Updated 08-03-11 Ammonium Nitrate under Proposed Rules
Proposed Rule Stage
1601-AA52 Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate Program
ABSTRACT: This rulemaking will implement the December 2007 amendment to the Homeland Security Act entitled "Secure Handling of Ammonium Nitrate." The amendment requires the Department of Homeland Security to "regulate the sale and transfer of ammonium nitrate by an ammonium nitrate facility…to prevent the misappropriation or use of ammonium nitrate in an act of terrorism."
2010 FALL REGULATORY AGENDA: 75 FR 79542
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: NPRM Published 08-03-11
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Comment Period Ends 12-01-11
BLOGS: 10-29-08; 10-30-08; 12-23-08; 03-06-09; 10-26-09;
12-22-10; 03-03-11; 07-08-11; 08-02-11; 08-03-11;
1601-AA56 Petitions for Rulemaking, Amendment, or Repeal
ABSTRACT: The Administrative Procedure Act requires all agencies to allow members of the public to petition for the issuance of new rules or changes to or repeal of existing rules. Pursuant to that requirement, DHS is proposing a petition process for Departmental rulemaking actions.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 09/2011
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1625-AB21 Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC); Card Reader Requirements
ABSTRACT: The Coast Guard is establishing electronic card reader requirements for maritime facilities and vessels to be used in combination with TSA's Transportation Worker Identification Credential.1625-AB38 Updates to Maritime Security
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: ANPRM - 03/27/2009 - 74 FR 13360
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 09/2011
BLOGS: 3-27-09; 3-30-09; 4-1-09; 4-6-09; 4-9-09; 4-9-09; 4-14-09; 4-15-09; 4-15-09; 5-6-09; 6-1-09 ; 01-13-11; 03-15-11; 02-24-11;
ABSTRACT: The Coast Guard proposes certain additions, changes, and amendments to 33 CFR, subchapter H. Subchapter H is comprised of parts 101 thru 106. Subchapter H implements the major provisions of the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002. This rulemaking is the first major revision to subchapter H. The proposed changes would further enhance the security of our Nation's ports, vessels, facilities, and Outer Continental Shelf facilities and incorporate requirements from legislation implemented since the original publication of these regulations in 2003.1625-AB64 Top Screen Information Collection from MTSA-Regulated Facilities Handling Chemicals
2010 FALL REGULATORY AGENDA: 75 FR 79554
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM 07-2011
BLOGS: 12-27-10
ABSTRACT: The Coast Guard proposes to require facilities regulated under the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107-295) (MTSA) that transport or handle certain chemicals of interest to submit a "Top-Screen" to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). DHS developed Top-Screen under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 109-295), section 550) (CFATS). This rulemaking would not subject MTSA-regulated facilities to CFATS requirements.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM 12-2011
BLOGS: 07-07-11;
1652-AA54 Sensitive Security Information: Disclosure in Federal Civil Court Proceedings
ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is proposing to revise its regulations governing the protection of Sensitive Security Information (SSI) to implement section 525(d) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act of 2007, which grants civil litigants or their counsel who do not currently have a need to know SSI access to specific SSI in Federal district court proceedings,
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 09/2011
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1652-AA57 Freight Railroads—Security Training of Employees
ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will propose new regulations to improve the security of freight railroads in accordance with the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. The rulemaking will propose general requirements for a security training program to prepare freight railroad employees, including frontline employees, for potential security threats and conditions.1652-AA58 Freight Railroads--Vulnerability Assessment and Security Plan MOVED FROM Long Range Actions
2010 FALL REGULATORY AGENDA: 75 FR 79563
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 08-2011
BLOGS: 12-23-10
ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will add new regulations to improve the security of freight rail transportation in accordance with the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 11-2011
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1652-AA61 Standardized Vetting, Adjudication, and Redress Services
ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will propose new regulations to revise and standardize the procedures, adjudication criteria, and fees for most of the security threat assessments (STA) of individuals for which TSA is responsible.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: None
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: NPRM – 09/2011
BLOGS:
Final Rule Stage
1601-AA01 Production or Disclosure of Official Information in Connection With Legal Proceedings
ABSTRACT: This action establishes procedures governing the disclosure of information in connection with litigation and certain other types of proceedings.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: Interim Final Rule - 68 FR 4070
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Undetermined
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1652-AA64 Air Cargo Screening
ABSTRACT: On September 16, 2009, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued an Interim Final Rule (IFR) that established the Certified Cargo Screening Program (CCSP) that certifies shippers, manufacturers, and other entities to screen air cargo intended for transport on a passenger aircraft. This is the primary means through which TSA will meet the requirements of section 1602 of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007 that mandates that 100 percent of air cargo transported on passenger aircraft, operated by an air carrier or foreign air carrier in air transportation or intrastate air transportation, be screened by August 2010, to ensure the security of all such passenger aircraft carrying cargo.
2010 FALL REGULATORY AGENDA: 75 FR 79567
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: IFR - 74 FR 47672
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Final Rule to OMB 05-05-11
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Long Term Action
1652-AA08 Protection of Sensitive Security Information (SSI)
ABSTRACT: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will issue a rulemaking document responding to comments received on the May 18, 2004, interim final rule (IFR). In the IFR, published jointly with the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) in May 2004, TSA revised its sensitive security information (SSI) regulations to expand the 2002 regulatory framework governing information generally related to aviation security to cover information related to security in maritime transportation, consistent with the security framework required by the U.S. Coast Guard’s regulations implementing the Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA).
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: IFR – 69 FR 28066
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Final Rule - TBD
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1652-AA16 Transportation of Explosives From Canada to the United States Via Commercial Motor Vehicle and Railroad Carrier
ABSTRACT: This Interim Final Rule (IFR), published by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on February 6, 2003, addressed security issues regarding transportation of explosives by commercial motor vehicles and railroads. It established requirements applicable to all motor carriers, motor private carriers, and railroad carriers not using U.S. citizens or lawful permanent aliens as drivers or railroad crews licensed in Canada to transport explosives to the United States.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: IFR – 68 FR 6083
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Final Rule – TBD
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1652-AA50 Drivers Licensed by Canada or Mexico Transporting Hazardous Materials To and Within the United States
ABSTRACT: This Interim Final Rule (IFR), published by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on August 7, 2006, announced that a commercial motor vehicle driver licensed in Canada or Mexico who holds a Free and Secure Trade (FAST) program card may use that card as an acceptable credential to transport placarded amounts of hazardous materials or any quantity of a material listed as a select agent or toxin in 42 CFR part 73 within the United States.
PREVIOUS RULE MAKING EFFORTS: IFR – 71 FR 44874
NEXT EXPECTED RULE MAKING EFFORT: Final Rule – TBD
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