[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 155 (Friday, November 7, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H10341-H10344]
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            NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS

                                                    U.S. Congress,


                                         Office of Compliance,

                                 Washington, DC, October 31, 1997.
     Re notice of adoption of amendments under section 204 of the 
         Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.

     Hon. Newt Gingrich,
     Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Speaker: Pursuant to section 304 of the 
     Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (the ``Act''), 2 
     U.S.C. Sec. 1384, I am transmitting on behalf of the Board of 
     Directors the enclosed notice of adoption of amendments to 
     regulations under section 204 of the Act, together with a 
     copy of the adopted amendments, for publication in the 
     Congressional Record.
       Section 304 specifies that the enclosed notice and 
     amendments be published on the first day on which both the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate are in session 
     following this transmittal, and that the notice and 
     amendments be referred to the appropriate committee or 
     committees of the House and Senate for consideration of 
     whether the amendments should be approved.
           Sincerely,
                                                    Glen D. Nager,
                                               Chair of the Board.
       Enclosure.


  Office of Compliance--The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995: 
   Extension of Rights and Protections Under the Employee Polygraph 
                         Protection Act of 1988

  NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS AND SUBMISSION FOR 
                                APPROVAL

       Summary: The Board of Directors (``Board'') of the Office 
     of Compliance has adopted amendments to the Board's 
     regulations implementing section 204 of the Congressional 
     Accountability Act of 1995 (``CAA''), 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1314, and 
     is hereby submitting the amendments to the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate for publication in the 
     Congressional Record and for approval. The CAA applies the 
     rights and protections of eleven labor and employment and 
     public access laws to covered employees and employing offices 
     within the Legislative Branch, and section 204 applies rights 
     and protections of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 
     1988 (``EPPA''). Section 204 will go into effect with respect 
     to the General Accounting Office (``GAO'') and the Library of 
     Congress (``Library'') on December 30, 1997, and these 
     amendments extend the coverage of the Board's regulations 
     under section 204 to include GAO and the Library. The 
     amendments also make minor corrections to the regulations.
       The Board has also adopted amendments to bring GAO and the 
     Library within the coverage of the Board's regulations under 
     sections 205 and 215 of the CAA, which apply the rights and 
     protections, respectively, of the Worker Adjustment and 
     Retraining Notification Act and the Occupational Safety and 
     Health Act of 1970. To enable the House and Senate to 
     consider and act on the amendments under sections 204, 205, 
     and 215 separately, if the House and Senate so choose, the 
     Board adopted the amendments under these three sections by 
     three separate documents and is submitting the Notices for 
     the amendments under sections 205 and 215 together with this 
     Notice to the House and Senate for publication and approval.
       For further information contact: Executive Director, Office 
     of Compliance, John Adams Building, Room LA 200, Washington, 
     D.C. 20540-1999. Telephone: (202) 724-9250 (voice), (202) 
     426-1912 (TTY).


                       SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

              1. Background and Purpose of this Rulemaking

       The background and purpose of this rulemaking were 
     described in detail in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
     published by the Board on September 9, 1997, at 143 Cong. 
     Rec. S9014 (daily ed. Sept. 9, 1997) (``NPRM''), and will be 
     summarized here briefly. The CAA, enacted on January 23, 
     1995, applies the rights and protections of eleven labor and 
     employment and public access laws to covered employees and 
     employing offices in the Legislative Branch. Section 204 of 
     the CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1314, applies the rights and 
     protections of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 
     (``EPPA'') by providing, generally, that no employing office 
     may require a covered employee to take a lie detector test 
     where such a test would be prohibited if required by an 
     employer under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 3 of the 
     EPPA, 29 U.S.C. Sec. 2002(1), (2), (3).
       For most employing offices and covered employees, section 
     204 became effective on January 23, 1996, and the Board 
     published interim regulations on January 22, 1997 and final 
     regulations on April 23, 1996 to implement section 204 for 
     those offices and employees. 142 Cong. Rec. S260-62, S262-70) 
     (daily ed. Jan. 22, 1996) (Notices of Adoption of Regulation 
     and Submission for Approval and Issuance of Interim 
     Regulations); 142 Cong. Rec. S3917-24, S3924 (daily ed. 
     Apr. 23, 1996) (Notices of Issuance of Final Regulations). 
     However, with respect to GAO and the Library, section 204 
     will become effective on December 30, 1997, and the 
     purpose of this rulemaking is to adopt regulations to 
     implement section 204 with respect to GAO and the Library 
     as well.

                      2. Description of Amendments

       In the NPRM, the Board proposed that coverage of the 
     existing regulations under section 204 be extended so that 
     the same regulatory provisions would apply to GAO and the 
     Library and their employees as now apply to other employing 
     offices and covered employees. No comments were received, and 
     the Board has adopted the amendments as proposed.
       In the Board's regulations under section 204, the scope of 
     coverage is established by the definitions of ``employing 
     office'' in section 1.2(i) and ``covered employee'' in 
     section 1.2(c), and the amendments add GAO and the Library 
     and their employees into these definitions. In addition, as 
     proposed in the NPRM, the amendments make minor corrections 
     to the regulations.\1\
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     \1\ In the definitions of ``employing office'' and ``covered 
     employee,'' the references to the Office of Technology 
     Assessment and to employees of that Office are removed, as 
     that Office no longer exists.
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       Recommended method of approval. The Board adopted three 
     identical versions of the amendments, one amending the 
     regulations that apply to the Senate and employees of the 
     Senate, one amending the regulations that apply to the House 
     of Representatives and employees of the House, and one 
     amending the regulations that apply to other covered 
     employees and employing offices, and the Board recommends, as 
     it did in the NPRM: (1) that the version amending the 
     regulations that apply to the Senate and employees of the 
     Senate be approved by the Senate by resolution, (2) that the 
     version amending the regulations that apply to the House and 
     employees of the House be approved by the House by 
     resolution, and (3) that the version amending the regulations 
     that apply to other covered employees and employing offices 
     be approved by the Congress by concurrent resolution.
       Signed at Washington, D.C., on this 31st day of October, 
     1997.

                                                Glen D. Nager,

                                               Chair of the Board,
                                             Office of Compliance.

       The regulations implementing section 204 of the CAA, issued 
     by publication in the Congressional Record on April 23, 1996 
     at 142 Cong. Rec. S3917-24 (daily ed. Apr. 23, 1996), are 
     amended by revising section 1.2(c) and the first sentence of 
     section 1.2(i) to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 1.2 Definitions

                           *   *   *   *   *

       ``(c) The term covered employee means any employee of (1) 
     the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate; (3) the Capitol 
     Guide Service; (4) the Congressional Budget Office; (5) the 
     Office of the Architect of the Capitol; (6) the Office of the 
     Attending Physician; (7) the Office of Compliance; (8) the 
     General Accounting Office; or (9) the Library of Congress.

                           *   *   *   *   *

       ``(i) The term employing office means (1) the personal 
     office of a Member of the House of Representatives or of a 
     Senator; (2) a committee of the House of Representatives or 
     the Senate or a joint committee; (3) any other office headed 
     by a person with the final authority to appoint, hire, 
     discharge, and set the terms, conditions, or privileges of 
     the employment of an employee of the House of Representatives 
     or the Senate; (4) the Capitol Guide Board, the Congressional 
     Budget Office, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, 
     the Office of the Attending Physician,

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     and the Office of Compliance; (5) the General Accounting 
     Office; or (6) the Library of Congress. * * *''.
                                  ____

                                                    U.S. Congress,


                                         Office of Compliance,

                                 Washington, DC, October 31, 1997.
     Re Notice of adoption of amendments under section 205 of the 
         Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.

     Hon. Newt Gingrich,
     Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Speaker: Pursuant to section 304 of the 
     Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (the ``Act''), 2 
     U.S.C. Sec. 1384, I am transmitting on behalf of the Board of 
     Directors the enclosed notice of adoption of amendments to 
     regulations under section 205 of the Act, together with a 
     copy of the adopted amendments, for publication in the 
     Congressional Record.
       Section 304 specifies that the enclosed notice and 
     amendments be published on the first day on which both the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate are in session 
     following this transmittal, and that the notice and 
     amendments be referred to the appropriate committee or 
     committees of the House and Senate for consideration of 
     whether the amendments should be approved.
           Sincerely,
                                                    Glen D. Nager,
                                               Chair of the Board.
       Enclosure.


                          Office of Compliance

       The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995: Extension of 
     Rights and Protections Under the Worker Adjustment and 
     Retraining Notification Act


  notice of adoption of amendments to regulations and submission for 
                                approval

       Summary: The Board of Directors (``Board'') of the Office 
     of Compliance has adopted amendments to the Board's 
     regulations implementing section 205 of the Congressional 
     Accountability Act of 1995 (``CAA'), 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1315, and 
     is hereby submitting the amendments to the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate for publication in the 
     Congressional Record and for approval. The CAA applies the 
     rights and protections of eleven labor and employment and 
     public access laws to covered employees and employing offices 
     within the Legislative Branch, and section 205 applies rights 
     and protections of the Worker Adjustment Retraining and 
     Notification Act (``WARN Act'). Section 205 will go into 
     effect with respect to the General Accounting Office 
     (``GAO'') and the Library of Congress (``Library'') on 
     December 30, 1997, and these amendments extend the coverage 
     of the Board's regulations under section 205 to include GAO 
     and the Library. The amendments also make a minor correction 
     to the regulations.
       The Board has also adopted amendments to bring GAO and the 
     Library within the coverage of the Board's regulations under 
     sections 204 and 215 of the CAA, which apply the rights and 
     protections, respectively, of the Employee Polygraph 
     Protection Act of 1988 and the Occupational Safety and Health 
     Act of 1970. To enable the House and Senate to consider and 
     act on the amendments under sections 204, 205, and 215 
     separately, if the House and Senate so choose, the Board 
     adopted the amendments under these three sections by three 
     separate documents and is submitting the Notices for the 
     amendments under sections 204 and 215 together with this 
     Notice to the House and Senate for publication and approval.
       For further information contact: Executive Director, Office 
     of Compliance, John Adams Building, Room LA 200, Washington, 
     D.C. 20540-1999. Telephone: (202) 724-9250 (voice), (202) 
     426-1912 (TTY).


                       supplementary information

              1. Background and Purpose of this Rulemaking

       The background and purpose of this rulemaking were 
     described in detail in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
     published by the Board on September 9, 1997, at 143 Cong. 
     Rec. S9014 (daily ed. Sept. 9, 1997) (``NPRM'), and will be 
     summarized here briefly. The CAA, enacted on January 23, 
     1995, applies the rights and protections of eleven labor and 
     employment and public access laws to covered employees and 
     employing offices in the Legislative Branch. Section 205 of 
     the CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1315, applies the rights and 
     protections of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining 
     Notification Act (``WARN Act'') by providing, generally, that 
     no employing office shall be closed or a mass layoff ordered 
     within the meaning of section 3 of the WARN Act, 29 U.S.C. 
     Sec. 2102, until 60 days after the employing office has 
     provided written notice to covered employees.
       For most covered employees and employing offices, section 
     205 became effective on January 23, 1996, and the Board 
     published interim regulations on January 22, 1997 and final 
     regulations on April 23, 1996 to implement section 205 for 
     those offices and employees. 142 Cong. Rec. S270-74) (daily 
     ed. Jan. 22, 1996) (Notice of Adoption of Regulation 
     and Submission for Approval and Issuance of Interim 
     Regulations); 142 Cong. Rec. S3949-52 (daily ed. Apr. 23, 
     1996) (Notice of Issuance of Final Regulations). However, 
     with respect to GAO and the Library, section 205 will 
     become effective on December 30, 1997, and the purpose of 
     this rulemaking is to adopt regulations to implement 
     section 205 with respect to GAO and the Library as well.

                      2. Description of Amendments

       In the NPRM, the Board proposed that coverage of the 
     existing regulations under section 205 be extended so that 
     the same regulatory provisions would apply to GAO and the 
     Library and their employees as now apply to other employing 
     offices and covered employees. No comments were received, and 
     the Board has adopted the amendments as proposed.
       In the Board's regulations implementing section 205, the 
     scope of coverage is established by the definition of 
     ``employing office'' in section 639.3(a)(1), which, by 
     referring to the definition of ``employing office'' in 
     section 101(9) of the CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1301(9), includes 
     all covered employees and employing offices other than GAO 
     and the Library. The amendments add to this regulatory 
     provision a reference to section 205(a)(2) of the CAA, which, 
     for purposes of section 205, adds GAO and the Library into 
     the definition of ``employing office.'' In addition, as 
     proposed in the NPRM, the amendments make a minor correction 
     to the regulations.1
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     \1\ The title at the beginning of the regulations is being 
     corrected.
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       Recommended method of approval. The Board adopted three 
     identical versions of the amendments, one amending the 
     regulations that apply to the Senate and employees of the 
     Senate, one amending the regulations that apply to the House 
     of Representatives and employees of the House, and one 
     amending the regulations that apply to other covered 
     employees and employing offices, and the Board recommends, as 
     it did in the NPRM, (1) that the version amending the 
     regulations that apply to the Senate and employees of the 
     Senate be approved by the Senate by resolution, (2) that the 
     version amending the regulations that apply to the House and 
     employees of the House be approved by the House by 
     resolution, and (3) that the version amending the regulations 
     that apply to other covered employees and employing offices 
     be approved by the Congress by concurrent resolution.
       Signed at Washington, D.C., on this 31st day of October, 
     1997.

                                                Glen D. Nager,

                                               Chair of the Board,
                                             Office of Compliance.

       The regulations implementing section 205 of the CAA, issued 
     by publication in the Congressional Record on April 23, 1996 
     at 142 Cong. Rec. S3949-52 (daily ed. Apr. 23, 1996), are 
     amended by revising the title at the beginning of the 
     regulations and the introductory text of the first sentence 
     of section 639.3(a)(1) to read as follows:

 ``Application of Rights and Protections of the Worker Adjustment and 
Retraining Notification Act

                           *   *   *   *   *


     ``Sec. 639.3 Definitions.
       ``(a) Employing office. (1) The term ``employing office'' 
     means any of the entities listed in section 101(9) of the 
     CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1301(9), and either of the entities 
     included in the definition of ``employing office'' by section 
     205(a)(2) of the CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1315(a)(2), that 
     employs--
       ``(i) * * * ''.
                                  ____

                                                    U.S. Congress,


                                         Office of Compliance,

                                 Washington, DC, October 31, 1997.
     Re notice of adoption of amendments under section 215 of the 
         Congressional Accountability Act of 1995.

     Hon. Newt Gingrich,
     Speaker of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. Speaker: Pursuant to section 304 of the 
     Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (the ``Act''), 2 
     U.S.C. Sec. 1384, I am transmitting on behalf of the Board of 
     Directors the enclosed notice of adoption of amendments to 
     regulations under section 215 of the Act, together with a 
     copy of the adopted amendments, for publication in the 
     Congressional Record.
       Section 304 specifies that the enclosed notice and 
     amendments be published on the first day on which both the 
     House of Representatives and the Senate are in session 
     following this transmittal, and that the notice and 
     amendments be referred to the appropriate committee or 
     committees of the House and Senate for consideration of 
     whether the amendments should be approved.
           Sincerely,
                                                    Glen D. Nager,
                                               Chair of the Board.
       Enclosure.


                          Office of Compliance

       The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995: Extension of 
     Rights and Protections Under the Occupational Safety and 
     Health Act of 1970


  NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS AND SUBMISSION FOR 
                                APPROVAL

       Summary: The Board of Directors (``Board'') of the Office 
     of Compliance has adopted amendments to the Board's 
     regulations implementing section 215 of the Congressional 
     Accountability Act of 1995 (``CAA''), 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1341, and 
     is hereby submitting the amendments to the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate for publication in the 
     Congressional Record and for approval. The CAA applies the 
     rights and protections of eleven labor and employment and 
     public access laws to covered employees and employing offices 
     within the Legislative Branch, and section 215 applies rights 
     and protections of the

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     Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (``OSHAct''). 
     Section 215 will go into effect with respect to the General 
     Accounting Office (``GAO'') and the Library of Congress 
     (``Library'') on December 30, 1997, and these amendments 
     extend the coverage of the Board's regulations under section 
     215 to include GAO and the Library. The amendments also make 
     minor corrections and changes to the regulations.
       The Board has also adopted amendments to bring GAO and the 
     Library within the coverage of the Board's regulations under 
     sections 204 and 205 of the CAA, which apply the rights and 
     protections, respectively, of the Employee Polygraph 
     Protection Act of 1988 and the Worker Adjustment and 
     Retraining Notification Act. To enable the House and Senate 
     to consider and act on the amendments under sections 204, 
     205, and 215 separately, if the House and Senate so choose, 
     the Board adopted the amendments under these three sections 
     by three separate documents and is submitting the Notices for 
     the amendments under sections 204 and 205 together with this 
     Notice to the House and Senate for publication and approval.
       For further information contact: Executive Director, Office 
     of Compliance, John Adams Building, Room LA 200, Washington, 
     D.C. 20540-1999. Telephone: (202) 724-9250 (voice), (202) 
     426-1912 (TTY).


                       SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

       1. Background and Purpose of this Rulemaking
       The background and purpose of this rulemaking were 
     described in detail in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
     published by the Board on September 9, 1997, at 143 Cong. 
     Rec. S9014 (daily ed. Sept. 9, 1997) (``NPRM''), and will be 
     summarized here briefly. The CAA, enacted on January 23, 
     1995, applies the rights and protections of eleven labor and 
     employment and public access laws to covered employees and 
     employing offices in the Legislative Branch. Section 215 of 
     the CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1341, applies the rights and 
     protections of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 
     (``OSHAct'') by providing, generally, that each employing 
     office and each covered employee must comply with the 
     provisions of section 5 of the OSHAct, 29 U.S.C. Sec. 654.
       For most covered employees and employing offices, section 
     215 became effective on January 1, 1997, and the Board 
     adopted regulations published on January 7, 1997 to implement 
     section 215 for those offices and employees. 143 Cong. Rec. 
     S61-70 (Jan. 7, 1997) (Notice of Adoption and Submission for 
     Approval). However, with respect to GAO and the Library, 
     section 215 will become effective on December 30, 1997, and 
     the purpose of this rulemaking is to adopt regulations to 
     implement section 215 with respect to GAO and the Library as 
     well.

                      2. Description of Amendments

       In the NPRM, the Board proposed that coverage of the 
     existing regulations under section 215 be extended so that 
     the same regulatory provisions would apply to GAO and the 
     Library and their employees as would apply to other employing 
     offices and covered employees. No comments were received, and 
     the Board has adopted the amendments as proposed.
       In the Board's regulations implementing section 215, the 
     scope of coverage is established by the definitions of 
     ``covered employee'' in section 1.102(c) and ``employing 
     office'' in section 1.102(i) and by the listings in sections 
     1.102(j) and 1.103 of entities that are included as employing 
     offices if responsible for correcting a violation of section 
     215 of the CAA, and the amendments add GAO and the Library 
     and their employees into these definitions and listings. In 
     addition, in the provisions of the Board's regulations that 
     cross-reference the Secretary of Labor's regulations under 
     the OSHAct, the amendments correct several editorial and 
     technical errors and incorporate recent changes in the 
     Secretary's regulations, and the amendments make other 
     typographical and minor corrections to the Board's 
     regulations. 1
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     \1\  In the definition of ``employing office'' in section 
     1.102(i), ``the Senate'' is stricken from clause (1) and ``of 
     a Senator'' is inserted instead, and ``or a joint committee'' 
     is stricken from that clause, for conformity with the text of 
     section 101(9)(A) of the CAA, 2 U.S.C. Sec. 1301(9)(A). In 
     section 1.102(j), ``a violation of this section'' is stricken 
     and ``a violation of section 215 of the CAA (as determined 
     under section 1.106)'' is inserted instead, for consistency 
     with the language in section 1.103 of the regulations.
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       Recommended method of approval. The Board adopted three 
     identical versions of the amendments, one amending the 
     regulations that apply to the Senate and employees of the 
     Senate, one amending the regulations that apply to the House 
     of Representatives and employees of the House, and one 
     amending the regulations that apply to other covered 
     employees and employing offices, and the Board recommends, as 
     it did in the NPRM, (1) that the version amending the 
     regulations that apply to the Senate and employees of the 
     Senate be approved by the Senate by resolution, (2) that 
     the version amending the regulations that apply to the 
     House and employees of the House be approved by the House 
     by resolution, and (3) that the version amending the 
     regulations that apply to other covered employees and 
     employing offices be approved by the Congress by 
     concurrent resolution. The Board's regulations under 
     section 215 have not yet been approved by the House and 
     Senate, and, if the regulations remain unapproved when the 
     amendments come before the House and Senate for 
     consideration, the Board recommends that the House and 
     Senate approve the amendments together with the 
     regulations.
       Signed at Washington, D.C., on this 31st day of October, 
     1997.

                                                Glen D. Nager,

                                               Chair of the Board,
                                             Office of Compliance.
       The regulations implementing section 215 of the CAA, 
     adopted and published in the Congressional Record on January 
     7, 1997 at 143 Cong. Rec. S61, 66-69 (daily ed. Jan. 7, 
     1997), are amended as follows:
       1. Extension of coverage.--By revising sections 1.102(c), 
     (i), and (j) and 1.103 to read as follows:
     ``Sec. 1.102 Definitions.

                           *   *   *   *   *

       ``(c) The term covered employee means any employee of (1) 
     the House of Representatives; (2) the Senate; (3) the Capitol 
     Guide Service; (4) the Capitol Police; (5) the Congressional 
     Budget Office; (6) the Office of the Architect of the 
     Capitol; (7) the Office of the Attending Physician; (8) the 
     Office of Compliance; (9) the General Accounting Office; and 
     (10) the Library of Congress.

                           *   *   *   *   *

       ``(i) The term employing office means: (1) the personal 
     office of a Member of the House of Representatives or of a 
     Senator; (2) a committee of the House of Representatives or 
     the Senate or a joint committee; (3) any other office headed 
     by a person with the final authority to appoint, hire, 
     discharge, and set the terms, conditions, or privileges of 
     the employment of an employee of the House of Representatives 
     or the Senate; (4) the Capitol Guide Board, the Congressional 
     Budget Office, the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, 
     the Office of the Attending Physician, and the Office of 
     Compliance; (5) the General Accounting Office; or (6) the 
     Library of Congress.''

                           *   *   *   *   *

       ``(j) The term employing office includes any of the 
     following entities that is responsible for the correction of 
     a violation of section 215 of the CAA (as determined under 
     section 1.106), irrespective of whether the entity has an 
     employment relationship with any covered employee in any 
     employing office in which such violation occurs: (1) each 
     office of the Senate, including each office of a Senator and 
     each committee; (2) each office of the House of 
     Representatives, including each office of a Member of the 
     House of Representatives and each committee; (3) each joint 
     committee of the Congress; (4) the Capitol Guide Service; (5) 
     the Capitol Police; (6) the Congressional Budget office; (7) 
     the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (including the 
     Senate Restaurants and the Botanic Garden); (8) the Office of 
     the Attending Physician; (9) the Office of Compliance; (10) 
     the General Accounting Office; and (11) the Library of 
     Congress.

                           *   *   *   *   *

      ``Sec. 1.103 Coverage.
        ``The coverage of Section 215 of the CAA extends to any 
     ``covered employee.'' It also extends to any ``covered 
     employing office,'' which includes any of the following 
     entities that is responsible for the correction of a 
     violation of section 215 (as determined under section 1.106), 
     irrespective of whether the entity has an employment 
     relationship with any covered employee in any employing 
     office in which such a violation occurs:
       ``(1) each office of the Senate, including each office of a 
     Senator and each committee;
       ``(2) each office of the House of Representatives, 
     including each office of a Member of the House of 
     Representatives and each committee;
       ``(3) each joint committee of the Congress;
       ``(4) the Capitol Guide Service;
       ``(5) the Capitol Police;
       ``(6) the Congressional Budget Office;
       ``(7) the Office of the Architect of the Capitol (including 
     the Senate Restaurants and the Botanic Garden);
       ``(8) the Office of the Attending Physician;
       ``(9) the Office of Compliance;
       ``(10) the General Accounting Office; and
       ``(11) the Library of Congress.''.
       2. Corrections to cross-references.--By making the 
     following amendments in Appendix A to Part 1900, which is 
     entitled ``References to Sections of Part 1910, 29 CFR, 
     Adopted as Occupational Safety and Health Standards Under 
     Section 215(d) of the CAA'':
       (a) After ``1910.1050 Methylenedianiline.'' insert the 
     following:

``1910.1051 1,3-Butadinene.
``1910.1052 Methylene chloride.''.

       (b) Strike ``1926.63--Cadmium (This standard has been 
     redesignated as 1926.1127).'' and insert instead the 
     following:

``1926.63 [Reserved]''.

       (c) Strike ``Subpart L--Scaffolding'', ``1926.450 
     [Reserved]'', ``1926.451 Scaffolding.'', ``1926.452 
     Guardrails, handrails, and covers.'', and ``1926.453 Manually 
     propelled mobile ladder stands and scaffolds (towers).'' and 
     insert instead the following:

                         ``Subpart L--Scaffolds

``1926.450  Scope, application, and definitions applicable to this 
              subpart.
``1926.451  General requirements.
``1926.452  Additional requirements applicable to specific types of 
              scaffolds.
``1926.453  Aerial lifts.
``1926.454  Training.''.

       (d) Strike ``1926.556 Aerial lifts.''.

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       (e) Strike ``1926.753 Safety Nets.''.
       (f) Strike ``Appendix A to Part 1926--Designations for 
     General Industry Standards'' and insert instead the 
     following:

``Appendix A to Part 1926--Designations for General Industry Standards 
Incorporated Into Body of Construction Standards''.

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