[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 143 (Thursday, July 25, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35887-35888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-15812]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2013-0012]
Modification to the List of Appropriate NRTL Program Test
Standards
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA announces the final decision to add a new
test standard to the Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL)
Program's list of appropriate test standards.
DATES: The actions contained in this notice will become effective on
July 25, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information regarding this notice is
available from the following sources:
Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office
of Communications; telephone: (202) 693-1999; email:
[email protected].
General and technical information: Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson,
Director, Office of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities,
Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration; telephone: (202) 693-2110 or email:
[email protected]. OSHA's website includes information about the
NRTL Program (see http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The NRTL Program recognizes organizations that provide product-
safety testing and certification services to manufacturers. These
organizations perform testing and certification for purposes of the
program, to U.S. consensus-based product-safety test standards. The
products covered by the NRTL Program consist of those items for which
OSHA safety standards require ``certification'' by a NRTL. The
requirements affect electrical products and 38 other types of products.
OSHA does not develop or issue these test standards, but generally
relies on standards development organizations (SDOs), which develop and
maintain the standards using a method that provides input and
consideration of views of industry groups, experts, users, consumers,
governmental authorities and others having broad experience in the
safety field involved.
Addition of New Test Standards to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate
Test Standards
Periodically, OSHA will add new test standards to the NRTL list of
appropriate test standards following an evaluation of the test standard
document. To qualify as an appropriate test standard, the agency
evaluates the document to (1) verify it represents a product category
for which OSHA requires certification by a NRTL, (2) verify the
document represents an end product and not a component, and (3) verify
the document defines safety test specifications (not installation or
operational performance specifications). OSHA becomes aware of new test
standards through various avenues. For example, OSHA may become aware
of new test standards by: (1) Monitoring notifications issued by
certain SDOs; (2) reviewing applications by NRTLs or applicants seeking
recognition to include a new test standard in their scopes of
recognition; and (3) obtaining notification from manufacturers,
manufacturing organizations, government agencies, or other parties that
a new test standard may be appropriate to add to the list of
appropriate standards. OSHA may determine to include a new test
standard in the list, for example, if the test standard is for a
particular type of product that another test standard also covers,
addresses a type of product that no standard previously covered, or is
otherwise new to the NRTL Program.
Proposed Modification to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate NRTL
Program Test Standards
In a March 14, 2019, Federal Register notice (84 FR 9384, referred
to in this notice as ``Proposed Modification,'' and available at
www.regulations.gov under Docket ID OSHA-2013-0012-0019), OSHA proposed
adding one standard to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate Test
Standards. OSHA received one comment on this proposed action (available
at www.regulations.gov under Docket IDs OSHA-2013-0012-0022). OSHA
fully considered this comment and determined that no action was
necessary.
II. Final Decision To Add a New Test Standard to the NRTL Program List
of Appropriate Test Standards
In this notice, OSHA announces the final decision to add one new
test standard, to the NRTL Program List of Appropriate Test Standards,
as described in Table 1:
Table 1--Test Standards OSHA Decided To Add to the NRTL Program List of
Appropriate Test Standards
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Test standard Test standard title
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ANSI/CPLSO 14-2016........................ Crane Insulators.
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OSHA will add this test standard to the ``Appropriate Test
Standards'' web page on OSHA's website. Access to this web page is
available at http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html.
III. Authority and Signature
Loren Sweatt, Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, authorized the preparation of this notice.
Accordingly, the agency is issuing this notice
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pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 657(g)(2)), Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012
(77 FR 3912, Jan. 25, 2012), and 29 CFR 1910.7.
Signed at Washington, DC, on July 19, 2019.
Loren Sweatt,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2019-15812 Filed 7-24-19; 8:45 am]
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