DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH); Notice of Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) will meet on August 4, 1997, from 9:00 a.m. to about 3:30 p.m. in Room N-3437 A-D of the Department of Labor Building located at 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Congress created NACOSH under section 7(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 656) to advise the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on matters relating to the administration of this Act.

The NACOSH meeting is open to the public. Individuals with disabilities requiring certain accommodations should contact Theresa Berry (phone: 202-219-8615 ext. 106; FAX: 202-219-5986) by July 28, 1997.

The agenda items include: a brief overview of current activities at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; regulatory and legislative updates; a continuing discussion of OSHA's 11(c) program, cooperative compliance programs, and the strategic and annual performance plans; and a report of an ergonomics conference.

Interested persons may file written data, views or statements, preferably with 20 copies, for consideration by NACOSH by submitting it to Joanne Goodell at the address provided below. Those submissions received by August 1, 1997, will be provided to NACOSH and included in the record of the meeting. Interested persons may also request to make an oral presentation by submitting to Joanne Goodell by July 25, 1997, a summary of the proposed presentation, an estimate of the time desired, and a statement of the interest that the person represents. The Chair may allow oral presentations at her discretion and as time permits.

An official record of the meeting will be available for public inspection in the OSHA Technical Data Center (TDC) located in Room N- 2625 of the Department of Labor Building (202-219-7500). For additional information contact: Joanne Goodell, Directorate of Policy, OSHA; Room N-3641, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210 (phone: 202- 219-8021, extension 107; FAX: 202-219-4383).

Signed at Washington, D.C. this 2nd day of July, 1997.

Greg Watchman,

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor.

[FR Doc. 97-17741 Filed 7-7-97; 8:45 am]