Drug and Alcohol Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing Rates for 2025, 384 [2024-31582]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
384
Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 2 / Friday, January 3, 2025 / Notices
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR
1.87.
conduct FRA random testing at higher
rates.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
Discussion
[FR Doc. 2024–31549 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2001–11213, Notice No.
29]
Drug and Alcohol Testing:
Determination of Minimum Random
Testing Rates for 2025
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notification of determination.
AGENCY:
This notification of
determination announces FRA’s
minimum annual random drug and
minimum annual random alcohol
testing rates for covered service,
maintenance-of-way (MOW), and
mechanical (MECH) employees for
calendar year 2025.
DATES: This determination takes effect
January 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gerald Powers, FRA Drug and Alcohol
Program Manager, by email:
gerald.powers@dot.gov or by telephone:
202–493–6313; or Melissa Van Dermeir,
FRA Drug and Alcohol Program
Specialist, by email:
melissa.vandermeir@dot.gov or by
telephone: 312–720–9491.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year,
FRA sets its minimum annual random
testing rates after considering the last
two complete calendar years of railroad
industry drug and alcohol program data
submitted to its Management
Information System (MIS). FRA,
however, reserves the right to consider
factors other than MIS-reported data
before deciding whether to lower annual
minimum random testing rates. See 85
FR 81265 (Dec. 15, 2020).
FRA is announcing that its minimum
annual random drug and alcohol testing
rates for calendar year 2025 will
continue to be the same as those for
calendar year 2024, as follows:
• Covered service employees—25
percent for drugs and 10 percent for
alcohol.
• MOW employees—25 percent for
drugs and 10 percent for alcohol.
• MECH employees—50 percent for
drugs and 25 percent for alcohol.
These rates are minimums, and
railroads and railroad contractors may
lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1
SUMMARY:
VerDate Sep<11>2014
18:01 Jan 02, 2025
Jkt 265001
Federal Transit Administration
Random Testing Rates for Covered
Service Employees
The industry-wide random drug
testing positive rate for covered service
employees remained below 1.0 percent
for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator
has therefore determined the minimum
annual random drug testing rate for
covered service employees will remain
at 25 percent for the period January 1,
2025, through December 31, 2025.
The industry-wide random alcohol
testing violation rate for covered service
employees remained below 0.5 percent
for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator
has therefore determined the minimum
random alcohol testing rate for covered
service employees will remain at 10
percent for the period January 1, 2025,
through December 31, 2025.
Random Testing Rates for MOW
Employees
The industry-wide random drug
testing positive rate for MOW
employees remained below 1.0 percent
for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator
has therefore determined the minimum
annual random drug testing rate for
MOW employees will remain at 25
percent for the period January 1, 2025,
through December 31, 2025
The industry-wide random alcohol
testing violation rate for MOW
employees remained below 0.5 percent
for 2022 and 2023. The Administrator
has therefore determined the minimum
random alcohol testing rate for MOW
employees will remain at 10 percent for
the period January 1, 2025, through
December 31, 2025.
Random Testing Rates for MECH
Employees
FRA will not have the two full years
of industry-wide MIS data required to
adjust the random testing rates for
MECH employees until it has the MIS
data for 2024, since MECH employees
did not become subject to FRA random
drug and alcohol testing until March
2022. See 87 FR 5719 (Feb. 2, 2022). The
Administrator has therefore determined
that the minimum random rates for
MECH employees will remain at 50
percent for drugs and 25 percent for
alcohol for the period January 1, 2025,
through December 31, 2025.
Issued in Washington, DC
Allison Ishihara Fultz,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2024–31582 Filed 1–2–25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–06–P
PO 00000
Frm 00084
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
[FTA Docket No. FTA–2024–0013]
National Transit Database Reporting
Changes and Clarifications for Report
Years 2025 and 2026
Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice, reopening of comment
period.
AGENCY:
The Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) is reopening the
comment period for the Federal
Register notice regarding FTA’s
National Transit Database reporting
changes and clarifications, which was
published on October 31, 2024, with the
original comment period closing on
December 30, 2024.
DATES: The comment period for the
document published October 31, 2024 at
89 FR 86907 is reopened. Comments
should be filed by January 29, 2025.
FTA will consider comments received
after that date to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments,
identified by docket number FTA–
2004–0013, by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Send comments to Docket
Management Facility; U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Fax: Fax comments to Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, at (202) 493–2251.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name (Federal Transit
Administration) and Docket Number
(FTA–2024–0013) for this notice, at the
beginning of your comments. If sent by
mail, submit two copies of your
comments.
Electronic Access and Filing: This
document and all comments received
may be viewed online through the
Federal eRulemaking portal at https://
www.regulations.gov or at the street
address listed above. Electronic
submission, retrieval help, and
guidelines are available on the Federal
eRulemaking portal website. The
SUMMARY:
E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM
03JAN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31582]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA-2001-11213, Notice No. 29]
Drug and Alcohol Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing
Rates for 2025
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notification of determination.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: This notification of determination announces FRA's minimum
annual random drug and minimum annual random alcohol testing rates for
covered service, maintenance-of-way (MOW), and mechanical (MECH)
employees for calendar year 2025.
DATES: This determination takes effect January 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerald Powers, FRA Drug and Alcohol
Program Manager, by email: [email protected] or by telephone: 202-
493-6313; or Melissa Van Dermeir, FRA Drug and Alcohol Program
Specialist, by email: [email protected] or by telephone: 312-
720-9491.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year, FRA sets its minimum annual
random testing rates after considering the last two complete calendar
years of railroad industry drug and alcohol program data submitted to
its Management Information System (MIS). FRA, however, reserves the
right to consider factors other than MIS-reported data before deciding
whether to lower annual minimum random testing rates. See 85 FR 81265
(Dec. 15, 2020).
FRA is announcing that its minimum annual random drug and alcohol
testing rates for calendar year 2025 will continue to be the same as
those for calendar year 2024, as follows:
Covered service employees--25 percent for drugs and 10
percent for alcohol.
MOW employees--25 percent for drugs and 10 percent for
alcohol.
MECH employees--50 percent for drugs and 25 percent for
alcohol.
These rates are minimums, and railroads and railroad contractors
may conduct FRA random testing at higher rates.
Discussion
Random Testing Rates for Covered Service Employees
The industry-wide random drug testing positive rate for covered
service employees remained below 1.0 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum annual random drug
testing rate for covered service employees will remain at 25 percent
for the period January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
The industry-wide random alcohol testing violation rate for covered
service employees remained below 0.5 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum random alcohol
testing rate for covered service employees will remain at 10 percent
for the period January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
Random Testing Rates for MOW Employees
The industry-wide random drug testing positive rate for MOW
employees remained below 1.0 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum annual random drug
testing rate for MOW employees will remain at 25 percent for the period
January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025
The industry-wide random alcohol testing violation rate for MOW
employees remained below 0.5 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum random alcohol
testing rate for MOW employees will remain at 10 percent for the period
January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
Random Testing Rates for MECH Employees
FRA will not have the two full years of industry-wide MIS data
required to adjust the random testing rates for MECH employees until it
has the MIS data for 2024, since MECH employees did not become subject
to FRA random drug and alcohol testing until March 2022. See 87 FR 5719
(Feb. 2, 2022). The Administrator has therefore determined that the
minimum random rates for MECH employees will remain at 50 percent for
drugs and 25 percent for alcohol for the period January 1, 2025,
through December 31, 2025.
Issued in Washington, DC
Allison Ishihara Fultz,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2024-31582 Filed 1-2-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-06-P
