Changes to Delegations

What it does

In this final rule, the Board is revising its regulations to clarify certain existing delegations of authority and create certain new delegations for the Board's Chief Counsel and Chief of Passenger Rail and Investigations (COPRI). The Board is also creating a new regulation that codifies and expands the Board's grant stamp procedures and is revising certain regulations to make nomenclature changes.

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

What changed in the regulation

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

49 CFR 1011, 49 CFR 1152, 49 CFR 1244

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 September 17, 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