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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Part 1910

[Docket No. OSH-2008-0034]
RIN No. 1218-AC08

 
Revising Standards Referenced in the Acetylene Standard

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Proposed rule; withdrawal.

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SUMMARY: With this document, OSHA is withdrawing the proposed rule that 
accompanied its direct-final rule revising the Acetylene Standard for 
general industry.

DATES: As of February 4, 2010, the proposed rule published August 11, 
2009 (74 FR 40450), is withdrawn.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: General information and press 
inquiries: Contact Jennifer Ashley, Director, OSHA Office of 
Communications, Room N-3647, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693-1999.
    Technical information: Contact Ted Twardowski, Directorate of 
Standards and Guidance, Room N-3609, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, 
200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 
693-2070; fax: (202) 693-1663.
    Copies of this Federal Register notice: Electronic copies of this 
Federal Register notice are available at http://www.regulations.gov. 
This Federal Register notice, as well as news releases and other 
relevant information, are also available at OSHA's Webpage at http://
www.osha.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 11, 2009, OSHA published a direct-
final rule to update the incorporated references in its Acetylene 
Standard for general industry at 29 CFR 1910.102 (74 FR 40442). OSHA 
also published a companion proposed rule along with the direct-final 
rule (74 FR 40450). In the direct-final rule, OSHA stated that it would 
withdraw the companion proposed rule and confirm the effective date of 
the direct-final rule if it received no significant adverse comments on 
the direct final rule by September 10, 2009. OSHA received eight 
comments on the direct-final rule by that date, which it determined 
were not significant adverse comments. OSHA subsequently published a 
notice announcing this determination and confirming the effective date 
of the direct-final rule as November 9, 2009 (74 FR 57883). 
Accordingly, OSHA is not proceeding with the proposed rule and is 
withdrawing it from the rulemaking process.

List of Subjects in 29 CFR Part 1910

    Acetylene, General industry, Occupational safety and health, 
Safety.

Authority and Signature

    David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 
Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20210, directed the preparation of this document. 
OSHA is issuing this document pursuant to Sections 4, 6, and 8 of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 653, 655, and 
657), 5 U.S.C. 553, Secretary of Labor's Order 5-2007 (72 FR 31160), 
and 29 CFR part 1911.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on January 29, 2010.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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