Data / Federal rules / 2024-12747
Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs
The Transportation Department published this final rule in the Federal Register on June 21, 2024. It took effect on August 5, 2024. Comments closed on July 22, 2024.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is taking direct final action to revise DOT's drug testing procedures rule, which became effective on June 1, 2023, to provide temporary qualification requirements for mock oral fluid monitors, provide for consistent privacy requirements by identifying which individuals may be present during an oral fluid collection, and clarify how collectors are to specify that a sufficient volume of oral fluid was collected.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-12747
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Direct final rule
- Agency
- Transportation Department
- Published
- June 21, 2024
- Takes effect
- August 5, 2024
- Comments due
- July 22, 2024
- Dates
- This final rule is effective on August 5, 2024, without further notice unless DOT receives adverse comment by July 22, 2024. If DOT receives adverse comment on any of the provisions in this direct final rule, it will publish a timely withdrawal in the Federal Register informing the public that the provisions of the rule on which adverse comment were received will not take effect.
- Docket
- Docket DOT-OST-2021-0093
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2105-AE94
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 49 CFR 40
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Alcohol abuse; Drug abuse; Drug testing; Laboratories; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Safety; Transportation
- Pages
- 3
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