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Bush Requests $501.7 Million for OSHA FY 2009 Funding

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Surpassing the $500 million mark for the first time, President George W. Bush’s proposed 2009 OSHA budget aims to maintain the agency’s current program activities as well as provide increases for federal enforcement and compliance assistance efforts.

At a Feb. 4 press briefing in Washington, D.C., OSHA Assistant Secretary for Labor Edwin Foulke Jr. announced that President Bush requested that the agency receive an increase of nearly $15.7 million over the fiscal year 2008 level, for a total of $501.7 million for the next fiscal year.

“This budget reinforces our balanced approach to employee safety and health – an approach that works,” Foulke stated, explaining that OSHA always maintained a “balanced approach consisting of aggressive enforcement, cooperative programs, outreach, education and compliance assistance” since 2001.

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