# Limitations on the Issuance of Commercial Driver's Licenses With a Hazardous Materials Endorsement
> **Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration** · Interim final rule; delay of compliance date; request for comments. · Published 2003-11-07 · Effective 2003-11-03 · 68 FR 63030
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-28175
- **Category:** motor-carrier
- **Sub-agency:** Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 63030
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 383
- **Publication date:** 2003-11-07
- **Effective date:** 2003-11-03
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FMCSA-2001-11117
## Abstract

The FMCSA amends the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) prohibiting States from issuing, renewing, transferring or upgrading a commercial driver's license (CDL) with a hazardous materials (hazmat) endorsement unless the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has first conducted a background records check of the applicant and determined the applicant does not pose a security risk warranting denial of the hazardous materials endorsement. The compliance date provisions being revised require States to collect fingerprints from individuals applying for, renewing, upgrading or transferring a hazmat endorsement for a CDL beginning November 3, 2003. FMCSA and TSA are changing that date to April 1, 2004, and TSA may postpone that date, in individual cases, to not later than December 1, 2004.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/11/07/03-28175/limitations-on-the-issuance-of-commercial-drivers-licenses-with-a-hazardous-materials-endorsement)
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