OSH Act Section 4 USC 653

29 U.S.C.
United States Code, 2015 Edition
Title 29 - LABOR
CHAPTER 15 - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH
Sec. 653 - Geographic applicability; judicial enforcement; applicability to existing standards; report to Congress on
duplication and coordination of Federal laws; workmen's compensation law or common law or statutory rights,
duties, or liabilities of employers and employees unaffected
From the U.S. Government Publishing Office,

SEC. 4. Applicability of This Act
(a) This Act shall apply with respect to employment performed in a workplace in a State, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands, Wake Island, Outer Continental Shelf Lands defined in the Outer
Continental Shelf Lands Act, Johnston Island, and the Canal Zone. The Secretary of the Interior shall, by
regulation, provide for judicial enforcement of this Act by the courts established for areas in which there
are no United States district courts having jurisdiction.
29 USC 653
For Canal Zone and Trust Territory coverage, including the Northern Mariana Islands, see Historical
notes.
(b)
(1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to working conditions of employees with respect to which other Federal
agencies, and State agencies acting under section 274 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42
U.S.C. 2021), exercise statutory authority to prescribe or enforce standards or regulations affecting
occupational safety or health.
(2) The safety and health standards promulgated under the Act of June 30, 1936, commonly known as
the Walsh-Healey Act (41 U.S.C. 35 et seq.), the Service Contract Act of 1965 (41 U.S.C. 351 et seq.),
Public Law 91-54, Act of August 9, 1969 (40 U.S.C. 333), Public Law 85-742, Act of August 23, 1958 (33
U.S.C. 941), and the National Foundation on Arts and Humanities Act (20 U.S.C. 951 et seq.) are
superseded on the effective date of corresponding standards, promulgated under this Act, which are
determined by the Secretary to be more effective. Standards issued under the laws listed in this
paragraph and in effect on or after the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to be occupational
safety and health standards issued under this Act, as well as under such other Acts.
(3) The Secretary shall, within three years after the effective date of this Act, report to the Congress his
recommendations for legislation to avoid unnecessary duplication and to achieve coordination between
this Act and other Federal laws.
(4) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to supersede or in any manner affect any workmen's
compensation law or to enlarge or diminish or affect in any other manner the common law or statutory
rights, duties, or liabilities of employers and employees under any law with respect to injuries, diseases,
or death of employees arising out of, or in the course of, employment.