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OCR Page 1 of 801/19/1993
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American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
PAMERICAN FEDERATION or LAND
815 Sixteenth Street, N.W
LANE KIRKLAND PRESIDENT
THOMAS R. DONAHUE SECRETARY-TREASURER
Washington, D.C. 20006
Albert Shanker
Edward T. Hanley
Wayne E. Giann
(202) 637-5000
John & Sweeney
James E Hatfield
Vincent R. Sombrotto
Geratd W. McEntes
William H. Bywater
Marvin J. Boade
Owen Bieber
Jonn T. Joyce
Morton Bahr
COMGRESS AFL OF INDUSTRIAL
Robert A Georgine
Gene Upshaw
Jay Mazur
Lenore Miller
Jack Shainkman
John J. Barry
Sigurd Lucessen
Moe Biller
George J. Kourples
John N. Studivant
Richard L Trunks
Frank Hanley
Jemes J. Norton
Michael Sacco
Ron Carey
Arthur A. Cole
Frank Hull
Linda Chavez-Thompeen
Gioria T. Johnson
Dougles M Darity
George F. Becker
January 19, 1995
Honorable Alice M. Rivlin
Director
Office of Management and Budget
Room 252 old Executive Office Building
Seventeenth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
3 to Carrie every Adopt wis
what men
Washington, D.C. 20503
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Dear Ms. Rivlin:
OSHA
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 authorized the
establishment of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation
Board The purpose of the Board was to investigate major
chemical accidents and releases that put workers' and citizens'
lives in danger.
The AFL-CIO is deeply concerned that more than four years
after the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments that this
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safety board is still not operational or fully funded. For
1
fiscal year 1995, only $500,000 of the $4.25 million requested
for the Board was appropriated. Only three of the five Board
12-15
members have been nominated and confirmed.
and
It is our understanding that the Administration may not
request funds in its fiscal year 1996 budget for the operation of
the Chemical Safety and Investigation Board. Instead, the
Administration may rely on existing programs at the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and EPA to carry out the
Board's responsibilities.
Neither EPA nor OSHA is currently capable of the type of
investigations required by the Board. Although OSHA has
jurisdiction over workplace chemical plant safety, it lacks
important tools to conduct comprehensive investigations of major
chemical accidents. OSHA only investigates accidents involving a
fatality or the hospitalization of three or more workers. Most
of these inspections are designed to determine violations of OSHA