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News Digest DOT 93-16

 

FMCSA Issues Final Rule to Implement Eight Non-Discretionary Provisions of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued a final rule to effectuate  eight non-discretionary provisions mandated by the Fixing...

DOT Announces New Hazardous Materials Safety Grant

FAST Act authorizes hazardous materials training grant

WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced $1 million in grant funding for training and outreach programs to help local...

FASTLANE Grant Applications Totaling Nearly $9.8 Billion

212 Applications Received for Infrastructure Projects 

WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has received 212 applications totaling nearly $9.8 billion for grants through the newly-created...

News Digest DOT 59-16

 

FMCSA Announces Availability of its 2016 Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Pocket Guide to Large Truck and Bus Statistics is an annual publication that contains extensive information on...

FAST Act Implementation Highlights

INTRODUCTION

Congress heeded the call by Secretary Anthony Foxx and others, and enacted the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act last December. It is the first authorization act in a decade that provides long-term funding certainty for surface transportation infrastructure planning...

News Digest - DOT 23-16

FMCSA Restores Property Carriers’ “Absolute Measures” in Compliance with the FAST Act.  Section 5223 (c) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) of 2015 requires the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) to keep property carriers’ absolute measures...

The FAST Act: Accelerating Project Delivery

The FAST Act includes a number of changes to Federal law intended to streamline the environmental review process for many transportation projects across the Federal Government. 

Specifically, the FAST Act:

Extends the environmental review process that applies to highways and public...