Source:  POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 12/12/18

The compromise agreement also left out House language that would have exempted certain agricultural retailers from Labor Department safety rules for facilities handling hazardous chemicals.

After 15 people were killed in 2013 from an explosion at a fertilizer storage and distribution facility in West, Texas, the Obama administration directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to review the current exclusion for retail facilities.

OSHA in 2015 moved to limit the exemption, but the policy was challenged by the Agricultural Retailers Association and the Fertilizer Institute and struck down by a federal appeals court in 2016. The House farm bill would have codified the retail exemption and barred any future administration from issuing a similar limiting policy.

In April, OSHA issued another memo clarifying it wouldn't issue citations under the so-called Process Safety Management standard for merchant wholesalers of grains and field beans, farm supplies and other farm product raw materials.