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FRA is proposing to establish comprehensive, minimum standards for locomotive crashworthiness. Locomotive crashworthiness protection is necessary because locomotive collisions can result in crew injuries and fatalities. These proposed performance...
On May 28, 2004, FRA published a final rule, which increased the minimum and aggravated maximum civil monetary penalties it applies when assessing a civil penalty for a violation of railroad safety statutes and regulations under its authority. In...
By notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on June 30, 2004 (69 FR 39774), FRA proposed revisions to the regulations governing locomotive event recorders in order to improve the crashworthiness of railroad locomotive event recorders and to...
To improve the crashworthiness of railroad locomotive event recorders and to enhance the quality of information available for post- accident investigations, FRA proposes to amend its existing regulations in four major ways: By requiring that new...
FRA is proposing to amend its occupational noise standards for railroad employees whose predominant noise exposure occurs in the locomotive cab. FRA's existing standard (issued in 1980) limits cab employee noise exposure to certain levels based on the...
To comply with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, FRA is adjusting the minimum and maximum civil monetary penalties (CMP) that it will apply when assessing a penalty for a violation of the Federal hazardous material...
To comply with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990, FRA is adjusting the minimum and maximum civil monetary penalties that it will apply when assessing a civil penalty for a violation of railroad safety statutes and regulations...
This document amends the schedule of civil penalties for violations of part 232 to make it consistent with the primary final rule in this proceeding or with subsequent changes made in the text of the regulation in response to petitions for...
In 2001, FRA proposed to make employees of a foreign railroad (a railroad incorporated outside the United States) whose primary reporting point is outside the United States who enter into the United States to perform train or dispatching service...
On August 19, 2003, FRA published an interim final rule making a technical clarification to the locomotive headlight and auxiliary light provisions contained in Sec. 229.125(a) and (d) of title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The purpose...
This document responds to petitions for reconsideration of FRA's July 28, 2003 final rule which prescribed safety standards for railroad on-track roadway maintenance machines and hi-rail vehicles. This document amends and clarifies the final rule.
On December 18, 2003, FRA published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) in the Federal Register (68 FR 70585) addressing the use of locomotive horns at highway-rail grade crossings. As FRA is interested in receiving public comments on all aspects of the IFR,...
On December 18, 2003, FRA published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) in the Federal Register (68 FR 70585) addressing the use of locomotive horns at highway-rail grade crossings. FRA is interested in receiving public comments on all aspects of the IFR. In...
Each of the Department of Transportation's drug and alcohol testing rules include requirements for select employers to submit drug and alcohol testing data to five Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies. In the past, these employers have been...
FRA is issuing rules to require that a locomotive horn be sounded while a train is approaching and entering a public highway-rail crossing. The rules also provide for an exception to the above requirement in circumstances in which there is not a...
FRA is proposing to require retroreflective material on the sides of freight rolling stock (freight cars and locomotives) to enhance the visibility of trains in order to reduce the number of accidents at highway-rail grade crossings in which train...
This rulemaking action makes a technical clarification to certain locomotive headlight and auxiliary light provisions. The purpose of this modification is to codify FRA's longstanding acceptance of lamps used in locomotive headlights and auxiliary...
Currently, employees of a foreign railroad (a railroad incorporated outside the United States) whose primary reporting point is outside the United States who enter into the United States to perform train or dispatching service (foreign railroad...
FRA is amending its Railroad Workplace Safety regulations by adding a new subpart prescribing safety standards for railroad on-track roadway maintenance machines and hi-rail vehicles. The purpose of these standards is to protect roadway workers during...
On August 11, 1997, in compliance with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA), FRA issued an Interim Policy Statement Concerning Small Entities Subject to the Railroad Safety Laws. This document discusses comments...
The FRA is withdrawing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) addressing the Local Rail Freight Assistance Program. In its NPRM published on November 30, 1990, 55 FR 49648, FRA proposed to modify 49 CFR part 266, which implements the agency's Local...
FRA conforms, to the extent practicable, its regulations on accident/incident reporting to the revised reporting regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). This action permits the...
Using data from Management Information System annual reports, FRA has determined that the 2001 rail industry random testing positive rate was 0.77 percent for drugs and 0.21 percent for alcohol. Since the industry-wide random drug testing positive rate...
This Interim Final Rule establishes at $6,700 the monetary threshold for reporting certain railroad accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur during calendar year 2003 and, until further notice, during subsequent calendar years....
This Final Rule will supplant an interim Final Rule (IFR) that has been in effect since January 10, 2002, while FRA has gathered comments on whether to permit extraterritorial dispatching (the act of dispatching of a railroad operation that occurs on...
In general, FRA's regulation on the control of alcohol and drug use currently applies to all railroads that operate on the general railroad system of transportation in the United States. In a December 11, 2001, notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), FRA...
On March 15, 2002, the Federal Railroad Administration (``FRA'') and the Surface Transportation Board (``STB'' or ``Board'') published joint final rules on regulations on safety integration plans (``SIPs'' or ``plans'') governing railroad mergers,...
FRA proposes to conform, to the extent practicable, its regulations on accident/incident reporting to the revised reporting regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor. This action will permit the...
This document withdraws the following rulemakings, proposed by the Office of the Secretary or the former Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), that have been superseded by more recent rulemakings or other actions that make the proposed actions no longer...
This document responds to petitions for reconsideration of the fire safety portion of FRA's May 12, 1999 final rule establishing comprehensive Federal safety standards for railroad passenger equipment. This document amends and clarifies the final rule.
In the Federal Register of Tuesday, January 15, 2002, (67 FR 1903), the FRA published an interim final rule prohibiting the use of body belts as permissible components of personal fall arrest systems and making technical changes. In the Federal...
This document responds to certain of the petitions for reconsideration of FRA's May 12, 1999 final rule establishing comprehensive Federal safety standards for railroad passenger equipment. This document clarifies and amends the final rule.
On January 17, 2001, FRA published a final rule revising the regulations governing braking systems and equipment used in freight and other non-passenger railroad train operations. The revisions were intended to achieve safety by better adapting the...
FRA amends its regulations by adding standards that address toilet and washing facilities for employees who work in locomotive cabs. This rule provides exceptions for certain existing equipment and operations, and establishes servicing requirements.
This document terminates the rulemaking action initiated in FRA Docket No. RSFC-7. In its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), FRA proposed an amendment of the Freight Car Safety Standards, which currently do not apply to maintenance-of-way (MOW)...
The Federal Railroad Administration (``FRA'') and the Surface Transportation Board (``STB'' or ``Board''), working in conjunction with each other, hereby issue joint final rules establishing procedures for the development and implementation of safety...
In the Federal Register of Tuesday, January 15, 2002, (67 FR 1903), the FRA published an interim final rule prohibiting the use of body belts as permissible components of personal fall arrest systems and making technical changes. Inadvertently, Secs....
FRA's regulation on the control of alcohol and drug use, which applies to all railroads that operate on the general railroad system of transportation in the United States, currently exempts certain operations by foreign railroads and certain small...
On December 11, 2001 (66 FR 63942), FRA published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) requiring all dispatching of railroad operations that occur in the United States to be performed in the United States with three minor exceptions. FRA is interested in...
FRA is amending regulations on Railroad Workplace Safety to eliminate a provision which could present undue hazards to persons, and to eliminate possible confusion regarding the use of various terms in the rule text. In particular, FRA is prohibiting...
FRA published a document in the Federal Register of January 2, 2002, setting the minimum random drug and alcohol testing rates for calendar year 2002. The testing rates are based on the rail industry's overall positive rate, which is determined using...
Using data from Management Information System annual reports, FRA has determined that the 2000 rail industry random testing positive rate was .20 percent for drugs and .79 percent for alcohol. Since the industry-wide random drug testing positive rate...
This interim final rule amends the definition of filing as used in the Federal Railroad Administration's rule on engineer certification in order to address recent, unavoidable postal delays. Due to terrorism, the Department of Transportation has...
This final rule establishes at $6,700 the monetary threshold for reporting railroad accidents/incidents involving railroad property damage that occur during calendar year 2002. The monetary threshold of $6,700 for calendar year 2002 represents an $100...
This Interim Final Rule adds a new regulation that requires all dispatching of railroad operations that occur in the United States to be performed in the United States, with three minor exceptions. First, a railroad is allowed to conduct dispatching of...
In general, FRA's regulation on the control of alcohol and drug use (49 CFR part 219) currently applies to all railroads that operate on the general railroad system of transportation in the United States. However, part 219 presently exempts certain...
By notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on August 10, 2001 (66 FR 42352) FRA proposed new regulations governing the development and use of processor-based signal and train control systems. In that notice, FRA established a deadline for the...
On May 30, 1996, FRA, by issuing an Interim Final Rule, amended FRA's signal system reporting requirements to reduce signal system reporting burdens on the rail industry. At that time FRA also amended its regulations governing applications for approval...
On June 20, 1996, FRA published Interim Final Rule Amendments amending the regulations on grade crossing signal system safety. That rule required that railroads comply with specific maintenance, inspection, and testing requirements for active...
FRA is proposing a performance standard for the development and use of processor-based signal and train control systems. The proposed rule also covers systems which interact with highway-rail grade-crossing systems, requirements for notifying FRA prior...