Annual Railroad Enforcement Report

An annual summary from the Office of Chief Council which summarizes Enforcement activities for the previous year. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) compiles an annualcivil penalty report that summarized the disposition of all instances in which FRA settled a claim for a civil penalty for violations of Federal railroad safety and hazardous materials (hazmat)statutes, regulations, and orders or in which FRA otherwise closed a case to collect a civil penalty for such a violation.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity R/P1Y
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agencyProgramURL http://www.fra.dot.gov/eLib/Find#p1_z5_lEA
analysisUnit Violation
bureauCode {021:27}
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categoryDesignation Research
collectionInstrument Transportation
collection_metadata true
dataQuality true
describedBy https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/LiteApiService.asmx%3Fop=GetEnforcementDataByYear
identifier DOT-255
issued 2010-09-29
landingPage https://data.transportation.gov/d/8cjb-itxq
language {en-US}
license http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
modified 2018-12-19
old-spatial National
phone 202-493-6040
programCode {021:000}
publisher Federal Railroad Administration
references {https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/LiteApiService.asmx%3Fop=GetEnforcementDataByYear}
resource-type Dataset
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temporal R/2008-10-01/P1Y
theme {Transportation}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • civil
  • ckan
  • compliance
  • enforcement
  • geo
  • geoss
  • hazardous
  • hazmat
  • material
  • national
  • north-america
  • penalty
  • railroad
  • united-states
isopen False
license_id us-pd
license_title us-pd
maintainer Mrudula Deodhar
maintainer_email mrudula.deodhar@dot.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T15:42:57.215291
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T15:42:57.215295
notes An annual summary from the Office of Chief Council which summarizes Enforcement activities for the previous year. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) compiles an annualcivil penalty report that summarized the disposition of all instances in which FRA settled a claim for a civil penalty for violations of Federal railroad safety and hazardous materials (hazmat)statutes, regulations, and orders or in which FRA otherwise closed a case to collect a civil penalty for such a violation.
num_resources 1
num_tags 16
title Annual Railroad Enforcement Report