Rule2025-02817
Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers With Disabilities Using Wheelchairs
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Published
February 20, 2025
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Transportation Department
Abstract
This document announces that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will not take enforcement action until March 20, 2025, against regulated entities for failing to comply with the requirements contained in the final rule titled "Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers With Disabilities Using Wheelchairs".
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 33 (Thursday, February 20, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 9953]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02817]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary of Transportation
14 CFR Part 382
[Docket No. DOT-OST-2022-0144]
RIN 2105-AF14
Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers With Disabilities
Using Wheelchairs
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), U.S.
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notification of enforcement discretion.
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SUMMARY: This document announces that the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) will not take enforcement action until March 20,
2025, against regulated entities for failing to comply with the
requirements contained in the final rule titled ``Ensuring Safe
Accommodations for Air Travelers With Disabilities Using Wheelchairs''.
DATES: As of February 20, 2025, enforcement of the amendments enacted
in the final rule published December 17, 2024, at 89 FR 102398, is
delayed until March 20, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Miller, Vinh Nguyen,
Robert Gorman, or Blane Workie, Office of Aviation Consumer Protection,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington,
DC 20590, 202-366-9342 (phone), 202-366-7152 (fax),
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rulemaking (NPRM), all comments received, the final rule, and all
background material may be viewed online at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a> using
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 17, 2024, DOT issued a final
rule titled ``Ensuring Safe Accommodations for Air Travelers With
Disabilities Using Wheelchairs'' (89 FR 102398). This final rule
established requirements regarding mishandled wheelchairs and scooters
and improper transfers to and from aircraft seats, aisle chairs, and
personal wheelchairs. This final rule became effective on January 16,
2025.
On January 20, 2025, the President issued a memorandum titled
``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' \1\ to direct executive
departments and agencies to consider postposing for 60 days the
effective date for any rules that had been published in the Federal
Register but had not taken effect for the purpose of reviewing any
questions of fact, law, and policy that the rules may raise. While not
explicitly subject to the President's memorandum, DOT is providing
notice that it will exercise its enforcement discretion and not enforce
the provisions of the December 17, 2024, final rule until March 20,
2025, to allow the officials appointed or designated by the President
to review the final rule to ensure that it is consistent with the law
and Administration policies.
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\1\ 90 FR 8249 (January 28, 2025).
Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR
1.27(a):
Gregory D. Cote,
Acting General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2025-02817 Filed 2-19-25; 8:45 am]
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