[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4231 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4231

  To require employers to notify local emergency officials, under the 
  appropriate circumstances, of workplace emergencies, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 15, 1998

 Mr. Rothman (for himself and Mr. Miller of California) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require employers to notify local emergency officials, under the 
  appropriate circumstances, of workplace emergencies, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Industrial Emergency Notification 
Act''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY OFFICIALS.

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration shall issue as a 
final regulation, not later than 18 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, a regulation that requires employers to--
            (1) notify outside emergency responders when the conditions 
        and circumstances occur which require outside emergency 
        response, including workplace evacuations and other conditions 
        specified in the regulation;
            (2) describe with specificity in their emergency response 
        plans, developed under regulations published at 29 C.F.R. 
        1919.120 and 29 C.F.R. 1926.65 or in their emergency actions 
        plans developed under regulations published at 29 C.F.R. 
        1910.38, the conditions and circumstances that require outside 
        emergency response in addition to those described in paragraph 
        (1); and
            (3) obtain the agreement, in writing, of the outside 
        responders as to which conditions and circumstances require 
        outside response in addition to those described in paragraph 
        (1).
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