Document ID: FRA-2001-11213-0015
Agency: fra
Document Type: Notice
Title: Alcohol and Drug Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing Rates for 2012
Posted Date: 2011-12-27T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 248 (Tuesday, December 27, 2011)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 80781-80782]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33046]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

49 CFR Part 219

[Docket No. FRA-2001-11213, Notice No. 15]
RIN 2130-AA81

Alcohol and Drug Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing 
Rates for 2012

AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of determination.

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    According to data from FRA's Management Information System, the 
rail industry's random drug testing

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positive rate has remained below 1.0 percent for the last two years. 
The Federal Railroad Administrator (Administrator) has therefore 
determined that the minimum annual random drug testing rate for the 
period January 1, 2012, through December 31, 2012, will remain at 25 
percent of covered railroad employees. In addition, because the 
industry-wide random alcohol testing violation rate has remained below 
0.5 percent for the last two years, the Administrator has determined 
that the minimum random alcohol testing rate will remain at 10 percent 
of covered railroad employees for the period January 1, 2012, through 
December 31, 2012. Railroads remain free, as always, to conduct random 
testing at higher rates.

DATES: This notice of determination is effective December 27, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lamar Allen, Alcohol and Drug Program 
Manager, Office of Safety Enforcement, Mail Stop 25, Federal Railroad 
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, 
(telephone (202) 493-6313); or Kathy Schnakenberg, FRA Alcohol/Drug 
Program Specialist, (telephone (719) 633-8955).

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 20, 2011.
Joseph C. Szabo,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2011-33046 Filed 12-23-11; 8:45 am]
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