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Freight Car Safety Standards: Maintenance-of-Way Equipment - Termination of Rulemaking Proceeding
In its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), FRA proposed an amendment of the Freight Car Safety Standards, which currently do not apply to maintenance-of-way (MOW) equipment if stenciled and not used in revenue service. The NPRM proposed an additional 20 miles per hour (mph) speed restriction...Locomotive Crashworthiness
FRA is proposing to establish comprehensive, minimum standards for locomotive crashworthiness. Locomotive crashworthiness protection is necessary because locomotive collisions can result in crew injuries and fatalities. These proposed performance standards are intended to help protect locomotive...Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Systems
FRA proposes revisions to the regulations governing freight power brakes and equipment by adding a new subpart addressing electronically controlled pneumatic (ECP) brake systems. The proposed regulations are designed to provide for and encourage the safe implementation and use of ECP brake...Control of Alcohol and Drug Use: Proposed Application of Random Testing and Other Requirements to Employees of a Foreign Railroad Who Are Based Outside the United States and Perform Train or Dispatching Service in the United States; Request for Comment on
FRA proposes to narrow the scope of exemptions for foreign railroads and certain small railroads to FRA's regulation on the control of alcohol and drug use. This NPRM also seeks to reopen a discussion of part 219 implementation issues, many of which were first raised in FRA�s 1992 advance notice...Conductor Certification
FRA proposes to prescribe regulations for certification of conductors, as required by the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The proposed rule would require railroads to have a formal program for certifying conductors. As part of that program, railroads would be required to have a formal...Bridge Safety Standards
FRA is proposing to standardize and establish Federal requirements for railroad bridges. This proposed rule would require track owners to implement bridge management programs that include annual inspections of railroad bridges. The proposed rule would also require track owners to know the safe...Conforming the Federal Railroad Administration�s Accident/Incident Reporting Requirements to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration�s Revised Reporting Requirements; Other Amendments
FRA proposes to conform, to the extent practicable, its regulations on accident/incident reporting to the revised reporting regulations of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor. This action will permit the comparability of data on occupational...Accident Reporting
FRA proposes to amend the railroad accident reporting rules in several ways: requiring the adoption of internal control procedures, allowing the submission of reports on computer diskettes or magnetic tapes, revising accident and injury reporting forms, revising recordkeeping requirements, and...Miscellaneous Amendments to the Federal Railroad Administration�s Accident/Incident Reporting Requirements
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