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Show OSHA regulations revised; farmers benifit Allen Howe requesting their vote in favor of the amendment. Both Congressmen supported it. Action in the U.S. House of Representatives to exempt farmers with ten or fewer employees em-ployees from regulations issued by. the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will mean lower food prices to consumers, if the bill is passed into law. This comment recently made by Elmo W. Hamilton, president the 13,225-member Utah Farm Bureau. Federation, was based on what he claimed is "an unreasonable demand on farm employers to comply with regulations that farm leaders across the nation rate as failures." In a policy statement framed by farmers from every state in the nation except Alaska, Farm Bureau comments that "We have seen no evidence that it (OSHA) has in any significant way reduced hazards to safety or health at places of employment." "The Skubitz amendment to a funding bill for the Department of Labor passed in the House by a 270-124 margin," Hamilton commented. "If the Senate and President; Ford okay the bill, small farmers will be out from under OSHA rules for the 1977 fiscal year, starting July 1." Hamilton said that the Utah Farm Bureau had wired Congressmen Gunn McKay and |