Data / Federal rules / 2024-28561
Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing Programs
The Transportation Department published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on December 9, 2024. Comments closed on January 8, 2025.
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What the agency says
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) proposes to revise its drug testing procedures rule, which became effective on June 1, 2023, to provide interim provisions to require the conduct of directly observed urine tests in situations where oral fluid tests are currently required, but oral fluid testing is not yet available.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2024-28561
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking
- Agency
- Transportation Department
- Published
- December 9, 2024
- Comments due
- January 8, 2025
- Dates
- Comments must be received on or before January 8, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket DOT-OST-2021-0093
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2105-AF28
- 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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