Sec. 990.18. Safety Board recommendations

(a) Issuing recommendations.

The Safety Board or the executive director on behalf of the Safety Board may make recommendations to public transportation systems and public transportation services as a result of the Safety Board's accident/incident investigations or other special studies or audits. Such recommendations shall be transmitted to the chief executive officer of the system or service involved with a request that the system or service respond to the Safety Board within a specified period, but not less than 30 days, with the system's or service's proposed corrective action plans to address the Safety Board's recommendation(s) or to respond to a Safety Board request. The Safety Board shall either accept these proposed corrective action plans or make a request for revisions to such plans or for other responsive actions.

(b) Tracking and reporting on proposed corrective action plans.

When requested by the Executive Director of the Safety Board, public transportation systems and public transportation services shall provide the executive director with periodic summaries of ongoing efforts to implement corrective action plans. Such summaries shall be in a format as prescribed by the executive director and may include the following: Safety Board case number; date of initial recommendation(s); recitation or abstract of recommendation(s); proposed corrective action plan(s); organization or individual responsible for implementation of plan(s); scheduled implementation and completion date(s); current status; and outstanding issues, if any.