Administrative Law

"The Civil Aeronautics Board file contains decisions, orders, notices, permits, and certificates of the Civil Aeronautics Board which were chosen by the Board for publication. The file also contains published opinions of the Board's Administrative Law Judges. The Civil Aeronautics Board ceased to exist on December 31, 1984, and its duties were assumed by the Department of Transportation on January 1, 1985."

"The Department of Transportation Aviation Decisions file contains orders, certificates and decisions issued by the Department of Transportation relating to air carriers."

"The Federal Aviation Administration Decisions file contains civil penalty decisions and orders issued by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), as well as airport compliance decisions issued under 14 CFR Part 16."

"The National Transportation Safety Board file contains consent orders, proposed consent agreements, court orders, ALJ initial decisions, final decisions and opinions issued by the National Transportation Safety Board."

"The Surface Transportation Board (STB) was created on January 1, 1996, by Pub. L. 104-88, the ICC Termination Act of 1995. The Act abolished the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), transferred core rail and certain other functions to the STB, and transferred motor licensing and certain other motor functions to the Federal Highway Administration (FHA). The three-member STB is specifically responsible for the regulation of the rail and pipeline industries and certain non-licensing regulation of motor carriers and water carriers. The Board is empowered through its exemption authority to promote deregulation administratively, and continues the rail reforms of the Staggers Rail Act of 1980. The Board has jurisdiction over transportation by rail carrier that is by railroad or by railroad and water. The jurisdiction of the Board over transportation by rail carrier with respect to rates, classifications, rules, practices, routes, services, and carrier facilities is exclusive. The Board's regulatory oversight encompasses the regulation of rates, mergers, acquisitions, construction and abandonment of railroad lines, as well as the planning, analysis and policy development associated with these activities. The Board also has jurisdiction over transportation by pipeline, or by pipeline and railroad or water, when transporting a commodity other than water, gas or oil. The regulatory oversight of other surface transportation carriers includes certain regulation of the intercity bus industry and surface pipeline carriers as well as the rate regulation of water transportation in the non-contiguous domestic trade, household goods carriers, and collectively determined motor rates."