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PUBLIC LAW 91-596-DEC. 29, 1970
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STATE JURISDICTION A N D STATE P L A N S
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SEC. 18. (a) Nothing in this Act shall prevent any State agency or court from asserting lurisdiction under State law over any occupational safety or health issue with respect to which no standard is in effect under section 6. (b) Any State which, at any time, desires to assume responsibility for development and enforcement therein of occupational safety and health standards relating to any occupational safety or health issue with respect to which a Federal standard has been promulgated under section 6 shall submit a State plan for the development of such standards and their enforcement. (c) The Secretary shall approve the plan submitted by a State under subsection (b), or any modification thereof, if such plan in his judgment— (1) designates a State agency or agencies as the agency or agencies responsible for administering the plan throughout the State, (2) provides for the development and enforcement of safety and health standards relating to one or more safety or health issues, which standards (and the enforcement of which standards) are or will be at least as effective in providing safe and healthful employment and places of employment as the standards promulgated under section 6 which relate to the same issues, and which standards, when applicable to products which are distributed or used in interstate commerce, are required by compelling local conditions and do not unduly burden interstate commerce, (3) provides for a right of entry and inspection of all workplaces subject to the Act which is at least as effective as that provided in section 8, and includes a prohibition on advance notice of inspections, (4) contains satisfactory assurances that such agency or agencies have or will have the legal authority and qualified personnel necessarJ for the enforcement of such standards, (5) gives satisfactory assurances that such State will devote adequate funds to the administration and enforcement of such standards, (6) contains satisfactory assurances that such State will, to the extent permitted by its law, establish and maintain an effective and comprehensive occupational safety and health program applicable to all employees of public agencies of the State and its political subdivisions, which program is as effective as the standards contained in an approved plan, (7) requires employers in the State to make reports to the Secretary in the same manner and to the same extent as if the plan were not in effect, and (8) provides that the State agency will make such reports to the Secretary in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary shall from time to time require. (^) ^^ *^® Secretary rejects a plan submitted under subsection (b), he shall afford the State submitting the plan due notice and opportunity for a hearing before so doing. (e) After the Secretary approves a State plan submitted under subsection (b), he may, but shall not be required to, exercise his authority under sections 8,9,10,13, and 17 with respect to comparable standards promulgated under section 6, for the period specified in the next sentence. The Secretary may exercise the authority referred to above until he determines, on the basis of actual operations under the
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