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(b) Experimental and demonstration

projects.

(c) Designation by Governor of appropriate State agency for receipt of

grant.

(d) Submission of application.

(e) Approval or rejection of application.

(f) Federal share.

(g) Administration and enforcement of

programs contained in approved

State plans; Federal share.

(h) Report to President and Congress.

673. Statistics.

(a) Development and maintenance of program of collection, compilation, and

analysis; employments subject to

coverage; scope.

(b) Authority of Secretary to promote,

encourage, or engage in programs,

make grants, and grant or contract

for research and investigations.

(c) Federal share for grants.

(d) Utilization by Secretary of State or

local services, facilities, and employees; consent; reimbursement.

(e) Reports by employers.

(f) Supersedure of agreements between

Department of Labor and States for

collection of statistics.

674. Audit of grant recipient; maintenance of records; contents of records; access to books,

etc.

675. Annual reports by Secretary of Labor and

Secretary of Health and Human Services;

contents.

676. Omitted.

677. Separability.

678. Authorization of appropriations.

CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This chapter is referred to in sections 671a, 1553 of

this title; title 2 sections 1302, 1341, 1371, 1434; title 3

sections 402, 425; title 15 sections 2080, 2603; title 25 section 450m; title 30 section 951; title 31 section 1105; title

42 sections 280b–1, 300ee–2, 2297b–11, 2297h–13, 4853a, 6971,

7412, 11021, 11022.

§ 651. Congressional statement of findings and

declaration of purpose and policy

(a) The Congress finds that personal injuries

and illnesses arising out of work situations impose a substantial burden upon, and are a hindrance to, interstate commerce in terms of lost

production, wage loss, medical expenses, and

disability compensation payments.

(b) The Congress declares it to be its purpose

and policy, through the exercise of its powers to

regulate commerce among the several States

and with foreign nations and to provide for the

general welfare, to assure so far as possible

every working man and woman in the Nation

safe and healthful working conditions and to

preserve our human resources—

(1) by encouraging employers and employees

in their efforts to reduce the number of occupational safety and health hazards at their

places of employment, and to stimulate employers and employees to institute new and to

perfect existing programs for providing safe

and healthful working conditions;

(2) by providing that employers and employees have separate but dependent responsibilities and rights with respect to achieving safe

and healthful working conditions;

(3) by authorizing the Secretary of Labor to

set mandatory occupational safety and health

standards applicable to businesses affecting

interstate commerce, and by creating an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for carrying out adjudicatory functions

under this chapter;

(4) by building upon advances already made

through employer and employee initiative for

providing safe and healthful working conditions;

(5) by providing for research in the field of

occupational safety and health, including the

psychological factors involved, and by developing innovative methods, techniques, and approaches for dealing with occupational safety

and health problems;

(6) by exploring ways to discover latent diseases, establishing causal connections between

diseases and work in environmental conditions, and conducting other research relating

to health problems, in recognition of the fact

that occupational health standards present

problems often different from those involved

in occupational safety;

(7) by providing medical criteria which will

assure insofar as practicable that no employee

will suffer diminished health, functional capacity, or life expectancy as a result of his

work experience;

(8) by providing for training programs to increase the number and competence of personnel engaged in the field of occupational safety

and health;

(9) by providing for the development and

promulgation of occupational safety and

health standards;

(10) by providing an effective enforcement

program which shall include a prohibition

against giving advance notice of any inspection and sanctions for any individual violating

this prohibition;

(11) by encouraging the States to assume the

fullest responsibility for the administration

and enforcement of their occupational safety

and health laws by providing grants to the

States to assist in identifying their needs and

responsibilities in the area of occupational

safety and health, to develop plans in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, to

improve the administration and enforcement

of State occupational safety and health laws,

and to conduct experimental and demonstration projects in connection therewith;

(12) by providing for appropriate reporting

procedures with respect to occupational safety

and health which procedures will help achieve

the objectives of this chapter and accurately

describe the nature of the occupational safety

and health problem;

(13) by encouraging joint labor-management

efforts to reduce injuries and disease arising

out of employment.

(Pub. L. 91–596, §2, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1590.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(3), (11), and

(12), was in the original ‘‘this Act’’, meaning Pub. L.

91–596, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1590, as amended. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short

Title note set out under this section and Tables.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Section 34 of Pub. L. 91–596 provided that: ‘‘This Act

[enacting this chapter and section 3142–1 of Title 42,