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The NAM and other associations and companies involved in the manufacture or use of beryllium filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeking an administrative stay of U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) new rule regulating beryllium and to reopen the rulemaking record. Beryllium is critical to some manufacturing processes and products, and OSHA did not adequately address industry’s concerns about overly restrictive provisions of the new rule.The NAM requested that the effective date of the standards be delayed for six months, and that OSHA re-open the rulemaking record to allow comment on the substantial changes made between issuance of the proposed rule and adoption of the final rules, and to allow the new Secretary of Labor to take office and have adequate time to consider the standards in accordance with a new policy to freeze and review all holdover regulations. OSHA agreed to undertake a new rulemaking to propose and implement sweeping changes to the regulation that will benefit companies that manufacture and use beryllium.