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News Digest DOT 69-16

 

United States, Azerbaijan Open Skies aviation agreement enters into force.  Azerbaijan became the United States’ 119th Open Skies partner on Tuesday, as the United States and Azerbaijan exchanged diplomatic notes to bring the U.S.-Azerbaijan Open Skies...

FMCSA Orders Shutdown of Massachusetts Trucking Company

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has ordered Lowell, Massachusetts-based Flavio Borges Prado, doing business as Golden Eagle Delivery, USDOT No. 2290193, to immediately cease all intrastate and...

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...

News Digest DOT 66-16

FTA Announces National Online Dialogue on Transit Worker Assaults. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is conducting a National Online Dialogue on preventing and mitigating transit worker assaults from June 13 to July 25, 2016. An assault can be an overt physical or verbal act against bus...