Comment Period Extended On October 28, 2024, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to adopt several modal-specific amendments aimed at enhancing the safe transportation of hazardous materials …
New Year, New Penalty Amounts The Department of Transportation (DOT) and it many agencies have increased the maximum civil penalty amounts for various hazardous materials shipping and transportation regulation violations for fiscal year 2025. To view the new penalty amounts …
Positive Train Control System The Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is planning on adjusting several regulations which govern positive train control systems. On October 28, 2024, the FRA published its notice of proposed rulemaking in the federal …
Accident/Incident Investigation Policy Recently the Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) released a direct final rule to amend its accident/Incident regulations governing reporting, classification, and investigations by codifying the FRA’s policy form which was created as a joint …
*** For those that have been following this story, you may remember our initial post in November 2022 extending the comment period. Well, The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) recently published its final rule on April 9, …
Occupational Safety and Health in the Locomotive Cab Set to go in effect March 26, 2024, The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Railroad Administrations (FRA) Final Rule is amending its regulations as it relates to the occupational noise exposure standard. …
Revisions to Civil Penalty Amounts New year, new penalty amount? There is an old colloquialism that says, “Only two things in life are certain: death and taxes.” Well, I am pretty sure we can add the increase to civil penalty …
Going, Going, Gone Some of you may recall the long battle of transportation of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) by rail. It was originally thought to have been settled by the Final Rule published to the federal register in July 2020. …
What’s Your Opinion? In case you missed it, On June 27, 2023 the Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced a Notice of Propose Rulemaking (NPRM) aimed at keeping first responders safer and improving public …
Do You Need an Update? Recently published on May 2, 2023, The Department of Transportation (DOT) published a Final Rule (88 FR 27596) to harmonize Part 40 with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) drug testing policy …