Document ID: DOT-OST-2009-0092-0534
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Removal from the Public Interest Exclusion List: Elizabeth Betsy Pope d/b/a/ Eastgate Laboratory Testing and Mounir R. Khouri
Posted Date: 2021-06-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 30517]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-11902]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

Elizabeth Betsy Pope d/b/a Eastgate Laboratory Testing and Mounir 
R. Khouri; Removal From the Public Interest Exclusion List

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation (DOT) issued a decision and 
order under the Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and 
Alcohol Testing Programs excluding a service agent, Elizabeth ``Betsy'' 
Pope d/b/a Eastgate Laboratory Testing in Tennessee and all other 
places doing business, and all other individuals who are employees or 
all other individuals associated with Ms. Pope and Eastgate Laboratory 
Testing, from providing drug and alcohol testing services in any 
capacity to any DOT-regulated employer for a period of 5 years. Ms. 
Pope and her company provided Medical Review Officer services to DOT-
regulated employers directly and through other service agents when Ms. 
Pope was not qualified to act as a Medical Review Officer. The 5-year 
period has ended and Ms. Pope, et al., have been removed from the list 
of excluded service agents.

DATES: This Notice is effective as of January 21, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bohdan Baczara, Deputy Director, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy and 
Compliance, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 366-
3784 (voice), (202) 366-3897 (fax), or Bohdan.Baczara@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of Transportation (DOT) 
issued a decision and order under the Procedures for Transportation 
Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs excluding a service agent, 
Mounir R. Khouri d/b/a Mobile Testing Services, Inc., in Vermont and 
all other places it is incorporated, franchised, or otherwise doing 
business, and all other individuals who are officers, employees, 
directors, shareholders, partners, or other individuals associated with 
Mr. Khouri and Mobile Testing Services, Inc., from providing drug and 
alcohol testing services in any capacity to any DOT-regulated employer 
for a period of 5 years. Mr. Khouri and his company provided Medical 
Review Officer services to DOT-regulated employers directly and through 
other service agents when Mr. Khouri was not qualified to act as a 
Medical Review Officer. The 5-year period has ended and Mr. Khouri, et 
al., have been removed from the list of excluded service agents.
    The Department published notice of the Public Interest Exclusion 
for Elizabeth Betsy Pope, et al., on August 24, 2015 (80 FR 51349) and 
for Mounir R. Khouri, et al., on January 27, 2016 (81 FR 4739). The 
exclusions were for 5-year periods, respectively, which have now run 
their term. We have removed Ms. Pope and Mr. Khouri from the DOT's list 
of Public Interest Exclusions on our website at: http://www.transportation.gov/odapc/pie. We are also notifying the public of 
the removal by publishing this Federal Register notice as required by 
49 CFR 40.401(d).

    Issued on May 20, 2021, in Washington, DC.
Bohdan Baczara,
Deputy Director, Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2021-11902 Filed 6-7-21; 8:45 am]
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