2016-03298: Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review
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The Surface Transportation Board (Board) is revising, correcting, and updating its regulations. These modifications include replacing obsolete statutory references, updating office and address references, and correcting spelling, grammatical, terminology, explanatory, and typographical errors. The Board is also making changes to certain authority citations and to certain regulations related to reporting requirements.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 44 parts of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
- 49 CFR 1001 Inspection of Records
- 49 CFR 1002 Fees
- 49 CFR 1005 Principles and Practices for the Investigation and Voluntary Disposition of Loss and Damage Claims and Processing Salvage
- 49 CFR 1007 Records Containing Information About Individuals
- 49 CFR 1011 Board Organization; Delegations of Authority
- 49 CFR 1012 Meetings of the Board
- 49 CFR 1013 Guidelines for the Proper Use of Voting Trusts
- 49 CFR 1014 Enforcement of Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Handicap in Programs or Activities Conducted by the Surface Transportation Board
- 49 CFR 1016 Special Procedures Governing the Recovery of Expenses by Parties to Board Adjudicatory Proceedings
- 49 CFR 1017 Debt Collection—Collection by Offset from Indebted Government and Former Government Employees
- 49 CFR 1018 Debt Collection
- 49 CFR 1019 Regulations Governing Conduct of Surface Transportation Board Employees
- 49 CFR 1021 Administrative Collection of Enforcement Claims
- 49 CFR 1034 Routing of Traffic
- 49 CFR 1035 Bills of Lading
- 49 CFR 1039 Exemptions
- 49 CFR 1090 Practices of Carriers Involved in the Intermodal Movement of Containerized Freight
- 49 CFR 1101 Definitions and Construction
- 49 CFR 1102 Communications
- 49 CFR 1103 Practitioners
- 49 CFR 1104 Filing with the Board-Copies-Verification-Service-Pleadings, Generally
- 49 CFR 1105 Procedures for Implementation of Environmental Laws
- 49 CFR 1110 Procedures Governing Informal Rulemaking Proceedings
- 49 CFR 1111 Complaint and Investigation Procedures
- 49 CFR 1113 Oral Hearing
- 49 CFR 1114 Evidence; Discovery
- 49 CFR 1115 Appellate Procedures
- 49 CFR 1118
- 49 CFR 1139
- 49 CFR 1144 Intramodal Rail Competition
- 49 CFR 1146 Expedited Relief for Service Emergencies
- 49 CFR 1150 Certificate to Construct, Acquire, or Operate Railroad Lines
- 49 CFR 1151 Feeder Railroad Development Program
- 49 CFR 1152 Abandonment and Discontinuance of Rail Lines and Rail Transportation Under 49 U.S.C. 10903
- 49 CFR 1180 Railroad Acquisition, Control, Merger, Consolidation Project, Trackage Rights, and Lease Procedures
- 49 CFR 1241 Annual, Special, or Periodic Reports—Carriers Subject to Part I of the Interstate Commerce Act
- 49 CFR 1242 Separation of Common Operating Expenses Between Freight Service and Passenger Service for Railroads
- 49 CFR 1243 Quarterly Operating Reports—Railroads
- 49 CFR 1244 Waybill Analysis of Transportation of Property—Railroads
- 49 CFR 1245 Classification of Railroad Employees; Reports of Service and Compensation
- 49 CFR 1246 Number of Railroad Employees
- 49 CFR 1247 Report of Cars Loaded and Cars Terminated
- 49 CFR 1248 Freight Commodity Statistics
- 49 CFR 1253 Rate-Making Organization; Records and Reports
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