Recent Department of Transportation regulations affecting small businesses
Page 7 of 17 • Last updated April 24, 2026
252 Department of Transportation regulations have been published in the past 30 days, covering rule changes, notices, and final actions affecting small businesses.
- Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Drug and Alcohol Testing Program for Personnel Engaged in Specified Aviation ActivitiesApril 24, 2026
FAA seeks public comment on renewing OMB approval for its drug and alcohol testing information collection program covering regulated aviation employers and foreign repair stations.
- National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council Notice of Public MeetingApril 24, 2026
National Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council holds public meetings to advise on emergency medical services policy and operations.
- Pipeline Safety: Standards Update-ASTM F2767April 24, 2026
PHMSA updates pipeline safety regulations to incorporate ASTM F2767 standard for polyamide-12 gas distribution fittings, maintaining safety while reducing compliance burden on operators.
- Pipeline Safety: Removing Unnecessary Provision for Material Properties Verification During MAOP ReconfirmationApril 24, 2026
PHMSA proposes removing an unnecessary material properties verification requirement from maximum allowable operating pressure reconfirmation procedures for gas transmission pipeline testing.
- Pipeline Safety: Clarifying Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Integrity Management GuidanceApril 24, 2026
Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration clarifies integrity management guidance for hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipeline operators.
- Pipeline Safety: Request for Special Permit; Texas Gas Transmission, LLC (TGT)April 24, 2026
PHMSA solicits public comments through a 30-day period on Texas Gas Transmission's request for a special permit to obtain relief from certain federal pipeline safety regulation requirements.
- Pipeline Safety: Removing Obsolete Provision From Safety-Related Condition Reporting Requirements for Hazardous Liquid and Carbon Dioxide Pipeline FacilitiesApril 24, 2026
PHMSA removes an obsolete provision from hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipeline safety-related condition reporting requirements under 49 CFR 195.56 through editorial corrections and non-substantive changes.
- Pipeline Safety: Remote Monitoring of Hazardous Liquid Pipeline RectifiersApril 24, 2026
NPRM proposes allowing remote electrical monitoring of rectifiers and cathodic protection equipment on hazardous liquid and carbon dioxide pipelines, aligning with existing gas transmission pipeline standards.
- Pipeline Safety: Electronic Retention of Part 194 Response PlansApril 24, 2026
PHMSA amendments allow onshore oil pipeline operators to maintain electronic copies of Part 194 spill response plans instead of paper copies.
- Pipeline Safety: Editorial Corrections to Telephone and Facsimile NumbersApril 24, 2026
Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations corrects outdated telephone and facsimile contact numbers in pipeline operator notification requirements.
- Airworthiness Directives; B/E Aerospace Fischer GmbH Medical SeatsApril 24, 2026
FAA airworthiness directive requires modification of B/E Aerospace Fischer GmbH Medical Seats 230/305 with incorrect swivel units in aft and forward-facing installations to address safety defects.
- Pipeline Safety: Standards Update-ASTM F1055April 24, 2026
PHMSA amends pipeline safety regulations to incorporate updated ASTM F1055 standard for polyethylene and PEX pipe fittings, reducing compliance burdens while maintaining public safety.
- Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the PA Turnpike (I-276)/I-95 Interchange Project Stage 3 Delaware River Bridge: Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Burlington County, New JerseyApril 24, 2026
Federal Highway Administration will prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 interchange Delaware River Bridge replacement project in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Burlington County, New Jers…
- Pipeline Safety: Editorial Corrections and Clarifications to Criteria for Conducting Integrity Assessments Using Guided Wave Ultrasonic TestingApril 24, 2026
The Department of Transportation makes editorial corrections to criteria for pipeline integrity assessments using guided wave ultrasonic testing.
- Pipeline Safety: Standards Update-NFPA 58April 24, 2026
PHMSA amends pipeline safety regulations to incorporate the updated NFPA 58 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code standard, reducing compliance burdens while maintaining public safety.