Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Application for a Permit To Fire More Than 20 Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units, Explosives, and Shot-Firing Units; Posting Notices of Misfires, 69858-69859 [2016-24293]

Download as PDF mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES 69858 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 195 / Friday, October 7, 2016 / Notices requirements. The DOL notes that existing information collection requirements submitted to the OMB receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review. For additional substantive information about this ICR, see the related notice published in the Federal Register on May 26, 2016 (81 FR 33550). 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 1210–0123. 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–EBSA. Title of Collection: Notice Requirements of the Health Care Continuation Coverage Provisions. OMB Control Number: 1210–0123. Affected Public: Private Sector— businesses or other for-profits and notfor-profit institutions. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 605,869. Total Estimated Number of Responses: 16,052,495. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 0 hours. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $30,490,898. Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D). Dated: October 3, 2016. Michel Smyth, Departmental Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2016–24294 Filed 10–6–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–29–P VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:36 Oct 06, 2016 Jkt 241001 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Office of the Secretary Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Application for a Permit To Fire More Than 20 Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units, Explosives, and Shot-Firing Units; Posting Notices of Misfires ACTION: Notice. The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) sponsored information collection request (ICR) titled, ‘‘Application for a Permit to Fire More than 20 Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units, Explosives, and Shotfiring Units; Posting Notices of Misfires,’’ to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval for continued use, without change, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Public comments on the ICR are invited. DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that agency receives on or before November 7, 2016. ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with applicable supporting documentation; including a description of the likely respondents, proposed frequency of response, and estimated total burden may be obtained free of charge from the RegInfo.gov Web site at https:// www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201604-1219-002 (this link will only become active on the day following publication of this notice) or by contacting Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693–4129, TTY 202– 693–8064, (these are not toll-free numbers) or by email at DOL_PRA_ PUBLIC@dol.gov. Submit comments about this request by mail or courier to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL– MSHA, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503; by Fax: 202–395–5806 (this is not a toll-free number); or by email: OIRA_ submission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters are encouraged, but not required, to send a courtesy copy of any comments by mail or courier to the U.S. Department of Labor-OASAM, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Attn: Departmental Information Compliance Management Program, Room N1301, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Washington, DC 20210; or by email: DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michel Smyth by telephone at 202–693– 4129, TTY 202–693–8064, (these are not toll-free numbers) or by email at DOL_ PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D). This ICR seeks to extend PRA authority for the Application for a Permit to Fire More than 20 Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units, Explosives, and Shot-firing Units; Posting Notices of Misfires information collection. More specifically, this ICR pertains to the process by which a coal mine operator applies for a permit to fire more than 20 shots and to use nonpermissible explosives and/or shotfiring units. An application contains the safeguards the mine operator will employ to protect miners while using requested blasting items. Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 sections 101(a) and 103(h) authorize this information collection. See 30 U.S.C. 811(a) and 813(h). 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 1219–0025. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than three (3) years without renewal, and the current approval for this collection is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2016. The DOL seeks to extend PRA authorization for this information collection for three (3) more years, without any change to existing requirements. The DOL notes that existing information collection requirements submitted to the OMB receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review. For additional substantive information about this ICR, see the related notice published in the Federal Register on May 20, 2016 (81 FR 31967). 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 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: E:\FR\FM\07OCN1.SGM 07OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 195 / Friday, October 7, 2016 / Notices publication of this notice in the Federal Register. In order to help ensure appropriate consideration, comments should mention OMB Control Number 1219–0025. 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–MSHA. Title of Collection: Application for a Permit to Fire More than 20 Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units, Explosives, and Shotfiring Units; Posting Notices of Misfires. OMB Control Number: 1219–0025. Affected Public: Private Sector— businesses or other for-profits. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 91. Total Estimated Number of Responses: 91. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 77 hours. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $455. various sectors of the U.S. economy, including the labor, business, research, academic, and government communities, on technical matters related to the collection, analysis, dissemination, and use of the Bureau’s statistics, on its published reports, and on the broader aspects of its overall mission and function. The meeting will be held in Meeting Rooms 1, 2, and 3 of the Janet Norwood Conference and Training Center. The schedule and agenda for the meeting are as follows: 8:30 a.m. Registration 9:00 a.m. Commissioner’s welcome and review of agency developments 9:45 a.m. Changing the sequence of news releases in the Price Programs 10:30 a.m. Redesigning the BLS Web site 1:00 p.m. Web scraping and a timely repository for fatality data 2:00 p.m. Possible new data products in the Consumer Expenditure (CE) and American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) 3:15 p.m. Program update: Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) 4:00 p.m. Meeting wrap-up The meeting is open to the public. Any questions concerning the meeting should be directed to Kathy Mele, Data Users Advisory Committee, on 202.691.6102. Individuals who require special accommodations should contact Ms. Mele at least two days prior to the meeting date. Signed at Washington, DC, this 4th day of October 2016. Kimberley D. Hill, Chief, Division of Management Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics. [FR Doc. 2016–24319 Filed 10–6–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–24–P Dated: October 3, 2016. Michel Smyth, Departmental Clearance Officer. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR [FR Doc. 2016–24293 Filed 10–6–16; 8:45 am] Occupational Safety and Health Administration BILLING CODE 4510–43–P [Docket No. OSHA–2016–0001] DEPARTMENT OF LABOR National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH); Charter Renewal Bureau of Labor Statistics mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Data Users Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting and Agenda The Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Users Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday, November 10, 2016. The meeting will be held in the Postal Square Building, 2 Massachusetts Avenue NE., Washington, DC. The Committee provides advice to the Bureau of Labor Statistics from the points of view of data users from VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:36 Oct 06, 2016 Jkt 241001 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Renewal of the NACOSH charter. AGENCY: The Secretary of Labor (Secretary) will renew the charter for NACOSH. SUMMARY: Technical Support and Emergency Management, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Room N–2625, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350 (TTY (877) 889-5627); email walker.michelle@dol.gov. The Secretary will renew the NACOSH charter. The charter will expire two years from the date it is filed. NACOSH was established by Section 7(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651, 656) to advise, consult with and make recommendations to the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services on matters relating to the administration of the OSH Act. NACOSH is a non-discretionary advisory committee of indefinite duration. NACOSH operates in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 2), its implementing regulations (41 CFR part 102–3), and OSHA’s regulations on NACOSH (29 CFR part 1912a). Pursuant to FACA (5 U.S.C. App. 2, 14(b)(2)), the NACOSH charter must be renewed every two years. The new charter increases the estimated annual operational costs for NACOSH by approximately 3 percent (to $186,500 from $181,000). The new NACOSH charter is available to read or download at https:// www.regulations.gov (Docket No. OSHA–2016–0001), the federal eRulemaking portal. The charter also is available on the NACOSH page on OSHA’s Web page at https:// www.osha.gov and at the OSHA Docket Office, N–2625, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350. In addition, the charter is available for viewing or download at the Federal Advisory Committees Database at https://www.facadatabase.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Authority and Signature David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, directed the preparation of this notice under the authority granted by 29 U.S.C. 656; 5 U.S.C. App. 2; 29 CFR part 1912a; 41 CFR part 102–3; and Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912 (1/25/2012)). Ms. Michelle Walker, OSHA Directorate of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: PO 00000 Frm 00082 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 69859 E:\FR\FM\07OCN1.SGM 07OCN1

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[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 195 (Friday, October 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69858-69859]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24293]

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary

Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Application for a Permit To Fire More Than 20
Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units,
Explosives, and Shot-Firing Units; Posting Notices of Misfires

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting the Mine Safety
and Health Administration (MSHA) sponsored information collection
request (ICR) titled, ``Application for a Permit to Fire More than 20
Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units,
Explosives, and Shot-firing Units; Posting Notices of Misfires,'' to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval for
continued use, without change, in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Public comments on
the ICR are invited.

DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that agency receives
on or before November 7, 2016.

ADDRESSES: A copy of this ICR with applicable supporting documentation;
including a description of the likely respondents, proposed frequency
of response, and estimated total burden may be obtained free of charge
from the RegInfo.gov Web site at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=201604-1219-002 (this link will only become active
on the day following publication of this notice) or by contacting
Michel Smyth by telephone at 202-693-4129, TTY 202-693-8064, (these are
not toll-free numbers) or by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Submit comments about this request by mail or courier to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL-
MSHA, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503; by Fax: 202-395-5806 (this is not a toll-free
number); or by email: OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. Commenters are
encouraged, but not required, to send a courtesy copy of any comments
by mail or courier to the U.S. Department of Labor-OASAM, Office of 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: Michel Smyth by telephone at 202-693-
4129, TTY 202-693-8064, (these are not toll-free numbers) or by email
at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ICR seeks to extend PRA authority for
the Application for a Permit to Fire More than 20 Boreholes and/or for
the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units, Explosives, and Shot-firing
Units; Posting Notices of Misfires information collection. More
specifically, this ICR pertains to the process by which a coal mine
operator applies for a permit to fire more than 20 shots and to use
nonpermissible explosives and/or shot-firing units. An application
contains the safeguards the mine operator will employ to protect miners
while using requested blasting items. Federal Mine Safety and Health
Act of 1977 sections 101(a) and 103(h) authorize this information
collection. See 30 U.S.C. 811(a) and 813(h).
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 1219-0025.
OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than three (3)
years without renewal, and the current approval for this collection is
scheduled to expire on December 31, 2016. The DOL seeks to extend PRA
authorization for this information collection for three (3) more years,
without any change to existing requirements. The DOL notes that
existing information collection requirements submitted to the OMB
receive a month-to-month extension while they undergo review. For
additional substantive information about this ICR, see the related
notice published in the Federal Register on May 20, 2016 (81 FR 31967).
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

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publication of this notice in the Federal Register. In order to help
ensure appropriate consideration, comments should mention OMB Control
Number 1219-0025. 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-MSHA.
Title of Collection: Application for a Permit to Fire More than 20
Boreholes and/or for the Use of Nonpermissible Blasting Units,
Explosives, and Shot-firing Units; Posting Notices of Misfires.
OMB Control Number: 1219-0025.
Affected Public: Private Sector--businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 91.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 91.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 77 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $455.

Dated: October 3, 2016.
Michel Smyth,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-24293 Filed 10-6-16; 8:45 am]
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