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Federal Aviation Administration, DOT 

Pt. 121 

of Aerospace Medicine, Drug Abate-
ment Division: 

(i) Company name. 
(ii) Telephone number. 
(iii) Address where your drug and al-

cohol testing program records are kept. 

(iv) Type of safety-sensitive func-

tions you or your employees perform 
(such as flight instruction duties, air-
craft dispatcher duties, maintenance or 
preventive maintenance duties, ground 
security coordinator duties, aviation 
screening duties, air traffic control du-
ties). 

(v) Whether you have 50 or more cov-

ered employees, or 49 or fewer covered 
employees. 

(vi) A signed statement indicating 

that: your company will comply with 
this part and 49 CFR part 40; and you 
intend to provide safety-sensitive func-
tions by contract (including sub-
contract at any tier) to a part 119 cer-
tificate holder with authority to oper-
ate under part 121 or part 135 of this 
chapter, an operator as defined in 
§ 91.147 of this chapter, or an air traffic 
control facility not operated by the 
FAA or by or under contract to the 
U.S. military. 

(2) Send this information to the Fed-

eral Aviation Administration, Office of 
Aerospace Medicine, Drug Abatement 
Division (AAM–800), 800 Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

(3) This Drug and Alcohol Testing 

Program Registration will satisfy the 
registration requirements for both 
your drug testing program under sub-
part E of this part and your alcohol 
testing program under this subpart. 

(4) Update the registration informa-

tion as changes occur. Send the up-
dates to the address specified in para-
graph (f)(2) of this section. 

[Doc. No. FAA–2008–0937, 74 FR 22653, May 14, 
2009; Amdt. 120–0A, 75 FR 3154, Jan. 20, 2010, 
as amended by Amdt. 120–1, 78 FR 42005, July 
15, 2013] 

§ 120.227 Employees located outside 

the U.S. 

(a) No covered employee shall be 

tested for alcohol misuse while located 
outside the territory of the United 
States. 

(1) Each covered employee who is as-

signed to perform safety-sensitive 
functions solely outside the territory 

of the United States shall be removed 
from the random testing pool upon the 
inception of such assignment. 

(2) Each covered employee who is re-

moved from the random testing pool 
under this paragraph shall be returned 
to the random testing pool when the 
employee resumes the performance of 
safety-sensitive functions wholly or 
partially within the territory of the 
United States. 

(b) The provisions of this subpart 

shall not apply to any person who per-
forms a safety-sensitive function by 
contract for an employer outside the 
territory of the United States. 

PART 121—OPERATING REQUIRE-

MENTS: DOMESTIC, FLAG, AND 
SUPPLEMENTAL OPERATIONS 

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PECIAL

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R

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N

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71 [N

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Subpart A—General 

Sec. 
121.1

Applicability. 

121.2

Compliance schedule for operators 

that transition to part 121; certain new 
entrant operators. 

121.4

Applicability of rules to unauthorized 

operators. 

121.7

Definitions. 

121.9

Fraud and falsification. 

121.11

Rules applicable to operations in a 

foreign country. 

121.15

Carriage of narcotic drugs, mari-

huana, and depressant or stimulant drugs 
or substances. 

Subpart B—Certification Rules for Domestic 

and Flag Air Carriers 

[

Reserved

Subpart C—Certification Rules for Supple-

mental Air Carriers and Commercial 
Operators 

[

Reserved

Subpart D—Rules Governing All Certificate 

Holders Under This Part 

[

Reserved

Subpart E—Approval of Routes: Domestic 

and Flag Operations 

121.91

Applicability. 

121.93

Route requirements: General. 

121.95

Route width. 

121.97

Airports: Required data.