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B-187507 1 (1976-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbyf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CECISION ' HE COMPTROLLER GMMIERAL, OP THE UNITUC WATES WASHINOTON. 0 C. 2o054B JCflIJ) Qe 791 FILE: 5-117507 MATTER DIGEST: DATE: DEC Z a 1976 OF: Ptatestive Fmotwear for Drug Itforcement Ataiatraties Agenta Dr% Katersant Amtnistratu agnts asiwed to teporary duty La jungle sflrmnt may he turished proteative footar at Gveent Se ader actisa 1, of Oaupatiomt Safety Ad Health Act of 1970 it rich ootwar is smiaistrastvely datmwd assessary for safety resasta to protest agants frem juglo basasds. SIth beneir mast be precured In accordans with applicaem puocuramt statutes &nad ragastion; title therto vests in Govemesnt; sad disposal of such fotwear must be In accordac with statutes and rgglations pveraing disposal of Covern- mat pioperty. £tj 51 Camp. Gne, 446. The antaistrator of the Drug Bateremant Ainastsation (DA) has aquested - advet decsae c th followAg two questious. Can ISA eployme an Tueqnnry Duty (TU) In what the Atninitrator calls sapa-normal aviaamental condittoes be reiabursed for the costs of preuxtag pretestiv 2eetwear to operate in a jagml eariemenit? If the previous quauttem is asrered affimatively, ay title to the feetwear after use be vested La the employee? The Adatastrates states thaft the DA assips certain of its ageats on a TD bards aay frm thUIr usual daty stations to operate is waerdoclopad reas in foigs cuntries such as South America jagles in the Upper tasos regions aM simtlsr environs. DA has detazmins that its agasts s &aped must be equipped with proper footwear fer proteotion against sakas, insects, moisture and slatlr baserds. ts expremses the vie eves though the e1thing itea neaedd hers (the feetmar) do not most the usual definition of spectL pro- tective equipmat as those teams s used an 5 U.S.C. § 7903 1970) such itsa do meet the defsition of Ites required only by aSents assip* to pIfetl, unswat duty, sad not by the entir work force. The Adinistratex points oat that the wstoat of section 19(a) of the Ocaatiocal Saf'ty ad Multh At of 1970 (OSlA), Pub. L. No. 91-596* 29 U.S.C.4 (1970), pieces responsibiLity upon the heads of Federal agontes tome or - to BEST DOCUIMENT AVAIl-ABLE h

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