The Department of Transportation DOT or Department proposes to amend its regulations for conducting workplace drug and alcohol testing for the federally regulated transportation industry to allow but not require electronic signatures on documents required to be created and utilized under the regulations the use of electronic versions of forms and the electronic storage of forms and data. The regulatory changes would apply to DOT-regulated employers and their contractors service agents who administer their DOT-regulated drug and alcohol testing programs. Currently employers and their service agents must use sign and store paper documents exclusively unless the employer is utilizing a laboratory's electronic Federal Drug Testing Custody and Control Form electronic CCF system that has been approved by the Department of Health and Human Services HHS. DOT is required by statute to amend its regulations to authorize to the extent practicable the use of electronic signatures or digital signatures executed to electronic forms instead of traditional handwritten signatures executed on paper forms. This rulemaking also responds to an April 2 2020 petition for rulemaking from DISA Global Solutions Inc. DISA requesting that DOT regulations be amended to allow the use of an electronic version of the alcohol testing form ATF for DOT-authorized alcohol testing. The proposed regulatory amendments are expected to provide additional flexibility and reduced costs for the industry while maintaining the integrity and confidentiality requirements of the drug and alcohol testing regulations. In addition DOT proposes to amend the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration PHMSA regulation for conformity and to make other miscellaneous technical changes and corrections.