Transportation Department Docket FRA-2009-0033 Final Rule

2017-08944: Training, Qualification, and Oversight for Safety-Related Railroad Employees

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Summary

This document delays the implementation dates in the final rule published November 7, 2014, because model training program developers alerted FRA they will not be able to timely produce model programs that an estimated 1,459 railroads and contractors are expected to use to comply with the rule's program submission requirements.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

What this changes

Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

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