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kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1982.101"
title: "29"
number: "1982.101"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1982.101"
---

# §1982.101. Definitions.


As used in this part:

- (a) Assistant Secretary means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health or the person or persons to whom he or she delegates authority under NTSSA or FRSA.
- (b) Business days means days other than Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays.
- (c) Complainant means the employee who filed a NTSSA or FRSA complaint or on whose behalf a complaint was filed.
- (d) Employee means an individual presently or formerly working for, an individual applying to work for, or an individual whose employment could be affected by a public transportation agency or a railroad carrier, or a contractor or subcontractor of a public transportation agency or a railroad carrier.
- (e) FRSA means [Section 1521](/cfr/29/1521.md) of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Public Law 110-053, August 3, 2007, as further amended by Public Law 110-432, October, 16, 2008, codified at [49 U.S.C. 20109](/usc/49/20109.md).
- (f) NTSSA means [Section 1413](/cfr/29/1413.md) of the Implementing Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, Public Law 110-053, August 3, 2007, codified at [6 U.S.C. 1142](/usc/6/1142.md).
- (g) OSHA means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
- (h) Public transportation means regular, continuing shared-ride surface transportation services that are open to the general public or open to a segment of the general public defined by age, disability, or low income; and does not include: Intercity passenger rail transportation provided by the entity described in chapter 243 (or a successor to such entity); intercity bus service; charter bus service; school bus service; sightseeing service; courtesy shuttle service for patrons of one or more specific establishments; or intra-terminal or intra-facility shuttle services.
- (i) Public transportation agency means a publicly owned operator of public transportation eligible to receive federal assistance under 49 U.S.C. chapter 53.
- (j) Railroad means any form of nonhighway ground transportation that runs on rails or electromagnetic guideways, including commuter or other short-haul railroad passenger service in a metropolitan or suburban area and commuter railroad service that was operated by the Consolidated Rail Corporation on January 1, 1979; and high speed ground transportation systems that connect metropolitan areas, without regard to whether those systems use new technologies not associated with traditional railroads; but does not include rapid transit operations in an urban area that are not connected to the general railroad system of transportation.
- (k) Railroad carrier means a person providing railroad transportation, except that, upon petition by a group of commonly controlled railroad carriers that the Secretary of Transportation determines is operating within the United States as a single, integrated rail system, the Secretary of Transportation may by order treat the group of railroad carriers as a single railroad carrier for purposes of one or more provisions of part A, subtitle V of [title 49](/cfr/49.md) and implementing regulations and order, subject to any appropriate conditions that the Secretary of Transportation may impose.
- (l) Respondent means the person alleged to have violated NTSSA or FRSA.
- (m) Secretary means the Secretary of Labor or person to whom authority under NTSSA or FRSA has been delegated.
- (n) Any future statutory amendments that affect the definition of a term or terms listed in this section will apply in lieu of the definition stated herein.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 6 U.S.C. 1142 and 49 U.S.C. 20109; Secretary of Labor's Order 01-2012 (Jan. 18, 2012), 77 FR 3912 (Jan. 25, 2012); Secretary's Order No. 01-2020, 85 FR 13186 (March 6, 2020).

### Source

Source: 80 FR 69132, Nov. 9, 2015, unless otherwise noted.