The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- United States (Federal Railroad Administration)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 49 C.F.R. § 211.45 (emergency relief docket; expedited waivers during an emergency situation declared by the Administrator)
- Issued
- 2021-01-08 Jan. 8, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-01-08
- End
- 2021-12-31
- In force
- Jan. 8, 2021 to Dec. 31, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Emergency declarationOther
- Addressees
- railroads and other regulated entities seeking emergency relief
- Functions reached
- OP railroad regulatory compliance (training, testing, inspection intervals) under emergency waivers
- WF
- Collection
- Aviation and surface-transport regulators AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE
Operative words
"This Notice announces the establishment of FRA's emergency relief docket (ERD) for calendar year 2021." "[G]iven the ongoing... coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency, FRA considers the FRA Administrator's March 13, 2020, emergency declaration in docket number FRA-2020-0002 to be in effect until it is specifically rescinded by the Administrator." "[Petitions related to] COVID-19 should be submitted to the 2021 ERD (FRA-2021-0001)."
Enforcement
n/a (procedural docket); confirms the continuing emergency declaration under which FRA granted COVID-19 waivers of the Federal railroad safety regulations
Notes
Primary evidence that the FRA's March 13, 2020 COVID-19 emergency declaration (Ex. 073, 074) remained in effect in 2021 and that COVID-19 waiver petitions continued into Q1-Q3 2021.