# 2025-09150: SEPTA Seeks to Keep Train Workers’ Close-Call Reporting Safe

2025-09150, Notice of Petition for Extension of Waiver of Compliance, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, Federal Railroad Administration published 2025-05-21, effective FRA must receive comments on the petition by June 20, 2025. FRA will consider comments received after that date to the extent practicable.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-22).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09150
- As of: 2026-10-22
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-09150
- Title: Notice of Petition for Extension of Waiver of Compliance
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Federal Railroad Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 21822
- Published: 2025-05-21
- Effective: FRA must receive comments on the petition by June 20, 2025. FRA will consider comments received after that date to the extent practicable.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-10-22

## In one line

SEPTA Seeks to Keep Train Workers’ Close-Call Reporting Safe

## Summary

SEPTA wants to keep its special safety break that protects train workers from punishment when they report close calls. This helps them share safety info without fear, making trains safer for everyone. The public can comment on this request until June 20, 2025, but no money changes hands.

## Abstract

This document provides the public notice that the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) petitioned FRA to extend relief related to SEPTA's participation in FRA's Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C\3\RS) Program.

## Effects PRIA read

- Keep reporting workers shielded from discipline: benefit, medium. SEPTA asked FRA to extend a waiver so certified operating crew members can continue to be shielded from mandatory punitive sanctions under 49 CFR parts 240 and 242 when they report close calls through the Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS). The protection is tied to the C3RS Implementi…
- Documented safety improvements from C3RS use: benefit, low. In support of its petition, SEPTA reported it reviewed 183 close call submissions, developed a "Shop Movement Job Brief Form" that has reduced incidents in shop movements, and started a campaign to ensure equipment has proper inspection paperwork and testing before leaving initial terminals. These…

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## Sources
- [2025-09150 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/21/2025-09150/notice-of-petition-for-extension-of-waiver-of-compliance)
- [2025-09150 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-21/pdf/2025-09150.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-09150 (as of 2026-10-22).