Occupational Safety and Health Administration July 6, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (FAIR Act), and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-76, the Department of Labor must notify the public when it either concurs or disagrees with a challenge from directly affected employees. In this case, the challenge concerns the reclassification of a number of full time equivalent (FTE) Whistleblower Investigators, Supervisory Investigators, Program Managers, and Team Leaders in OSHA's National Office and field locations, to ``inherently governmental'' status from their prior classification as commercial in nature in the Department of Labor's FY 2005 FAIR Act Inventory for OSHA.