Longshoring and Marine Terminals

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) proposed on June 2, 1994 (59 FR 28594) to revise its Safety and Health Regulations for Longshoring and, to a far lesser extent, to amend its Safety and Health Regulations for Marine Terminals. The proposed rule covers cargo handling and related activities conducted aboard vessels and at Marine Terminals. The proposed amendments to the Marine Terminals standard are intended primarily to provide regulatory consistency with the proposed Longshoring ship-board rules. The June 2, 1994 notice and subsequent correction notice on June 13, 1994 (59 FR 30389) announced the cities and dates for three informal rulemaking hearings that will be held on all issues raised by the proposal. The dates of these hearings have been changed. This notice sets the new dates and specific locations of the informal public hearings to be held as part of the rulemaking process. In addition, it extends the original date for the submission of Notices of Intention to Appear by three weeks and reduces the time frame for the submission of documentary evidence and the text of lengthy testimony from 21 days to 14 days prior to the date of the hearing where the e