[Note: This Secretary's Order was later published at 61 Fed. Reg. 4289 (Feb. 5, 1996)]
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
SECRETARY OF LABOR
WASHINGTON, D.C.
January 26, 1996
SECRETARY'S ORDER 1-96
Subject: 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.
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 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Order 6-94 is hereby superseded to the extent that it provides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.
s/Robert B. Reich
