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CSB RIN: 3301-AA01 Publication ID: Spring 2023 
Title: ●Organization and Functions of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board 
Abstract: The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has revised 40 CFR part 1600 to align with the agency’s current organizational structure, Board Orders, practices, and office location. The changes to 1600.2 Organization mirror CSB’s current management structure. The CSB’s Board Orders memorialize a portion of the CSB’s internal policies and procedures. The addition of paragraph (e) to 1600.4 Operation incorporates the agency’s current practice of using Board Orders and other internal policies and procedures in its operation. The additional language in 1600.5 Quorum and voting requirements integrates the CSB’s Board Orders into the regulations to help ensure that the regulations remain current. Furthermore, the regulation now addresses situations in which the Board has a single Member (Chairperson or Member). Additionally, the regulation establishes the Board as the arbiter of disputes pertaining to calendaring of notation items. The regulation, also, removes the agenda requirement to discuss the Agency’s progress on its Action Plan at its quarterly meetings to match current agency practice. Finally, in 600.6 Office location, the CSB updated its current office location. The Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(A), provides that when regulations involve matters of agency organization, procedure, or practice, the agency may publish regulations in final form without notice and comment. These revisions fall under this part of the APA. 
Agency: U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board(CSB)  Priority: Info./Admin./Other 
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: Undetermined  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 1600.2(b)    40 CFR 1600.4(e)    40 CFR 1600.5    40 CFR 1600.6   
Legal Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301    5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1)    42 U.S.C. 7412(r)(6)(N)   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Final Rule  06/00/2023 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Tamara Qureshi
Assistant General Counsel
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
1750 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 910,
Washington, DC 20006
Phone:202 763-8240
Email: tamara.qureshi@csb.gov