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Transportation for Individuals With Disabilities; Adoption of New Accessibility Standards

The Department is amending its Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations to adopt, as its regulatory standards, the new Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) recently issued by the Access Board, including technical amendments the Access Board subsequently made...

Vehicle/Track Interaction Safety Standards; High-Speed and High Cant Deficiency Operations

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Use of Locomotive Horns at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings

FRA is proposing rules to require that a locomotive horn be sounded while a train is approaching and entering a public highway-rail crossing. The proposed rules also provide for an exception to the above requirement in circumstances in which there is not a significant risk of loss of life or...

Track Safety Standards; Concrete Crossties

FRA is proposing to amend the Federal Track Safety Standards to promote the safety of railroad operations over track constructed with concrete crossties. In particular, FRA is proposing specific requirements for effective concrete crossties, for rail fastening systems connected to concrete...

Systems for Telephonic Notific ation of Unsafe Conditions at Highway-Rail and Pathway Grade Crossings

FRA is proposing amendments to its primary regulations on grade crossing safety. The major amendments proposed would require a railroad that dispatches a train through a public or private highway-rail or pathway grade crossing to establish and maintain a system that allows a member of the public...

Track Safety Standards; Continuous Welded Rail (CWR)

FRA is proposing to amend the Federal Track Safety Standards to promote the safety of railroad operations over continuous welded rail (CWR). In particular, FRA is proposing specific requirements for the qualification of persons designated to inspect CWR track, or supervise the installation,...

Track Safety Standards; Miscellaneous Proposed Revisions

FRA proposes to amend the Track Safety Standards in order to update and enhance its track safety regulatory program. These proposed amendments present additional regulatory requirements necessary to address today�s railroad operating environment including the introduction of standards...

Inspection and Maintenance Standards for Steam Locomotives

FRA is proposing to update its requirements issued in 1978 (��1978 standards��) for steam locomotive inspections and maintenance with new standards that represent the consensus recommendations of the Railroad Safety Advisory Committee�s Tourist and Historic Working Group. The proposed standards...

Railroad Workplace Safety; Adjacent-Controlled-Track On-Track Safety for Roadway Workers

FRA proposes to amend its regulations on railroad workplace safety to reduce further the risk of serious injury or death to roadway workers. In particular, FRA proposes to require that railroads adopt specified on-track safety procedures to protect certain roadway work groups from the movement...

Safety and Health Requirements Related to Camp Cars

To carry out a 2008 Congressional rulemaking mandate, FRA is proposing to create regulations prescribing minimum safety and health requirements for camp cars that a railroad provides as sleeping quarters to any of its train employees, signal employees, and dispatching service employees and...

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