96-2342. Time Extension of Secretary's Order 6-94, Establishing Pilot Project to Create Concurrent Authorities and Responsibilities for the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health and the Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards ...

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 24 (Monday, February 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4289-4290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2342]



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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

[Secretary's Order 1-96]


Time Extension of Secretary's Order 6-94, Establishing Pilot 
Project to Create Concurrent Authorities and Responsibilities for the 
Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health and the 
Assistant Secretary for Employment Standards With Respect to Certain 
Whistleblower Protection Laws and Certain Laws Establishing Labor 
Standards Affecting Field Sanitation and Migrant Housing

January 26, 1996.
    1. Purpose. Secretary's Order 6-94 (published in the Federal 
Register at 60 F.R. 3655, January 18, 1995) established a pilot program 
to test the efficacy of a limited exchange of enforcement 
responsibilities for certain whistleblower and agriculture safety and 
health programs, by granting to the Assistant Secretary for 
Occupational Safety and Health and to the Assistant Secretary for 
Employment Standards limited concurrent authority to enforce the 
whistleblower protections and agricultural safety and health laws 
enumerated in sections 4.a. and 4.b. of that Order. Section 7 of 
Secretary's Order 6-94 provided that the pilot program would commence 
in the Dallas Region, Southwest Division (excluding New Mexico), and 
authorized the two Assistant Secretaries to modify the geographic scope 
of the program by written agreement approved by the Secretary. Section 
2 of Secretary's Order 6-94 provided that the delegations of authority 
and responsibility established by the Order would expire at the end of 
the calendar year 1995.
    The purpose of this Secretary's Order is to amend the latter 
provision to 

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provide that the one-year pilot project and the delegations of 
authority and responsibility established by Secretary's Order 6-94 are 
hereby extended until further Order of the Secretary.
    2. Directives Affected. Section 2 of Secretary's Order 6-94 is 
hereby superseded to the extent that it provides that the authority and 
responsibilities established by the Order expire at the end of the 
calendar year 1995. Under the terms of this Order, the pilot project 
and the delegations of authority and responsibility established by 
Secretary's Order 6-94 are hereby extended until further Order of the 
Secretary.
    3. Effective date. This Order is effective immediately.
Robert B. Reich,
Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 96-2342 Filed 2-2-96; 8:45 am]
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