[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 51 (Wednesday, March 17, 2010)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 12718]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-5790]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, and 1926

[Docket No. OSHA-H022K-2006-0062, (formerly OSHA Docket No. H022K]
RIN 1218-AC20


Hazard Communication; Meetings Notice

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

ACTION: Proposed rule; notification of one hearing, and one hearing 
cancellation.

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SUMMARY: On December 29, 2009, OSHA announced that it would hold 
informal public hearings on its proposal to revise the Hazard 
Communication Standard in Washington, DC; Pittsburgh, PA; and Los 
Angeles, CA (74 FR 68756). OSHA will hold the Pittsburgh hearing at the 
Marriott Pittsburgh City Center on March 31, 2010. OSHA is canceling 
the Los Angeles, CA, hearing.

DATES: The informal public hearing will begin at 9:30 a.m., local time, 
on March 31, 2010, in Pittsburgh, PA.

ADDRESSES: Informal public hearing. The Pittsburgh, PA, hearing will be 
held in the Marriott Pittsburgh City Center, located at 112 Washington 
Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.
    Docket: To read or download comments, notices of intention to 
appear, and other material in the docket, go to Docket No. OSHA-H022K-
2006-0062 at http://www.regulations.gov. All documents in the docket 
are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index; however, some 
information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly available to 
read or download through the Web site. All submissions and other 
material in the docket are available for public inspection and copying 
in the OSHA Docket Office. For information on reading or downloading 
materials in the docket and obtaining materials not available through 
the Web site, please contact the OSHA Docket Office, U.S. Department of 
Labor, Room N-2625, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; 
telephone (202) 693-2350 (TTY number (877) 889-5627).
    Electronic copies of this Federal Register notice are available at 
http://www.regulations.gov. This notice, as well as news releases and 
other relevant information, also are available at OSHA's Web page at 
http://www.osha.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Press inquiries: Jennifer Ashley, 
OSHA, Office of Communications, Room N-3647, U.S. Department of Labor, 
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 
693-1999.
    Technical information: Maureen Ruskin, OSHA, Office of Chemical 
Hazards-Metals, Room N-3718, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693-1950.
    Hearings: Ms. Veneta Chatmon, OSHA, Office of Communications, Room 
N-3647; 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone 
(202) 693-1999; e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 30, 2009, OSHA published a 
proposed rule to revise the Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) to 
conform with the United Nations' (UN) Globally Harmonized System of 
Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) (74 FR 50280). OSHA 
published a correction notice for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking 
(NPRM) on November 5, 2009 (74 FR 57278). The deadline for submitting 
written comments and hearing requests was December 29, 2009. On 
December 29, 2009, OSHA published a notice announcing that it would 
hold informal public hearings in Washington, DC; Pittsburgh, PA; and 
Los Angeles, CA (74 FR 68756). The deadline for filing a notice of 
intention to appear to present testimony or question witnesses at these 
hearings was January 18, 2010, and the deadline for requesting more 
than 10 minutes to present testimony or to submit documentary evidence 
at the hearing was February 1, 2010.
    OSHA received numerous requests to appear at the Washington, DC, 
hearing and a number for the Pittsburgh, PA hearing. However, OSHA 
received only a few requests to appear at the Los Angeles location, and 
has accordingly decided to cancel that hearing. Persons who filed 
timely notices for the Los Angeles hearing have been given the 
opportunity to appear at either the Washington, DC, or Pittsburgh 
locations.
    For information about the procedures that will be followed at these 
hearings, please see the notice of hearing published at 74 FR 68756 and 
the prehearing guidelines issued by Administrative Law Judge Stephen 
Purcell, which have been posted in the docket and may be accessed as 
noted above.
    Participants who need projectors and other special equipment for 
their testimony must contact Ms. Veneta Chatmon at OSHA's Office of 
Communications, telephone (202) 693-1999, no later than one week before 
the hearing begins.

Authority and Signature

    David Michaels, PHD MPH, Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this notice 
under the authority granted by section 6(b) of the Occupational Safety 
and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 655(b)), Secretary of Labor's Order 
5-2007 (72 FR 31160), and 29 CFR part 1911.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on this 11th day of March, 2010.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2010-5790 Filed 3-16-10; 8:45 am]
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