---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 40.407"
title: "49"
number: "40.407"
heading: "May a service agent ask to have a PIE reduced or terminated?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/40.407"
---

# §40.407. May a service agent ask to have a PIE reduced or terminated?

- (a) Yes, as a service agent concerning whom the Department has issued a PIE, you may request that the Director terminate a PIE or reduce its duration and/or scope. This process is limited to the issues of duration and scope. It is not an appeal or reconsideration of the decision to issue the PIE.
- (b) Your request must be in writing and supported with documentation.
- (c) You must wait at least nine months from the date on which the Director issued the PIE to make this request.
- (d) The initiating official who was the proponent of the PIE may provide information and arguments concerning your request to the Director.
- (e) If the Director verifies that the sources of your noncompliance have been eliminated and that all drug or alcohol testing-related services you would provide to DOT-regulated employers will be consistent with the requirements of this part, the Director may issue a notice terminating or reducing the PIE.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 102, 301, 322, 5331, 20140, 31306, and 54101 et seq.

### Source

Source: 65 FR 79526, Dec. 19, 2000, unless otherwise noted.