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OSHA's renewed mandate for regulatory flexibility review: in support of the 1984 ethylene oxide standard

journal contribution
posted on 1998-08-01, 00:00 authored by Tony LaMontagneTony LaMontagne, K T Kelsey
BACKGROUND: The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 requires that all federal agencies consider the impact of regulations on small entities. One of the provisions of the Act requires review of regulations ever 10 years to determine whether such regulations should be continued without changes, rescinded, or amended to make them more effective or less burdensome on businesses. The Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) of 1996 amended and expanded the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Most significantly, SBREFA entitles aggrieved small entities or their representative (e.g., trade associations) to sue OSHA for failure to fulfill Regulatory Flexibility Act requirements. In response to this new political reality, OSHA held the first public meeting of their kind in June of 1997 to gather information on the ethylene oxide and lock-out/tag-out standards for the purposes of Regulatory Flexibility review.

History

Journal

American hournal of industrial medicine

Volume

34

Issue

2

Pagination

95 - 104

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Location

Chichester, Eng.

ISSN

0271-3586

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1998, Wiley-Liss