has therefore determined the minimum 

random alcohol testing rate for MOW 

employees will remain at 10 percent for 

the period January 1, 2025, through 

December 31, 2025. 

Random Testing Rates for MECH 

Employees 

FRA will not have the two full years 

of industry-wide MIS data required to 

adjust the random testing rates for 

MECH employees until it has the MIS 

data for 2024, since MECH employees 

did not become subject to FRA random 

drug and alcohol testing until March 

2022. See 87 FR 5719 (Feb. 2, 2022). The 

Administrator has therefore determined 

that the minimum random rates for 

MECH employees will remain at 50 

percent for drugs and 25 percent for 

alcohol for the period January 1, 2025, 

through December 31, 2025. 

Issued in Washington, DC 

Allison Ishihara Fultz, 

Chief Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31582 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[FTA Docket No. FTA–2024–0013] 

National Transit Database Reporting 

Changes and Clarifications for Report 

Years 2025 and 2026 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice, reopening of comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) is reopening the 

comment period for the Federal 

Register notice regarding FTA’s 

National Transit Database reporting 

changes and clarifications, which was 

published on October 31, 2024, with the 

original comment period closing on 

December 30, 2024. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

document published October 31, 2024 at 

89 FR 86907 is reopened. Comments 

should be filed by January 29, 2025. 

FTA will consider comments received 

after that date to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by docket number FTA– 

2004–0013, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Management Facility; U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9:00 

a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Management Facility, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, at (202) 493–2251. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name (Federal Transit 

Administration) and Docket Number 

(FTA–2024–0013) for this notice, at the 

beginning of your comments. If sent by 

mail, submit two copies of your 

comments. 

Electronic Access and Filing: This 

document and all comments received 

may be viewed online through the 

Federal eRulemaking portal at https://

www.regulations.gov or at the street 

address listed above. Electronic 

submission, retrieval help, and 

guidelines are available on the Federal 

eRulemaking portal website. The 


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website is available 24 hours each day, 

365 days a year. Please follow the 

instructions. An electronic copy of this 

document may also be downloaded 

from the Office of the Federal Register’s 

home page at https://www.federal

register.gov. 

Privacy Act: Except as provided 

below, all comments received into the 

docket will be made public in their 

entirety. The comments will be 

searchable by the name of the 

individual submitting the comment (or 

signing the comment, if submitted on 

behalf of an association, business, labor 

union, etc.) You should not include 

information in your comment that you 

do not want to be made public. You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477) or at https://

www.transportation.gov/privacy. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

program matters, contact Chelsea 

Champlin, National Transit Database 

Program Manager, FTA Office of Budget 

and Policy, 202–366–1651, 

Chelsea.champlin@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FTA’s 

Office of Budget and Policy is reopening 

the comment period for the Federal 

Register notice on National Transit 

Database Reporting Changes and 

Clarifications, originally published on 

October 31, 2024 (89 FR 86907). Given 

the complex nature of these reporting 

requirements and its impact on NTD 

reporting agencies, it is essential that 

transit agencies and all affected parties 

have sufficient time to review these 

proposals and comment on them if so 

desired. The extension is supported by 

FTA’s Transit Advisory Committee for 

Safety and FTA’s Office of Transit 

Safety, as the notice contains proposed 

changes that impact safety and security 

reporting as well. In support of public 

transportation safety, in light of the 

comment period coinciding with the 

end-of-year holidays, and to allow for 

more input on the implementation of 

these reporting changes, FTA believes 

offering the standard 30-day extension 

of time is justified and is reopening the 

comment period until January 29, 2025. 

Veronica Vanterpool, 

Deputy Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31495 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Information Collection 

Tools Relating to the Qualified Electric 

Vehicle Credit 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on continuing 

information collections, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

The IRS is soliciting comments 

concerning information collection 

requirements related to the qualified 

electric vehicle credit. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before March 4, 2025 to 

be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Andres Garcia, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224, or 

by email to pra.comments@irs.gov. 

Include OMB control number 1545– 

1374 or Qualified Electric Vehicle 

Credit, in the subject line of the 

message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the form should be directed to 

Kerry Dennis at (202) 317–5751, or at 

Internal Revenue Service, Room 6526, 

1111 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20224, or through the 

internet, at Kerry.L.Dennis@irs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Qualified Electric Vehicle 

Credit. 

OMB Number: 1545–1374. 

Form Number: 8834. 

Abstract: Form 8834 is used to claim 

any qualified electric vehicle passive 

activity credit allowed for the current 

tax year. The IRS uses the information 

on the form to determine that the credit 

is allowable and has been properly 

computed. 

Current Actions: There is no change 

in the form or paperwork burden 

previously approved by OMB. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households, and businesses or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,136. 

Estimated Time per Response: 4 

hours, 47 min. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 15,022 hours. 

The following paragraph applies to all 

the collections of information covered 

by this notice. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

Books or records relating to a collection 

of information must be retained if their 

contents may become material in the 

administration of any internal revenue 

law. Generally, tax returns and tax 

return information are confidential, as 

required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(a) whether the collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology; 

and (e) estimates of capital or start-up 

costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Approved: December 27, 2024. 

Kerry L. Dennis, 

Tax Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31559 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Secretary 

List of Countries Requiring 

Cooperation With an International 

Boycott 

In accordance with section 999(a)(3) 

of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 

the Department of the Treasury is 

publishing a current list of countries 

which require or may require 

participation in, or cooperation with, an 

international boycott (within the 

meaning of section 999(b)(3) of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986). 

On the basis of the best information 

currently available to the Department of 


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