SAN DIEGO -- Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Congress is likely to take up a proposal in a November lame-duck session to halt last year’s hours-of-service rule change.

SAN DIEGO -- Jack Van Steenburg, chief safety officer at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, said he expects the agency to seek input from the public in the coming months on an “alternative compliance” program aimed at giving carriers and drivers credit for installing safety technologies.

WASHINGTON — Acting Federal Highway Administrator Gregory Nadeau on Sept. 30 urged lawmakers to approve a “long-term, sustainable” transportation funding measure in order to help advance the efforts by states and municipalities to repair or replace aging infrastructure.

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration chief Cynthia Quarterman will step down Oct. 3, a spokeswoman for the agency told reporters.

A report by a House transportation panel recommended establishing a new office at the U.S. Department of Transportation to help states and localities have better access to private capital to fund large-scale infrastructure projects.

The leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Panel on Public-Private Partnerships have scheduled a press conference Sept. 17 to release their final report.

Several members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, are boasting about grants that the Department of Transportation has awarded to projects in their districts ahead of an official announcement by the department.