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Browse 62 rules and proposed rules from the Federal Register.
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This rule amends the standards for Reflectorization of Rail Freight Rolling Stock (Reflectorization Standards or Part 224) to codify waivers and remove the outdated implementation schedule. The changes are expected to enhance safety, promote innovation, clarify existing requirements, and reduce unnecessary paperwork burdens. The amendments are consistent with the mandate of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which requires FRA to review and analyze certain longstanding waivers to determine whether incorporating the waivers into FRA's regulations is justified.
This document extends the compliance dates in the emergency escape breathing apparatus final rule published on January 26, 2024. FRA is extending the compliance dates in response to concerns raised in a joint petition for reconsideration, as well as FRA's own investigation into the feasibility of these dates.
FRA is withdrawing the direct final rule titled "Federal Railroad Administration Accident/Incident Investigation Policy for Gathering Information and Consulting with Stakeholders," (the Rule) which was published on October 1, 2024.
FHWA, FRA, and FTA are publishing this interim final rule (IFR) to modify the regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that apply to all three agencies to be consistent with the removal of regulations previously issued by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the amendments to NEPA included in the section of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 known as the Building United States Infrastructure through Limited Delays and Efficient Reviews (BUILDER) Act of 2023, and amendments regarding efficient environmental reviews included in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. This rule will become effective immediately while the agencies seek comment on what further changes may be appropriate.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's control of alcohol and drug use regulations, including updating addresses.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad operating practices regulations, including updating addresses.
FRA proposes to repeal several roadway workplace safety requirements that have become obsolete. In addition, FRA proposes to establish a new special approval procedure to enable regulated entities, after public notice and FRA approval, to utilize an alternative approach to bridge worker safety that provides for an equivalent or better level of safety. Also, this rule proposes to clarify that the required training for operators of roadway maintenance machines equipped with a crane includes specific aspects such as maintaining vertical clearance.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's rules of practice regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad freight car safety standards, including updating addresses.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's track safety standards, including updating addresses.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's state safety participation regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's passenger train employee hours of service and recordkeeping regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's reflectorization regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad accidents/incidents: reports classification, and investigations reporting regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's steam locomotive inspection and maintenance standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This proposed rule would update FRA's railroad safety enforcement procedures and rules of practice to require electronic service of documents. This proposed rule would also establish procedures to implement new authority regarding civil penalties for alleged Federal railroad safety violations. Finally, this proposal would make other necessary administrative updates, such as correcting addresses.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's safety glazing standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad locomotive safety standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's use of locomotive horns at public highway-rail grade crossings regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad communications regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's locomotive cab occupational safety and health regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's railroad safety appliance standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
FRA is removing one requirement from its regulations governing positive train control (PTC) systems. This rule repeals a redundant regulatory requirement for railroads to file a Report of PTC System Performance (Form FRA F 6180.152) biannually, as the Passenger Rail Expansion and Rail Safety Act of 2021 requires railroads to submit that exact report to FRA quarterly.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's passenger train emergency preparedness regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
FRA proposes to amend its safety standards related to the use of the locomotive horn to clarify that no Federal regulation requires a railroad to sound a locomotive horn because of the presence of a passenger station. The proposed rule would clarify that a railroad has discretion to determine policies for sounding a locomotive horn at a passenger station through railroad operating rules. The proposed rule would also provide that if a railroad decides to sound a locomotive horn at a passenger station, the minimum sound level requirements in FRA's Railroad Locomotive Safety Standards would not apply to the sound produced by the horn.
FRA proposes to allow railroads to use three-dimensional virtual simulation to satisfy the hands-on portion of periodic refresher training under FRA's brake system training requirements, consistent with waivers FRA has granted to date. FRA has found that such virtual training provides employees with randomized scenarios that may not be readily available for hands-on training and real-time feedback on performance of duties.
FRA proposes to amend its locomotive safety regulations to expand the maximum permitted variation in diameter for locomotive wheel sets using alternating current technology, in response to a Class I railroad's May 2019 petition for rulemaking and innovations in traction motor control.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's bridge safety standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's passenger equipment safety standards regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.
This rule makes administrative updates to FRA's rear end marking device regulations, including updating addresses in those regulations.