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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 614

 To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of 
    the Federal Motor Carrier Administration from taking action to 
finalize, implement, or enforce a rule related to the hours of service 
         of drivers for motor carriers, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 26, 2001

  Mr. Inhofe introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of 
    the Federal Motor Carrier Administration from taking action to 
finalize, implement, or enforce a rule related to the hours of service 
         of drivers for motor carriers, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON ACTIONS TO FINALIZE, IMPLEMENT, OR ENFORCE 
              RULE.

    The Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may not take any action or 
use appropriated funds to finalize, implement, or enforce the proposed 
rule entitled ``Hours of Service of Drivers; Driver Rest and Sleep for 
Safe Operations'' published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration in the Federal Register on May 2, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 
25539 et seq. and Docket No. FMCSA 97-2350) and issued under the 
authority delegated to the Administrator under section 113 of title 49, 
United States Code.

SEC. 2. AUTHORITY TO PROCEED THROUGH PROCESS.

    Notwithstanding section 1, the Secretary of Transportation and the 
Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may 
proceed through all stages of the rulemaking (other than adoption of a 
final rule) for the proposed rule referred to in section 1, including 
issuing a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON EFFECTIVE DATE OF FINAL RULE.

    Any final rule with respect to the subject matter of the proposed 
rule referred to in section 1 may not take effect before the last day 
of the 180-day period beginning on the date on which the Secretary of 
Transportation or the Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration transmits a copy of that final rule to Congress.
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