[Federal Register: January 21, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 13)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION


Federal Aviation Administration


 
Random Drug and Alcohol Testing Percentage Rates of Covered 
Aviation Employees for the Period of January 1, 2003 Through December 
31, 2003


AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of 
Transportation.


ACTION: Notice.


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SUMMARY: The FAA has determined that the minimum random drug and 
alcohol testing percentage rates for the period January 1, 2003 through 
December 31, 2003, will remain at 25 percent of covered aviation 
employees for random drug testing and 10 percent of covered aviation 
employees for random alcohol testing.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Arnold N. Schwartz, Office of 
Aerospace Medicine, Drug Abatement Division, Program Analysis Branch 
(AAM-810), Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, 
SW., Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-5970.
    Discussion: The FAA Administrator set the minimum random drug 
testing rate for 2003 at 25 percent because the data received under the 
Management Information System (MIS) reporting requirements for two 
consecutive calendar years indicate that the positive rate is less than 
1.0 percent. The FAA Administrator set the minimum alcohol testing rate 
for 2003 at 10 percent because the data received under the MIS 
reporting requirements for two consecutive calendar years indicate that 
the positive rate is less than 0.5 percent.


SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you have questions about how the annual 
random drug and alcohol percentage testing rates are determined please 
refer to the Code of Federal Regulations title 14: part 121, Appendices 
I and J.


Jon L. Jordan,
Federal Air Surgeon.
[FR Doc. 03-1166 Filed 1-17-03; 8:45 am]

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