[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: 29CFR1978.101]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1978_RULES FOR IMPLEMENTING SECTION 405 OF THE SURFACE 
TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1982 (STAA)--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B_Rules of Procedure
 
Sec. 1978.101  Definitions.

    (a) Act means the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 
(STAA) (49 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.).
    (b) Secretary means Secretary of Labor or persons to whom authority 
under the Act has been delegated.
    (c) Assistant Secretary means the Assistant Secretary of Labor for 
Occupational Safety and Health or the person or persons to whom he or 
she delegates authority under the Act.
    (d) Employee means (1) a driver of a commercial motor vehicle 
(including an independent contractor while in the course of personally 
operating a commercial motor vehicle); (2) a mechanic; (3) a freight 
handler; or (4) any individual other than an employer; who is employed 
by a commercial motor carrier and who in the course of his employment 
directly affects commercial motor vehicle safety, but such term does not 
include an employee of the United States, any State, or a political 
subdivision of a State who is acting within the course of such 
employment.
    (e) Commercial motor carrier means a person who meets the definition 
of motor carrier found at 49 U.S.C. 10102(13) (Supp. 1987) and motor 
private carrier found at 49 U.S.C. 10102(16) (Supp. 1987).
    (f) OSHA means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    (g) Complainant means the employee who filed a section 405 complaint 
or on whose behalf a complaint was filed.

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    (h) Named person means the person alleged to have violated section 
405.
    (i) Person means one or more individuals, partnerships, 
associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives or 
any group of persons.