Notice2025-22326
Pipeline Safety: Minimum Random Drug Testing Rate for Calendar Year 2026
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Published
December 9, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
PHMSA has determined that the minimum annual percentage rate for random drug testing for covered employees will be 50 percent during calendar year (CY) 2026.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 234 (Tuesday, December 9, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57129-57130]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-22326]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2025-1107]
Pipeline Safety: Minimum Random Drug Testing Rate for Calendar
Year 2026
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: PHMSA has determined that the minimum annual percentage rate
for random drug testing for covered employees will be 50 percent during
calendar year (CY) 2026.
DATES: Applicable January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wayne Lemoi, Drug & Alcohol Program
Manager, Office of Pipeline Safety, by phone at 909-937-7232 or by
email at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cabdabb3a4afe4a6afa7a5a38aaea5bee4ada5bc"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5d2a3c2433387331383032341d393229733a322b">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice of CY 2026 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug
Testing
Operators of gas, hazardous liquid, and carbon dioxide pipeline
facilities; liquefied natural gas plants; and underground natural gas
storage facilities must randomly select and test a percentage of all
drug and alcohol (D&A) covered employees for prohibited drug use in
accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 199.
The Administrator can adjust the minimum random drug testing rate
based on the reported positive rate of the industry's random drug
tests, which is obtained from operators' and contractors' annual Drug
and Alcohol Management Information System (DAMIS) reports as required
by section 199.119(a). In accordance with Sec. 199.105(c)(3), if the
reported positive drug test rate is below one percent for two
consecutive CYs, the Administrator may lower the random drug testing
rate to 25 percent of all covered employees. Conversely, Sec.
199.105(c)(4) requires the Administrator to raise the minimum annual
random drug testing rate from 25 percent to 50 percent [or maintain the
rate at 50 percent] of all covered employees when the data obtained
from the latest annual DAMIS reports required by Sec. 199.119(a)
indicate the positive test rate is equal to or greater than one
percent.
The minimum annual random drug testing rate was 50 percent of all
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covered employees during CY 2025. The DAMIS reports submitted for CY
2024 testing had a random drug testing positive rate greater than one
percent. Therefore, the Administrator is maintaining the minimum annual
random drug testing rate at 50 percent of all covered employees for CY
2026.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Linda Daugherty,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 2025-22326 Filed 12-8-25; 8:45 am]
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