# State Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Action Plans
> **US Department of Transportation** · Final rule. · Published 2020-12-14 · Effective 2021-01-13 · 85 FR 80648
## Document
- **Document number:** 2020-26064
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Transportation
- **Federal Register citation:** 85 FR 80648
- **CFR reference:** 49 CFR 234
- **Publication date:** 2020-12-14
- **Effective date:** 2021-01-13
- **DOT docket:** Docket No. FRA-2018-0096, Notice No. 2
## Abstract

FRA is issuing this final rule in response to the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act mandate that FRA issue a rule requiring 40 States and the District of Columbia to develop and implement highway-rail grade crossing action plans. This final rule also requires ten States that developed highway-rail grade crossing action plans as required by the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 and FRA's implementing regulation to update their plans and submit reports to FRA describing actions they have taken to implement them.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/12/14/2020-26064/state-highway-rail-grade-crossing-action-plans)
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