Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1992: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, Part 1

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Page 295 - The General Counsel of the Board shall exercise general supervision over all attorneys employed by the Board (other than trial examiners and legal assistants to Board members) and over the officers and employees in the regional offices. He shall have final authority, on behalf of the Board, in respect of the investigation of charges and issuance of complaints...
Page 320 - August 1, 1959. (2) Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to prevent or bar any agency or the courts of any State or Territory (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands), from assuming and asserting jurisdiction over labor disputes over which the Board declines, pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection, to assert jurisdiction.
Page 320 - The Board, in its discretion, may, by rule of decision or by published rules adopted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, decline to assert jurisdiction over any labor dispute involving any class or category of employers, where, in the opinion of the Board, the effect of such labor dispute on commerce is not sufficiently substantial to warrant the exercise of its jurisdiction...
Page 295 - He shall have final authority, on behalf of the Board, in respect of the investigation of charges and issuance of complaints under section 10, and in respect of the prosecution of such complaints before the Board, and shall have such other duties as the Board may prescribe or as may be provided by law.
Page 542 - CREATION OF TRUST FUND. - There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the 'Deep Seabed Revenue Sharing Trust Fund...
Page 322 - Each agency shall give an interested person the right to petition for the issuance, amendment, or repeal of a rule.
Page 250 - NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD Under the 1934 amendment to the Railway Labor Act, the National Railroad Adjustment Board was created to hear and decide disputes involving railway employee grievances and questions concerning the application and interpretation of agreement rules. The Adjustment Board is composed of four divisions on which the carriers and the organizations representing the employees are equally represented.
Page 262 - Board's primary function is to administer comprehensive retirement-survivor and unemployment-sickness benefit programs for the Nation's railroad workers and their families, under the Railroad Retirement and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Acts. In connection with the retirement program, the Board has administrative responsibilities under the Social Security Act for certain benefit payments and railroad workers
Page 594 - Officer, and his staff have a refreshing and unique open door policy to the Office of the Inspector General. The Office of the Inspector General...
Page 318 - This chapter applies, according to the provisions thereof, except to the extent that— (1) statutes preclude judicial review; or (2) agency action is committed to agency discretion by law. (b) For the purpose of this chapter — (1) "agency...

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