SACRAMENTO - On April 4, OSHA announced that within a year it would develop a proposed rule for hexavalent chromium (CrVI), a known human carcinogen found in numerous industrial settings. Assistant Secretary of Labor Joseph Dear made the commitment in a letter denying a petition for an emergency temporary standard for CrVI from the Public Citizen's Health Research Group and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union.Dear said OSHA agreed that the present permissible exposure level of 1
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