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The Significant Rulemakings Report provides a summary and the status for all significant rulemakings that DOT currently has pending or has issued recently. We update the Report at the beginning of each month. The information in the Report is not intended to commit DOT to specific...
The Significant Rulemakings Report provides a summary and the status for all significant rulemakings that DOT currently has pending or has issued recently. We update the Report at the beginning of each month. The information in the Report is not intended to commit DOT to specific...
The Significant Rulemakings Report provides a summary and the status for all significant rulemakings that DOT currently has pending or has issued recently. We update the Report at the beginning of each month. The information in the Report is not intended to commit DOT to specific...
Informal and Formal Administrative Procedures
Formal rulemaking process
This Web page includes a list of time zone proceedings and links to the final rules from those proceedings. To view the final rule in each proceeding, click on the date next to the description of the proceeding you would like to view.
Under the Uniform Time Act, as amended, States may exempt themselves from observing Daylight Saving Time by State law. If a State chooses to observe Daylight Saving Time, it must begin and end on federally mandated dates.
Under Federal law, there are two ways in which an area in the United States can be moved from one time zone to another.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) oversees the Nation's time zones. The oversight of time zones was assigned to DOT because time standards were first instituted by the railroad industry.
This memorandum of November 5, 2009, requires each agency to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a detailed plan to implement the policies and directives of EO 13175, after consultation with Indian tribes and tribal officials. Each agency must also submit to OMB annual progress...