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Regulatory Relief for End of Car Cushioning Units
The Federal Railroad Administration published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 1, 2025. Comments closed on September 2, 2025.
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What the agency says
FRA proposes to amend regulations concerning freight car draft arrangement and end-of-car cushioning units (EOCCs) to make regulatory relief now provided by waiver permanent. The amendments would allow a freight car to remain in service if the EOCC is operative and equipped with a unit condition indicator (UCI) that indicates a non-discharged EOCC. This change would permit those EOCCs to remain in service despite the presence of clearly formed oil droplets on the unit. The amendments, if finalized, preserve the requirement to repair or replace an EOCC with clearly formed oil droplets if the unit does not have a UCI.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-12187
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
- Agency
- Transportation Department; Federal Railroad Administration
- Published
- July 1, 2025
- Comments due
- September 2, 2025
- Dates
- Comments on the proposed rule must be received by September 2, 2025. FRA may consider comments received after that date, but only to the extent practicable.
- Docket
- Docket No. FRA-2025-0119
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 2130-AD55
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 49 CFR 215
- Topics
- Freight; Penalties; Railroad safety; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 4
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