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Declassification

In the interest of national security, some U.S. Government information is classified and requires protection against unauthorized disclosure. Government agencies may classify information only as permitted by Executive Order 13526, Classified National Security Information....

News Digest

Federal Transit Administration Provided Guidance on Protecting Civil Rights and Addressing Environmental Impacts on Transit Riders and Communities.  The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has issued new guidance aimed at ensuring that the civil rights and environmental justice concerns of...

Michael R. Bennett and Workplace Compliance, Inc. DOT PIE No. 2009-1

The final rule includes a public interest exclusion (PIE) mechanism designed to protect the public from the affects of serious noncompliance by service agents. The PIE provision became effective January 18, 2001.

A service agent who engages in serious misconduct could be excluded from...

Congressional Report on the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991

Congressional Report on the Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991

Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991

Omnibus Transportation Employee Testing Act of 1991

Final Rule on Drug and Alcohol Testing Procedures Regulation

The rule revises the drug and alcohol testing procedures regulation. The purposes of the revision is to make the organization and language of the regulation clearer, to incorporate guidance and interpretations of the rule into its text, and to update the rule to include new provisions responding...

Compliance Date on Final Rule May 2011

Authorization for HHS certified laboratories to initiate electronic reporting as the only reporting necessary for negative results on specimens submitted to laboratories using the new CCF and the reporting of non-negative results using faxed or scanned copies of Copy 1 of the new CCF.

Final Rule on Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs; Technical Amendments

This rule makes a series of technical amendments to the drug and alcohol testing procedural rule. The technical amendments clarify certain provisions of the rule and address omissions or problems identified since the publication of the final rule in December 2000.

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Drug and Alcohol Management Information System Reporting

Proposal to revise the MIS form currently used by the six Operating Administrations (OA) and the United States Coast Guard and to streamline the annual reporting of drug and alcohol program data to the OAs through use of a one-page MIS data collection form. The Department also desires to...