[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR106.45]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                             TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 106_RULEMAKING PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart A_RSPA Rulemaking Documents
 
Sec. 106.45  Tracking rulemaking actions.

    The following identifying numbers allow you to track RSPA's 
rulemaking activities:
    (a) Docket number. We assign an identifying number, called a docket 
number, to each rulemaking proceeding. Each rulemaking document that 
RSPA issues in a particular rulemaking proceeding will display the same 
docket number. This number allows you to do the following:
    (1) Associate related documents that appear in the Federal Register.
    (2) Search the DOT Docket Management System (``DMS'') for 
information on particular rulemaking proceedings--including notices of 
proposed rulemaking, public comments, petitions for rulemaking, appeals, 
records of additional rulemaking proceedings and final rules. There are 
two ways you can search the DMS:
    (i) Visit the public docket room and review and copy any docketed 
materials during regular business hours.

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The DOT Docket Management System is located at the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Plaza Level 401, 400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20590-0001.
    (ii) View and download docketed materials through the Internet at 
http://dms.dot.gov.
    (b) Regulation identifier number. The Department of Transportation 
publishes a semiannual agenda of all current and projected Department of 
Transportation rulemakings, reviews of existing regulations, and 
completed actions. This semiannual agenda appears in the Unified Agenda 
of Federal Regulations that is published in the Federal Register in 
April and October of each year. The semiannual agenda tells the public 
about the Department's--including RSPA's--regulatory activities. The 
Department assigns a regulation identifier number (RIN) to each 
individual rulemaking proceeding in the semiannual agenda. This number 
appears on all rulemaking documents published in the Federal Register 
and makes it easy for you to track those rulemaking proceedings in both 
the Federal Register and the semiannual regulatory agenda itself, as 
well as to locate all documents in the Docket Management System 
pertaining to a particular rulemaking.