[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: 29CFR1981.100]

[Page 218-219]
 
                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
CHAPTER XVII--OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                          OF LABOR (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1981_PROCEDURES FOR THE HANDLING OF DISCRIMINATION COMPLAINTS 
 
 Subpart A_Complaints, Investigations, Findings, and Preliminary Orders
 
Sec. 1981.100  Purpose and scope.

UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE PIPELINE SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2002
--Table of Contents




 Subpart A_Complaints, Investigations, Findings, and Preliminary Orders

Sec.
1981.100 Purpose and scope.
1981.101 Definitions.
1981.102 Obligations and prohibited acts.
1981.103 Filing of discrimination complaint.
1981.104 Investigation.
1981.105 Issuance of findings and preliminary orders.

                          Subpart B_Litigation

1981.106 Objections to the findings and the preliminary order and 
          request for a hearing.
1981.107 Hearings.
1981.108 Role of Federal agencies.
1981.109 Decision and orders of the administrative law judge.
1981.110 Decision and orders of the Administrative Review Board.

                   Subpart C_Miscellaneous Provisions

1981.111 Withdrawal of complaints, objections, and findings; settlement.
1981.112 Judicial review.
1981.113 Judicial enforcement.

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1981.114 Special circumstances; waiver of rules.

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60129; Secretary of Labor's Order 5-2002, 67 FR 
65008 (October 22, 2002).

    Source: 69 FR 17591, Apr. 5, 2004, unless otherwise noted.



    (a) This part implements procedures under section 6 of the Pipeline 
Safety Improvement Act of 2002, 49 U.S.C. 60129 (``the Pipeline Safety 
Act''), which provides for employee protection from discrimination by a 
person owning or operating a pipeline facility or a contractor or 
subcontractor of such person because the employee has engaged in 
protected activity pertaining to a violation or alleged violation of any 
order, regulation, or standard under chapter 601, subtitle VIII of title 
49 of the United States Code or any other provision of Federal law 
relating to pipeline safety.
    (b) This part establishes procedures pursuant to the Pipeline Safety 
Act for the expeditious handling of discrimination complaints made by 
employees, or by persons acting on their behalf. These rules, together 
with those rules codified at 29 CFR part 18, set forth the procedures 
for submission of complaints under the Pipeline Safety Act, 
investigations, issuance of findings and preliminary orders, objections 
to findings and orders, litigation before administrative law judges, 
post-hearing administrative review, and withdrawals and settlements.