[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 217 (Tuesday, November 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63083-63084]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-30116]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. NRTL-2-94]


Electro-Test, Inc., Application for Expansion of Recognition

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the application of Electro-Test, Inc., 
for expansion of its recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing 
Laboratory under 29 CFR 1910.7, and presents the Agency's preliminary 
finding. This preliminary finding does not constitute an interim or 
temporary approval of this application.

DATES: Comments submitted by interested parties must be received no 
later than January 11, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Send comments concerning this notice to: Office of Technical 
Programs and Coordination Activities, NRTL Program, Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Room N3653, Washington, D.C. 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bernard Pasquet, Office of Technical Programs and Coordination 
Activities, NRTL Program at the above address, or phone (202) 219-7056.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice of Application

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hereby 
gives notice that Electro-Test, Inc. (ETI) has applied for expansion of 
its current recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory 
(NRTL). ETI's expansion request covers the use of an additional test 
standard. OSHA recognizes an organization as an NRTL, and processes 
applications related to such recognitions, following requirements in 
Sec. 1910.7 of Title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR

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1910.7). Appendix A to this section requires that OSHA publish this 
public notice of the preliminary finding on an application.
    ETI's previous application as an NRTL covered its initial 
recognition (60 FR 30495, June 9, 1995, which OSHA granted on October 
6, 1995 (60 FR 52417).
    The current addresses of the ETI testing facilities already 
recognized by OSHA are:

* Electro-Test, Inc., 1320 El Capitan Drive, 4th Floor, Danville, 
California 94526
Electro-Test, Inc., 3150-B E. Birch Street, Brea, California 92821
* Due to city boundary lines, this site is partially located in San 
Ramon, California.

General Background on the Application

    ETI has submitted a request, dated September 2, 1998 (see Exhibit 
11), to expand its recognition as an NRTL for one additional test 
standard. ETI seeks recognition for testing and certification of 
products to demonstrate compliance to the following test standard, and 
OSHA has determined it is appropriate, as prescribed by 29 CFR 
1910.7(c): ANSI/UL 508C Power Conversion Equipment. The designation and 
title of this test standard were current at the time of the preparation 
of this notice. OSHA recognition of any NRTL for a particular test 
standard is limited to products for which OSHA standards require third 
party testing and certification before use in the workplace.

Preliminary Finding on the Application

    ETI has submitted an acceptable request for expansion of its 
recognition as an NRTL. In connection with this request, OSHA did not 
perform an on-site review of ETI's NRTL testing facilities. However, 
NRTL Program audit staff reviewed information pertinent to the request, 
and in a memo dated September 9, 1998 (see Exhibit 12), recommended 
that ETI's recognition be expanded to include the additional test 
standard listed above.
    Following a review of the application file, the auditor's 
recommendation, and other pertinent documents, the NRTL Program staff 
has concluded that OSHA can grant, to the Electro-Test, Inc. facilities 
listed above, the expansion of recognition to use the additional test 
standard. The staff therefore recommended to the Assistant Secretary 
that the application be preliminarily approved.
    Based upon the recommendation of the staff, the Assistant Secretary 
has made a preliminary finding that the Electro-Test Inc. facilities 
listed above can meet the recognition requirements, as prescribed by 29 
CFR 1910.7, for the expansion of recognition. This preliminary finding 
does not constitute an interim or temporary approval of the 
application.
    OSHA welcomes public comments, in sufficient detail, as to whether 
ETI has met the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.7 for expansion of its 
recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory. Your comment 
must consist of pertinent written documents and exhibits. To consider 
it, OSHA must receive the comment at the address provided above (see 
ADDRESSES), no later than the last date for comments (see DATES above). 
You may obtain or review copies of ETI's request, the recommendation on 
the expansion, and all submitted comments, as received, by contacting 
the Docket Office, Room N2625, Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, at the above address. You 
should refer to Docket No. NRTL-2-94, the permanent record of public 
information on ETI's recognition.
    The NRTL Program staff will review all timely comments, and after 
resolution of issues raised by these comments, will recommend whether 
to grant ETI's expansion request. The Assistant Secretary will make the 
final decision on granting the expansion, and in making this decision, 
may undertake other proceedings that are prescribed in Appendix A to 29 
CFR 1910.7. OSHA will publish a public notice of this final decision in 
the Federal Register.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 28th day of October, 1998.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary.
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