2025 Public Meetings The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHMS) recently published it Notice of 2025 public meetings schedule. PHMSA’s OHMS will host 4 public meetings this year …
Have you ever thought to yourself, how do people get on these boards that make decisions and policies that affect our day-to-day jobs? If you have, then this recently published notice from The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may interest you. …
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking If you thought time had run out on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) and Clean Water Act Methods Update Rule 22, you would technically be right. Originally set to expire February 2, …
FINAL RULE Applicability took effect January 19, 2025, with and effective date of January 27, 2025, the United States Postal Service (USPS) published its final rule amending Publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted, and Perishable Mail by adding new section 131 to …
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 …
Corrections and Technical Amendment On October 9, 2024, The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its final rule in the Federal Register correcting several errors contained within the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) published on May 20, 2024. OSHA found …
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 …
Fuels Regulatory Streamlining Amendments Back on December 4, 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Fuels Regulatory Streamlining that replaced the previous gas, diesel, and other fuel quality programs in 40 CFR part 80 with a new set of …