[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1436 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1436

        To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 15, 1999

   Mr. Ballenger (for himself, Mr. Hall of Texas, and Mr. Stenholm) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                      Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
        To amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

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

SECTION 1. STANDARDS.

    Section 6(b)(2) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 
(29 U.S.C 655(b)(2)) is amended by inserting after the first sentence 
the following: ``The notice in the Federal Register shall include 
identification of the specific industry or industries to which the 
standard, to be promulgated under the rule, will apply. In promulgating 
a standard, the Secretary shall ensure that the standard, as applicable 
to each such industry, is based upon an assessment of the risks to 
workers in such industry from the hazard which is the subject of the 
standard, the range of estimates and the best estimate of the 
quantifiable and nonquantifiable benefits of the standard in each such 
industry, and an analysis of the costs likely to occur in each such 
industry as a result of compliance with the standard. To the extent 
that information is not available on the specific risks to workers in 
any such industry, the Secretary may determine risks and benefits on 
information from similar industries, operations, or processes.''.
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