[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 2014)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 19848-19849]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07987]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

42 CFR Part 85a

[Docket No. CDC-2014-0001; NIOSH-271]
RIN 0920-AA51


Occupational Safety and Health Investigations of Places of 
Employment

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 
(NIOSH) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within 
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is withdrawing a 
previously published notice of proposed rulemaking that solicited 
public comment on minor technical amendments to regulatory text.

DATES: The notice of proposed rulemaking published at 79 FR 2809,

[[Page 19849]]

January 16, 2014, is withdrawn, effective immediately.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Teresa Schnorr Ph.D., Director NIOSH 
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies 
(DSHEFS); 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226; 513-841-4428 
(this is not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 16, 2014, HHS published a notice 
of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to make minor technical amendments to the 
regulatory text in 42 CFR Part 85a (79 FR 2809). On the same date, HHS 
simultaneously published a companion direct final rule (DFR) that 
offered identical updates because the agency believed that the 
revisions were non-controversial and unlikely to generate significant 
adverse comment (79 FR 2789). In the NPRM preamble, HHS stated that if 
no significant adverse comments were received by March 17, 2014, the 
NPRM would be withdrawn and the effective date of the final rule would 
be confirmed within 30 days of the conclusion of the comment period. 
HHS received one public comment that was not a significant adverse 
comment, but rather was in support of the companion NPRM. Because HHS 
did not receive any significant adverse comments to the NPRM within the 
specified comment period, we hereby withdraw this NPRM from rulemaking.

    Dated: April 3, 2014.
Kathleen Sebelius,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-07987 Filed 4-9-14; 8:45 am]
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