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Version 17 · Reported to House with amendment(s) · Sep 18, 1998
Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to require certain notices in the Federal Register to include identification of the specific industry or industries to which the OSHA standard, to be promulgated under the OSHA rule, will apply. Directs the Secretary of Labor to ensure that the OSHA standard, as applicable to each such industry, is based upon: (1) an assessment of the risks to workers in such industry from the hazard which is the subject of the standard; (2) the range of estimates and the best estimate of the quantifiable and nonquantifiable benefits of the standard in each such industry; and (3) an analysis of the costs likely to occur in each such industry as a result of compliance with the standard. Authorizes the Secretary to determine such risks and benefits on information from similar industries, operations, or processes, to the extent that information is not available on the specific risks to workers in any such industry.
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Rep. Ballenger, Cass [R-NC-10] · R–NC
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Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-732.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 420.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and the Workforce. H. Rept. 105-732.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 23 - 17.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 6 - 4.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2238)
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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