Procedures in Regulating and Enforcing Unfair or Deceptive Practices
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- What it does
The U.S. Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is amending its regulations regarding the hearing procedures available when the Department proposes a discretionary aviation consumer protection rulemaking declaring a practice to be unfair or deceptive. This final rule revises the hearing procedures established in 2022 to align them with the more robust due process protections originally set forth in 2020, ensuring the use of neutral hearing officers and the issuance of formal findings of fact. Further, this rule rescinds the 2023 Clarification of Formal Enforcement Procedures, which specified that the Department is not limited to administrative proceedings before an Administrative Law Judge, but may also initiate civil enforcement actions in United States District Court. The Department now finds this clarification unnecessary and redundant because its authority to seek judicial enforcement is established clearly by statute.
The Transportation Department's summary, as published in the Federal Register.
- What changed in the regulation
1 part of Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations:
Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).
- Compared with
The Transportation Department has published 10 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 9 in all of 2025.
Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.
- Before this
1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 2105-AF38 since Jan. 1, 2025.
- What happens next and when
Effective July 31, 2026.
The agency's dates, word for word.
The record as published
| Document number | 2026-13295 |
|---|---|
| Action | Final rule. |
| Agencies | Transportation Department |
| Published | July 1, 2026 |
| Effective date | July 31, 2026 |
| Regulation identifier (RIN) | 2105-AF38 |
| Docket | DOT-OST-2025-0633 |
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