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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 208 / Monday, November 1, 2021 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration Docket No. OSHA20060040

SGS North America, Inc.: Application for Expansion of Recognition and Proposed Modification to the NRTL
Programs List of Appropriate Test Standards Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In this notice, OSHA
announces the application of SGS North America, Inc., for expansion of recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory NRTL and presents the agencys preliminary finding to grant the application. Additionally, OSHA proposes to add four test standards to the NRTL Programs List of Appropriate Test Standards.
DATES: Submit comments, information, and documents in response to this notice, or requests for an extension of time to make a submission, on or before November 16, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments by any of the following methods:
Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments electronically at: https
www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting comments.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the docket, go to http
www.regulations.gov. Documents in the docket are listed in the http
www.regulations.gov index; however, some information e.g., copyrighted material is not publicly available to read or download through the website.
All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available for inspection through the OSHA Docket Office.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at 202
6932350 TTY 877 8895627 for assistance in locating docket submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and the OSHA
docket number for this Federal Register notice OSHA20060040. OSHA will place comments, attachments and other information and requests, including personal information, in the public docket without revision, and these materials will be available online at http www.regulations.gov. Therefore, the agency cautions commenters about submitting statements they do not want
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made available to the public, or submitting comments that contain personal information either about themselves or others such as Social Security numbers, birth dates, and medical data. For further information on submitting comments, see the Public Participation heading in the section of this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Extension of comment period: Submit requests for an extension of the comment period on or before November 16, 2021 to the Office of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, or by fax to 202
6931644.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Information regarding this notice is available from the following sources:
Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of Communications, U.S. Department of Labor, telephone: 202 6931999;
email: meilinger.francis2@dol.gov.
General and technical information:
Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson, Director, Office of Technical Programs and Coordination Activities, Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor; phone: 202 6932110 or email: robinson.kevin@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Notice of the Application for Expansion The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is providing notice that SGS North America, Inc. SGS is applying for an expansion of the current recognition as a NRTL. SGS requests the addition of nineteen test standards to its NRTL scope of recognition.
OSHA recognition of a NRTL signifies that the organization meets the requirements specified in 29 CFR
1910.7. Recognition is an acknowledgment that the organization can perform independent safety testing and certification of the specific products covered within the scope of recognition.
Each NRTLs scope of recognition includes 1 the type of products the NRTL may test, with each type specified by the applicable test standard; and 2
the recognized sites that has/have the technical capability to perform the product-testing and productcertification activities for test standards within the NRTLs scope. Recognition is not a delegation or grant of government authority; however, recognition enables employers to use products approved by
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the NRTL to meet OSHA standards that require product testing and certification.
The agency processes applications by NRTLs or applicant organizations for initial recognition, as well as for expansion or renewal of recognition, following requirements in Appendix A
to 29 CFR 1910.7. This appendix requires that the agency publish two notices in the Federal Register in processing an application. In the first notice, OSHA announces the application and provides a preliminary finding. In the second notice, the agency provides the final decision on the application. These notices set forth the NRTLs scope of recognition or modifications of that scope. OSHA
maintains an informational web page for each NRTL, including SGS, which details that NRTLs scope of recognition.
These pages are available from the OSHA website at http www.osha.gov/
dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html.
SGS currently has nine facilities sites recognized by OSHA for product testing and certification, with the headquarters located at: SGS North America, Inc., 620 Old Peachtree Road, Suwanee, Georgia 30024. A complete list of SGSs scope of recognition is available at https www.osha.gov/dts/
otpca/nrtl/sgs.html.
II. General Background on the Application SGS submitted an application to OSHA to expand recognition as a NRTL
to include twenty additional test standards on June 5, 2020 OSHA
200600400067. This application was amended on June 8, 2021, to remove one standard from the original application.
OSHA staff performed a detailed analysis of the application packet and reviewed other pertinent information.
OSHA did not perform any on-site reviews in relation to this application.
OSHA has determined that one of the standards requested in the application, UL 4200A, Standard for Products Incorporating Button or Coin Cell Batteries of Lithium Technologies does not meet the appropriate test standard requirements in 29 CFR 1910.7c and will not consider this standard in SGSs expansion application. UL 4200A does not specify the safety requirements for specific equipment or class of equipment as required by the regulation.
OSHA will consider the expansion application for the remaining eighteen standards.
Table 1 lists the eighteen test standards in SGSs amended expansion application that OSHA has determined are appropriate.

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