[Federal Register: December 1, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 230)]
[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, 2004, Through December 
31, 2004

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, 2004, 
through December 31, 2004, will remain at 25 percent of safety-
sensitive aviation employees for random drug testing and 10 percent of 
safety-sensitive 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), Washington, DC 20591; telephone (202) 267-5970.
    Discussion: The FAA Administrator set the minimum random drug 
testing rate for 2004 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 2004 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. 03-29848 Filed 11-28-03; 8:45 am]

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