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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promulgated the COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in subpart U of 29 CFR 1910 in accordance with President Biden's Executive Order (E.O.) 13999 on Protecting Worker Health and Safety (January 21, 2021).  Publication of the ETS also served as a notice of proposed rulemaking, thus initiating the rulemaking process for a permanent rule on COVID-19.  OSHA announced on December 27, 2021 that it could not complete a permanent rule in a timeframe approaching the one contemplated by the OSHA Act, so the agency stopped enforcing the provision in subpart U, other than the COVID-19 log requirements in 29 CFR 1920.502(q)(2)(ii) and 29 CFR 1920.502(q)(3)(i)-(iv) and the reporting requirements in 29 CFR 1920.502(4).  OSHA subsequently terminated the rulemaking on January 15, 2025.  On February 5, 2025, OSHA announced that it would no longer enforce the few reporting and recordkeeping provisions that remained in effect.  In the current deregulatory rulemaking, OSHA intends to issue a proposed rule to ultimately remove all of subpart U from 29 CFR 1910.