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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.189cm; margin-left:376.533px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; ">1120 20</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.161cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; ">Street, N.W., Ninth Floor</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.445cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; ">Jennifer L. Gold, Attorney; Louise McGauley Betts, Senior Attorney; Oscar L. Hampton, III,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.445cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; ">Regional Solicitor; Kate S. O’Scannlain, Solicitor of Labor; U.S. Department of Labor,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.445cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; ">Philadelphia, PA and Washington, D.C.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:8px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.445cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10.5pt; ">Miriam Dole, Attorney; U.S Postal Service, Eastern Area Law Office, Philadelphia, PA</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">alleging</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">an</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.247cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">other-than-serious</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">violation</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.25cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">C.F.R.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.25cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">§ 1904.135(b)(1)(iv),</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.247cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Pennsylvania, by issuing “a seven-day working suspension” to each of them after each one</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">For the following reasons, we set aside the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">assessing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">whether</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.286cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.286cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Secretary</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">established</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">USPS’s</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">failure</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">comply</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.284cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">with</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 411 U.S. 792 (1973), which involved a</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See, e.g., Acosta v. Lloyd</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See American Wrecking Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 19 BNA OSHC 1703, 1714-15 (No. 96-1330, 2001)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and observed their demeanor’ ” (citation omitted));</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.046cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Agra Erectors, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 19 BNA OSHC 1063,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">1066 (No. 98-0866, 2000) (remanding case to judge to make credibility determinations regarding</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">conflicting testimony because judge who heard case is best qualified to make such findings).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Given the conflicting testimony on this key issue, the judge on remand “must give reasons for</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">crediting the testimony of one witness over that of another that are ‘accompanied by summaries of</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Agra Erectors, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 19 BNA OSHC</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">concerns a mail carrier who suffered a dog bite injury while delivering mail. The same acting</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">manager investigated that incident and, as noted, recommended that disciplinary action be taken</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">against the mail carrier. As such, the judge should also evaluate to what extent, if any, his</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">assessment of the witnesses’ credibility affects his findings with regard to that instance. Finally,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">bear on the witnesses’ credibility.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.123cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See Lake County Sewer Co.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 22 BNA OSHC 1522, 1524 (No.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">lifted improperly, and no witnesses to either his lifting or his alleged reenactment,” the judge noted</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Commissioner</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">regulation, which were in place at the time the citation was issued and required as follows: “The</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">disciplinary action, reinstatement of lost time and wages, etc., where appropriate” as well as “the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">determination.” Memorandum from Directorate of Enforcement Programs to Regional</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Administrators,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Interim Enforcement Procedures for New Recordkeeping Requirements under 29</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Nov. 10, 2016). To the extent the judge relied on this rationale as a basis for</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.026cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Caterpillar Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 15 BNA OSHC 2153, 2173 n.24 (No. 87-0922,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">OSHRC DOCKET NO. 18-0188</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:12.067px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Appearances:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.637cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Kate S. O’Scannlain, Solicitor of Labor</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.835cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Oscar L. Hampton, III, Regional Solicitor</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Jennifer L. Gold, Attorney</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.835cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">For the Complainant</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.835cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Miriam Dole, Attorney</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.835cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">U.S. Postal Service, Eastern Area Law Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">For the Respondent</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Before:</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.67cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Keith E. Bell</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Administrative Law Judge</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">This case concerns a claim of alleged discrimination for reporting work-related injuries. It</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">12, 2016, under authority from the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">678 (OSH Act). Around May and June 2017, two postal workers for the Mt. Oliver branch of the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">work-related injuries to their management. After an internal pre-disciplinary investigation, the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">USPS suspended them with pay for alleged violations of USPS safety rules. Shortly thereafter, a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">union steward filed whistleblower complaints on their behalf with the Occupational Safety and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Health Administration (OSHA), which commenced two separate, parallel investigations: (1)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:17.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.323cm; margin-left:350.267px; "><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:7.5pt; ">5</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.189cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pursuant to § 11(c) of the OSH Act , and (2) pursuant to the recently promulgated anti-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">discrimination regulation under part 1904 (“Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Illnesses”) subpart D (“Other OSHA Injury and Illness Recordkeeping Requirements”) at 29</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:17.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.323cm; margin-left:271.333px; "><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:7.5pt; ">6</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.189cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">C.F.R. § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">A few weeks after the whistleblower complaint was filed, the USPS rescinded both</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">No person shall discharge or in any manner discriminate against any employee</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Any employee who believes that he has been discharged or otherwise discriminated</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">November 28, 2017, OSHA issued a Citation to USPS alleging an other-than-serious violation of</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">§ 1904.35(b)(1)(iv) and proposing a $5,432 penalty. The Citation required the USPS to abate the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Amended Complaint & Answer</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at ¶¶ 4.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Citation Certified Receipt. Next chronologically in the record is a “Notice of Contest”</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On November 28, 2017, OSHA issued to Respondent a Citation and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On February 2, 2018, Respondent notified the Secretary that he wishes to</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has jurisdiction over</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">It is admitted only that Complainant issued a citation, the remaining averments</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Admitted.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent admits jurisdiction pursuant to Section 10(c) of the Act.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">issued an Order Directing the Parties to File Supplemental Briefs to address the sole issue of</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Taj Mahal Contracting</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 20 BNA OSHC 2020, 2023 (No. 03-1088,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">sua sponte</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">raise the issue of lack of jurisdiction (and indeed is under an</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Stone Container Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 9 BNA OSHC, 1832, 1833 (No. 15116, 1981)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">sua sponte</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, at any time during the proceedings”)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">citing</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Fed. R. Civ.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Nw Conduit Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 18 BNA OSHC 1948, 1949 (No. 97-851, 1999);</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.023cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
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				<p style="margin-top:86.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">George Harms Constr. Co., Inc., v. Chao</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 371 F.3d 156 (3d Cir. 2004);</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.051cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:-.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">J.I. Hass Co., Inc. v.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">for relief under Rule 60(b).” (Sec’y Br. at 2.) In its LNOC, Respondent claimed that “[t]he</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">documents were not received by the Safety and Law Departments until February 2, 2018.” The</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">pro se</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">cases).</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.079cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See, e.g.,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.014cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Secretary of Labor v. Kaposy</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 607 F. Appx. 230</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">In its supplemental brief, Respondent requests relief due to “extraordinary circumstances”</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Pioneer Invest. Servs. Co. v. Brunswick</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Branciforte Builders, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 9 BNA OSHC</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to protect its interests.”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.102cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Branciforte Builders, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 9 BNA OSHC at 2116-2117. A party seeking</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Pioneer</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 507 U.S. at 393. Where a party is partly to blame for the delayed</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.219cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The Third Circuit has emphasized that the</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.056cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">equitable</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Avon Contractors, Inc. v. Sec’y of Labor</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 372 F.3d 171, 174 (3d</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">factors.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Id</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">;</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">see also Coleman Hammons Constr. Co. v. OSHRC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 942 F.3d</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">George Harms Constr.,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">371 F.3d at 164 (same).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Lasky v. Cont'l Prods. Corp.,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">804 F.2d 250, 256 (3d Cir.1986) (quoting</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Stradley</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">518 F.2d 488, 493 (3d Cir.1975)); Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(6). Equitable factors guiding</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Lasky,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">804 F.2d at 256 (citations omitted);</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.041cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">see also</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.042cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Coltec</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">280 F.3d 262, 274–75 (3d Cir.2002) (holding that the movant's particular</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Cox v. Horn,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">757 F.3d 113, 122 (3d Cir. 2014).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">La.-Pac. Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 13 BNA OSHC 2020, 2021 (No. 86-1266,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">documents). The record also reveals that Respondent management knew about previous instances</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On the other hand, the Secretary claims that, at the time of Respondent’s late filing, the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The Commission has previously held, however, that “where an untimely NOC is docketed, under</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">untimely[.]”</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.115cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Taj Mahal Contracting</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 20 BNA OSHC at 2022. Here, instead of filing the motion</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to dismiss, the Secretary filed the Complaint, averring that the Commission had jurisdiction for</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s LNOC. (Sec’y Supp. Br. at 2.) The undersigned finds that, based on the Secretary’s</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Cox,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">757 F.3d at 122.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Taj Mahal Contracting</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 20 BNA</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">For the following reasons, the Citation is this matter is VACATED.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At the time of the issuance of the discipline, [Postal Worker 1 (“PW1”)] was an</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At the time of the issuance of the discipline, [Postal Worker 2 (“PW2”)] was an employee</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.483cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">of USPS, and had been for just over one year (start date on or about April 16, 2016).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.467px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">3.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.212cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Clifford Mayfield was an employee of the Respondent</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Mayfield was eligible for Respondent’s pay-for-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">performance compensation and incentive program.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">5.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.212cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Robin Derry, Supervisor, Customer Services, Mount</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.296cm; margin-left:421.8px; "><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:7.5pt; ">9</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:119.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">6.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.212cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Derry was eligible for Respondent’s pay-for-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:21.067px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.473cm; margin-left:288px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:10.5pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.337cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:7.5pt; ">8</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.176cm; margin-left:101.333px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">For personal privacy reasons, the names of the injured employees have been redacted in this</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:.067px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.515cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">Decision and Order.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:7.8px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.342cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:7.5pt; ">9</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.176cm; margin-left:101.333px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, this was Derry’s position. Derry is currently on extended</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.515cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">military leave, was thus unavailable for depositions, and is thus also unavailable for trial.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.466cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:10.5pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:86.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">7.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.212cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Harry Wolfe was an employee of the Respondent and a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">member of management.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">8.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.212cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Wolfe was eligible for Respondent’s pay-for-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">performance compensation and incentive program.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">9.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.212cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Gerst-Stewart was an employee of the Respondent and a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">member of management.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">10.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Gerst-Stewart was eligible for Respondent’s pay-for-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">performance compensation and incentive program.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.467px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">11.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Kammermeier was an employee of the Respondent and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">a member of management.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">At all times relevant to this case, Kammermeier was eligible for Respondent’s pay-for-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">performance compensation and incentive program.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">13.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On May 15, 2017, [PW1] was injured during the performance of his duties on the job.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">14.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[PW1] was injured while moving a mail sack onto a truck.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">15.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On May 15, 2017, [PW1] reported his injury to USPS management.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">16.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[PW1] received medical treatment for his injuries.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.467px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">17.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On May 15, 2017, Wolfe conducted an investigation into the facts of [PW1’s] injury.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On/about May 15, 2017, Wolfe ordered [PW1] to be drug tested.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">19.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On/about May 17, 2017, Wolfe was informed that [PW1’s] drug test results were</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">negative.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">20.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On May 22, 2017, Mayfield conducted a Pre-Disciplinary Interview with [PW1], with</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">union steward David Bugay in attendance.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">21.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On May 31, 2017, Respondent disciplined [PW1], issuing him a seven day, no-time-off</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">suspension.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">22.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The grievance brought by [PW1] concerning his May 31, 2017 discipline was settled by</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Acting Manager Louis Kammermeier on August 18, 2017, fully rescinding and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">expunging the discipline from the affected employee’s file, stating “[e]vidence does not</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">support issued discipline.”</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">23.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On June 1, 2017, [PW2] was injured during the performance of her duties on the job.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[PW2] was injured when she was bitten by a dog.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">25.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The dog that bit [PW2] was in the yard at 510 Augusta Street.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">26.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[PW2] was bitten by the dog while attempting to deliver mail to 514 Augusta Street.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">27.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On June 1, 2017, [PW2] reported her injury to USPS management.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[PW2] received medical treatment for her injuries.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:120px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On June 1, 2017, Wolfe conducted an investigation into the facts of [PW2’s] injury.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:119.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">30.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On June 2, 2017, Mayfield conducted a Pre-Disciplinary Interview with [PW2], with</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">union steward David Bugay in attendance.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:119.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">31.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">On June 2, 2017, Respondent disciplined [PW2], issuing her a seven-day, no-time-off</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">suspension.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The grievance brought by [PW2] concerning her June 2, 2017 discipline was settled by</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Acting Manager Louis Kammermeier on August 18, 2017, fully rescinding and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">expunging the discipline from the affected employee’s file, stating “[e]vidence does not</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">support issued discipline.”</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Memorandum from USPS’ Nancy L. Rettinhouse, Vice-President Employee Resource</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Regarding its intended trial exhibits, Respondent did not produce in discovery, in</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">response to the Secretary’s discovery requests, the following exhibits as listed by</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.483cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent in the Joint Prehearing Statement: RX-3, RX-9, RX-10, RX-11, RX-13, RX-</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Specifically, for its intended exhibits RX-17 and RX-18, as listed by Respondent in the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">In response to Secretary’s Interrogatory No. 1: “Employee and Labor Relations</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">In response to Secretary’s Interrogatory No. 12: “Employee and Labor Relations</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The following OSHA memorandums and guidance are publicly available on OSHA’s</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">JX-16</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">2016 11-10 Interim Enforcement Procedures for New Recordkeeping</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Implementation of the 2017 annual adjustment pursuant to the Federal</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">2016 10-19 Interpretation of 1904.35(b)(1)(i) and (iv)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">2018 10-11 Clarification of OSHA's Position on 1904</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The Secretary confirms, and Respondent does not object, that the 11(c) portion of OSHA’s</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, and that OSHA</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">between Respondent and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC). (Tr. at 364-366,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">393-394, 406-407). The process includes the participation of the employee at issue, the direct</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">supervisor, the manager, a higher-level official than the manager, and a union steward. (Tr. at</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">394.) In this case, the process was the same for both PW1 and PW2. After PW1 notified Acting</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Manager Harry Wolfe of his injury, Wolfe talked with PW1 for 5-10 minutes and then sent PW1</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The same</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:86.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">With regard to PW1, PW1 testified that he did not demonstrate his lifting technique to</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Wolfe during this conversation. (Tr. at 35.) In contrast, Wolfe testified that PW1 did demonstrate</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to Wolfe his lifting technique upon his request during this conversation. (Tr. at 207.) Wolfe also</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">ordered PW1 to be drug tested that day, and the results were negative. (Stip. at ¶¶ 18, 19.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Wolfe reported each injury to his boss, Maureen Gerst-Stewart, the Manager of Customer</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Service Operations, Pittsburgh, via e-mail on or around the day of the incidents and before pre-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">disciplinary interviews were conducted in each matter. (Tr. at 338-339; Ex. JX-15 at 2 (e-mail on</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">or around May 17, 2017 re: PW1), 4 (e-mail on June 1, 2017 re: PW2).) Subsequently, delivery</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">supervisor Clifford Mayfield conducted a pre-disciplinary interview (PDI) with each injured</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employee, with both PDIs accompanied by union steward Dave Bugay. (Stip. ¶¶ 20, 30; Exs. JX-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">3, 4, 10, 11).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Wolfe thereafter submitted formal discipline requests for both PW1 and PW2. (Tr. at 216,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">240.) Mayfield delivered the discipline packages to Respondent’s Labor Relations office for their</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.267px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">consideration. (Tr. at 106 (PW1), 123-124 (PW2).) At Respondent’s Labor Department, Labor</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Relations Specialist David Chludzinski reviewed the disciplinary packages, concurred with the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">requested discipline, and drafted the discipline letters. (Tr. at 389-390, 394.) Shortly after, two</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">discipline letters were issued to the injured employees. Delivery Supervisor Robin Derry issued</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the discipline to PW1, and Delivery Supervisor Clifford Mayfield issued the discipline to PW2</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(signed by Robin Derry for Clifford Mayfield). (Exs. JX-6, 13.)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">As Chart A indicates, PW1 and PW2 are the two postal workers who were injured in this</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Mt. Oliver post office that day. (Tr. at 31, 89, 139, 332.) Both Mayfield and Derry directly</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">reported to Wolfe. (Exs. GX-13 at 1, GX-14 at 1.) Mayfield did “what [he] was told” by Wolfe</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and conducted the PDIs of PW1 (May 22, 2017) and PW2 (June 2, 2017), with union steward</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Dave Bugay also in attendance, as part of this disciplinary process. (Tr. at 106; Stip. ¶¶ 20, 30.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Bugay is a letter carrier in the Mt. Oliver branch, as well as a union steward. (Tr. at 467-468.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Chludzinski, the Labor Relations Specialist manager, reviewed the requested discipline in</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">this case. (Tr at 389.) Chludzinski’s concurrence with the disciplinary request was required by</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.267px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the NALC contract as he was Wolfe’s “higher level official.” (Tr. at 394.) The purpose of the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">concurrence is to have a “higher-level manager who presumptively has more experience, maybe a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">little more levelheaded, can tell the new supervisor you’re not – this is excessive in this case. Or</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">vice versa.” (Tr. at 405.) Gerst-Stewart testified that the requesting official has the power to</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">override “Labor,” but never does, because “Labor” is the one familiar with the law. (Tr. at 364-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">366.) Chludzinski did not talk with Wolfe’s delivery supervisors, Mayfield or Derry, regarding</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the discipline during his review of the matters. (Tr. at 390, 394.) Chludzinski testified that he</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">reviews non-safety discipline requests with the goal of whether it would “be supported through the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">grievance procedure” because he “didn’t want it to be some discipline that was issued that was just</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:86.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">however, are different and, for example, he got “more in depth” with the disciplinary request at</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">issue in this case. (Tr. at 412-415.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">When Wolfe formally requested discipline for PW1 and PW2, Wolfe requested a 7-day no</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">time off suspension to be issued to them. (Exs. JX-5, 12.) According to Chludzinkski,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s progressive disciplinary policy follows Respondent’s contract with NALC, which</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">gives discretion to the requesting official to “skip steps” based on “mitigating or aggravating</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">circumstances,” especially in his opinion for safety infractions. (Tr. at 402-405.) The steps in the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">progressive disciplinary policy include: 1) discussion with the employee, 2) written warning, 3) 7-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:17.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.323cm; margin-left:269.667px; "><span style="font-size:7.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:7.5pt; ">13</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.189cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">day no time off suspension</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.196cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 4) 14-day no time off suspension, and 5) possible termination. (Tr.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">at 405-408.) With regard to PW1, Respondent’s contract with NALC required concurrence, verbal</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">or written, by a higher-level official than the one who requested the discipline. (Tr. at 394.) Here,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Chludzinski was Wolfe’s higher-level official. PW2, however, was a “non-career” employee and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">was therefore not subject to the concurrence requirement of the NALC contract. (Tr. at 447.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.267px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Chludzinski testified that he still spoke with Wolfe regarding the discipline for PW2, but any</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">anomalies in the paperwork for PW2 were not a potential procedural defect in the grievance</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">procedure and were therefore of no concern to him. (Tr. at 446-448.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">for PW1 and PW2 and drafted their respective disciplinary letters. (Tr. at 412, 418-421.) The</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">letters were issued by the delivery supervisors and presented to PW1 on May 31, 2017 and to PW2</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.515cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">between Respondent and the NALC that “goes back [] to the 60’s...They’re just paper. But they</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:.067px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.515cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">carry the same effect for purposes of progressive discipline.” (Tr. at 406-407). The employee still</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.515cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">goes to work, “they get paid...It’s just paper that goes in their file...for purposes of progressive</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:86.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Bugay filed a grievance on behalf of PW1 on June 8, 2017, and PW2 on June 16, 2017.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">§ 11(c) of the OSH Act with OSHA on behalf of PW1on July 6, 2017, and PW2 on June 19, 2017.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr. at 51, 82, 511, 524-525; Resp’t Br. at 17 ¶ 42, 23 ¶ 85.) In mid-July 2017, Louis Kammermier</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">replaced Wolfe and became the Acting Manager of the Mt. Oliver branch. (Tr. at 309, 320.) After</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">reviewing the disciplinary matters, Kammermier rescinded and expunged both disciplinary</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">suspensions in this case on August 18, 2017. (Exs. JX-7, 14.) For both rescinded disciplinary</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">measures, Kammermier determined that the “evidence does not support issued discipline.” (Tr. at</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Date</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">May 15, 2017 (Ex. JX-0 ¶¶ 13,15)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">May 31, 2017 (Ex. JX-0 ¶ 21)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">June 1, 2017 (Ex. JX-0 ¶¶ 23, 27)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">June 2, 2017 (Ex. JX-0 ¶ 31)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">June 2017 (Tr. at 524-525)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">June 2017 (Tr. at 525)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">July 6, 2017 (Citation)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">August 18, 2017 (Ex. JX-0 ¶¶ 22, 32)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">September 1, 2017</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.3cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">(Tr. at 526, 538-539; Ex.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">October 6, 2017 (Exs. GX-13, 14)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">November 28, 2017 (Citation)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Secretary sets out in detail part of Respondent’s own business evaluation system and compensation</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">this compensation plan violates § 1904, he nevertheless claims that this compensation plan shows</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">The Standard Applies and the Citation is Valid</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">The Standard is Applicable</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:86.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#1b1b1b; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employer's knowledge of the violation.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#1b1b1b; letter-spacing:.141cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Astra Pharma. Prods., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 9 BNA OSHC 2126, 2129</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">aff'd in pertinent part</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 681 F.2d. 69 (1st Cir. 1982). “It is well settled that</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Unarco Commercial</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Prods.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 16 BNA OSHC 1499, 1502-1503 (No. 89-1555, 1993).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">The standard at issue here states that the employer must not “discharge or in any manner</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">discriminate against any employee for reporting a work-related injury or illness.” 29 C.F.R.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">PW1 and PW2 after they reported their work-related injuries to Wolfe, their manager, by issuing</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">to each of them a 7-day no time off suspension. The undersigned finds that by its plain terms, the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">The Citation is Valid</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent’s “ultra vires” affirmative defense that Respondent asserted in its</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.014cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Answer at 3; Complainant’s Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Sept. 12, 2018);</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">regulation in section 11(c) of the OSH Act,” (b) OSHA now has “new unlimited discrimination</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">causes of action,” (c) these “unlimited discrimination claims under section 1904 are arbitrary and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29 U.S.C. §§ 657(c)(1),</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron USA, Inc. v. NRDC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 467 U.S. 837, 842 (1984).”</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See U.S. Postal Serv.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, OSHRC No. 18-0462, Order Granting Secretary’s Motion for</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Attachment A. For the following reasons,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">U.S.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">and whether it lacked a rational basis and/or whether it was</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Res.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Util. Air Regulatory Grp. v. EPA</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 573 U.S. 302, 321 (2014).)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the “non-delegation” doctrine as addressed in</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Skinner v. Mid-Am. Pipeline Co.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 490 U.S. 212, 214</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the anti-retaliation regulation is not rendered arbitrary and capricious simply because there could</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, inasmuch as the anti-retaliation regulation was promulgated</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">pursuant to Congress’s express delegations of authority to the Secretary (a) to</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">promulgate regulations ‘as necessary or appropriate for the enforcement of this</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">[Act] or for developing information regarding the causes and prevention of</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">occupational accidents’ in section 8(c)(1), (b) to ‘prescribe regulations requiring</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">employers to maintain accurate records of ... work-related deaths, injuries and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">carry out [his] responsibilities under this [Act]’ in section 8(g)(2).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 467 U.S. at 843-844.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Judge Coleman’s analysis persuasively addresses Respondent’s arguments raised in this</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">matter. The undersigned agrees with the Secretary regarding the Coleman Order and embraces the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">legal conclusions as applied to the issues in this case. For these reasons, the undersigned finds that</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">the cited standard is a valid exercise of the Secretary’s rule-making authority and rejects</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">ultra vires</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">or arbitrary and capricious under the APA.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">The Secretary Failed to Establish a Violation of the Cited Standard</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Applicable Law</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">According to the Secretary, “t</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">o</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.014cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">establish a violation of § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv), the Secretary</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">adverse action because the employee reported a work-related injury or illness.” (Sec’y Br. at 34</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#1a1a1a; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 411 U.S. 792 (1973);</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Postal Serv. Bd. of Gov.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Lloyd Indus., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 291 F.Supp. 3d 647 (E.D. Pa.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Doyle v. U. S. Sec'y of Labor,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "> 285 F.3d 243, 250</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">see also</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.019cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29 U.S.C. § 660(a) (“Any person adversely affected or aggrieved by an</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Kerns Bros. Tree</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Serv.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 18 BNA OSHC 2064, 2067 (No. 96-1719, 2000) (Commission generally applies law of the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">McDonnell</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">framework.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.159cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See, e.g.,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.026cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez v. E. Awning Sys., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, No. 3:15-CV-01692 (MPS), 2018</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Dura-Fibre LLC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, No. 17-C-589, 2018 WL</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Lloyd Indus., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 291 F. Supp. 3d 647 ;</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.018cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez v.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez v. Pac. Ship Repair & Fabrication, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, No. C14-1773-JCC, 2015 WL 7292594</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Chao v. Blue Bird Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, No. 5:06-CV-341 (CAR), 2019 WL</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">aff'd sub nom. Solis v. Blue Bird Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 404 F. App'x 412 (11th</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See, e.g., Sharon & Walter Constr., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 23 BNA OSHC 1286,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">burden-shifting scheme is the well-established framework for discrimination case law,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">case</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">see also</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Analysis</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">case with this three-step burden</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">L&L Painting</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Calibri; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; ">23 BNA OSHC 1986, 1989 n. 5 (No. 05-0055, 2012) (holding that items not addressed in briefs</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Protected Activity</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">case. Even Respondent agrees</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">case of retaliation. (Resp’t Br. at 50.) Both PW1</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">76 F. Supp. 3d 1168, 1184 (W.D. Wash. 2015) (“The scope of rights</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">§ 1904.35, section 11(c) of the OSH Act also prohibits you from discriminating against an</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Burlington N. and Santa Fe Ry.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Burlington</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">into his analysis by</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez v. E. Awning Sys., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Causality</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">See, e.g.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.039cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Lloyd Indus., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 291 F. Supp. 3d at 654</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez v. E. Awning Sys., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 2018 WL 4926447, at *8 (“A plaintiff may</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">inference</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.254cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">or</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.252cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">presumption.’</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.36cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Direct</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.254cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">evidence</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.25cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">includes</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.25cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">statements</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">76 F. Supp. 3d at 1188 (citations omitted).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">case of retaliation.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Burden Shift: Legitimate, Nondiscriminatory Reason</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Dura-</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">530 U.S. 133, 142 (2000)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#1b1b1b; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#1b1b1b; letter-spacing:.296cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Respondent states that the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Reeves</span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 530 U.S. at 142. The suspension letters articulate legitimate, non-</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:bold; ">Burden Shift: Pretext</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Lloyd Indus., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 291 F. Supp. 3d at 653;</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Acosta v. Dura-Fibre LLC</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 2018</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">David v. Bd. of Trs. of Cmty. Coll. Dist. No. 508</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 846 F.3d 216, 224 (7th Cir.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Chao v. Blue Bird Corp.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">¶ 18.) Respondent argues that the Secretary failed to prove that this particular drug test order is</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez v. U.S. Postal Serv.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, 76 F. Supp. 3d 1168, is distinguishable from this case.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">Perez</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">29 C.F.R. § 1977.6. (“An</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Finally, given that the suspensions in this matter were rescinded and expunged from the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a). All proposed findings of fact</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.041cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">other-than-Serious violation of 29</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:55.2px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-style:italic; ">U.S. Postal Serv.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">, “Order Granting Secretary’s Motion For Partial Summary Judgment On</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">Affirmative Defenses Numbered 8 & 9 In The Respondent’s Answer” (No. 18-0462) (Dec. 27,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; ">2018) (ALJ Coleman).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11pt; ">United States of America</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHRC DOCKET No. 18-0462</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">February</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">2018,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.148cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Secretary</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">issued</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">one-item</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.148cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">other-than-serious</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">citation</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">sole item</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">on</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">about</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">August</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.115cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">2017,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">-day working suspension to a carrier because he reported a</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The citation item alleged that this action violated 29</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">must not discharge or in any manner</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The Citation</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">timely</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.168cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">contested</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.185cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.18cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Citation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.18cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.176cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">thereby</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">invoked</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.189cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.176cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">jurisdiction</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.185cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.176cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act), 29 U.S.C. § 659. The Secretary thereafter</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">duly filed a complaint pursuant to Commission Rule 34(a), 29 C.F.R. § 2200.34(a), wherein the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Secretary re-asserted the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.79cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">alleged violation, proposed penalty, and abatement.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.12cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Citation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">interposed</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">number</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">affirmative</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">defenses,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">including</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, may be</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">s 11(c) rights, and (b) undermine</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">If the section 11(c) procedure is exclusive, that would be the end of the matter</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.879cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">attempted</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">9(a) of the Act (along with a proposed penalty under section 10(a) of the Act) would contravene</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the Act and be ultra vires. In that event, the Citation would be ordered vacated.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">not</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.035cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">exclusive, then the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">must be</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">regulation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.164cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.157cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">proscribes</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.155cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">certain</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.164cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">conduct</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.161cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(i.e.,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employer</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">2</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">against</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employee</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">having</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reported</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">work-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:216px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">11(c) of the Act?</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">As described below, the answers to both questions are negative, so</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">is GRANTED, and the two affirmative defenses described above shall be ordered stricken from</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the answer.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.133px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:368px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Authority to Promulgate</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:319.667px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Recordkeeping Regulations</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:9.267px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:577.867px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">which is</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.661cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">assure so</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">far as possible every working man and woman in the Nation safe and healthful working conditions</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:55.333px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">procedures with respect to occupational safety and health which procedures will help achieve the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">objectives of this [Act] and accurately describe the nature of the occupational safety and health</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:320.6px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Section 24(a) of the Act thus directs the Secretary to</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">[C]ompile accurate statistics on work injuries and illnesses</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">which shall include all</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">disabling, serious, or significant injuries and illnesses, whether or not involving loss</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of time from work, other than minor injuries requiring only first aid treatment and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">which do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, restriction of work</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or motion, or transfer to another job.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">other than minor</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">3</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to carry out [his] responsibilities under this</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Section</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.161cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">8(c)(1)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.155cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.159cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.162cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Act</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.164cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">requires</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.161cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employers</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">it provides</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">as the Secretary</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.6cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">may prescribe by</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">regulation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">as</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">necessary</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.132cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">appropriate</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.12cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">enforcement</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">this</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Act</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">developing</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">U.S.C. §657(c)(1) (emphasis added).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:307px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Section 11(c) of the Act and the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:257.4px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Interpretive Regulation at 29 C.F.R. Part 1977</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Section 11(c) of the Act prohibits certain retaliatory acts against employees and includes</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an enforcement mechanism for remedying such unlawful acts. 29 U.S.C. § 660(c). The 11(c)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.279cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Section 660(c)(1). Section 11(c)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:168px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:168px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:168px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">this Act or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding or</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">4</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:97.533px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:168px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to be made as he deems appropriate. If upon such investigation, the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:168px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Secretary determines that the provisions of this subsection have been</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:168px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">district court against such person. In any such action the United States</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">rehiring</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or reinstatement</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employee</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">his</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.219cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Secretary</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.21cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">shall</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.219cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">notify</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.21cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.217cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">complainant</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.224cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.215cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">his</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">A few years after the enactment of the Act, the Secretary promulgated a regulation (now</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">codified at 29 C.F.R. pt. 1977), the stated purpose of which is</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:55.333px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of part 1977 address the matter of whether the Secretary regards section 11(c) to provide an</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:221.267px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Promulgation of the Cited Regulation, § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Final Rule,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.046cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Improve</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 81 Fed. Reg. 29624 (May 12, 2016) (to be codified</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 29 C.F.R. pts. 1904 and 1902). The preamble to the final rule explains that section 1904.35(b)(1)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.025cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 29656 & 29687; s</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">ee also Thermal</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.191cm; margin-left:149.4px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Although the regulation was effective on August 10, 2016, the Secretary delayed its</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">until</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.148cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">December</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.138cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">1,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">2016.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.402cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">5</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">12</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">BNA</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHC</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">1264,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">1266</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(No.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">81</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.191cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">codified at 29 C.F.R. Part 1904. Although the validity of only subparagraph (b)(1)(iv) is at issue</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Implementation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.28cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(1)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.187cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">What</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.185cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">I</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.176cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">do</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.18cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">sure</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.182cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(i) You</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">rulemaking</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">process</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">resulted</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">eventual</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">promulgation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">subparagraph</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Implementation. (1) What must I do to make sure that employees</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">6</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Proposed</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Rulemaking</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(NPRM)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.332cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">amend</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">its</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">recordkeeping</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">regulations</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">add</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Proposed Rule,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.032cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 78 Fed. Reg.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 67255; 29 U.S.C. §§ 657 & 673.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The preamble</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">concern</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">raised</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">by</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">many</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">meeting</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">participants</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">was</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.148cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">electronic</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.24cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">submission</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.243cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">requirement</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">might</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">create</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.236cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for employers to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">under-report</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">injuries</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">illnesses.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employees</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">from</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.178cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reporting</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.168cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">injuries</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.171cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">illnesses</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">by</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">accord</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Supplemental NPRM,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">adding provisions that will make it a violation</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">protect[ing]</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">5.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">7</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">stated legal authority for these proposed additions to the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 47606. The Supplemental NPRM expresses the view</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employers may not discipline</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, as required by sections 8 and 24 of the Act.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.319cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The Supplemental NPRM noted that</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">given testimony that some employers already engage in</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and the possibility that the proposed rule could</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">carry out" the recordkeeping requirements of the Act. (See 29</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.191cm; margin-left:149.4px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The other two proposed requirements on which the Supplemental NPRM solicited public</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">comment</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and illnesses; [and] (2) require that any injury and illness reporting requirements established by</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:464.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 47606.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.191cm; margin-left:149.4px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHA had identified the suppressive impact of retaliation on the reporting of work-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">related injuries and illnesses well before the 2016 promulgation of the cited regulation. Another</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">provision</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">recordkeeping</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.104cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">regulation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">was</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">originally promulgated in</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">2002,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">section</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">8</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:95.933px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The Supplemental NPRM recognized that section 11(c) provides a remedy for employees</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">who have been subjected to retaliation for having reported a work-related injury or illness, but the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Secretary did not regard the pre-existing statutory procedure to preclude promulgation of a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:22.867px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "></span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employee for having reported a work-related injury or illness. As originally promulgated in 2002,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">section 1904.36 provided as follows:</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:5.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:192px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-weight:bold; ">§ 1904.36 Prohibition against discrimination.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:204px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Section 11(c) of the Act prohibits you from discriminating against</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:192px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an employee for reporting a work-related fatality, injury or illness.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:192px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">That provision of the Act also protects the employee who files a</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:192px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">safety and health complaint, asks for access to the Part 1904 records,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:192px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or otherwise exercises any rights afforded by the OSH Act.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:6.867px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(The 2016 final rule amended section 1904.36 by changing its fi</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.733px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">addition to § 1904.35, section 11(c) of the Act also prohibits you from discriminating against an</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employee for reporting a work-related fatality, injury or illness.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.383cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The final rule left the second</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.733px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">sentence of section 1904.36 unchanged. 81 Fed. Reg. at 29671.)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:4.133px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The preamble that was published in connection with the promulgation of original section</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">1904.36</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:7.067px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Section 1904.36 of the final rule makes clear that § 11(c) of the Act</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">prohibits</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employers</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">from</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.136cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">discriminating</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">against</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employees</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reporting work-related injuries and illnesses. Section 1904.36 does</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">not create a new obligation on employers. Instead, it clarifies that</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the OSH Act's anti-discrimination protection applies to employees</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">who seek to participate in the recordkeeping process.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">9</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">same</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">retaliatory</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.101cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">conduct.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.333cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Supplemental</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">NPRM</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">indicates</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.111cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">principal</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">responsibility to collect accurate injury and illness statistics:</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">provision,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employee</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">who</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">believes</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">he</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">she</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">has</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">been</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Court</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.351cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">seeking</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.349cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">"all</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.351cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">appropriate</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.349cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">relief"</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.349cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">including</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reinstatement and back pay. (29 U.S.C. 660(c)(2).) Taking adverse</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">action against an employee who reports a fatality, injury, or illness</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.733px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">primary conduct that would be prohibited by the new provision is</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">likely already proscribed by 11(c).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">against</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employer</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">unless</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employee</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">files</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.12cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">complaint.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">noted</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">above,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.168cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">these</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.18cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">retaliatory</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.168cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">actions</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">would</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.173cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">likely</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.155cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">be</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">be</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">different.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.367cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Under</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">this</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">provision,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHA</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">could</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">issue</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">10</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHA received 142 comments on the Supplemental NPRM. 81 Fed. Reg. at 29625. On</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">May 12, 2016, OSHA promulgated the final rule that contained the annual electronic reporting</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:17.267px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.325cm; margin-left:696.733px; "><span style="font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:8pt; ">6</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">as</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">well as the three additional requirements that had been proposed in the Supplemental NPRM,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">including the anti-retaliation provision cited here, section 1904.35(b)(1)(iv). 81 Fed. Reg. 29624.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:143.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The preamble to the final rule reiterated the rationale and statutory authority for the anti-</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">retaliation provision that was originally expressed in the Supplemental NPRM:</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Act's</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">various</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">statutory</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">grants</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">authority</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.115cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">address</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">recordkeeping provide authority for OSHA to prohibit employers</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">from discouraging employee reports of injuries or illnesses. If</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">may</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">not</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">discriminate</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">against</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">workers</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reporting</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">workers</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">from</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reporting</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">their</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">injuries</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">illnesses,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">their</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employers' records and reports may be more "accurate", as required</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">by sections 8 and 24 of the Act. Evidence in the administrative</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">record establishes that some employers engage in practices that</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">discourage injury and illness</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reporting, and many</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.101cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">commenters</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">support</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.243cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHA's</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">concern</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.243cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.252cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.256cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">electronic</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">could</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.219cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">provide</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.21cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">additional</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.219cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">motivation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.215cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.21cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employers</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.215cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">discourage accurate reporting of injuries and illnesses. Therefore,</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.191cm; margin-left:149.4px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The Secretary has recently proposed to rescind the recently promulgated requirement set</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">forth in section 1904.41 for the annual electronic submission by establishments with more than</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">249 employees of the information that is recorded on OSHA Forms 300 (Log of Work-Related</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Injuries and Illnesses) and 301 (Injury and Illness Incident Report). Proposed Rule,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.037cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Tracking of</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Workplace Injuries and Illnesses</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 83 Fed. Reg. 36494 (proposed July 30, 2018) (to be codified at</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">29 C.F.R.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.016cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">pts. 1904 & 1952). However, this proposed rescission would not affect other electronic</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">11</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">employees</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">from</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reporting</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">injuries</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">illnesses,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.118cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">including</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">or</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.228cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.228cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">any</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.222cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">manner</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.222cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">discriminating</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.222cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">against</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.231cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">such</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">is</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.243cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">"necessary</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.231cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.24cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">carry</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.231cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">out"</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.236cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.24cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">recordkeeping</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">conduct prohibited by § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv) of the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">not change the substantive</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Notwithstanding the absence of any</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">an enhanced enforcement tool for ensuring the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">t dependent upon an employee first filing</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a complaint under section 11(c) of the Act. 81 Fed. Reg. at 29671. The preamble notes that</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">section 11(c)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.291cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">by infringing on an employee's</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">right to bring</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.104cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a section 11(c)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.12cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">claim and by</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">citation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the employer for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">violating</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.104cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.116cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">final</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.109cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">rule.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.328cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">OSHA</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">12</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">broader</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">range</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">equitable</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">relief</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">punitive</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the Secretary is</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Rockwell Int'l Corp.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 9 BNA OSHC 1092 (No. 12470, 1980)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">promulgated</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">under</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">§</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">6(b)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.132cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Act),</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">overruled</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">on</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">other</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">grounds,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">George</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">C.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Christopher & Sons, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 10 BNA OSHC 1436 (No. 76-647, 1982);</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.018cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">see also CBI Servs., Inc.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 19</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Commission precedent does not</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.249cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Martin v. OSHRC</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">CF & I Steel Corp.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">), 499 U.S. 144, 154 (1991)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.304cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See La. Forestry Ass'n Inc. v.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">arbitrary,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in excess of</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">§§ 706(2)(A)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">988 F.2d 1221, 1226 (D.C. Cir. 1993) (noting</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">between the question</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Univ. Med. Ctr. of S. Nev.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and the question whether [the agency] acted in an</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">;</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">La. Forestry Ass'n Inc.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 745 F.3d at 667.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Res. Def. Council,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See City of Arlington</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework applies to resolve the contention</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">ultra vires as being outside the bounds of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.305cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">statutory</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">La. Forestry Ass'n</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 745 F.3d at 669-70 (applying</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.018cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework in case brought</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">14</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.085cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework similarly applies to a challenge to a regulation promulgated</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to advance a specified statutory purpose.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.099cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">467 U.S. at 843</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.115cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">44 (stating</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">United States v. Mead Corp.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 533 U.S. 218, 226</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">27 (2001)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">deference</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Ragsdale v. Wolverine World Wide, Inc.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 535 U.S. 81, 86 (2002)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework to review of a rule promulgated by Secretary of Labor pursuant to</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Mayo Found. for Med. Educ. & Research v. United States</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 562 U.S. 44,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework to the review of a rule that was promulgated pursuant to</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework, a court must apply</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.99cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">tools of statutory</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:8.073cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">n t</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 842</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The plainness or ambiguity of statutory language is determined by reference to the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">may</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.134cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">consider</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.993cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">purpose and its legislative history in ascertaining</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 862-63 (considering</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.014cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">as a whole [] silent on the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">;</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">see also Arcadian Corp.,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">17 BNA OSHC 1345, 1348-49 (No. 93-3270,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">that legislative</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step one</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.326cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">although</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.438cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">ambiguous guidance</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">on the issue),</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.041cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Geisinger Cmty. Med. Ctr. v. Sec'y H.H.S.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 794 F.3d</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the Supreme Court has often oscillated between</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">when statutory</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">) (Kavanaugh, J.).</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">if the statute is silent or ambiguous with respect to the specific issue,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 843. At</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step two, courts</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Michigan v. EPA</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 576 U.S.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.478cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.474cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.014cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 135 S. Ct. 2699, 2707 (2015), and</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:172.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Mayo Found. for Med. Educ. & Research v. United States</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 562 U.S. 44, 53 (2011).</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Recently, in</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.139cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">basic</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">procedural</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">requirements</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.143cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">administrative</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Mfrs.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">States,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Inc.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">v.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Farm</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.122cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">463 U.S. 29, 43 (1983) (internal quotation</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Bowman</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.168cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Inc.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.164cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">v.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.168cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Arkansas</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.127cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Best</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.169cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Freight</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">419 U.S. 281, 286 (1974). But where the agency has</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:1.6px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:191.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">failed to provide even that minimal level of analysis, its action is</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">State Farm, supra,</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 42</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.115cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">43.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of judicial review under section</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">demands more stringent review of OSHA rules than would the APA's arbitrary</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">17</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step one</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:4.729cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">may be framed as</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">injury and illness information reported to OSHA, the Secretary is restricted to employing the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">section 11(c) procedure to deter and thwart retaliatory action against employees for having</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reported a work-related injury or illness?</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">statutory</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.282cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">authority</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.282cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.286cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">promulgating</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.286cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.288cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">anti-retaliation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.291cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">provision</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.286cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">§ 1904.35(b)(1)(iv) derives from</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:1.619cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">recordkeeping provisions described in detail above. 29</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.533px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">U.S.C. §§ 657(c)(l), 657(c)(2), 657(g)(2), 673(a), 673(e). Nothing in the text of section 11(c)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">rights and establishes the</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">exclusive remedy available to employees who believe they have been retaliated against for having</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">engaged in certain protected activities (of which the reporting of work-related injuries and illnesses</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">is but one).</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.113cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Taylor v. Brighton Corp.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 616 F.2d 256, 258 (6th Cir. 1980) (indicating that the class</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of persons that section 11(c) was intended to benefit are employees engaging in activity protected</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">by 11(c), and holding that 11(c) does not provide employees with a private cause of action);</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Johnson v. Interstate Mgmt. Co., LLC</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 849 F.3d 1093, 1096 (D.C. Cir. 2017) (noting that 11(c)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:103px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">supplies a remedy for employees who believe they have been subject to retaliation</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:144px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">The text of section 11(c) contains no limiting language of any kind. The text does not</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">"directly sp[eak] to the precise question at issue" of whether OSHA must rely on the section 11(c)</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">procedure to vindicate and advance statutory interests other than the interest of employees to be</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:96px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">protected from retaliation for engaging in protected activities.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.023cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 467 U.S. at 842. Rather,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Congress did not have a specific intention</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.279cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">see also Montford & Co. v. SEC</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 793 F.3d 76, 82 (D.C. Cir. 2015) (where text of statute does</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step one). Put another way, nothing in section 11(c) speaks to whether OSHA</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See Util. Air Regulatory Grp. v. EPA</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 573 U.S. 302, 321 (2014), quoting</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.035cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Univ. of Tex.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">see also Gen. Motors Corp., Inland Div.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 8</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.004cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">5033, 1980) (noting that the Commission considers the reporting</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.011cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">a cornerstone of the Act and play a crucial role in providing the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">de minimus</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.21cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">would weaken significantly the reporting requirements of the Act and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">St. Joe Resources</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.026cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">ruled that the Commission had the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the court noting that employment</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the remedial purposes of [the OSH Act] would be</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 916 F.2d at 298, quoting</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:-.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">address different types of wrongdoing</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">(Mem. in Opposition, 6-8). The portions of</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.021cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Taylor v. Brighton</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">,</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the possibility of</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Id.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:normal; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 260, citing</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.007cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">legislative history does give rise to</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">framework. The</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">20</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.021cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step two is whether the enforcement of section 1904.35(b)(1)(iv)</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Barnhart</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.039cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.012cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 843. The regulation will be deemed to</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">as failing</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.069cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">quoted</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Encino</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Smiley v. Citibank (S.D.), N. A.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 517 U.S. 735, 740</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.002cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Skinner v.</span></p>
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				<p style="margin-top:18.4px; margin-bottom:0px; line-height:.485cm; margin-left:95.933px; "><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Mid-Am. Pipeline Co.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, 490 U.S. 212, 214 (1989) (addressing non-delegation doctrine and noting</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; letter-spacing:.009cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">see also Thermal Reduction</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">for this proposition, and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reasonably effectuates</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">consistent with the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">22</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">different</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">proceeding before the Commission that also involves an alleged violation</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">controlling weight</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.21cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">under</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.016cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">, inasmuch as the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">regulation</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">was</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.148cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">promulgated</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.146cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">pursuant</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.157cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">to</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:2.304cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">express</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">delegations</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.152cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">of</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">necessary or appropriate for the</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in section 8(c)(1), (b</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.866cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">prescribe regulations requiring employers to</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.302cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in section 8(c)(2), and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">[Act]</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.005cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">at 843-44.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">reasons</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">described</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.125cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">in</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">with</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.131cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">the</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.148cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; "><span><span></span>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">analysis</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">and</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">See Judulang v.</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; ">Chevron</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; letter-spacing:.076cm; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; font-style:italic; "><span><span></span>
						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">step two is</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">WILLIAM S. COLEMAN</span></p>
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						</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt; font-family:Times New Roman; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:11.5pt; ">Administrative Law Judge</span></p>
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