[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 235 (Monday, December 8, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68425-68426]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-30368]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. NRTL4-93]


Underwriters Laboratories 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 to approve 
an expansion of its recognition of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) 
as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) to include an 
additional 19 test standards.

DATES: This recognition becomes effective on December 8, 2003 and, 
unless modified in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.7, continues in effect 
while UL remains recognized by OSHA as an NRTL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard Pasquet or Roy Resnick, 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, DC 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 Underwriters 
Laboratories Inc. (UL) as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory 
(NRTL). UL's expansion covers the use of additional test standards. 
OSHA's current scope of recognition for UL may be found in the 
following informational Web page: http://www.osha-slc.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/ul.html.
    OSHA recognition of an NRTL signifies that the organization has met 
the legal requirements in Section 1910.7 of Title 29, Code of Federal 
Regulations (29 CFR 1910.7). Recognition is an acknowledgment that the 
organization can perform independent safety testing and certification 
of the specific products covered within its scope of recognition and is 
not a delegation or grant of government authority. As a result of 
recognition, employers may use products ``properly certified'' by the 
NRTL to meet OSHA standards that require testing and certification.
    The Agency processes applications by an NRTL for initial 
recognition or for expansion or renewal of this recognition following 
requirements in Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. This appendix requires 
that the Agency publish two notices in the Federal Register in 
processing an application. In the first notice, OSHA announces the 
application and provides its preliminary finding and, in the second 
notice, the Agency provides its final decision on the application. 
These notices set forth the NRTL's scope of recognition or 
modifications of that scope.
    UL submitted an application, dated November 18, 2002 (see Exhibit 
30), to expand its recognition to use 41 additional test standards. The 
NRTL Program staff determined that 10 of the 41 test standards cannot 
be included in the expansion because they are not ``appropriate test 
standards,'' within the meaning of 29 CFR 1910.7(c), while an 
additional twelve are already included in UL's scope. The staff makes 
similar determinations in processing expansion requests from any NRTL. 
Therefore, OSHA approves 19 test standards for the expansion, which are 
listed below.
    In connection with UL's expansion request, OSHA did not perform an 
on-site review (evaluation) of UL. However, an OSHA NRTL Program 
assessor reviewed information pertinent to this request and recommended 
that UL be granted the expansion (see Exhibit 31).
    OSHA published the notice of its preliminary findings on the 
expansion request in the Federal Register on October 14, 2003 (68 FR 
59209). The notice requested submission of any public comments by 
October 29, 2003. OSHA did not receive any comments pertaining to the 
application.
    The previous notice published by OSHA for UL's recognition covered 
another expansion of recognition, which became effective on March 25, 
2003 (68 FR 14432).
    You may obtain or review copies of all public documents pertaining 
to the UL 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. NRTL4-93, the permanent record of public 
information on UL's recognition.
    The current addresses of the UL facilities already recognized by 
OSHA are:

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook, 
Illinois 60062;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 1285 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, Long 
Island, New York 11747;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 1655 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara, 
California 95050;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 12 Laboratory Drive, P.O. Box 13995, 
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 2600 N. W. Lake Road, Camas, Washington 
98607;
UL International Limited, Veristrong Industrial Centre, Block B, 14th 
Floor, 34 Au Pui Wan Street, Fo Tan Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong 
Kong;
UL International Services, Ltd., Taiwan Branch, 4th Floor, 260 Da-Yeh 
Road, Pei Tou District, Taipei City, Taiwan;
UL International Demko A/S, Lyskaer 8, P.O. Box 514, DK-2730, Herlev, 
Denmark;
Underwriters Laboratory International (U.K.) Ltd., Wonersh House, The 
Guildway, Old Portsmouth Road, Guildford, Surrey GU3 1LR, United 
Kingdom;
Underwriters Laboratory International Italia S.r.l., Via Archimede 42, 
1-20041 Agrate Brianza, Milan, Italy Testing facility: Z.I. Predda 
Niedda St. 18, I-07100, Sassari, Italy;
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada, 7 Crouse Road, Scarborough, 
Ontario, Canada MIR 3A9;
UL Japan Co., Ltd., Shimbashi Ekimae Bldg.--1 Gohkan, 4th floor, Room 
402, 2-20-15 Shimbashi Minato Ku, Tokyo 105-0004, Japan;
UL Korea, Ltd., 805, Manhattan Building 36-2, Yeoui-dong, 
Yeoungdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-010, Korea;
UL International Germany GmbH, Frankfurter Strasse 229, D-63263 Neu-
Isenburg, Germany;
UL International (Netherlands) B.V., Landjuweel 52, NL-3905 PH 
Veenendaal, Netherlands.

Final Decision and Order

    The NRTL Program staff has examined the application, the assessor's 
recommendation, and other pertinent information. Based upon this 
examination and the recommendation,

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OSHA finds that Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has met the requirements 
of 29 CFR 1910.7 for expansion of its recognition to include an 
additional 19 test standards. Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 
1910.7, OSHA hereby expands the recognition of UL.

Expansion for Additional Standards

    OSHA limits the expansion to testing and certification of products 
for demonstration of conformance to the following 19 test standards, 
and OSHA has determined the standards are appropriate within the 
meaning of 29 CFR 1910.7(c).

UL 441 Standard for Gas Vents
UL 508A Industrial Control Panels
UL 515 Electrical Resistance Heat Tracing for Commercial and 
Industrial Applications
UL 568 Nonmetallic Cable Tray Systems
UL 943B Appliance Leakage-Current Interrupters
UL 1004A Fire Pump Motors
UL 1285 Pipe and Couplings, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) for Underground 
Fire Service
UL 1713 Pressure Pipe and Coupling, Glass Fiber-Reinforced, for 
Underground Fire Service
UL 2129 Standard for Safety for Halocarbon Clean Agent Fire 
Extinguishers
UL 2305 Exhibition Display Units, Fabrication and Installation
UL 2351 Spray Nozzles for Fire-Protection Service
UL 2388 Flexible Lighting Products
UL 3111-2-31 Hand-Held Probe Assemblies for Electrical Measurement 
and Test
UL 60335-2-8 Household and Similar Electrical Appliances, Part 2: 
Particular Requirements for Electric Shavers, Hair Clippers, and 
Similar Appliances
UL 61010A-2-010 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2: 
Particular Requirements for Laboratory Equipment for the Heating of 
Materials
UL 61010A-2-041 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2: 
Particular Requirements for Autoclaves Using Steam for the Treatment 
of Medical Materials for Laboratory Processes
UL 61010A-2-042 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2: 
Particular Requirements for Autoclaves and Sterilizers Using Toxic 
Gas for the Treatment of Medical Materials, and for Laboratory 
Processes
UL 61010A-2-051 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2: 
Particular Requirements for Laboratory Equipment Mixing and Stirring
UL 61010A-2-061 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2: 
Particular Requirements for Laboratory Atomic Spectrometers with 
Thermal Atomization and Ionization

    OSHA's recognition of UL, or any NRTL, for a particular test 
standard is limited to equipment or materials (i.e., products) for 
which OSHA standards require third party testing and certification 
before use in the workplace. Consequently, any NRTL's scope of 
recognition excludes any product(s) that fall within the scope of a 
test standard, but for which OSHA standards do not require NRTL testing 
and certification.
    Many of the UL test standards listed above also are approved as 
American National Standards by the American National Standards 
Institute (ANSI). However, for convenience, we use the designation of 
the standards developing organization for the standard as opposed to 
the ANSI designation. Under our procedures, any NRTL recognized for an 
ANSI-approved test standard may use either the latest proprietary 
version of the test standard or the latest ANSI version of that 
standard. You may contact ANSI to find out whether or not a test 
standard is currently ANSI-approved.

Conditions

    Underwriters Laboratories Inc. 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 the UL facilities and records for 
purposes of ascertaining continuing compliance with the terms of its 
recognition and to investigate as OSHA deems necessary;
    If UL has reason to doubt the efficacy of any test standard it is 
using under this program, it must promptly inform the organization that 
developed the test standard of this fact and provide that organization 
with appropriate relevant information upon which its concerns are 
based;
    UL 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, UL 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;
    UL must inform OSHA as soon as possible, in writing, of any change 
of ownership, facilities, or key personnel, and of any major changes in 
its operations as an NRTL, including details;
    UL will continue to meet all the terms of its recognition and will 
always comply with all OSHA policies pertaining to this recognition; 
and
    UL will continue to meet the requirements for recognition in all 
areas where it has been recognized.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 24th day of November, 2003.
John L. Henshaw,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-30368 Filed 12-5-03; 8:45 am]
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