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the Chief Information Officer, Attn:
Departmental Information Compliance
Management Program, Room N1301,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; or by email:
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact Michel Smyth by telephone at
202–693–4129, TTY 202–693–8064,
(these are not toll-free numbers) or
sending an email to DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
This ICR
seeks approval under the PRA for
revisions to the Labor Market
Information (LMI) Cooperative
Agreement information collection. The
LMI Cooperative Agreement includes all
information needed by a State
Workforce Agency to apply for funds to
assist it in operating one or more of the
four BLS LMI programs and to report on
the status of the obligation and
expenditure of any such funds as well
as to close out the Cooperative
Agreement. This information collection
has been classified as a revision,
because of updates to the Cooperative
Agreement application instructions and
materials. BLS Authorizing Statute
sections 1 and 2, Wagner-Peyser Act as
Amended section 14, and Federal Grant
and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977
section 6 authorize this information
collection. See 29 U.S.C. 1, 2, 49L–1; 31
U.S.C. 6305.
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless it is
approved by the OMB under the PRA
and displays a currently valid OMB
Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid Control Number. See 5
CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. The DOL
obtains OMB approval for this
information collection under Control
Number 1220–0079. The current
approval is scheduled to expire on May
31, 2015; however, the DOL notes that
existing information collection
requirements submitted to the OMB
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review. New
requirements would only take effect
upon OMB approval. For additional
substantive information about this ICR,
see the related notice published in the
Federal Register on November 12, 2014
(79 FR 67193).
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Interested parties are encouraged to
send comments to the OMB, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs at
the address shown in the ADDRESSES
section within thirty (30) days of
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. In order to help ensure
appropriate consideration, comments
should mention OMB Control Number
1220–0079. The OMB is particularly
interested in comments that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Agency: DOL–BLS.
Title of Collection: Labor Market
Information Cooperative Agreement.
OMB Control Number: 1220–0079.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 54.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 1,024.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
928 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
Dated: April 1, 2015.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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BILLING CODE CODE 4510–24–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008]
Standard on Commercial Diving
Operations; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
18647
Request for public comments.
OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Standard on
Commercial Diving Operations (29 CFR
part 1910, subpart T).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) June 8,
2015.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail,
messenger, or courier service: When
using this method, you must submit a
copy of your comments and attachments
to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2011–0008, U.S. Department of
Labor, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Room N–2625, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210. Deliveries (hand, express
mail, messenger, and courier service)
are accepted during the Department of
Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal
business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.,
e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0008) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any
personal information you provide, are
placed in the public docket without
change, and may be made available
online at https://www.regulations.gov.
For further information on submitting
comments see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov
or the OSHA Docket Office at the
address above. All documents in the
docket (including this Federal Register
notice) are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from the Web site. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Theda Kenney at
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the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney or Todd Owen,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
N–3609, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., employer) burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and continuing information collection
requirements in accord with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA–95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This
program ensures that information is in
the desired format, reporting burden
(time and costs) is minimal, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (the OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection
by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the Act
or for developing information regarding
the causes and prevention of
occupational injuries, illnesses, and
accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act
also requires that OSHA obtain such
information with minimum burden
upon employers, especially those
operating small businesses, and to
reduce to the maximum extent feasible
unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following provisions of the
Commercial Diving Operations
Standards (the ‘‘Standards’’) contain
paperwork requirements:
§§ 1910.401(b); 1910.410(a)(3) and
(a)(4); 1910.420(a) and (b); 1910.421(b),
(f), and (h); 1910.422(e);
1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through (b)(2), (d), and
(e); 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(i), (c)(3)(i),
(f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2); and 1910.440(a)(2)
and (b). These provisions require that
employers: Notify OSHA if they deviate
from the operational requirements of the
Standards; train every diver in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first
aid, and mixed-gas divers (and those
who control exposure of divers to
mixed-gas breathing conditions) in
diving-related physics and physiology;
develop and make available to
employees a safe practices manual;
maintain a list of emergency telephone
or call numbers at the diving location;
brief dive team members on diving-
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related tasks, safety procedures,
hazards, and revisions to operating
procedures; display a code flag ‘‘A’’ if
diving from a surface other than a vessel
in navigable waters; develop and
maintain a depth-time profile for each
dive; and instruct divers on reporting
diving-related illnesses and injuries,
and the procedures specified for
detecting, treating, and preventing these
problems.
The Standards also mandate that
employers: Record and maintain diving
logs that contain required information;
investigate and provide a written
evaluation of, any incident involving
decompression sickness; mark diving
umbilicals as required; inspect, test, and
calibrate specified diving equipment;
record modifications, repairs, tests,
calibrations, and maintenance
performed on any diving equipment;
make a record of diving-related injuries
and illnesses that result in a diver
remaining in a hospital for over 24
hours; and create, and disclose to
specified parties on request, the written
records required by the Standard, and
maintain these records for specified
periods.
The Standards’ paperwork
requirements allow employers to
deviate from established diving
practices and tailor diving operations to
unusually hazardous diving conditions,
and to analyze diving records (including
hospitalization and treatment records)
for information they can use to improve
diving operations. These requirements
are also a direct and efficient means for
employers to inform dive-team members
about diving-related hazards,
procedures to use in avoiding and
controlling these hazards, and
recognizing and treating diving-related
illnesses and injuries. Additionally,
employers can review equipment
records to ensure that employees
performed the required actions, and that
the equipment is in safe working order.
Disclosing these records to employees
and their designated representatives
permits them to identify operational and
equipment conditions that may
contribute to diving accidents or divingrelated medical conditions.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary
for the proper performance of the
Agency’s functions, including whether
the information is useful;
• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of
the burden (time and costs) of the
information collection requirements,
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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
• The quality, utility, and clarity of
the information collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden on
employers who must comply; for
example, by using automated or other
technological information collection
and transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting an adjustment
decrease of 81 burden hours from
205,096 to 205,015 hours. The Agency
is no longer calculating burden hours or
costs for employers who provide
information to the compliance officers
during an OSHA inspection; inspections
are outside the scope of PRA–95. The
Agency will summarize any comments
submitted in response to this notice and
will include this summary in the
request to OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Commercial Diving Operations
Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart T).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0069.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions;
Federal Government; State, Local or
Tribal Governments.
Number of Respondents: 3,000.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion;
annually.
Total Responses: 3,996,377.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from five minutes (.08 hour) for
employers to maintain records to 12
hours for employers to update their
compliance plans.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
205,015.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $0.
IV. Public Participation—Submission of
Comments on This Notice and Internet
Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in
response to this document as follows:
(1) Electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal; (2) by
facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the Agency name
and the OSHA docket number (Docket
No. OSHA–2011–0008) for the ICR. You
may supplement electronic submissions
by uploading document files
electronically. If you wish to mail
additional materials in reference to an
electronic or facsimile submission, you
must submit them to the OSHA Docket
Office (see the section of this notice
titled ADDRESSES). The additional
materials must clearly identify your
electronic comments by your name,
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date, and the docket number so the
Agency can attach them to your
comments.
Because of security procedures, the
use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of
comments. For information about
security procedures concerning the
delivery of materials by hand, express
delivery, messenger, or courier service,
please contact the OSHA Docket Office
at (202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–
5627). Comments and submissions are
posted without change at https://
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA
cautions commenters about submitting
personal information such as social
security numbers and date of birth.
Although all submissions are listed in
the https://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from this Web site.
All submissions, including
copyrighted material, are available for
inspection and copying at the OSHA
Docket Office. Information on using the
https://www.regulations.gov Web site to
submit comments and access the docket
is available at the Web site’s ‘‘User
Tips’’ link. Contact the OSHA Docket
Office for information about materials
not available from the Web site, and for
assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health,
directed the preparation of this notice.
The authority for this notice is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of
Labor’s Order No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on April 2,
2015.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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BILLING CODE CODE 4510–26–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
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[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0002]
Asbestos in Construction Standard;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Request for public comments.
OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Asbestos in
Construction Standard (29 CFR
1926.1101).
SUMMARY:
Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by June
8, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may
submit comments and attachments
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail,
messenger, or courier service: When
using this method, you must submit
your comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2012–0002, U.S. Department of
Labor, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Room N–2625, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210. Deliveries (hand, express
mail, messenger, and courier service)
are accepted during the Department of
Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal
business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.,
e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2012–0002) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any
personal information you provide, are
placed in the public docket without
change, and may be made available
online at https://www.regulations.gov.
For further information on submitting
comments see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov
or the OSHA Docket Office at the
address above. All documents in the
docket (including this Federal Register
notice) are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the Web site.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You also may contact Theda Kenney at
DATES:
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the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney, Directorate of Standards
and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department
of Labor, Room N–3609, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., employer) burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and continuing information collection
requirements in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program
ensures that information is in the
desired format, reporting burden (time
and costs) is minimal, collection
instruments are clearly understood, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (the OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et
seq.) authorizes information collection
by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH
Act or for developing information
regarding the causes and prevention of
occupational injuries, illnesses, and
accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act
also requires that OSHA obtain such
information with minimum burden
upon employers, especially those
operating small businesses, and to
reduce to the maximum extent feasible
unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The standard protects workers from
adverse health effects from occupational
exposure to asbestos, including lung
cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis (an
emphysema-like condition) and
gastrointestinal cancer. The standard
requires employers to monitor worker
exposure, to provide medical
surveillance, and maintain accurate
records of worker exposure to asbestos.
These records will be used by
employers and workers and the
Government to ensure that workers are
not harmed by exposure to asbestos in
the workplace.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary
for the proper performance of the
Agency’s functions, including whether
the information is useful;
• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of
the burden (time and costs) of the
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2011-0008]
Standard on Commercial Diving Operations; Extension of the Office
of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning its proposal to
extend OMB approval of the information collection requirements
specified in the Standard on Commercial Diving Operations (29 CFR part
1910, subpart T).
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) June
8, 2015.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments, including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail, messenger, or courier service:
When using this method, you must submit a copy of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No. OSHA-2011-0008, U.S.
Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
Room N-2625, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Deliveries (hand, express mail, messenger, and courier service) are
accepted during the Department of Labor's and Docket Office's normal
business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and the
OSHA docket number (OSHA-2011-0008) for the Information Collection
Request (ICR). All comments, including any personal information you
provide, are placed in the public docket without change, and may be
made available online at https://www.regulations.gov. For further
information on submitting comments see the ``Public Participation''
heading in the section of this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov or the OSHA Docket Office at
the address above. All documents in the docket (including this Federal
Register notice) are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index;
however, some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly
available to read or download from the Web site. All submissions,
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection and
copying at the OSHA Docket Office. You may also contact Theda Kenney at
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the address below to obtain a copy of the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Todd Owen, Directorate
of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3609,
200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693-
2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to provide the public with an
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing information
collection requirements in accord with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (PRA-95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that
information is in the desired format, reporting burden (time and costs)
is minimal, collection instruments are clearly understood, and OSHA's
estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651
et seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or
appropriate for enforcement of the Act or for developing information
regarding the causes and prevention of occupational injuries,
illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also requires
that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon employers,
especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce to the
maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of efforts in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following provisions of the Commercial Diving Operations
Standards (the ``Standards'') contain paperwork requirements:
Sec. Sec. 1910.401(b); 1910.410(a)(3) and (a)(4); 1910.420(a) and (b);
1910.421(b), (f), and (h); 1910.422(e); 1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through
(b)(2), (d), and (e); 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(i), (c)(3)(i),
(f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2); and 1910.440(a)(2) and (b). These provisions
require that employers: Notify OSHA if they deviate from the
operational requirements of the Standards; train every diver in
cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid, and mixed-gas divers (and
those who control exposure of divers to mixed-gas breathing conditions)
in diving-related physics and physiology; develop and make available to
employees a safe practices manual; maintain a list of emergency
telephone or call numbers at the diving location; brief dive team
members on diving-related tasks, safety procedures, hazards, and
revisions to operating procedures; display a code flag ``A'' if diving
from a surface other than a vessel in navigable waters; develop and
maintain a depth-time profile for each dive; and instruct divers on
reporting diving-related illnesses and injuries, and the procedures
specified for detecting, treating, and preventing these problems.
The Standards also mandate that employers: Record and maintain
diving logs that contain required information; investigate and provide
a written evaluation of, any incident involving decompression sickness;
mark diving umbilicals as required; inspect, test, and calibrate
specified diving equipment; record modifications, repairs, tests,
calibrations, and maintenance performed on any diving equipment; make a
record of diving-related injuries and illnesses that result in a diver
remaining in a hospital for over 24 hours; and create, and disclose to
specified parties on request, the written records required by the
Standard, and maintain these records for specified periods.
The Standards' paperwork requirements allow employers to deviate
from established diving practices and tailor diving operations to
unusually hazardous diving conditions, and to analyze diving records
(including hospitalization and treatment records) for information they
can use to improve diving operations. These requirements are also a
direct and efficient means for employers to inform dive-team members
about diving-related hazards, procedures to use in avoiding and
controlling these hazards, and recognizing and treating diving-related
illnesses and injuries. Additionally, employers can review equipment
records to ensure that employees performed the required actions, and
that the equipment is in safe working order.
Disclosing these records to employees and their designated
representatives permits them to identify operational and equipment
conditions that may contribute to diving accidents or diving-related
medical conditions.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
Whether the proposed information collection requirements
are necessary for the proper performance of the Agency's functions,
including whether the information is useful;
The accuracy of OSHA's estimate of the burden (time and
costs) of the information collection requirements, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
The quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
Ways to minimize the burden on employers who must comply;
for example, by using automated or other technological information
collection and transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting an adjustment decrease of 81 burden hours from
205,096 to 205,015 hours. The Agency is no longer calculating burden
hours or costs for employers who provide information to the compliance
officers during an OSHA inspection; inspections are outside the scope
of PRA-95. The Agency will summarize any comments submitted in response
to this notice and will include this summary in the request to OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title: Commercial Diving Operations Standard (29 CFR part 1910,
subpart T).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0069.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits; Not-for-profit
institutions; Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal Governments.
Number of Respondents: 3,000.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion; annually.
Total Responses: 3,996,377.
Average Time per Response: Varies from five minutes (.08 hour) for
employers to maintain records to 12 hours for employers to update their
compliance plans.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 205,015.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.
IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on This Notice and
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions
You may submit comments in response to this document as follows:
(1) Electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other material must identify the Agency name
and the OSHA docket number (Docket No. OSHA-2011-0008) for the ICR. You
may supplement electronic submissions by uploading document files
electronically. If you wish to mail additional materials in reference
to an electronic or facsimile submission, you must submit them to the
OSHA Docket Office (see the section of this notice titled ADDRESSES).
The additional materials must clearly identify your electronic comments
by your name,
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date, and the docket number so the Agency can attach them to your
comments.
Because of security procedures, the use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of comments. For information about
security procedures concerning the delivery of materials by hand,
express delivery, messenger, or courier service, please contact the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-5627). Comments
and submissions are posted without change at https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and
date of birth. Although all submissions are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to read or download from this Web
site.
All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available for
inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on using
the https://www.regulations.gov Web site to submit comments and access
the docket is available at the Web site's ``User Tips'' link. Contact
the OSHA Docket Office for information about materials not available
from the Web site, and for assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this
notice. The authority for this notice is the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506 et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012
(77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on April 2, 2015.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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