Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, penalties, rail industry, safety regulations, federal railroad administration, department of transportation, railroad safety

🚂Updates to Rear End Marking Device Regulations for Railroads

This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's rear end marking device regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.

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Proposed Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, regulation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, hazardous materials, hazardous materials transportation, packaging and containers, department of transportation, business savings

📦Proposed Rule for Continued Use of Hazardous Materials Packaging

This NPRM proposes to revise the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) to allow for the continued use of packagings authorized under a manufacturing special permit for duration of the useful life of the package. The current HMR provisions require an otherwise safe and usable package to be discontinued solely because the original special permit has expired or was not renewed.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 regulatory compliance, administrative practice and procedure, business operations, department of transportation, pipeline safety, cost savings

🛢️New Pipeline Safety Regulation Adjusts Filing Deadlines

This DFR amends PHMSA's procedural regulations to establish a rule of construction clarifying the operation of procedural filing deadlines scheduled to fall on weekends and Federal holidays.

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Notice 26 Jun 2025 regulatory compliance, business operations, enforcement, department of transportation, criminal liability

⚖️DOT Guidance on Criminal Enforcement and Regulatory Offenses

This notice describes DOT's plans to address regulatory offenses with criminal liability pursuant to the recent executive order on Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.

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Notice 12 Jun 2025 compliance, regulation, hazardous materials, department of transportation, special permits

🚚Hazardous Materials Special Permits Regulatory Notice and Impact

In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has granted or denied the application described herein.

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Rule 10 Jun 2025 regulations, disabilities, department of transportation, air travel, airline compliance

✈️Delay in Enforcement of Wheelchair Accommodation Regulations

This document announces that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will not take enforcement action against regulated entities before August 1, 2025, for failing to comply with the new or revised requirements contained in the final rule on "Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers With Disabilities Using Wheelchairs" (Wheelchair Rule). This enforcement discretion does not apply to violations of DOT's regulations regarding the treatment of air travelers with disabilities that would also have been violations prior to the issuance of the Wheelchair Rule.

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Notice 8 Apr 2025 information collection, federal regulations, public comment, department of transportation, customer experience

📝Notice of Information Collection for Customer Experience Improvement

The United States Department of Transportation, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, is announcing an opportunity for public comment on a proposed extension of a collection of information by the Agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information, and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This notice solicits comments on an extension of an existing collection proposed by the Agency.

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Notice 7 Apr 2025 regulatory compliance, transportation, hazardous materials, department of transportation, special permits

🚚Hazardous Materials Permit Modifications and Business Compliance

In accordance with the procedures governing the application for, and the processing of, special permits from the Department of Transportation's Hazardous Material Regulations, notice is hereby given that the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety has received the application described herein.

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Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 17 Jan 2025 compliance, environmental impact, regulation, business impact, nepa, department of transportation

🌍Implications of NEPA Procedures Withdrawal for Businesses

The Department of Transportation (the Department) is withdrawing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) issued on November 23, 2020, that proposed to amend its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing procedures.

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Financial Assistance, Compliance, Infrastructure Development 17 Jan 2025 financial assistance, infrastructure, buy america, department of transportation, housing projects, transit-oriented development

🏗️Public Interest Waiver for Transit-Oriented Development Housing Projects

In order to expeditiously deliver projects and provide meaningful infrastructure results while ensuring the appropriate application of domestic content standards, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is issuing waiver for the domestic preference requirements for manufactured products applicable to certain transit- oriented development (TOD) housing projects that receive credit assistance through the Build America Bureau (the Bureau) under the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) and Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) credit programs.

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