🚂Regulatory Updates from the Federal Railroad Administration for Businesses
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's special notice and emergency order procedures: railroad track, locomotive and equipment, including updating addresses.
Learn More📄DOE Notice on Information Collection Extension for Contractors
The Department of Energy (DOE), pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, intends to extend for three years, an information collection request with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Learn More🚆Regulatory Updates on Signal Systems Reporting for Railroads
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's signal systems reporting requirements regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
Learn More♿Proposed Revisions to Rehabilitation Act Affecting Federal Contractors
The U.S. Department of Labor proposes to revise its implementing regulations for Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. The proposed revisions will better align the regulations with recent case law and executive orders, including Executive Order 14173, "Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity" and Executive Order 14219, "Ensuring Lawful Governance and Implementing the President's `Department of Government Efficiency' Deregulatory Initiative."
Learn More🎆PHMSA Proposes Updates for Fireworks Certification Agencies
This NPRM proposes to expand the Fireworks Certification Agency's (FCA) authority to approve fireworks constructed to the APA 87-1A standard to include those fireworks constructed to the APA 87-1B and APA 87-1C standards. PHMSA is also proposing to revise its procedural regulations to facilitate new FCA authorizations. These proposed actions are intended to streamline PHMSA's fireworks approval process and provide the industry with regulatory flexibility.
Learn More🌾Proposed Rescission of Migrant Farmworker Enforcement Regulations
The Department of Labor (the Department or DOL) proposes to remove the regulations that set forth the procedures within the Department for the coordination of enforcement activities by the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) relating to migrant farmworkers. The Department is proposing this removal because these regulations limit the Department's discretion, impose unnecessary and duplicative internal procedures, and prevent the Department's agencies from coordinating with regard to migrant farmworkers in more efficient, effective ways.
Learn More🚍Rescinded Regulation on Transportation for Elderly and Handicapped Persons
This rulemaking rescinds the FTA regulation on Transportation for Elderly and Handicapped Persons, as FTA finds that the regulation is obsolete and unnecessary.
Learn More🚢MARAD Rescinds Outdated Shipping Priority Regulations
MARAD is rescinding four obsolete parts in its regulations pertaining to procedures for assigning priority use of commercial shipping services and port facilities, vessel allocation services, and port utilization under Title I of the Defense Production Act (DFA) of 1950. On October 1, 2012, the Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary (OST) established the Department's Transportation Priorities and Allocation System (TPAS) in 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 33, which replaces the subject regulations in 46 CFR parts 340 and 345-347 regarding priority use and allocation of shipping services, restrictions on port utilization transfer or changes, the standard form of service agreements for ports, and the standard form of marine terminal contracts. Rescinding these regulations will improve clarity with respect to the implementation and administration of TPAS and recognize the centralization of TPAS within DOT its administration by OST.
Learn More🚆Regulatory Updates on Passenger Equipment Safety Standards by FRA
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's passenger equipment safety standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
Learn More📄FRA Proposes Rule for Electronic Posting of Injuries and Illnesses
This proposed rule would allow railroads to satisfy the requirement of electronically posting a listing of all injuries and occupational illnesses at an establishment. This proposed rule also removes some of the requirements for what information railroads must include in these listings.
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