Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Expansion of Recognition

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. NRTL-4-93]

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Expansion of Recognition

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the Agency's final decision on the

application of Underwriters Laboratory Inc. (UL), for expansion of its

recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) under

29 CFR 1910.7.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This recognition becomes effective on June 24, 1999

and, unless modified in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.7, continues in

effect while UL remains recognized by OSHA as an NRTL.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard Pasquet, Office of Technical

Programs and Coordination Activities, NRTL Program, Occupational Safety

and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Room N3653, Washington, DC 20210, or phone (202) 693-2110.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Notice of Final Decision

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hereby

gives notice of the expansion of recognition of Underwriters

Laboratories Inc. (UL) as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory

(NRTL). UL's expansion covers the use of additional test standards.

OSHA recognizes an organization as an NRTL and processes applications

related to such recognitions following requirements in Section 1910.7

of Title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (29 CFR 1910.7). Appendix A to

this section requires that OSHA publish this public notice of its final

decision on an application.

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UL submitted a request, dated February 5, 1996 (see Exhibit 13A),

to expand its recognition to use additional test standards. UL then

supplemented its request on April 1, 1997 (see Exhibit 13B), for

additional test standards. OSHA published the required notice in the

Federal Register (62 FR 62359, 11/21/97). The notice included a

preliminary finding that UL could meet the requirements for expansion

of its recognition, and OSHA invited public comment on the application

by January 20, 1998. One comment was received, within the time

provided, in response to the notice (see Exhibit 15-1). UL responded to

this comment in its letter dated December 22, 1998 (see Exhibit 16).

The submitter of the comment expressed five ``concerns,'' and posed

a number of questions related to them. Most of the concerns relate to

an alleged deficiency in the UL 2161 (Neon Transformers and Power

Supplies) test standard. The NRTL Program staff has carefully

considered these concerns but has concluded that the comment provides

no basis for withholding approval of this test standard for UL or for

any other NRTL that has the necessary capabilities.

UL's previous application as an NRTL covered its renewal of

recognition (60 FR 16171, 3/29/95), which OSHA granted on 6/29/95 (60

FR 33852).

You may obtain or review copies of all public documents pertaining

to the application by contacting the Docket Office, Occupational Safety

and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Room N2625, Washington, DC 20210, telephone: (202) 693-

2350. You should refer to Docket No. NRTL-4-93, the permanent record of

public information on the UL recognition.

The current addresses of the testing facilities (sites) that OSHA

recognizes for UL are:

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook,

Illinois 60062

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 1285 Walt Whitman Road, Melville, Long

Island, New York 11747

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 1655 Scott Boulevard, Santa Clara,

California 95050

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 12 Laboratory Drive, P.O. Box 13995,

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709

Underwriters Laboratories Inc., 2600 NW Lake Road, Camas, Washington

98607

UL International Limited, Veristrong Industrial Centre, Block B, 14th

Floor, 34 Au Pui Wan Street, Fo Tan Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong

UL International Services, Ltd., Taiwan Branch, 4th Floor, 260 Da-Yeh

Road, Pei Tou District, Taipei, Taiwan

Final Decision and Order

The NRTL Program staff has examined the application and other

pertinent information, and the assessment staff recommended, in a memo

dated August 19, 1997 (see Exhibit 14), expansion of UL's recognition

to include the additional test standards. Based upon this examination

and recommendation, OSHA finds that UL has met the requirements of 29

CFR 1910.7 for expansion of its recognition to use an additional 174

test standards, subject to the limitations and conditions listed below.

Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 1910.7, OSHA hereby expands the

recognition of UL, subject to these limitations and conditions. As is

the case for any NRTL, UL's recognition is further limited to equipment

or materials (products) for which OSHA standards require third party

testing and certification before use in the workplace.

Limitations

OSHA hereby expands the recognition of UL for testing and

certification of products to demonstrate compliance to the following

174 standards. OSHA has determined that each standard meets the

requirements for an appropriate test standard prescribed in 29 CFR

1910.7(c).

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.013 AC High-Voltage Generator Circuit

Breakers Rated on a Symmetrical Current Basis

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.13 Low Voltage AC Power Circuit Breakers

Used in Enclosures

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.14 Low Voltage DC Power Circuit Breakers

Used in Enclosures

1 ANSI C37.17 Trip Devices for AC and General Purpose DC

Low-Voltage Power Circuit Breakers

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.18 Enclosed Field Discharge Circuit

Breakers for Rotating Electric Machinery

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.20.1 Metal-Enclosed Low-Voltage Power

Circuit Breaker Switchgear

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.20.2 Metal-Clad and Station-Type Cubicle

Switchgear

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.20.3 Metal-Enclosed Interrupter

Switchgear

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.21 Control Switchboards

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.29 Low-Voltage AC Power Circuit

Protectors Used in Enclosures

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.38 Gas-Insulated, Metal-Enclosed

Disconnecting, Interrupter and Grounding Switches

1 ANSI C37.42 Distribution Cutouts and Fuse Links

1 ANSI C37.44 Distribution Oil Cutouts and Fuse Links

1 ANSI C37.45 Distribution Enclosed Single-Pole Air

Switches

1 ANSI C37.46 Power Fuses and Fuse Disconnecting

Switches

1 ANSI C37.47 Distribution Fuse Disconnecting Switches,

Fuse Supports, and Current-Limiting Fuses

1 ANSI C37.50 Low-Voltage AC Power Circuit Breakers Used

in Enclosures--Test Procedures

1 ANSI C37.51 Metal-Enclosed Low-Voltage AC Power

Circuit-Breaker Switchgear Assemblies--Conformance Test Procedures

1 ANSI C37.52 Low-Voltage AC Power Circuit Protectors

Used in Enclosures--Test Procedures

1 ANSI C37.53.1 High-Voltage Current Motor-Starter

Fuses--Conformance Test Procedures

1 ANSI C37.54 Indoor Alternating-Current High Voltage

Circuit Breakers Applied as Removable Elements in Metal-Enclosed

Switchgear Assemblies-Conformance Test Procedures

1 ANSI C37.55 Metal-Clad Switchgear Assemblies--

Conformance Test Procedures

1 ANSI C37.57 Metal-Enclosed Interrupter Switchgear

Assemblies--Conformance Testing

1 ANSI C37.58 Indoor AC Medium-Voltage Switches for Use

in Metal-Enclosed Switchgear--Conformance Test Procedures

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.60 Overhead, Pad-Mounted, Dry-Vault, and

Submersible Automatic Circuit Reclosers and Fault Interrupters for

AC Systems

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.66 Oil-Filled Capacitor Switches for

Alternating-Current Systems--Requirements

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.71 Three Phase, Manually Operated

Subsurface Load Interrupting Switches for Alternating-Current

Systems

1 ANSI C37.72 Manually-Operated Dead-Front, Pad-Mounted

Switchgear with Load-Interrupting Switches and Separable Connectors

for Alternating-Current System

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.90 Relays and Relay Systems Associated

with Electric Power Apparatus

1 ANSI C37.121 Unit Substations--Requirements

1 ANSI/IEEE C37.122 Gas-Insulated Substations

1 ANSI/IEEE C57.12.00 Distribution, Power and Regulating

Transformers--General Requirements

1 ANSI C57.12.13 Liquid-Filled Transformers Used in Unit

Installations including Unit Substations--Conformance Requirements

1 ANSI C57.12.20 Overhead-Type Distribution

Transformers, 500 kVA and Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.21 Pad-Mounted Compartmental-Type Self-

Cooled Single-Phase Distribution Transformers with High Voltage

Bushings; 167 kVA and Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.22 Pad-Mounted Compartmental-Type, Self-

Cooled, Three-Phase Distribution Transformers with High Voltage

Bushings; 2500 kVA and Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.23 Underground-Type Self-Cooled, Single-

Phase Distribution Transformers with Separable Insulated High-

Voltage Connectors; 167 kVA and Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.24 Underground-Type Three-Phase

Distribution Transformers, 2500 kVA and Smaller

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1 ANSI C57.12.25 Pad-Mounted Compartmental-Type Self-

Cooled Single-Phase Distribution Transformers with Separable

Insulated High-Voltage Connectors; 167 kVA and Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.26 Pad-Mounted Compartmental-Type, Self-

Cooled, Three-Phase Distribution Transformers for use with Separable

Insulated High-Voltage Connectors; 2500 kVA and Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.27 Liquid-Filled Distribution Transformers

Used in Pad-Mounted Installations, Including Unit Substations--

Conformance Requirements

1 ANSI C57.12.28 Switchgear and Transformers--Pad-

Mounted Equipment--Enclosure Integrity

1 ANSI C57.12.40 Three Phase Secondary Network

Transformers, Subway and Vault Types (Liquid Immersed); 2500 kVA and

Smaller

1 ANSI C57.12.50 Ventilated Dry-Type Distribution

Transformers, 1 to 500 kVA, Single-Phase; and 15 to 500 kVA, Three

Phase

1 ANSI C57.12.51 Ventilated Dry-Type Power Transformers

501 kVA and Larger, Three-Phase

1 ANSI C57.12.52 Sealed Dry-Type Power Transformers, 501

kVA and Larger, Three-Phase

1 ANSI C57.12.55 Dry-Type Transformers in Unit

Installations, Including Unit Substations--Conformance Requirements

1 ANSI C57.12.57 Ventilated Dry-Type Network

Transformers 2500 kVA and Below, Three-Phase

1 ANSI/IEEE C57.13 Instrument Transformers--Requirements

1 ANSI/IEEE C57.13.2 Instrument Transformers--

Conformance Test Procedures

1 ANSI/IEEE C57.15 Step-Voltage and Induction-Voltage

Regulators

1 ANSI/IEEE C57.21 Shunt Reactors Over 500 kVA

1 ANSI/IEEE C62.1 Gapped Silicon-Carbide Surge Arresters

for AC Power Circuits

1 ANSI/IEEE C62.11 Metal Oxide Surge Arresters for AC

Power Circuits

ANSI K61.1 Storage and Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia (CGA G-2.1)

ANSI/NEMA 250 Enclosures for Electrical Equipment

ANSI Z21.24 Metal Connectors for Gas Appliances

ANSI Z21.50 Vented Decorative Gas Appliances

ANSI Z21.57 Recreational Vehicle Cooking Gas Appliances

ANSI Z21.60 Decorative Gas Appliances for Installation in Vented

Fireplaces

ANSI Z21.70 Earthquake Actuated Automatic Gas Shutoff Systems

ANSI Z83.7 Gas-Fired Construction Heater

UL 5A Nonmetallic Surface Raceways and Fittings

UL 5B Strut-Type Channel Raceways and Fittings

UL 201 Standard for Garage Equipment

UL 218 Fire Pump Controllers

ANSI/UL 231 Electrical Power Outlets

ANSI/UL 234 Low Voltage Lighting Fixtures for Use in Recreational

Vehicles

ANSI/UL 248-1 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 1: General Requirements

UL 248-2 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 2: Class C Fuses

UL 248-3 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 3: Class CA and CB Fuses

ANSI/UL 248-4 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 4: Class CC Fuses

UL 248-5 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 5: Class G Fuses

UL 248-6 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 6: Class H Non-Renewable Fuses

UL 248-7 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 7: Class H Renewable Fuses

ANSI/UL 248-8 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 8: Class J Fuses

UL 248-9 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 9: Class K Fuses

ANSI/UL 248-10 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 10: Class L Fuses

UL 248-11 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 11: Plug Fuses

ANSI/UL 248-12 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 12: Class R Fuses

UL 248-13 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 13: Semiconductor Fuses

ANSI/UL 248-14 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 14: Supplemental Fuses

ANSI/UL 248-15 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 15: Class T Fuses

UL 248-16 Low-Voltage Fuses--Part 16: Test Limiters

ANSI/UL 252A Compressed Gas Regulator Accessories

UL 300 Fire Testing of Fire Extinguishing Systems for Protection of

Restaurant Cooking Areas

UL 307B Gas Burning Heating Appliances for Manufactured Homes and

Recreational Vehicles

ANSI/UL 391 Solid-Fuel and Combination-Fuel Control and

Supplementary Furnaces

UL 508C Power Conversion Equipment

ANSI/UL 583 Electric-Battery-Powered Industrial Trucks

ANSI/UL 588 Christmas-Tree and Decorative-Lighting Outfits

UL 635 Insulating Bushings

ANSI/UL 668 Hose Valves For Fire Protection Service

ANSI/UL 745-1 Portable Electric Tools

ANSI/UL 745-2-1 Particular Requirements of Drills

ANSI/UL 745-2-2 Particular Requirements for Screwdrivers and Impact

Wrenches

ANSI/UL 745-2-3 Particular Requirements for Grinders, Polishers,

and Disk-Type Sanders

ANSI/UL 745-2-4 Particular Requirements for Sanders

ANSI/UL 745-2-5 Particular Requirements for Circular Saws and

Circular Knives

ANSI/UL 745-2-6 Particular Requirements for Hammers

ANSI/UL 745-2-8 Particular Requirements for Shears and Nibblers

ANSI/UL 745-2-9 Particular Requirements for Tappers

ANSI/UL 745-2-11 Particular Requirements for Reciprocating Saws

ANSI/UL 745-2-12 Particular Requirements for Concrete Vibrators

ANSI/UL 745-2-14 Particular Requirements for Planers

ANSI/UL 745-2-17 Particular Requirements for Routers and Trimmers

ANSI/UL 745-2-30 Particular Requirements for Staplers

ANSI/UL 745-2-31 Particular Requirements for Diamond Core Drills

ANSI/UL 745-2-32 Particular Requirements for Magnetic Drill Presses

ANSI/UL 745-2-33 Particular Requirements for Portable Bandsaws

ANSI/UL 745-2-34 Particular Requirements for Strapping Tools

ANSI/UL 745-2-35 Particular Requirements for Drain Cleaners

ANSI/UL 745-2-36 Particular Requirements for Hand Motor Tools

ANSI/UL 745-2-37 Particular Requirements for Plate Jointers

UL 791 Residential Incinerators

UL 962 Household and Commercial Furnishings

ANSI/UL 985 Household Fire Warning System Units

ANSI/UL 1023 Household Burglar-Alarm System Units

UL 1075 Gas Fired Cooling Appliances for Recreational Vehicles

ANSI/UL 1247 Diesel Engines for Driving Centrifugal Fire Pumps

UL 1248 Engine-Generator Assemblies for Use in Recreational

Vehicles

UL 1363 Temporary Power Taps

ANSI/UL 1419 Professional Video and Audio Equipment

ANSI/UL 1431 Personal Hygiene and Health Care Appliances

ANSI/UL 1468 Direct-Acting Pressure-Reducing and Pressure-Control

Valves for Fire Protection Service

UL 1472 Solid-State Dimming Controls

ANSI/UL 1478 Fire Pump Relief Valves

ANSI/UL 1581 Reference Standard for Electrical Wires, Cables, and

Flexible Cords

ANSI/UL 1637 Home Health Care Signaling Equipment

UL 1651 Optical Fiber Cable

UL 1682 Plugs, Receptacles, and Cable Connectors, of the Pin and

Sleeve Type

UL 1684 Reinforced Thermosetting Resin Conduit

UL 1690 Data-Processing Cable

ANSI/UL 1692 Polymeric Materials--Coil Forms

UL 1693 Electric Radiant Heating Panels and Heating Panel Sets

UL 1694 Tests for Flammability of Small Polymeric Component

UL 1730 Smoke Detector Monitors and Accessories for Individual

Living Units of Multifamily Residences and Hotel/Motel Rooms

ANSI/UL 1740 Industrial Robots and Robotic Equipment

UL 1821 Thermoplastic Sprinkler Pipe and Fittings for Fire

Protection

UL 1838 Low Voltage Landscape Lighting Systems

UL 1889 Commercial Filters for Cooking Oil

UL 1951 Electric Plumbing Accessories

ANSI/UL 1963 Refrigerant Recovery/Recycling Equipment

ANSI/UL 1971 Signaling Devices for the Hearing Impaired

UL 1977 Component Connectors for Use in Data, Signal, Control and

Power Applications

ANSI/UL 1981 Central Station Automation Systems

UL 1993 Self-Ballasted Lamps and Lamp Adapters

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UL 1994 Low-Level Path Marking and Lighting Systems

UL 1995 Heating and Cooling Equipment

UL 1996 Duct Heaters

UL 2021 Fixed and Location-Dedicated Electric Room Heaters

UL 2024 Optical Fiber Cable Raceway

UL 2034 Single and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Detectors

ANSI/UL 2044 Commercial Closed Circuit Television Equipment

UL 2061 Adapters and Cylinder Connection Devices for Portable LP-

Gas Cylinder Assemblies

ANSI/UL 2083 Halon 1301 Recovery/Recycling Equipment

UL 2085 Insulated Aboveground Tanks for Flammable and Combustible

Liquids

ANSI/UL 2096 Commercial/Industrial Gas and/or Gas Fired Heating

Assemblies with Emission Reduction Equipment

UL 2106 Field Erected Boiler Assemblies

UL 2111 Overheating Protection for Motors

ANSI/UL 2157 Electric Clothes Washing Machines and Extractors

ANSI/UL 2158 Electric Clothes Dryers

UL 2161 Neon Transformers and Power Supplies

UL 2250 Instrumentation Tray Cable

UL 2601-1 Medical Electrical Equipment, Part 1: General

Requirements for Safety

UL 3044 Surveillance Closed Circuit Television Equipment

UL 3101-1 Electrical Equipment for Laboratory Use; Part 1: General

Requirements

UL 3111-1 Electrical Measuring and Test Equipment; Part 1: General

Requirements

UL 6500 Audio/Video and Musical Instrument Apparatus for Household,

Commercial, and Similar General Use

UL 8730-1 Electrical Controls for Household and Similar Use; Part

1: General Requirements

UL 8730-2-3 Automatic Electrical Controls for Household and Similar

Use; Part 2: Particular Requirements for Thermal Motor Protectors

for Ballasts for Tubular Fluorescent Lamps

UL 8730-2-4 Automatic Electrical Controls for Household and Similar

Use; Part 2: Particular Requirements for Thermal Motor Protectors

for Motor Compressors or Hermetic and Semi-Hermetic Type

UL 8730-2-7 Automatic Electrical Controls for Household and Similar

Use; Part 2: Particular Requirements for Timers and Time Switches

UL 8730-2-8 Automatic Electrical Controls for Household and Similar

Use; Part 2: Particular Requirements for Electrically Operated Water

Valves

Note.--Testing and certification of gas operated equipment is limited

to equipment for use with ``liquefied petroleum gas'' (``LPG'' or ``LP-

Gas'').

\1\ These standards are approved for equipment or materials

intended for use in commercial and industrial power system

applications. These standards are not approved for equipment or

materials intended for use in installations that are excluded by the

provisions of Subpart S in 29 CFR 1910, in particular Section

1910.302(a)(2).

The designations and titles of the above standards were current at

the time of the preparation of the notice of the preliminary finding.

Conditions

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. must also abide by the following

conditions of the recognition, in addition to those already required by

29 CFR 1910.7:

OSHA must be allowed access to UL's facilities and records for

purposes of ascertaining continuing compliance with the terms of its

recognition and to investigate as OSHA deems necessary;

If UL has reason to doubt the efficacy of any test standard it is

using under this program, it must promptly inform the organization that

developed the test standard of this fact and provide that organization

with appropriate relevant information upon which its concerns are

based;

UL must not engage in or permit others to engage in any

misrepresentation of the scope or conditions of its recognition. As

part of this condition, UL agrees that it will allow no representation

that it is either a recognized or an accredited Nationally Recognized

Testing Laboratory (NRTL) without clearly indicating the specific

equipment or material to which this recognition is tied, or that its

recognition is limited to certain products;

UL must inform OSHA as soon as possible, in writing, of any change

of ownership, facilities, or key personnel, and of any major changes in

its operations as an NRTL, including details;

UL will continue to meet all the terms of its recognition and will

always comply with all OSHA policies pertaining to this recognition;

UL will continue to meet the requirements for recognition in all

areas where it has been recognized; and

UL will always cooperate with OSHA to assure compliance with the

spirit as well as the letter of its recognition and 29 CFR 1910.7.

Signed at Washington, DC this 11th day of June, 1999.

Charles N. Jeffress,

Assistant Secretary.

[FR Doc. 99-16070 Filed 6-23-99; 8:45 am]

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