Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, transportation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, railroad, penalties, safety regulations, bridges, railroad safety, federal agency, bridge standards

🚆FRA Final Rule on Bridge Safety Standards

This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's bridge safety standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, railroad, penalties, safety regulations, workplace safety, bridges, occupational safety and health, railroad safety

🚦Proposed Repeal of Outdated Railroad Safety Regulations

FRA proposes to repeal several roadway workplace safety requirements that have become obsolete. In addition, FRA proposes to establish a new special approval procedure to enable regulated entities, after public notice and FRA approval, to utilize an alternative approach to bridge worker safety that provides for an equivalent or better level of safety. Also, this rule proposes to clarify that the required training for operators of roadway maintenance machines equipped with a crane includes specific aspects such as maintaining vertical clearance.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulations, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, railroad, penalties, safety regulations, workplace safety, bridges, occupational safety and health, railroad safety

🚦Administrative Updates to Railroad Workplace Safety Regulations

This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad workplace safety regulations, including updating addresses.

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Proposed Rule 9 Jun 2025 business regulation, small businesses, new jersey, coast guard, drawbridge, bridges, water transportation, ventnor city

🌉Proposed Regulation for Dorset Avenue Bridge Operations in NJ

The Coast Guard proposes to modify the operating schedule that governs the Dorset Avenue Bridge across Inside Thorofare, mile 72.1 at Ventnor City, NJ. The proposed rule would allow the drawbridge to only open between the hours of 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. if at least four hours' notice is given. We invite your comments on this proposed rulemaking.

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Proposed Rule 30 May 2025 regulations, transportation, safety, infrastructure, public lands, bridges, grant programs-transportation, highways and roads, forest service, federal highway administration, asset management, national forests

🌳FHWA Proposes Rescinding Regulations for Forest Highway Management

FHWA proposes to rescind the regulations issued on February 27, 2004, Federal Lands Highway Program; Management Systems Pertaining to the Forest Service and the Forest Highway Program.

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Proposed Rule 30 May 2025 regulations, transportation, wildlife, infrastructure, federal, public lands, bridges, grant programs-transportation, highways and roads

🚧FHWA Proposes Rescinding Outdated Wildlife Management Regulations

FHWA proposes to rescind the regulations issued on February 27, 2004, Federal Lands Highway Program; Management Systems Pertaining to the Fish and Wildlife and the Refuge Roads Program.

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Proposed Rule 30 May 2025 federal regulation, transportation, national parks, infrastructure, public lands, bridges, grant programs-transportation, highways and roads, asset management

🏞️Proposed Rescindment of Regulations for National Park Transportation

FHWA proposes to rescind the regulations issued on February 27, 2004, Federal Lands Highway Program; Management Systems Pertaining to the National Park Service and the Park Roads and Parkways Program.

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Rule 30 May 2025 regulatory compliance, transportation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, infrastructure, highway safety, bridges, highways and roads, federal highway administration, performance measures

🛣️FHWA Rescinds Performance Management Reporting Requirements

This final rule rescinds the requirements pertaining to the performance targets established by State departments of transportation (State DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) for the first performance period (Calendar Years 2018 through 2021), as originally promulgated in the regulations issued on January 18, 2017, National Performance Management Measures; Assessing Performance of the National Highway System, Freight Movement on the Interstate System, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program.

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Proposed Rule 30 May 2025 regulation, transportation, investment, infrastructure, public lands, bridges, grant programs-transportation, highways and roads, federal highway administration, indian reservation roads

🛣️Proposed Rule to Rescind Indian Reservation Roads Management Regulations

FHWA proposes to rescind the regulations issued on February 27, 2004, Federal Lands Highway Program; Management Systems Pertaining to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Reservation Roads Program.

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Rule 30 May 2025 regulations, transportation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, infrastructure, highway safety, bridges, grant programs-transportation, mass transportation, highways and roads, federal highway administration, asset management

🛣️FHWA Rescinds Outdated Transportation Management Regulations

This final rule rescinds the regulations issued on December 10, 1996, and amended on February 14, 2007, Management and Monitoring, thereby removing obsolete regulations governing transportation management and monitoring systems. Further, FWHA finalizes the proposed updates to the regulations governing risk-based Asset Management Plans by determining that no further action is needed.

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