Title 29 — Labor
Chapter 15 — Occupational Safety and Health
§ 665. Variations, tolerances, and exemptions from required provisions; procedure; duration
Statutory text
The Secretary, on the record, after notice and opportunity for a hearing may provide such reasonable limitations and may make such rules and regulations allowing reasonable variations, tolerances, and exemptions to and from any or all provisions of this chapter as he may find necessary and proper to avoid serious impairment of the national defense. Such action shall not be in effect for more than six months without notification to affected employees and an opportunity being afforded for a hearing.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970
Pub. L. 91–596 § 16 · 84 Stat. 1590
Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 665
(Pub. L. 91–596, § 16, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1606.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–596, § 16, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1606.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 16. variations, tolerances, and exemptions The Secretary, on the record, after notice and opportunity for a hearing may provide such reasonable limitations and may make such rules and regulations allowing reasonable variations, tolerances, and exemptions to and from any or all provisions of this Act as he may find necessary and proper to avoid serious impairment of the national defense. Such action shall not be in effect for more than six months without notification to affected employees and an opportunity being afforded for a hearing.
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