[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 65376]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-30773]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Antidrug Program for Personnel Engaged in Specified Aviation 
Activities

AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT,

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The FAA has determined that the minimum annual random drug 
testing rate for the period January 1, 1996, through December 31, 1996, 
will remain at 25 percent of covered aviation employees since the 
industry-wide random drug testing positive rate continues to be below 
1.0 percent.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Julie B. Murdoch, Office of 
Aviation Medicine, Drug Abatement Division (AAM-800), Federal Aviation 
Administration, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20590; telephone 
(202) 366-6710.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Administrator's Determination of 1996 Random Drug Testing Rate

    In a final rule published on December 2, 1994 (59 FR 62218), the 
FAA announced that is will set future minimum random drug testing rates 
according to the aviation industry's positive rate, which is determined 
using annual aviation antidrug program data taken from the FAA's 
Management Information System. (The term ``positive rate'' for tests 
required under 14 CFR part 121, appendix I, means the number of 
positive results for random drug tests plus total number of random drug 
tests plus the number of refusals to take random drug tests.) Using 
this performance-based system, the FAA can lower the minimum random 
drug testing rate to 25 percent whenever the positive rate is less than 
1.0 percent of two calendar years while testing at 50 percent. The FAA 
must return the rate to 50 percent if the positive rate is 1.0 percent 
or higher in any subsequent calendar year. Each year, the Administrator 
will publish a notice in the Federal Register announcing the minimum 
annual random drug testing rate for the following year. (There is a 
similar provision in the alcohol testing rule. Since alcohol testing 
only commenced in January 1995, there is insufficient data to modify 
the current alcohol testing rate of 25 percent; industry-wide data on 
which to make the required determination will not be available until 
1997.)
    In 1994, the FAA set the 1995 minimum random drug testing rate at 
25 percent because 1992 and 1993 aviation industry drug testing data 
indicated a positive rate below 1.0 percent. In this notice, the FAA 
announces that the minimum random drug testing rate will continue to be 
25 percent of covered aviation employees for the period January 1, 
1996, through December 31, 1996, since the aviation industry positive 
rate for 1994 was approximately 0.5 percent.

    Dated: December 13, 1995.
Jon. L. Jordan,
Federal Air Surgeon.
[FR Doc. 95-30773 Filed 12-18-95; 8:45 am]
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