[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 19835]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-07988]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

42 CFR Part 85a

[Docket No. CDC-2014-0001; NIOSH-271]
RIN 0920-AA51


Occupational Safety and Health Investigations of Places of 
Employment

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS.

ACTION: Notice confirming effective date of direct final rule.

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SUMMARY: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 
(NIOSH) in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within 
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is publishing this 
notice to confirm the effective date of the direct final rule, 
published on January 16, 2014 (79 FR 2789).

DATES: The direct final rule published at 79 FR 2789, January 16, 2014, 
will become effective on April 16, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Teresa Schnorr Ph.D., Director NIOSH 
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies 
(DSHEFS); 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226; 513-841-4428 
(this is not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 16, 2014, HHS published a direct 
final rule (DFR) to make minor technical amendments to the regulatory 
text in 42 CFR Part 85a (79 FR 2789). On the same date, HHS 
simultaneously published a companion notice of proposed rulemaking 
(NPRM) that proposed identical amendments. In the preambles to both 
documents, HHS indicated that if no significant adverse comments on the 
DFR were received by March 17, 2014, the agency would publish a 
document in the Federal Register withdrawing the NPRM and confirming 
the effective date of the DFR within 30 days of the conclusion of the 
comment period. HHS received one public comment that was not a 
significant adverse comment, but rather was in support of the companion 
NPRM. Because HHS did not receive any significant adverse comments to 
the NPRM within the specified comment period, we have published a 
notice to withdraw the NPRM [INSERT CITATION FOR NOTICE TO WITHDRAWAL 
NPRM]. Therefore, consistent with the DFR, the technical amendments to 
42 CFR Part 85a will become effective on April 16, 2014.

    Dated: April 3, 2014.
Kathleen Sebelius,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-07988 Filed 4-9-14; 8:45 am]
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