Coal Mine Health and Safety: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session |
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Page 48 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any . person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "National Labor Relations Act.
Page 2 - In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpena served upon any person under this subsection, the district court of the United States for any district in which such person is found or resides or...
Page 125 - Administrator shall issue air quality criteria for an air pollutant within 12 months after he has included such pollutant in a list under paragraph (1). Air quality criteria for an air pollutant shall accurately reflect the latest scientific knowledge useful in indicating the kind and extent of all identifiable effects on public health or welfare which may be expected from the presence of such pollutant in the ambient air, in varying quantities.
Page 5 - Secretary may, after notice, hold public hearings, and may sign and issue subpenas for the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of relevant papers, books, and documents, and administer oaths.
Page 6 - Columbia, by filing in such court, within sixty days after the entry of such order, a written petition praying that the order of the Commission be modified or set aside in whole or in part. A copy of...
Page 24 - commerce" means trade, traffic, commerce, transportation, transmission, or communication among the several States; or between a State and any place outside thereof ; or within the District of Columbia, or a possession of the United States ; or between points in the same State but through a point outside thereof. (h) The term "industry affecting commerce...
Page 423 - Any Commissioner may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 31 - Reasonable notice must first be given in writing by the party or his attorney proposing to take such deposition to the opposite party or his attorney of record, as either may be nearest, which notice shall state the name of the witness and the time and place of the taking of his deposition.
Page 23 - Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day. including travel time, and while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code for persons in the government service employed intermittently.
Page 54 - Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee, I am grateful for the opportunity to appear before you today as you begin hearings on the Bureaucratic Accountability Act.