Notice2024-31582
Drug and Alcohol Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing Rates for 2025
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Published
January 3, 2025
Effective
January 3, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Railroad Administration
Abstract
This notification of determination announces FRA's minimum annual random drug and minimum annual random alcohol testing rates for covered service, maintenance-of-way (MOW), and mechanical (MECH) employees for calendar year 2025.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 384]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-31582]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA-2001-11213, Notice No. 29]
Drug and Alcohol Testing: Determination of Minimum Random Testing
Rates for 2025
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notification of determination.
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SUMMARY: This notification of determination announces FRA's minimum
annual random drug and minimum annual random alcohol testing rates for
covered service, maintenance-of-way (MOW), and mechanical (MECH)
employees for calendar year 2025.
DATES: This determination takes effect January 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerald Powers, FRA Drug and Alcohol
Program Manager, by email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f4939186959890da849b83918687b4909b80da939b82"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="89eeecfbe8e5eda7f9e6feecfbfac9ede6fda7eee6ff">[email protected]</span></a> or by telephone: 202-
493-6313; or Melissa Van Dermeir, FRA Drug and Alcohol Program
Specialist, by email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#d2bfb7bebba1a1b3fca4b3bcb6b7a0bfb7bba092b6bda6fcb5bda4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84e9e1e8edf7f7e5aaf2e5eae0e1f6e9e1edf6c4e0ebf0aae3ebf2">[email protected]</span></a> or by telephone: 312-
720-9491.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year, FRA sets its minimum annual
random testing rates after considering the last two complete calendar
years of railroad industry drug and alcohol program data submitted to
its Management Information System (MIS). FRA, however, reserves the
right to consider factors other than MIS-reported data before deciding
whether to lower annual minimum random testing rates. See 85 FR 81265
(Dec. 15, 2020).
FRA is announcing that its minimum annual random drug and alcohol
testing rates for calendar year 2025 will continue to be the same as
those for calendar year 2024, as follows:
<bullet> Covered service employees--25 percent for drugs and 10
percent for alcohol.
<bullet> MOW employees--25 percent for drugs and 10 percent for
alcohol.
<bullet> MECH employees--50 percent for drugs and 25 percent for
alcohol.
These rates are minimums, and railroads and railroad contractors
may conduct FRA random testing at higher rates.
Discussion
Random Testing Rates for Covered Service Employees
The industry-wide random drug testing positive rate for covered
service employees remained below 1.0 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum annual random drug
testing rate for covered service employees will remain at 25 percent
for the period January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
The industry-wide random alcohol testing violation rate for covered
service employees remained below 0.5 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum random alcohol
testing rate for covered service employees will remain at 10 percent
for the period January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
Random Testing Rates for MOW Employees
The industry-wide random drug testing positive rate for MOW
employees remained below 1.0 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum annual random drug
testing rate for MOW employees will remain at 25 percent for the period
January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025
The industry-wide random alcohol testing violation rate for MOW
employees remained below 0.5 percent for 2022 and 2023. The
Administrator has therefore determined the minimum random alcohol
testing rate for MOW employees will remain at 10 percent for the period
January 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
Random Testing Rates for MECH Employees
FRA will not have the two full years of industry-wide MIS data
required to adjust the random testing rates for MECH employees until it
has the MIS data for 2024, since MECH employees did not become subject
to FRA random drug and alcohol testing until March 2022. See 87 FR 5719
(Feb. 2, 2022). The Administrator has therefore determined that the
minimum random rates for MECH employees will remain at 50 percent for
drugs and 25 percent for alcohol for the period January 1, 2025,
through December 31, 2025.
Issued in Washington, DC
Allison Ishihara Fultz,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2024-31582 Filed 1-2-25; 8:45 am]
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