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In promulgating a standard
or harmful physical agents, the Secretary required ha/
set a standard which, to the extent feasible, most ade-7v
quately assures no employee will suffer impaired health or ^
functional capacity. OSH Act S 6(b)(5); 29 HAC. 655 :
(b)(5) (emphasis added). Feasibility in this sense nd.;J
take into account the technological possibilities d| '
achieving compliance with a standard as well as eaqfp:
adverse impact on employee welfare that adoption of a
standard might have. I.UJ). v. Hodgson, rttpm, at
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In the course of the fact finding process, theSeorCtary recognized the evidentiary importance of toe fesiSbffijr issue and directed that a special technolog?extend ecojttqmie feasibility study be conducted by Foster D. Snell; The. to determine the technological and eeonomifcfeiadbtlity of
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The net effect of the Secretary's action in adopting the
instant Standard will be to require that virtually all of the
work force ta a vinyl chloride or polyvinyl chloride pfitit
he equipped with and actually use respiratory protective
equipment on essentially a full-time basis. As indicated in
the Statement of the Case, it is celar that the Secretary
never intended this result Yet, the Beeord facts in the
ess* lead inexorably to the conclusion that the Secretary's
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