[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1910.3]

[Page 91]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR

 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 

                                OF LABOR

 
PART 1910_OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS--Table of Contents

 
                            Subpart A_General

 
Sec. 1910.3  Petitions for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of 


a standard.



    (a) Any interested person may petition in writing the Assistant 

Secretary of Labor to promulgate, modify, or revoke a standard. The 

petition should set forth the terms or the substance of the rule 

desired, the effects thereof if promulgated, and the reasons therefor.

    (b)(1) The relevant legislative history of the Act indicates 

congressional recognition of the American National Standards Institute 

and the National Fire Protection Association as the major sources of 

national consensus standards. National consensus standards adopted on 

May 29, 1971, pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act are from those two 

sources. However, any organization which deems itself a producer of 

national consensus standards, within the meaning of section 3(9) of the 

Act, is invited to submit in writing to the Assistant Secretary of Labor 

at any time prior to February 1, 1973, all relevant information which 

may enable the Assistant Secretary to determine whether any of its 

standards satisfy the requirements of the definition of ``national 

consensus standard'' in section 3(9) of the Act.

    (2) Within a reasonable time after the receipt of a submission 

pursuant to paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the Assistant Secretary of 

Labor shall publish or cause to be published in the Federal Register a 

notice of such submission, and shall afford interested persons a 

reasonable opportunity to present written data, views, or arguments with 

regard to the question whether any standards of the organization making 

the submission are national consensus standards.