[Federal Register: December 8, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 235)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. NRTL4-93]
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Expansion of Recognition
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Agency's final decision to approve
an expansion of its recognition of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL)
as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) to include an
additional 19 test standards.
DATES: This recognition becomes effective on December 8, 2003 and,
unless modified in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.7, continues in effect
while UL remains recognized by OSHA as an NRTL.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard Pasquet or Roy Resnick, Office
of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, NRTL Program,
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N3653, Washington, DC 20210,
or phone (202) 693-2110.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Notice of Final Decision
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hereby
gives notice of the expansion of recognition of Underwriters
Laboratories Inc. (UL) as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory
(NRTL). UL's expansion covers the use of additional test standards.
OSHA's current scope of recognition for UL may be found in the
following informational Web page: http://www.osha-slc.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/ul.html
.
OSHA recognition of an NRTL signifies that the organization has met
the legal requirements in Section 1910.7 of Title 29, Code of Federal
Regulations (29 CFR 1910.7). Recognition is an acknowledgment that the
organization can perform independent safety testing and certification
of the specific products covered within its scope of recognition and is
not a delegation or grant of government authority. As a result of
recognition, employers may use products ``properly certified'' by the
NRTL to meet OSHA standards that require testing and certification.
The Agency processes applications by an NRTL for initial
recognition or for expansion or renewal of this recognition following
requirements in Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. This appendix requires
that the Agency publish two notices in the Federal Register in
processing an application. In the first notice, OSHA announces the
application and provides its preliminary finding and, in the second
notice, the Agency provides its final decision on the application.
These notices set forth the NRTL's scope of recognition or
modifications of that scope.
UL submitted an application, dated November 18, 2002 (see Exhibit
30), to expand its recognition to use 41 additional test standards. The
NRTL Program staff determined that 10 of the 41 test standards cannot
be included in the expansion because they are not ``appropriate test
standards,'' within the meaning of 29 CFR 1910.7(c), while an
additional twelve are already included in UL's scope. The staff makes
similar determinations in processing expansion requests from any NRTL.
Therefore, OSHA approves 19 test standards for the expansion, which are
listed below.
In connection with UL's expansion request, OSHA did not perform an
on-site review (evaluation) of UL. However, an OSHA NRTL Program
assessor reviewed information pertinent to this request and recommended
that UL be granted the expansion (see Exhibit 31).
OSHA published the notice of its preliminary findings on the
expansion request in the Federal Register on October 14, 2003 (68 FR
59209). The notice requested submission of any public comments by
October 29, 2003. OSHA did not receive any comments pertaining to the
application.
The previous notice published by OSHA for UL's recognition covered
another expansion of recognition, which became effective on March 25,
2003 (68 FR 14432).
You may obtain or review copies of all public documents pertaining
to the UL application by contacting the Docket Office, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Room N2625, Washington, D.C. 20210. You
should refer to Docket No. NRTL4-93, the permanent record of public
information on UL's recognition.
The current addresses of the UL facilities already recognized by
OSHA are:
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook,
Illinois 60062;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 1285 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, Long
Island, New York 11747;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 1655 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara,
California 95050;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 12 Laboratory Drive, P.O. Box 13995,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709;
Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 2600 N. W. Lake Road, Camas, Washington
98607;
UL International Limited, Veristrong Industrial Centre, Block B, 14th
Floor, 34 Au Pui Wan Street, Fo Tan Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong
Kong;
UL International Services, Ltd., Taiwan Branch, 4th Floor, 260 Da-Yeh
Road, Pei Tou District, Taipei City, Taiwan;
UL International Demko A/S, Lyskaer 8, P.O. Box 514, DK-2730, Herlev,
Denmark;
Underwriters Laboratory International (U.K.) Ltd., Wonersh House, The
Guildway, Old Portsmouth Road, Guildford, Surrey GU3 1LR, United
Kingdom;
Underwriters Laboratory International Italia S.r.l., Via Archimede 42,
1-20041 Agrate Brianza, Milan, Italy Testing facility: Z.I. Predda
Niedda St. 18, I-07100, Sassari, Italy;
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada, 7 Crouse Road, Scarborough,
Ontario, Canada MIR 3A9;
UL Japan Co., Ltd., Shimbashi Ekimae Bldg.--1 Gohkan, 4th floor, Room
402, 2-20-15 Shimbashi Minato Ku, Tokyo 105-0004, Japan;
UL Korea, Ltd., 805, Manhattan Building 36-2, Yeoui-dong,
Yeoungdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-010, Korea;
UL International Germany GmbH, Frankfurter Strasse 229, D-63263 Neu-
Isenburg, Germany;
UL International (Netherlands) B.V., Landjuweel 52, NL-3905 PH
Veenendaal, Netherlands.
Final Decision and Order
The NRTL Program staff has examined the application, the assessor's
recommendation, and other pertinent information. Based upon this
examination and the recommendation,
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OSHA finds that Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has met the requirements
of 29 CFR 1910.7 for expansion of its recognition to include an
additional 19 test standards. Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR
1910.7, OSHA hereby expands the recognition of UL.
Expansion for Additional Standards
OSHA limits the expansion to testing and certification of products
for demonstration of conformance to the following 19 test standards,
and OSHA has determined the standards are appropriate within the
meaning of 29 CFR 1910.7(c).
UL 441 Standard for Gas Vents
UL 508A Industrial Control Panels
UL 515 Electrical Resistance Heat Tracing for Commercial and
Industrial Applications
UL 568 Nonmetallic Cable Tray Systems
UL 943B Appliance Leakage-Current Interrupters
UL 1004A Fire Pump Motors
UL 1285 Pipe and Couplings, Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) for Underground
Fire Service
UL 1713 Pressure Pipe and Coupling, Glass Fiber-Reinforced, for
Underground Fire Service
UL 2129 Standard for Safety for Halocarbon Clean Agent Fire
Extinguishers
UL 2305 Exhibition Display Units, Fabrication and Installation
UL 2351 Spray Nozzles for Fire-Protection Service
UL 2388 Flexible Lighting Products
UL 3111-2-31 Hand-Held Probe Assemblies for Electrical Measurement
and Test
UL 60335-2-8 Household and Similar Electrical Appliances, Part 2:
Particular Requirements for Electric Shavers, Hair Clippers, and
Similar Appliances
UL 61010A-2-010 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2:
Particular Requirements for Laboratory Equipment for the Heating of
Materials
UL 61010A-2-041 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2:
Particular Requirements for Autoclaves Using Steam for the Treatment
of Medical Materials for Laboratory Processes
UL 61010A-2-042 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2:
Particular Requirements for Autoclaves and Sterilizers Using Toxic
Gas for the Treatment of Medical Materials, and for Laboratory
Processes
UL 61010A-2-051 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2:
Particular Requirements for Laboratory Equipment Mixing and Stirring
UL 61010A-2-061 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 2:
Particular Requirements for Laboratory Atomic Spectrometers with
Thermal Atomization and Ionization
OSHA's recognition of UL, or any NRTL, for a particular test
standard is limited to equipment or materials (i.e., products) for
which OSHA standards require third party testing and certification
before use in the workplace. Consequently, any NRTL's scope of
recognition excludes any product(s) that fall within the scope of a
test standard, but for which OSHA standards do not require NRTL testing
and certification.
Many of the UL test standards listed above also are approved as
American National Standards by the American National Standards
Institute (ANSI). However, for convenience, we use the designation of
the standards developing organization for the standard as opposed to
the ANSI designation. Under our procedures, any NRTL recognized for an
ANSI-approved test standard may use either the latest proprietary
version of the test standard or the latest ANSI version of that
standard. You may contact ANSI to find out whether or not a test
standard is currently ANSI-approved.
Conditions
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. must also abide by the following
conditions of the recognition, in addition to those already required by
29 CFR 1910.7:
OSHA must be allowed access to the UL facilities and records for
purposes of ascertaining continuing compliance with the terms of its
recognition and to investigate as OSHA deems necessary;
If UL has reason to doubt the efficacy of any test standard it is
using under this program, it must promptly inform the organization that
developed the test standard of this fact and provide that organization
with appropriate relevant information upon which its concerns are
based;
UL must not engage in or permit others to engage in any
misrepresentation of the scope or conditions of its recognition. As
part of this condition, UL agrees that it will allow no representation
that it is either a recognized or an accredited Nationally Recognized
Testing Laboratory (NRTL) without clearly indicating the specific
equipment or material to which this recognition is tied, or that its
recognition is limited to certain products;
UL must inform OSHA as soon as possible, in writing, of any change
of ownership, facilities, or key personnel, and of any major changes in
its operations as an NRTL, including details;
UL will continue to meet all the terms of its recognition and will
always comply with all OSHA policies pertaining to this recognition;
and
UL will continue to meet the requirements for recognition in all
areas where it has been recognized.
Signed at Washington, DC this 24th day of November, 2003.
John L. Henshaw,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-30368 Filed 12-5-03; 8:45 am]
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