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OGC-97-17 1 (1997-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablps0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-275930 January 27, 1997 The Honorable James M. Jeffords Chairman The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Ranking Minority Member Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate The Honorable William F. Goodling Chairman The Honorable William L. Clay Ranking Minority Member Committee on Education and the Workforce House of Representatives Subject: Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Occupational Exposure to Methylene Chloride Pursuant to section 801(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule promulgated by the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), entitled Occupational Exposure to Methylene Chloride (RIN: 1218-AA98). We received the rule on January 9, 1997. It was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on January 10, 1997. 62 Fed. Reg. 1493. The final rule amends the regulations for employee exposure to methylene chloride (MC). The rule reduces the existing 8-hour time weighted average (TWA) exposure from 500 parts MC per million parts (ppm) of air to 25 ppm. Also, the rule deletes the ceiling limit concentration of 1,000 ppm and reduces the short-term exposure limit from 2,000 ppm (measured over 5 minutes in any 2-hour period) to 125 ppm, measured as a 15-minute TWA. Further, OSHA sets an action level of 12.5 ppm measured as an 8-hour TWA. The rule also contains provisions for exposure control, personal protective equipment, employee exposure monitoring, training, medical surveillance, hazard communications, regulated areas, and recordkeeping. GAO/OGC-97-17

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