Compliance, Regulatory Requirements 15 Jan 2025 compliance, aircraft, aviation safety, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, homeland security, security measures, airmen, recordkeeping, freight forwarders, airports, explosives, criminal history checks, law enforcement officers, tsa, air carriers, aviation security

✈️TSA Updates Recordkeeping Requirements for Aviation Security Regulations

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is issuing technical amendments to certain aviation security regulations. The technical amendments to the regulations clarify that airport operators and aircraft operators are required to retain only the criminal records, including the application for a criminal history records check (CHRC), associated with an individual's current CHRC, CHRC certification, or authorization to perform a covered function and not records associated with previous CHRCs or employment investigations. Also, the technical amendments clarify that the records may be stored in paper or electronic form.

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Compliance, Financial 14 Jan 2025 compliance, business regulation, motor carriers, administrative practice and procedure, civil monetary penalties, transportation industry, surface transportation, freight forwarders, brokers, inflation

📈2025 Civil Monetary Penalty Adjustments by the Surface Transportation Board

The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is issuing a final rule to implement the annual inflationary adjustment to its civil monetary penalties, pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015.

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Regulatory Changes, Compliance, Financial Requirements 10 Jan 2025 compliance, transportation, motor carriers, administrative practice and procedure, reporting and recordkeeping requirements, motor vehicle safety, intergovernmental relations, penalties, safety regulations, highway safety, freight forwarders, brokers, financial responsibility, hazardous materials transportation, highways and roads, parking, radioactive materials, rubber and rubber products

🚛Implications of New FMCSA Regulations for Motor Carriers and Brokers

In a final rule published in the Federal Register on November 18, 2024, FMCSA amended its regulations by making technical corrections throughout the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The final rule included an amendatory instruction to revise a stayed section without first lifting the stay. The final rule also included an amendatory instruction which referenced an incorrect paragraph letter. The Agency corrects these errors.

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Compliance Requirements, Regulatory Updates 6 Jan 2025 fmcsa, compliance, freight forwarders, insurance requirements, brokers, financial responsibility, motor carriers, regulations

🚛FMCSA Announces Financial Responsibility Requirements for Carriers

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA requests approval to renew an ICR titled, "Financial Responsibility Motor Carriers, Freight Forwarders, and Brokers." The purpose of this ICR is to provide registered motor carriers, property brokers, and freight forwarders a means of meeting financial responsibility filing requirements. This ICR sets forth the financial responsibility documentation requirements for motor carriers, freight forwarders, and brokers as a result of Agency jurisdictional statutes.

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