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Hazardous Materials: Improving the Safety of Railroad Tank Car Transportation of Hazardous Materials

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations to prescribe enhanced safety measures for rail transportation of poison inhalation hazard (PIH) materials, including...

Hazardous Materials: Enhancing Rail Transportation Safety and Security for Hazardous Materials Shipments

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), is improving safety by revising the current requirements in the Hazardous Materials Regulations applicable to the safe...

Railroad Safety Enforcement Procedures; Enforcement, Appeal and Hearing Procedures for Rail Routing Decisions

In this final rule, FRA is establishing procedures to enable railroad carriers to challenge rail routing decisions made by FRA�s Associate Administrator for Safety (Associate Administrator) that carry out the requirements adopted in a separate rulemaking of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials...

Revisions to Civil and Criminal Penalties; Penalty Guidelines

In this final rule, the Federal Railroad Administration is revising its regulations to reflect revisions to the penalty provisions in the Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety and Security Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Title VII of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation...

Locomotive Crashworthiness

FRA is issuing comprehensive, minimum standards for locomotive crashworthiness. These crashworthiness standards are intended to help protect locomotive cab occupants in the event of a locomotive collision. Examples of locomotive collision scenarios considered in this rulemaking include...

Signal and Train Control; Miscellaneous Amendments

On May 30, 1996, FRA, by issuing an Interim Final Rule, amended FRA�s signal system reporting requirements to reduce signal system reporting burdens on the rail industry. At that time FRA also amended its regulations governing applications for approval of discontinuance or material modification...

Grade Crossing Signal System Safety

On June 20, 1996, FRA published Interim Final Rule Amendments amending the regulations on grade crossing signal system safety. That rule required that railroads comply with specific maintenance, inspection, and testing requirements for active highway-rail grade crossing warning systems. The rule...

Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Systems

FRA is issuing revisions to the regulations governing freight power brakes and equipment by adding a new subpart addressing electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brake systems. The revisions are designed to provide for and encourage the safe implementation and use of ECP brake system...

Track Safety Standards; Inspections of Joints in Continuous Welded Rail (CWR)

FRA is amending the Federal Track Safety Standards to improve the inspection of rail joints in continuous welded rail (CWR). On November 2, 2005, FRA published an Interim Final Rule (IFR) addressing the inspection of rail joints in CWR. FRA requested comments on the provisions of the IFR and...

Control of Alcohol and Drug Use: Expanded Application of FRA Alcohol and Drug Rules to Foreign Railroad Foreign-Based Employees Who Perform Train or Dispatching Service in the United States

FRA is issuing a final rule that differs from the 2001 proposal to narrow the scope of exemptions to FRA's regulation on the control of alcohol and drug use; the two most significant revisions are summarized below. First, the final rule allows foreign railroad foreign-based employees to enter...

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