Document ID: OSHA-H005C-2006-0870-0332
Agency: osha
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2007-11-06T05:00Z

November 1, 2007

SER name

  and address

Dear [SER name]

Thank you for agreeing to review OSHA’s draft standard on Beryllium.  
I am the Chair of a Small Business Advocacy Review (SBAR) Panel composed
of government officials from OSHA, the Office of Advocacy within the
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA Office of Advocacy), and the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  We very much appreciate your
willingness to take the time to help us review this important
regulation.  

The SBAR panel is being formed in accordance with the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA).  SBREFA was
enacted by Congress to ensure that small businesses potentially affected
by an OSHA standard have the opportunity to review a proposed rule
before its publication. As a small entity representative (SER), we are
inviting you to provide comments and recommendations about the draft
proposed standard and it’s potential impacts on your business.  

Attached are several documents for your review.  Of particular
importance are the draft proposed regulation and the Preliminary Initial
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (PIRFA).   A complete list of enclosed
materials is provided at the end of this letter.  Please note that in
addition to the general materials, the panel is also providing you with
some additional materials that pertain solely to your business/industry
-- rather than for all affected sectors.  If you wish to see information
for all sectors, or some scientific articles identified in the PIRFA’s
list of references, we will be happy to provide them to you.  You are
not being asked to review materials for other industries though.  

About a month after this letter is mailed, the SBAR panel will convene
and you will have the opportunity to participate in a teleconference to
provide the panel with your comments.  You can also attend the
teleconference in person in Washington, D.C., if you wish.  We will
notify you shortly of the exact date and time of the conference calls
(we schedule two of these so that each SER can participate in one call
each).  The dates will likely be between November 30 and December 4,
2007.  There will probably be about 10-15 small entity representatives
participating in each of the calls, which take 2 to 3 hours.  Following
the conference call, you will have two additional weeks to provide
written comments if you wish.   

After receiving any written responses from the SERs, the panel prepares
a report based on your comments to present to Edwin G. Foulke Jr., the
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.  The
panel report will then become part of the official public record for
this rulemaking.

In order to include the substance of your written comments in the SBAR
panel’s report, we request that you provide these by December 15 (or
earlier, if possible).  This deadline is necessary so that the panel can
complete its report within the time limits specified by SBREFA.  Your
written comments may address any of the issues or concerns you have with
the draft rule or materials.  Written comments can be sent by email to
Kathleen Martinez at   HYPERLINK "mailto:Martinez.Kathleen@dol.gov" 
Martinez.Kathleen@dol.gov  or by fax to (202) 693-1641.  Ms. Martinez is
organizing much of the work of the panel, including the conference
calls, so please direct any administrative questions to her at (202)
693-1953.

Please feel free to telephone or e-mail us before the teleconference
calls with any questions regarding this process or the enclosed
materials.  You may contact Bruce Lundegren from SBA’s Office of
Advocacy -- whose office represents the views of small business in the
SBREFA process.  Mr. Lundegren’s telephone number is (202) 205-6144
and his email address is   HYPERLINK "mailto:Bruce.Lundgren@sba.gov" 
Bruce.Lundgren@sba.gov .   At OSHA you may contact Paul Bolon, senior
economist, at (202) 693-1960 or myself at (202) 693-1952.  You are free
to discuss these materials with the other SERs, or anyone else, as they
are considered public documents.  

Thank you again for agreeing to participate in this important review. 
We appreciate your efforts and look forward to working with you.  				

					Sincerely yours,

					Robert Burt

					Chair, Small Business Advocacy Review Panel

					Occupational Safety and Health Administration

cc:	Bruce Lundegren, SBA Office of Advocacy

	John Kraemer, OMB

Enclosures:

Tab 1   List of SERs and contact numbers for all, including OSHA, SBA,
and OMB

Tab 2   Schedule 

Tab 3   Issues document

Tab 4   Draft Regulatory Text

Tab 5   PIRFA (Preliminary Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis)

Tab 6   Reports on technological feasibility for individual SER
industries

Tab 7   Reports on cost estimate methods and individual industry costs

Tab 8   Background materials on SBREFA:    Procedures for Compliance
with the Regulatory Development and Review Requirements of the
Regulatory Flexibility Act