Nomenclature Corrections Due to Office Reorganization, Removal of Obsolete References, and Payment Processing Changes

What it does

The Surface Transportation Board (Board) recently completed a reorganization in which it combined its two legal offices, the Office of the General Counsel and the Office of Proceedings, to form the Office of Chief Counsel. The Board is issuing a final rule to make nomenclature changes reflecting the establishment of the Office of Chief Counsel as a result of this reorganization, to remove obsolete references, and to revise its rules to no longer accept paper checks or money orders as a form of payment.

The Surface Transportation Board's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

26 parts of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

49 CFR 1002, 49 CFR 1007, 49 CFR 1011, 49 CFR 1012, 49 CFR 1018, 49 CFR 1019, 49 CFR 1021, 49 CFR 1102, 49 CFR 1103, 49 CFR 1104, 49 CFR 1105, 49 CFR 1109, 49 CFR 1110, 49 CFR 1113, 49 CFR 1114, 49 CFR 1115, 49 CFR 1116, 49 CFR 1130, 49 CFR 1132, 49 CFR 1150, 49 CFR 1151, 49 CFR 1152, 49 CFR 1155, 49 CFR 1177, 49 CFR 1180, 49 CFR 1253

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Surface Transportation Board has published 6 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 3 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

This final rule is effective on February 3, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 49 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register