[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 45 (Tuesday, March 9, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11500-11501]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5789]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

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


Electro-Test, Inc., Expansion of Recognition

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Agency's final decision on the 
application of Electro-Test, Inc. (ETI), for expansion of its 
recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) under 
29 CFR 1910.7.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This recognition becomes effective on March 9, 1999 
and, unless modified in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.7, continues in 
effect while ETI remains recognized by OSHA as an NRTL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard Pasquet, 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, or phone (202) 693-
2110.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice of Final Decision

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hereby 
gives notice of the expansion of recognition of Electro-Test, Inc. 
(ETI) as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). The 
expansion 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 Section 1910.7 
of Title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR 1910.7). Appendix A to 
this section requires that OSHA publish this public notice of its final 
decision on an application.
    ETI submitted a request, dated September 2, 1998 (see Exhibit 11), 
to expand its recognition to use an additional test standard. OSHA 
published the required notice in the Federal Register (63 FR 63083, 11/
10/98) to announce the application. The notice included a preliminary 
finding

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that ETI could meet the requirements in 29 CFR 1910.7 for expansion of 
its recognition, and invited public comment on the applications by 
January 11, 1999. OSHA received no comments concerning this 
application. ETI's previous application as an NRTL covered its initial 
recognition (60 FR 30495, 6/9/95), which OSHA granted on October 6, 
1995 (60 FR 52417).
    You may obtain or review copies of all public documents pertaining 
to the application by contacting the Docket Office, Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Room N2625, Washington, D.C. 20210. You should refer to 
Docket No. NRTL-2-94, the permanent record of public information on the 
ETI recognition.
    The current addresses of the testing facilities (sites) that OSHA 
recognizes for ETI are:
     Electro-Test, Inc., 3470 Fostoria Way, Suite B, San Ramon, 
California 94583
    Electro-Test, Inc., 3150-B E. Birch Street, Brea, California 92821

     Due to city boundary lines, this site has two 
addresses. The NRTL has requested use of the address shown above. In 
the notice of the preliminary finding, the other address was listed 
for this site: 1320 El Capitan Drive, 4th Floor, Danville, 
California 94526.

Final Decision and Order

    The NRTL Program staff has examined the application, other 
pertinent information, and the recommendation by the audit staff, in a 
memo dated September 9, 1998 (see Exhibit 12), to expand ETI's 
recognition to include the additional test standard. Based upon this 
examination, OSHA finds that ETI has met the requirements of 29 CFR 
1910.7 for expansion of its recognition to use the additional test 
standards, subject to the limitations and conditions listed below. 
Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 1910.7, OSHA hereby expands the 
recognition of ETI, subject to these limitations and conditions. As is 
the case for any NRTL, ETI's recognition is further limited to 
equipment or materials (products) for which OSHA standards require 
third party testing and certification before use in the workplace.

Limitations

    OSHA hereby expands the recognition of ETI for testing and 
certification of products to demonstrate compliance to the following 
test standard: ANSI/UL 508C Power Conversion Equipment. OSHA has 
determined that this standard meets the requirements for an appropriate 
test standard prescribed in 29 CFR 1910.7(c).

Conditions

    ETI must also abide by the following conditions of the recognition, 
in addition to those already required by 29 CFR 1910.7:
    OSHA must be allowed access to ETI's facility and records for 
purposes of ascertaining continuing compliance with the terms of its 
recognition and to investigate as OSHA deems necessary;
    If ETI has reason to doubt the efficacy of any test standard it is 
using under this program, it must promptly inform the test standard 
developing organization of this fact and provide that organization with 
appropriate relevant information upon which its concerns are based;
    ETI must not engage in or permit others to engage in any 
misrepresentation of the scope or conditions of its recognition. As 
part of this condition, ETI agrees that it will allow no representation 
that it is either a recognized or an accredited Nationally Recognized 
Testing Laboratory (NRTL) without clearly indicating the specific 
equipment or material to which this recognition is tied, or that its 
recognition is limited to certain products;
    ETI must inform OSHA as soon as possible, in writing, of any change 
of ownership or key personnel, and of any major changes in its 
operations as an NRTL, including details;
    ETI will meet all the terms of its recognition and will always 
comply with all OSHA policies pertaining to this recognition;
    ETI will continue to meet the requirements for recognition in all 
areas where it has been recognized; and
    ETI will always cooperate with OSHA to assure compliance with the 
spirit as well as the letter of its recognition and 29 CFR 1910.7.

    Signed at Washington, D.C. this 24th day of February, 1999.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-5789 Filed 3-8-99; 8:45 am]
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