[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 9]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1955.2]

[Page 133]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1955_PROCEDURES FOR WITHDRAWAL OF APPROVAL OF STATE PLANS--Table 
of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 1955.2  Definitions.

    (a) As used in this part unless the context clearly requires 
otherwise:
    (1) Act means the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970;
    (2) Assistant Secretary means Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health;
    (3) Commencement of a case under section 18(f) of the Act means, for 
the purpose of determining State jurisdiction following a final decision 
withdrawing approval of a plan, the issuance of a citation.
    (4) Developmental step includes, but is not limited to, those items 
listed in the published developmental schedule, or any revisions 
thereto, for each plan contained in 29 CFR part 1952. A developmental 
step also includes those items in the plan as approved under section 
18(c) of the Act, as well as those items in the approval decision which 
are subject to evaluations (see e.g., approval of Michigan plan), which 
were deemed necessary to make the State program at least as effective as 
the Federal program within the 3 year developmental period. (See part 
1953 of this chapter.
    (5) Final approval means approval of the State plan, or any 
modification thereof under section 18(e) of the Act and subpart D of 29 
CFR part 1902.
    (6) Initial approval means approval of a State plan, or any 
modification thereof under section 18(c) of the Act and subpart C of 29 
CFR part 1902;
    (7) Party includes the State agency or agencies designated to 
administer and enforce the State plan that is the subject of withdrawal 
proceedings, the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration (hereinafter called OSHA), represented by the Office of 
the Solicitor and any person participating in the proceedings pursuant 
to Sec. 1955.17;
    (8) Person means an individual, partnership, association, 
corporation, business trust, legal representative, an organized group of 
individuals, or an agency, authority, or instrumentality of the United 
States or of a State;
    (9) Secretary means Secretary of Labor;
    (10) Separable portion of a plan for purposes of withdrawal of 
approval generally means an issue as defined in 29 CFR 1902.2(c), i.e. 
``an industrial, occupational or hazard grouping which is at least as 
comprehensive as a corresponding grouping contained in (i) one or more 
sections in subpart B or R of part 1910 of this chapter, or (ii) one or 
more of the remaining subparts of part 1910'': Provided, That wherever 
the Assistant Secretary has determined that other industrial, 
occupational or hazard groupings are administratively practicable, such 
groupings shall be considered separable portions of a plan.
    (b) [Reserved]

[40 FR 23467, May 30, 1975, as amended at 67 FR 60129, Sept. 25, 2002]