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105th Congress
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Industrial Emergency Notification Act of 1998
Introduced: June 26, 1998
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Jun 26, 1998
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Jun 26, 1998
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7262)
Jun 26, 1998
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Industrial Emergency Notification Act of 1998 - Directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a regulation that requires employers to: (1) notify outside emergency responders when conditions and circumstances occur which require outside emergency response, including workplace evacuations and other conditions specified in such regulation; (2) describe in their emergency response plans or emergency action plans additional conditions and circumstances that require outside emergency response; and (3) obtain the written agreement of the outside responders as to such additional conditions and circumstances.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1