[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2245 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2245

  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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 26, 1998

Mr. Lautenberg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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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 of 1998''.

SEC. 2. NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY OFFICIALS.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration shall issue as a final rule, not later 
than 18 months after 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 rule;
            (2) describe with specificity in their emergency response 
        plans developed under 29 CFR 1919.120 or 1926.65, or in their 
        emergency action plans under 29 CFR 1910.38, the conditions and 
        circumstances that require outside emergency response in 
        addition to those specified under 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 specified under paragraph 
        (1).
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