Action
Withdrawal of proposed rule.
Summary
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) published a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on March 23, 1999, regarding its motor carrier financial and operating data collection program. The proposal would have restricted access to individual carrier data for some of the operating statistics, revenue equipment, and employment data items. Access to these data items would have been limited to the Department of Transportation and to such persons and in such circumstances as DOT determined to be in the public interest or consistent with the Department's regulatory functions and responsibilities. Most of the comments strongly opposed adopting the proposed rule. After considering the issues raised by the comments, BTS is withdrawing the Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.