Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 243 / Thursday, December 18, 1997 / Rules and Regulations 66275

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

21 CFR Part 101

[Docket Nos. 95N–0245 and 94P–0110]

RIN 0910–AA59

Food Labeling; Statement of Identity,

Nutrition Labeling and Ingredient

Labeling of Dietary Supplements;

Compliance Policy Guide, Revocation;

Correction

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration,

HHS.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

SUMMARY: The Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) is correcting a

final rule that appeared in the Federal

Register of September 23, 1997 (62 FR

49826). The final rule amended the food

labeling regulations to establish

requirements for the identification of

dietary supplements and for their

nutrition labeling and ingredient

labeling in response to the Dietary

Supplement Health and Education Act

of 1994 (the DSHEA). The document

was published with several inadvertent

editorial errors. This document corrects

those errors.

DATES: The regulation is effective March

23, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Susan Thompson, Center for Food

Safety and Applied Nutrition (HFS–

165), Food and Drug Administration,

200 C St. SW., Washington, DC 20204,

202–205–5587.

In FR Doc. No. 97–24739, appearing

on page 49826 in the Federal Register

of Tuesday, September 23, 1997, the

following corrections are made:

1. On page 49829, in the first column,

in the last sentence of the first

paragraph, add ‘‘§ 101.36(b)(2).’’ after

the word ‘‘modifying’’.

2. On page 49833, in the first column,

in the third paragraph, in the second

line from the bottom, ‘‘or’’ is corrected

to read ‘‘for’’.

3. On page 49840, in the third

column, in the first full paragraph, in

the eleventh line, add ‘‘514’’ after

‘‘U.S.’’.

§ 101.12 [Corrected]

4. On page 49848, § 101.12 Reference

amounts customarily consumed per

eating occasion is corrected in

paragraph (b), Table 2, under the

subheading ‘‘Miscellaneous category’’,

by adding seven asterisks above the

entry for Dietary supplements.

Dated: December 9, 1997.

William K. Hubbard,

Associate Commissioner for Policy

Coordination.

[FR Doc. 97–32806 Filed 12–17–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4160–01–F

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

29 CFR Part 1910

RIN 1218–AA95

Methylene Chloride; Partial Stay

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA), Department of

Labor.

ACTION: Final rule; partial stay of startup dates for compliance.

SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and

Health Administration (OSHA) has

received a motion for reconsideration of

certain provisions of its standard

regulating occupational exposure to

methylene chloride, 62 FR 1494 (Jan. 10,

1997). The motion, filed jointly by the

International Union, United

Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural

Implement Workers of America, UAW;

the Halogenated Solvents Industry

Alliance, Inc., and others, requests,

among other things, extensions of the

current start-up dates for installation of

engineering controls and use of

respiratory protection for certain

employers. It also requests an interim

stay of those compliance dates pending

OSHA’s ruling on the motion for

reconsideration.

OSHA has preliminarily evaluated the

motion for reconsideration and, based

on that evaluation, finds good cause to

grant in part the movants’ request for an

interim stay of the start-up dates.

Accordingly, for those employers

subject to the motion who would

otherwise need to use respiratory

protection or install engineering

controls on or before April 10, 1998,

OSHA is hereby delaying until August

31, 1998 the requirement to use

respiratory protection to achieve the 8-

hour TWA PEL, and to December 10,

1998 the requirement to achieve the 8-

hour TWA PEL and the STEL through

engineering controls.

DATES: The effective date of this partial

stay is December 18, 1997. Under the

stay, the start-up date for certain

employers to use respiratory protection

to achieve the 8-hour TWA PEL is

August 31, 1998, and the start-up date

for certain employers to install

engineering controls is December 10,

1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bonnie Friedman, Director, OSHA

Office of Public Affairs, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room N3647, 200

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20210, telephone (202) 219–8151.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OSHA

published a new methylene chloride

(MC) standard on January 10, 1997 (62

FR 1494). The standard establishes an 8-

hour time-weighted-average permissible

exposure limit (8-hour TWA PEL) for

MC of 25 per million (ppm). It also sets

a short term exposure limit (STEL) of

125 ppm averaged over a 15 minute

period. Employers must achieve the 8-

hour TWA PEL and the STEL, to the

extent feasible, by engineering and work

practice controls. If such controls are

unable to achieve the exposure limits,

and during the time they are being

implemented, employers must use

respirators to protect employees against

excessive MC exposure.

The methylene chloride standard

establishes different start-up dates for

employers in different size categories. It

requires compliance with the

engineering control requirement by

April 10, 2000 for employers with fewer

than 20 employees; April 10, 1999 for

polyurethane foam manufacturers with

20 to 99 employees; and April 10, 1998

for all other employers. As originally

published, compliance with the

requirement for respiratory protection

was required by April 10, 1998 for

employers with fewer than 20

employees; January 5, 1998 for

polyurethane foam manufacturers with

20 to 99 employees; and October 7, 1997

for all other employers. OSHA

subsequently extended certain start-up

dates, including the requirement for all

other employers to use respiratory

protection, to December 21, 1997. (62

FR 54382, Oct. 20, 1997).

On November 24, 1997, OSHA

received a joint motion for

reconsideration of certain aspects of the

standard from the International Union,

United Automobile, Aerospace and

Agricultural Implement Workers of

America, UAW; the Halogenated

Solvents Industry Alliance, Inc.; Benco

Sales, Inc.; Brock Woodcraft; Masters

Magic Products, Inc.; Bassco Foam, Inc;

and Tupelo Foam Sales, Inc. Among

other things, the movants ask that the

compliance dates for installation of

engineering controls and use of

respiratory protection to achieve the 8-

hour TWA PEL be extended for

employers who use methylene chloride

in certain specific applications. Those

applications are polyurethane foam