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Office of Drug & Alcohol Policy & Compliance

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Recent News/Upcoming Events

In an effort to educate the transportation industry and others that provide service in accordance with the Department's drug and alcohol testing programs, our staff participates in conferences, trainings and seminars throughout the country.  Events, dates, locations, and registration information will appear here as it becomes available.

  • 02/01/2010 – DOT Publishes Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

    Published in today’s Federal Register is the DOT Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The NPRM is designed to align our regulated-industry drug testing with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laboratory drug testing requirements.

    DOT is required by the Omnibus Transportation Employees Testing Act to follow the HHS requirements for the testing procedures/protocols and drugs for which we test.

    Primary laboratory proposals include:

    - Testing for MDMA (aka. Ecstasy);

    - Lowering cutoff levels for cocaine and amphetamines;

    - Conducting mandatory initial testing for heroin; and

    - Authorizing employers to use HHS-Certified Instrumented Initial Test Facilities to conduct initial drug testing.

    We also propose bringing a number of our testing definitions in-line with those of HHS.


 

last updated on: 2/4/2010

 

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