[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 49 (Monday, March 13, 2000)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 13254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6103]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Part 1910

[Docket No. S-777]
RIN 1218-AB36


Ergonomics Program

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. 
Department of Labor.

ACTION: Proposed rule; additional information on informal public 
hearing.

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SUMMARY: OSHA is announcing the final locations of the informal public 
hearing for its proposed Ergonomics Program standard which was 
published on November 23, 1999 (64 FR 65768).

DATES: The hearing will begin on Monday, March 13, 2000, in Washington, 
D.C. The hearing in Washington will run for 4 weeks through April 7. 
The hearing will resume on April 11, in Chicago, Illinois, and will 
continue there until April 21. The hearing will then resume in 
Portland, Oregon, on April 24 and run until May 3. The final week of 
the hearing will be May 8 through 12 in Washington, D.C. The hearing 
will begin at 9:30 a.m. on March 13; on subsequent days, the starting 
time will be 8:30 a.m. The hearing will ordinarily conclude by 6:00 
p.m. each day; however, in order to assure orderly development of the 
record on any particular day, the Administrative Law Judge may extend 
the hearing that day. All questioning of public participants will be 
completed on the day the participants testify.

ADDRESSES: The March 13 through April 7 hearing in Washington will be 
in the Frances Perkins Building Auditorium in the U.S. Department of 
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210. The hearing 
in Chicago will be held at the State of Illinois Building, James R. 
Thompson Center (Assembly Hall), 100 W. Randolph Street, in Chicago, 
Illinois. The hearing in Portland will be held at the Mark Hatfield 
Federal Court House, Courtroom #16, 1000 Southwest 3rd Avenue, in 
Portland, Oregon. The conclusion of the hearing from May 8 through 12 
in Washington will be in the Frances Perkins Building, Room N-3437 A-D, 
200 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OSHA's Ergonomics Team at (202) 693-
2116, or visit the OSHA Homepage at www.osha.gov.

    Authority: This document was prepared under the direction of 
Charles N. Jeffress, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 
Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210. It is issued under sections 4, 6, 
and 8 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 
653, 655, 657), Secretary of Labor's Order No. 6-96 (62 FR 111), and 
29 CFR part 1911.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 8th day of March, 2000.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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