The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is asking for public help in identifying regulations that could be repealed without threatening highway safety.

In a notice published in the Federal Register on April 3, USDOT announced plans to move ahead with the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda by seeking public input on which existing regulations could be modified or repealed while continuing to ensure safety within the U.S. transportation system.

USDOT is seeking comments from the public in response to Executive Order 14219 issued on February 19, 2025 by President Trump, which requires that “Unless prohibited by law, whenever an agency proposes for notice and comment or otherwise promulgates a new regulation, it shall identify at least 10 existing regulations to be repealed.” The executive order also orders all federal agencies to “ensure that the total incremental cost of all new regulations, including repealed regulations, being finalized is significantly less than zero” for fiscal year 2025.

As part of the deregulatory agenda, USDOT is seeking public input on which transportation industry regulations should be eliminated, with particular interest in comments from small businesses and “transportation system operators and service providers.”

“…DOT is beginning this process by soliciting views from the public on how best to conduct its analysis of existing DOT regulations, guidance, or reporting requirements. It is also seeking views from the public on specific regulations, guidance, or reporting requirements or DOT-imposed obligations that should be altered or eliminated. Because knowledge about the full effects of a regulation, guidance, or reporting requirement is widely dispersed in society, members of the public are likely to have useful information and perspectives on the benefits and burdens of existing requirements and how regulatory obligations may be updated, streamlined, revised, or repealed to better achieve regulatory objectives,” USDOT said.

USDOT is specifically asking for public help in identifying regulations that fall into one of seven categories outlined in Executive Order 14219:

1. Unconstitutional regulations and regulations that raise serious constitutional difficulties, such as exceeding the scope of the power vested in the Federal Government by the Constitution.
2. Regulations that are based on unlawful delegations of legislative power.
3. Regulations that are based on anything other than the best reading of the underlying statutory authority or prohibition.
4. Regulations that implicate matters of social, political, or economic significance that are not authorized by clear statutory authority.
5. Regulations that impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits.
6. Regulations that harm the national interest by significantly and unjustifiably impeding technological innovation, infrastructure development, disaster response, inflation reduction, research and development, economic development, energy production, land use, and foreign policy objectives.
7. Regulations that impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship.

Those submitting comments are encouraged to provide documentation of the cost of complying with the regulations that they suggest for repeal.

Comments are due on or before May 5, 2025. To submit your public comment, you can email [email protected] and include “Regulatory Reform RFI” in the subject line of the message. Comments submitted this way will be included without editing or changes on the regulations.gov website.