(a) Purpose. The Secretary and the Administrator may enter into
agreements with State agencies for the utilization of services of State
and local agencies and their employees in making investigations and
inspections under the Acts and for reimbursement therefor, when such
State agencies have submitted plans of cooperation for such purposes and
such plans have been found to be reasonably appropriate and adequate to
carry out the respective functions of the Secretary and the
Administrator.
(b) Certificates of attorneys general. No such agreement shall
become effective and operative until a statement of the Attorney General
of the State, or, if the Attorney General is not authorized to make such
a statement, the State official who is so authorized, has been received
by the Division and the Secretary of Labor certifying that the agreement
is valid in the form as executed under the laws of the State.
