Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 92 Part 1.djvu/709

 PUBLIC LAW 95-372—SEPT. 18, 1978

92 STAT. 655

"(b) I n exercising their respective responsibilities for the artificial islands, installations, and other devices referred to in section 4(a)(1) of this Act, the Secretary, and the Secretary of the Department in 43 USC 1333. which the Coast Guard is operating, shall require, on all new drilling and production operations and, wherever practicable, on existing operations, the use of the best available and safest technologies which the Secretary determines to be economically feasible, wherever failure of equipment would have a significant effect on safety, health, or the environment, except where the Secretary determines that the incremental benefits are clearly insufficient to justify the incremental costs of utilizing such technologies. "(c) The Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall promulgate regulations or standards applying to i^^y.'H unregulated hazardous working conditions related to activities on the outer Continental Shelf when he determines such regulations or standards are necessary. The Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating may from time to time modify any regulations, interim or final, dealing with hazardous working conditions on the outer Continental Shelf. "(d) Nothing in this Act shall affect the authority provided by law to the Secretary of Labor for the protection of occupational safety and health, the authority provided by law to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for the protection of the environment, or the authority provided by law to the Secretary of Transportation with respect to pipeline safety. "(e) The Secretary of Commerce, in cooperation with the Secretary Studies. of the Department m which the Coast Guard is operating, and the Director of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, shall conduct studies of underwater diving techniques and equipment suitable for protection of human safety and improvement of diver performance. Such studies shall include, but need not be limited to, decompression and excursion table development and improvement and all aspects of diver physiological restraints and protective gear for exposure to hostile environments. "(f)(1) In administering the provisions of this section, the Secretary shall consult and coordinate with the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies for purposes of assuring that, to the maximum extent practicable, inconsistent or duplicative requirements are not imposed. "(2) The Secretary shall make available to any interested person a Information, compilation of all safety and other regulations which are prepared and availability to promulgated by any Federal department or agency and applicable to public. activities on the outer Continental Shelf. Such compilation shall be revised and updated annually. "SEC. 22. ENFORCEMENT.— (a) The Secretary, the Secretary of the 43 USC 1348. Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, and the Secretary of the Army shall enforce safety and environmental regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act. Each such Federal department may by agreement utilize, with or without reimbursement, the services, person»' nel, or facilities of other Federal departments and agencies for the enforcement of their respective regulations. "(b) I t shall be the duty of any holder of a lease or permit under, this Act to— "(1) maintain all places of employment within the lease area or within the area covered by such permit in compliance with

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