Document ID: DOT-OST-2009-0292-0002
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Removal from the Public Interest Exclusion List: Michael R. Bennett and Workplace Compliance
Posted Date: 2015-10-13T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 197 (Tuesday, October 13, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 61564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-25943]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket DOT-OST-2009-0292]

Michael R. Bennett and Workplace Compliance; 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, Michael R. Bennett, 
Workplace Compliance, Inc. in North Carolina, Texas, 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 Workplace 
Compliance, Inc., from providing drug and alcohol testing services in 
any capacity to any DOT-regulated employer for a period of 5 years. Mr. 
Bennett and his company provided Medical Review Officer services to 
DOT-regulated employers directly and through other service agents when 
Mr. Bennett was not qualified to act as a Medical Review Officer. The 
5-year period has ended and Mr. Bennett, et al., has been removed from 
the list of excluded service agents.

DATES: This notice is effective as of July 31, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrice M. Kelly, Acting 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 patrice.kelly@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department published notice of the 
Public Interest Exclusion for Michael R. Bennett, et al., on November 
17, 2009 (74 FR 59340). The exclusion was effective until July 31, 
2014. Shortly after that date, we removed Mr. Bennett from the DOT's 
list of Public Interest Exclusions on our Web site 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 October 6, 2015, in Washington DC.
Patrice M. Kelly,
Acting Director, Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2015-25943 Filed 10-9-15; 8:45 am]
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