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PHMSA Confirms 2026 Drug Testing Rate for Pipeline Industry Written by azcdt on December 8, 2025. Posted in Drug Testing. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has officially announced that the minimum annual random drug testing rate will remain at 50% for covered employees in the pipeline industry throughout calendar year 2026. Published […]

2025 PHMSA Random Drug Testing Rate The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) published that they are raising the minimum annual random drug testing rate for 2025 to 50% annually, up from 25% annually.  The PHMSA published the new random drug testing rate for 2025 in the November 20, 2024 Federal Register. The PHMSA […]

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced in the December 11, 2018 Federal Register that the random drug testing rate for 2019 will remain unchanged at 50% annually.  PHMSA currently does not require random alcohol testing.  Please see https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-12-11/pdf/2018-26750.pdf for the official publication of the 2019 PHMSA random testing rate.

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced on December 1, 2017 a Notice of Calendar Year 2018 Minimum Annual Percentage Rate for Random Drug Testing.  Effective January 1, 2018 operators of gas, hazardous liquid, and carbon dioxide pipelines and operators of liquefied natural gas facilities are required to increase the minimum annual random drug […]