[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] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Antidrug Program for Personnel Engaged in Specified Aviation Activities AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT, ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] BILLING CODE 4910-13-M