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February 2015 RRR Report

February 2015 Report on Retrospective Regulatory Reviews

Dorval Ronald Carter, Jr.

Acting Chief of Staff

Dorval Ronald Carter, Jr. is currently the US Department of Transportation Acting Chief of Staff. He serves as a senior adviser to Secretary Anthony Foxx. Dorval helps to manage a Department with more than 55,000 employees and a $70 billion budget that oversees air,...

March 2015 Significant Rulemaking Report

March 2015 Rulemaking Report on Significant Rules.

January 2015 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)

Local Hiring contracting initiative

NPRM Comment Period Extended to May 6

DOT is launching a new one-year Contracting Initiative as a pilot program --for FHWA and FTA recipients-- to evaluate the use of social and economic contracting requirements that have traditionally been disallowed due to concerns about their impact on...

Questions and Answers on Contract Initiatives

Updated April 2, 2015

1. Why has the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) decided to conduct this pilot program? 2. What is the goal and intended outcomes of the contracting initiatives pilot program?3. What legally prohibits DOT from allowing recipients to use local hire provisions?4....

2015 Chief FOIA Officer Report

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century

Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Program Provision in the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21)

News Digest - DOT 21-15

Daylight Saving Time to Begin Sunday, March 8 for Most Americans. Most of the nation will return to daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 8, 2015, when clocks will be turned ahead one hour, providing an additional hour of daylight in the evening. Under law, daylight saving...

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