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MSHA should scrap any plan to wait for OSHA action on respirable crystalline silica

cmonforton | November 25, 2011

Before too long the US Department of Labor (DOL) and other federal agencies should be issuing their annual regulatory plans and semi-annual agendas. These documents serve as official public notice of agencies' regulatory (and deregulatory) priorities. The Regulatory Flexibility Act and Executive Order (EO) 12866 direct agency heads to release these documents in April (agenda) and October (plan and agenda), but the Obama Administration doesn't have a good track record meeting those deadlines. I'm not going to predict when the next agenda and plan will be issued or, as I did in the Spring, on…

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