[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 205 (Monday, October 25, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65517-65518]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26887]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. OSHA-2006-0042]


Canadian Standards Association; Expansion of Recognition

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

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration's final decision expanding the recognition of the 
Canadian Standards Association as a Nationally Recognized Testing 
Laboratory under 29 CFR 1910.7.

DATES: The expansion of recognition becomes effective on October 25, 
2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: MaryAnn Garrahan, Director, Office of 
Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, NRTL Program, 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of 
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-3655, Washington, DC 20210, 
or phone (202) 693-2110.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Notice of Final Decision

    The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hereby 
gives notice that it is expanding recognition of the Canadian Standards 
Association (CSA) as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). 
CSA's expansion covers the use of additional test standards. OSHA's 
current scope of recognition for CSA may be found in the following 
informational Web page: http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/csa.html.
    OSHA recognition of an NRTL signifies that the organization has met 
the legal requirements specified in 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 
approved by the NRTL to meet OSHA standards that require product 
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. OSHA maintains an informational Web page 
for each NRTL that details its scope of recognition. These pages are 
available from the Web site at http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html. Each NRTL's scope of recognition has three elements: (1) 
The type of products the NRTL may test, with each type specified by its 
applicable test standard; (2) the recognized site(s) that has/have the 
technical capability to perform the testing and certification 
activities for test standards within the NRTL's scope; and (3) the 
supplemental program(s) that the NRTL may use, each of which allows the 
NRTL to rely on other parties to perform activities necessary for 
product testing and certification.
    CSA submitted an application, dated June 25, 2008, to expand its 
recognition to include five additional test standards. The NRTL Program 
staff determined that four of these standards (listed below) are 
``appropriate test standards'' within the meaning of 29 CFR 1910.7(c). 
In connection with this request, NRTL Program staff did not perform any 
onsite review of CSA's recognized sites. The staff only performed a 
comparability analysis,\1\ and recommended expansion of CSA's 
recognition to include the additional four test standards listed below. 
The Agency subsequently accepted this recommendation, and published a 
preliminary notice announcing the expansion application in the Federal 
Register on April 26, 2010 (75 FR 21666). Comments were requested by 
May 11, 2010, but OSHA received no comments in response to this notice. 
OSHA is now proceeding

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with this final notice to grant CSA's expansion application.
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    \1\ This analysis involves determining whether the testing and 
evaluation requirements of test standards already in an NRTL's scope 
are comparable to the requirements in the standards requested by the 
NRTL.
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    All public documents pertaining to the CSA application are 
available for review by contacting the Docket Office, Occupational 
Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N-2625, Washington, DC 20210. These 
materials also are available online at http://www.regulations.gov under 
Docket No. OSHA-2006-0042.

Final Decision and Order

    NRTL Program staff examined CSA's application, the comparability 
analysis, and other pertinent information. Based on this examination 
and the analysis, OSHA finds that CSA meets the requirements of 29 CFR 
1910.7 for expansion of its recognition, subject to the limitation and 
conditions specified below. Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 1910.7, 
OSHA hereby expands the recognition of CSA, subject to this limitation 
and these conditions.

Limitation

    OSHA limits the expansion of CSA's recognition to testing and 
certification of products for demonstration of conformance to the 
following test standards, each of which OSHA determines is an 
appropriate test standard, within the meaning of 29 CFR 1910.7(c):

UL 498A Current Taps and Adapters
UL 515 Electrical Resistance Heat Tracing for Commercial and Industrial 
Applications
UL 1673 Electric Space Heating Cables
UL 1977 Component Connectors for Use in Data, Signal, Control and Power 
Applications

The designations and titles of these test standards were current at the 
time of the preparation of this notice.
    OSHA's recognition of 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, if a test standard also covers any product 
for which OSHA does not require such testing and certification, an 
NRTL's scope of recognition does not include that product.
    The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) may approve the 
test standards listed above as an American National Standard. However, 
for convenience, we may use the designation of the standards-developing 
organization for the standard as opposed to the ANSI designation. Under 
the NRTL Program's policy (see OSHA Instruction CPL 1-0.3, Appendix C, 
paragraph XIV), any NRTL recognized for a particular test standard may 
use either the proprietary version of the test standard or the ANSI 
version of that standard. Contact ANSI to determine whether a test 
standard is currently ANSI-approved.

Conditions

    CSA also must abide by the following conditions of the recognition, 
in addition to those conditions already required by 29 CFR 1910.7:
    1. CSA must allow access to its facilities and records to ascertain 
continuing compliance with the terms of its recognition, and to perform 
investigations as OSHA deems necessary;
    2. If CSA 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 concern, and provide that organization 
with appropriate relevant information upon which its concern is based;
    3. CSA 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, CSA 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 applies and that its 
recognition is limited to certain products;
    4. CSA 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 of these 
changes;
    5. CSA will meet all the terms of its recognition and will always 
comply with all OSHA policies pertaining to this recognition; and
    6. CSA will continue to meet the requirements for recognition in 
all areas to which this recognition applies.

Authority and Signature

    David Michaels, PhD, MPH, Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 
Washington, DC 20210, directed the preparation of this notice. 
Accordingly, the Agency is issuing this notice pursuant to Sections 
6(b) and 8(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 
U.S.C. 655 and 657), Secretary of Labor's Order No. 4-2010 (75 FR 
55355), and 29 CFR part 1911.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on October 20, 2010.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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