---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 85.3"
title: "42"
number: "85.3"
heading: "Procedures for requesting health hazard evaluations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/85.3"
---

# §85.3. Procedures for requesting health hazard evaluations.

- (a) Requests for health hazard evaluations should be addressed to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health as follows:
  - (1) **Requests from general industry.** Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226.
  - (2) **Requests from mining industry.** Environmental Investigations Branch, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, NIOSH, 944 Chestnut Ridge Road, Morgantown, WV 26505.
- (b) Requests for health hazard evaluations shall be submitted in writing and signed by either: (1) The employer in whose place of employment the substance or physical agent is normally found, or (2) an authorized representative of employees (see [§ 85.3-1(e)](/cfr/42/85.3-1.md?p=e)) in the place of employment where the substance or physical agent is normally found.

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 2653, Jan. 14, 1980]

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 8(g), 84 Stat. 1600; 29 U.S.C. 657(g) and sec. 508, 83 Stat. 803; 30 U.S.C. 957.

### Source

Source: 37 FR 23640, Nov. 7, 1972, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 2653, Jan. 14, 1980]