Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulation, transportation, safety, drug testing, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, penalties, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, investigations, communications, hazardous materials transportation, occupational safety and health, railroad safety, railroad employees, fire prevention, noise control

🚂Update on the Definition of "Person" in Railroad Regulations

This final rule updates the definition of "person" in FRA's regulations to provide for regulatory consistency. FRA is making these clarifying changes to better align with FRA's safety jurisdiction and to conform definitions in FRA's older regulations with the definition of "person" that FRA has used in its most recent rulemakings. In one section where "person" is defined, FRA is also replacing references to specific penalty amounts with general references to FRA's minimum civil monetary penalty, ordinary maximum civil monetary penalty, and aggravated maximum civil monetary penalty amounts, consistent with FRA's current practice.

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulation, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, penalties, civil penalties, highway safety, railroad safety, state and local governments, transportation safety, railroad regulation, grade crossing safety

🚂Administrative Updates to Grade Crossing Safety Regulations

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

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Rule 1 Jul 2025 compliance, federal regulation, safety, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, mass transportation, asset management, public transportation, transit asset management

🚍Updates on Transit Asset Management Regulation and Compliance

This rulemaking revises FTA's Transit Asset Management (TAM) regulation to remove the initial TAM Plan implementation deadline, as this deadline has passed.

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Notice 27 Jun 2025 aviation, federal regulation, air carriers, information collection, faa

✈️FAA Notice on Information Collection for Air Carrier Compliance

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following collection of information was published on April 8, 2025. The collection involves information collected which will be used by air carriers and by the FAA to adequately target its inspection resources for surveillance and make accurate risk assessments.

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Notice 26 Jun 2025 federal regulation, financial compliance, criminal enforcement, business guidance, appraisal industry

⚖️Guidance on Criminal Enforcement for Financial Institutions

This notice describes the plans of the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council ("ASC") to address criminally liable regulatory offenses under the recent executive order on Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.

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Notice 26 Jun 2025 federal regulation, transportation, dot, exemptions, hours of service, fireworks industry

🎆Hours of Service Exemptions Granted for Fireworks Industry

FMCSA announces its decision to renew exemptions from certain hours of service (HOS) regulations for 44 APA member companies during designated Independence Day periods. The exemptions allow drivers of these companies to exclude off-duty and sleeper berth time of any length from the calculation of the 14-hour limit and to use paper records of duty status (RODS) in lieu of electronic logging devices (ELDs). FMCSA has analyzed the application for exemptions and the public comments and has determined that the exemptions, subject to the terms and conditions set forth below, will likely achieve a level of safety that is equivalent to or greater than the level that would be achieved in the absence of the exemptions.

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Notice 26 Jun 2025 compliance, federal regulation, transportation, public comments, pipeline safety, special permit, kinder morgan, tennessee gas pipeline

🚧Pipeline Safety Special Permit Request by Tennessee Gas Pipeline

PHMSA is publishing this notice to solicit public comments on a request for one (1) new special permit segment and two (2) special permit segment extensions submitted by Tennessee Gas Pipeline, LLC (TGP), a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan, Inc. TGP is seeking relief from compliance with certain requirements in the Federal pipeline safety regulations. At the conclusion of the 30-day comment period, PHMSA will review the comments received from this notice as part of its evaluation to grant or deny the special permit request.

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Notice 20 Jun 2025 compliance, federal regulation, information collection, railroad, fatigue risk management

🚆Comments Invited on Proposed Fatigue Risk Management Program Data Collection

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its implementing regulations, FRA seeks approval of the Information Collection Request (ICR) summarized below. Before submitting this ICR to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval, FRA is soliciting public comment on specific aspects of the activities identified in the ICR.

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Notice 20 Jun 2025 federal regulation, transportation, business operations, railroad, infrastructure

🚧FRA Seeks Comments on Information Collection Regarding Blocked Crossings

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its implementing regulations, FRA seeks approval of the Information Collection Request (ICR) summarized below. Before submitting this ICR to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for approval, FRA is soliciting public comment on specific aspects of the activities identified in the ICR.

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Notice 20 Jun 2025 federal regulation, transportation, exemption, hours of service, trucking, oversize loads

🚛FMCSA Provisional Renewal of Exemption for Hours of Service Regulations

FMCSA announces its decision to provisionally renew the Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association's (SC&RA) exemption from the 30-minute rest break provision of the Agency's hours-of-service (HOS) regulations for certain commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers. The exemption covers drivers working for specialized carriers transporting loads that exceed normal weight and dimensional limits--oversize/ overweight (OS/OW) loads and require a permit issued by a State or local government agency. The provisional exemption renewal is limited to six months. After a review of the public comments to this notice, FMCSA will issue a decision whether the exemption should be renewed through June 2030.

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