This edition of the DG Digest marks the end of yet another year of Labelmaster’s weekly regulatory blog. Hopefully, our readers enjoy and find useful the news and events the blog reports on. Here’s wishing everyone a safe and happy New Year’s celebration, and a prosperous 2025. We’ll keep bringing you the news that the Transport/EHS regulatory world needs, publishing on every Monday. Thank you for reading!

Here’s last week’s news, to wrap up 2024:

FAA

The agency issued a correction related to its rule governing drug & alcohol testing for repair station employees located overseas. See the change here.

U.S. DOT Civil Penalty Amounts

The DOT published an end of year revision to its civil penalty fee amounts. These are basically the fines charged for various violations of the regulations. The revisions this time affect the modal agencies; FAA, FMCSA, and the FRA, as well as the Maritime Administration. PHMSA, which governs DG transport, is also affected, with new penalty amounts listed. See all the affected fees right here:

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