Synopsis of the Law

Dress for the 2017 APTA Legal Affairs Seminar is business casual. 

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 Rulemaking

• Transportation Planning & Major Investment Projects

• FHWA-2013-0054: Final Rule: National Performance Management Measures; Assessing Performance of the National Highway System, Freight Movement on the Interstate System, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program
• FHWA-2013-0053:  Final Rule: National Performance Management Measures; Assessing Pavement Condition for the National Highway Performance Program and Bridge Condition for the National Highway Performance Program
• ​FTA-2016-0046​Notice of Request for Revisions of an Information Collection
• FHWA-2016-0024 ​Project Management Plan Guidance​
• FHWA–2016–0016 ​Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform (NPRM)​
• FHWA–2016–0016 Extension of Comment Period
• FHWA–2016–0016 APTA Final Comments
• FHWA–2016–0016 Final Rule​

• Environmental

• ​DOT-OST-2016-0239 Update to U.S. DOTs NEPA Implementing Procedures
• DOT-OST-2016-0239 APTA Final Comments 
  
• FTA–2016–0044 Notice of Availability of Programmatic Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Transit Projects
  
• FTA–2016–0044 APTA Final Comments
  
• FRA-2016-0053 Categorical Exclusion Survey Review
  
• FHWA–2015–0011 Environmental Impact and Related Procedures: NPRM
  
• FHWA–2015–0011 APTA Final Comments
  

• American with Disabilities & Civil Rights

• ​ATBCB 2010–0004 ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Transportation Vehicles: Final Rule
• FTA Notice – 2016 Mobility on Demand Sandbox Program
• FTA Notice – Fiscal Year 2016 Rides to Wellness Demonstration and Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Grants Competitive Program Project Selections
• CRT Docket No. 124; AG Order No. 3702–2016 Final Rule: Amendment of Americans with Disabilities Act Title II and Title III Regulations to Implement ADA Amendments Act of 2008
• CRT Docket No. 128 DOJ: Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities: Supplemental advance notice of proposed rulemaking
• CRT Docket No. 128 APTA Final Comments
• FTA-2016-0013 Notice of Proposed Equal Employment Opportunity Program Circular: Notice of proposed revisions to circular and request for comment
• FTA-2016-0013 Proposed Equal Employment Opportunity Program Circular
• FTA-2016-0013 APTA Final Comments
• FTA-2016-0013 Notice of Final Circular
• DOT-OST-2015-0075 Notification of disposition of petition for rulemaking​​

• Buy America

• FTA-2016-0020 Notice of Proposed Public Interest Waiver of Buy America Domestic Content Requirements for Rolling Stock Procurements in Limited Circumstances
• FTA-2016-0020 APTA Final Comments
• FTA-2016-0020 Final Policy
• FTA-2016-0019 Notice of Proposed Policy Statement on the Implementation of the Phased Increase in Domestic Content Under the Buy America Waiver for Rolling Stock
• FTA-2016-0019 APTA Final Comments
• FTA-2016-0019 – Final Policy

• Safety & Security

• DOT-OST-2016-0189:NPRM: Procedures for Transportation Workplace Drug and Alcohol TestingPrograms: Addition of Certain Schedule II Drugs to the Department ofTransportation’s Drug-Testing Panel and Certain Minor Amendments
• FRA–2013–0060 Passenger Equipment Safety Standards; Standards for Alternative Compliance and High-Speed Trainsets
• FRA–2013–0060 APTA Comments: Extension Request
• FRA-2013-0060: APTA Final Comments 
• FRA Safety Advisory 2016–03 FRA Notice: Mitigation and Investigation of Passenger Rail Human Factor Related Accidents and Operations in Terminals and Stations with Stub End Tracks
• FRA-2016-0021 Interim final rule: Implementation of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act for a Violation of a Federal Railroad Safety Law or Federal Railroad Administration Safety Regulation or Order
• FTA Notice: Request for Transit Advisory Committee for Safety (TRACS) Nominations
• FRA Safety Advisory No. 2016-01 Movement of Roadway Maintenance Machines Over Highway-Rail Grade Crossings 
• FTA-2016-0024 Compendium of Public Transportation Safety Standards; Request for Comments
• FTA-2016-0024 APTA Comments Extension of Comment Period
• FTA Safety Advisory 16-2: Third Rail Data Collection
• FTA Safety Advisory 16-1: Notice of Safety Advisory
• FTA Safety Advisory 16-1: Stop Signal Overruns in 2015
• FRA-2016-0012 Positive Train Control Systems: Final Rule
• FTA-2015-0021 Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan: NPRM
• FTA-2015-0021 APTA Final Comments
• FTA–2015–0017 Notice of Availability of Proposed National Public Transportation Safety Plan
• FTA–2015–0017 APTA Final Comments
• FRA-2015-0123 Best Practices for Designing Vision Field Tests for Locomotive Engineers or Conductors
• FTA-2015-0009 FTA: Public Transportation Safety Program: Final Rule
• FTA–2015–0019 Bus Testing: Establishment of Performance Standards, a Bus Model Scoring System, a Pass/Fail Standard and other Program Updates: Final Rule
• FTA-2015-0003 State Safety Oversight: Final Rule

• Other Programs

• FHWA–2013–0052 Asset Management Plans and Periodic Evaluations of Facilities Repeatedly Requiring Repair and Reconstruction Due to Emergency Events: Final Rule
  
• FHWA–2013–0054 National Performance Management Measures; Assessing Performance of the National Highway System, Freight Movement on the Interstate System, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program: NRPM
  
• MAP-21 Proposed Measures for Congestion, Reliability, and Freight (Step-by-Step Calculation Procedures)
  
• FHWA–2013–0054 APTA Final Comments
  
• FAA–2016–6596 Passenger Facility Charge Program: Eligibility of Ground Access Projects Meeting Certain Criteria: Notice of Proposed Policy Amendment and Request for Comments
  
• FAA–2016–6596 Extension of Comment Period
  
• FAA–2016–6596 APTA Final Comments
  
• FHWA-2013-0037 Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning; Metropolitan Transportation Planning: Final Rule​​
  

• Administrative Requirements

• DOT-OST: Contracting Initiative: Notice
  
• FTA-2016-009 Final Notice on Updates to the Uniform System of Accounts and Changes to the National Transit Database Reporting Requirements
• FTA-2016-0030 Transit Asset Management: Proposed Guidebooks
• FTA-2016-0030 APTA Final Comments
• FTA Notice: Prevention of Alcohol Misuse and Prohibited Drug Use in Transit Operations
• FTA-2015-0029 Supplemental Notice and Response to Comments on National Transit Database
• FTA-2015-0029 APTA Final Comments
• FTA-2015-0029 FTA Response to Comments
• FTA-2014-0020 Transit Asset Management – National Transit Database: Final Rule
• DOT- OST: Contracting Initiative: Notice

• Funding

• Notice of Establishment of Emergency Relief Docket for Calendar Year 2017
• FTA FY17 Apportionments; Allocations; Program Information and Interim Guidance
• FY 2017 Competitive Funding Opportunity; Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program; Tribal Transit Program
• FTA – Fiscal Year 2016 Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Program Project Selections: Tribal Transit Program Announcement of Project Selections​
• FTA FY 2016: NOFO: Competitive Research Funding Opportunity: Safety Research and Demonstration Program
• FTA Notice – Fiscal Year 2016 Rides to Wellness Demonstration and Innovative Coordinated Access and Mobility Grants Competitive Program Project Selections
• FY16 Discretionary Funding Opportunity: Low or No Emission Component Assessment Program
• FTA FY 2016: NOFO: Competitive Research Funding Opportunity: Safety Research and Demonstration Program​

•  Rail Issues

• FTA-2016-0041: ProposedGeneral Directive 17–1; Stop Signal Overruns on Rail Fixed Guideway PublicTransportation Systems: Notice of proposed general directive; request forcomments​​
• FRA–2013–0060 Passenger Equipment Safety Standards; Standards for Alternative Compliance and High-Speed Trainsets
• FRA–2013–0060 APTA Comments Extension Request
• FRA-2010-0002-N-23 Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
• FRA-2010-0002-N-23 APTA Final Comments
• FRA-2016-0002 Rail worthiness Directive for Certain Railroad Tank Cars Equipped with Bottom Outlet Valve Assembly and Constructed by American Railcar Industries and ACF Industries
• FRA-2016-0045 Petition for Special Approval of Alternate Standard
• FRA-2016-0023 Competitive Passenger Rail Service Pilot Program: NPRM
• FRA-2016-0040 Benefit-Cost Analysis Guidance for Rail Projects: Notice and Request for Comments
• FRA-2016-0053 Categorical Exclusion Survey Review
• FRA-2000-7257 Notice 82 Railroad Safety Advisory Committee (RSAC): Charter Renewal
• FTA Safety Advisory 16-2: Third Rail Data Collection
• FRA-2014-0033 Train Crew Staffing: NPRM
• FRA-2014-0033 Notice of public hearing and reopening of comment period
• FRA-2014-0033 Extension of Comment Period
• FRA-2014-0033 APTA Final Comments
• FRA-2016-0010 Use of Locomotive Horns at Public Highway-Rail Grade Crossings: Notice of Safety Inquiry​
• FRA-2016-0002 Agency Request for Emergency Processing of Collection of Information by the Office of Management and Budget: Notice
• FRA-2016-0012 Positive Train Control Systems: Final Rule
• DOT-OST: Notice:  Adjustment to Rail Passenger Transportation Liability Cap Adjustment to Rail Passenger Transportation Liability Cap
• FRA-2011-0007 National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory Reporting Requirements
• FRA-2011-0007 National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory Reporting Requirements: Final Rule
• FRA-2011-0007 FRA Response to Petition for Reconsideration
• FRA-2011-0060 System Safety Program: Final Rule
• FRA-2008-0086 Railroad Workplace Safety; Roadway Worker Protection Miscellaneous Revisions (RRR): Final Rule​  

Legislative Update

Legal Writing​

• Legal Writting – Steven Miller

CEO’s, Board Members and the General Counsel​

• Chicago Transit Authority: Code of Ethics
• Jacksonville Transportation Authority/ Jax Transit Management Corp.: Code of Conduct
• Regional Transportation District (Denver):  Code of Ethics​

FTA’s New Approach to Safety: Applying the New Rules on Safety and Asset Management

FTA–2014–0020: Transit Asset Management; National Transit Database: Final Rule
FTA–2016–0030: Transit Asset Management: Proposed Guidebooks
FTA–2016–0030: APTA Comments on Proposed Guidebooks​
FTA-2015-0017: National Public Transportation Safety Plan
FTA-2015-0009_Final Rule_Public Transportation Safety Program
FTA-2015-0003_Final Rule_State Safety Oversight
FTA Report No. 0103 Review and Evaluation of Public Transportation Safety Standards
PTSP_NPRM_SSPP_Side_by_Side
PPT_Transit Asset Management_State of Good Repair​

Environmental Litigation, Capital Projects, and Potential Directions Under a New Administration

• Staff Comments on Purple Line Final Environmental Impacts Statement and Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation​

Hot Topics in Procurement

• Buy America Guidance Letter to SCE​
• Buy America Guidance Letter to CATS
• Buy America Guidance Letter to LACMTA
• Buy America Guidance Letter to SRTD
• Human Rights Record as Criteria in Procurement
• PPT_Utility Relocation_Practical Challenges of Implementing Buy America​

Labor Panel

• NLRB v Browning-Ferris
• Browning Ferris (NLRB Decision)
• WMATA Compact 66
• WMATA_Opinion_&_Award​
• PPT-Section 13(c) and Joint Employment_K Kraft​

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