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Training, Qualification, and Oversight for Safety-Related Railroad Employees

Action

Final rule; delay of implementation dates.

Summary

This document delays the implementation dates in the final rule published November 7, 2014, because model training program developers alerted FRA they will not be able to timely produce model programs that an estimated 1,459 railroads and contractors are expected to use to comply with the rule's program submission requirements.

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