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Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. ICR–1218–0205 (2006)]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Standards for General Industry;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
comment concerning its request for an
extension of the information collection
requirements specified in its standards
on PPE for General Industry.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by
the following dates:
Hard copy: Your comments must be
submitted (postmarked or received) by
September 25, 2006.
Fascimile and electronic
transmission: Your comments must be
received by September 25, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–
1218–0205(2006), by any of the
following methods:
Regular mail, express delivery, hand
delivery, and messenger service: Submit
you comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, Room N–2625,
U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350
(OSHA’s TTY number is (877) 889–
5627). OSHA Docket Office and
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Department of Labor hours are 8:15 a.m.
to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Facsimile: If your comments are 10
pages or fewer, including attachments,
you may fax them to the OSHA Docket
Office at (202) 693–1648.
Electronic: You may submit coments
through the Internet at https://
ecomments.osha.gov. Follow
instructions on the OSHA Web page for
submitting comments.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read or download comments or
background materials, such as the
complete Information Collection
Request (ICR) (containing the
Supporting Statement, OMB–83–I Form,
and attachments), go to OSHA’s Web
page at https://www.OSHA.gov. In
addition, the ICR, comments and
submissions are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office
at the address above. You may also
contact Theda Kenney at the below to
obtain a copy of the ICR. For additional
information on submitting comments,
please see the ‘‘Public Participation’’
section in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney or Todd Owen,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
OSHA, 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, reporint 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 its enforcement 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
busineses, and to reduce to the
maximum extent feasible unnecessary
duplication of efforts in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
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The general industry PPE standards
(29 CFR part 1910, subpart I) include
several paperwork requirements.1 The
following Describe the information
collection requirements:
Hazard Assessment and Verification
(29 CFR 1910.132(d)). Paragraph (d)(1)
requires that the employer assess work
activities to determine whether there are
hazards present, or likely to be present,
which necessitate the employee’s use of
PPE. If such hazards are present, or
likely to be present, the employer must
communicate selection decisions to
affected employees and verify that the
required occupational hazard
assessment has been performed.
Paragraph (d)(2) requires that the
verification document, which must be
identified as a certification of hazard
assessment, must contain the following
information: occupation, the date(s) of
the hazard assessment, and the name of
the person performing the hazard
assessment.2
The hazard assessment assures that
potential workplace hazards
necessitating PPE use have been
identified and that the PPE selected is
appropriate for those hazards and the
affected employees. The required
certification of the hazard assessment
verifies that the required hazard
assessment was conducted.
Training and Verification (29 CFR
1910.132(f)). Paragraph (f) requires that
employers provide training for each
employee who is required to wear PPE.
Paragraph (f)(3) requires that employers
also provide retraining when there is
reason to believe that any previously
trained employee does not have the
understanding and skill to use PPE
properly. Circumstances where such
retraining is required include changes in
the workplace or in the types of PPE
used that render prior training obsolete,
and inadequacies in the employee’s
knowledge or use of PPE that indicate
the employee had not retained the
requisite understanding and skill.
Paragraph (f)(4) requires that
employers certify that employees have
received and understood the PPE
training required in § 1910.132(f). The
training certification must include the
name of the employee(s) trained, the
1 The Information Collection Request (ICR) does
not include burden hours and costs associated with
the information collection requirements in the
standards on respiratory Protection (29 CFR
1910.134) and Electrical Protective Equipment (29
CFR 1910.137), both of which have been addressed
in separate Information collection Requests (ICRs).
See OMB Control Nos. 1218–0099 and 1218–0190,
respectively.
2 Paragraph (g) of § 1910.132 specifies that the
section’s hazard assessment (paragraph (d)) and
training (paragraph (f)) requirements only apply to
PPE for the eyes and face, head, feet and hands.
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date of training, and the subject of the
certification (i.e., a statement identifying
the document as a certification of
training in the use of PPE).
The training certification verifies that
employees have received the necessary
training and know how to properly use
PPE. OSHA compliance officers may
require employers to disclose the
certification records during an Agency
inspection.
The part 1910 standards on PPE
protection for the eyes and face
(§ 1910.133), head (§ 1910.135), feet
(§ 1910.136), and hands (§ 1910.138) do
not contain any separate information
collection requirements.
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 requiring OMB to extend
their approval of the collection of
information requirements contained in
the general industry PPE standards. The
Agency is requesting an increase in
burden hours for the existing collection
of information requirements from
3,169,344 to 3,953,759 (a total increase
of 784,415 hours). The Agency will
summarize the comments submitted in
response to this notice, and will include
this summary in its request to OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved information
collection requirement.
Title: Personnel Protective Equipment
(PPE) Standards for General Industry (29
CFR part, 1910, subpart I).
OMB Number: 1218–0205.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Governments; State,
local or tribal government; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 3,400,000.
Frequency: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from one minute (.02 hour) to maintain
a training certification record to 29
hours to perform a hazard assessment.
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Estimated Total Burden Hours:
3,953,759.
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 and
supporting materials in response to this
notice by (1) hard copy, (2) FAX
transmission (facsimile), or (3)
electronically through the OSHA Web
page. Because of security-related
problems, there may be a significant
delay in the receipt of comments by
regular mail. Please contact the OSHA
Docket Office at (202) 693–2350 (TTY)
(877) 889–5627) for information about
security procedures concerning the
delivery of submissions by express
delivery, hand delivery, and courier
service.
Comments, submissions, and
background documents are available for
inspection and copying at the OSHA
Docket Office at the above address.
Comments and submissions posted on
OSHA’s Web page are available at
https://www.OSHA.gov. Contact the
OSHA Docket Office for information
about materials not available through
the OSHA Web page and for assistance
in using the Web page to locate docket
submissions.
Electronic copies of this Federal
Register notice as well as other relevant
documents are available on OSHA’s
Web page. Since all submissions
become public, private information such
as social security numbers should not be
submitted.
V. Authority and Signature
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 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. 5–2002 (67 FR 65008).
Signed at Washington, DC, on July 19,
2006.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating
Company, FirstEnergy Nuclear
Generation Corp., Ohio Edison
Company, The Toledo Edison
Company, Beaver Valley Power
Station, Unit Nos. 1 and 2; Notice of
Issuance of Amendments to Facility
Operating Licenses
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (Commission) has issued
Amendment No. 275 to Facility
Operating License No. DPR–66 and
Amendment No. 156 to Facility
Operating License No. NPF–73 issued to
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company
(the licensee), which revised the
Technical Specifications (TSs) and
licenses for operation of the Beaver
Valley Power Station, Unit Nos. 1 and
2 (BVPS–1 and 2) located in Beaver
County, Pennsylvania. The amendments
are effective as of the date of issuance.
The amendments modified the TSs
and licenses to increase the maximum
authorized rated thermal power from
2689 megawatts thermal (MWt) to 2900
MWt for each unit. Additionally, the
amendments approved full
implementation of an alternative source
term in accordance with Title 10 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, Section
50.67, using the guidance in Regulatory
Guide 1.183, ‘‘Alternative Radiological
Source Terms for Evaluating Design
Basis Accidents at Nuclear Power
Plants.’’ The amendments also approved
deletion of the power range neutron-flux
high-negative rate trip, removal of the
boron injection tank boron
concentration and renaming the boron
injection flow path for BVPS–1, the
addition of a footnote to Table 3.3–3 for
BVPS–1, and correction of an
inconsistency regarding a referenced
permissive for BVPS–1.
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The application for the amendment
complies with the standards and
requirements of the Atomic Energy Act
of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the
Commission’s rules and regulations.
The Commission has made appropriate
findings as required by the Act and the
Commission’s rules and regulations in
10 CFR Chapter I, which are set forth in
the license amendment.
Notice of Consideration of Issuance of
Amendments to Facility Operating
Licenses and Opportunity for a Hearing
in connection with this action was
published in the Federal Register on
August 17, 2005 (70 FR 48443). The
supplemental letters dated February 23,
May 26, June 14, July 8 and 28, August
26, September 6, October 7, 28, and 31,
November 8, 18, and 21, December 2, 6,
9, 16, and 30, 2005, and January 25,
February 14 and 22, March 10 and 29,
May 12, and July 6, 2006, provided
additional clarifying information that
did not expand the scope of the initial
application as published in the Federal
Register. No request for a hearing or
petition for leave to intervene was filed
following this notice.
The Commission has prepared an
Environmental Assessment related to
the action and has determined not to
prepare an environmental impact
statement. Based upon the
environmental assessment, the
Commission has concluded that the
issuance of the amendment will not
have a significant effect on the quality
of the human environment (71 FR
40162).
For further details with respect to the
action see (1) the application for
amendment dated October 4, 2004, as
supplemented by letters dated February
23, May 26, June 14, July 8 and 28,
August 26, September 6, October 7, 28,
and 31, November 8, 18, and 21,
December 2, 6, 9, 16, and 30, 2005, and
January 25, February 14 and 22, March
10 and 29, May 12, and July 6, 2006, (2)
Amendment No. 275 to License No.
DPR–66, (3) Amendment No. 156 to
License No. NPF–73, (4) the
Commission’s related Safety Evaluation,
and (5) the Commission’s
Environmental Assessment. Documents
may be examined, and/or copied for a
fee, at the NRC’s Public Document
Room, located at One White Flint North,
Public File Area O1 F21, 11555
Rockville Pike (first floor), Rockville,
Maryland. Publicly available records
will be accessible electronically from
the Agencywide Documents Access and
Management Systems (ADAMS) Public
Electronic Reading Room on the Internet
at the NRC Web site, https://
www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html.
Persons who do not have access to
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. ICR-1218-0205 (2006)]
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Standards for General
Industry; 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 comment.
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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comment concerning its request for an
extension of the information collection requirements specified in its
standards on PPE for General Industry.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by the following dates:
Hard copy: Your comments must be submitted (postmarked or received)
by September 25, 2006.
Fascimile and electronic transmission: Your comments must be
received by September 25, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR-
1218-0205(2006), by any of the following methods:
Regular mail, express delivery, hand delivery, and messenger
service: Submit you comments and attachments to the OSHA Docket Office,
Room N-2625, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693-2350 (OSHA's TTY number is
(877) 889-5627). OSHA Docket Office and
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Department of Labor hours are 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Facsimile: If your comments are 10 pages or fewer, including
attachments, you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
1648.
Electronic: You may submit coments through the Internet at https://
ecomments.osha.gov. Follow instructions on the OSHA Web page for
submitting comments.
Docket: For access to the docket to read or download comments or
background materials, such as the complete Information Collection
Request (ICR) (containing the Supporting Statement, OMB-83-I Form, and
attachments), go to OSHA's Web page at https://www.OSHA.gov. In
addition, the ICR, comments and submissions are available for
inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office at the address above.
You may also contact Theda Kenney at the below to obtain a copy of the
ICR. For additional information on submitting comments, please see the
``Public Participation'' section in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Todd Owen, Directorate
of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, 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, reporint 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 its enforcement 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 busineses, and to reduce to
the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The general industry PPE standards (29 CFR part 1910, subpart I)
include several paperwork requirements.\1\ The following Describe the
information collection requirements:
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\1\ The Information Collection Request (ICR) does not include
burden hours and costs associated with the information collection
requirements in the standards on respiratory Protection (29 CFR
1910.134) and Electrical Protective Equipment (29 CFR 1910.137),
both of which have been addressed in separate Information collection
Requests (ICRs). See OMB Control Nos. 1218-0099 and 1218-0190,
respectively.
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Hazard Assessment and Verification (29 CFR 1910.132(d)). Paragraph
(d)(1) requires that the employer assess work activities to determine
whether there are hazards present, or likely to be present, which
necessitate the employee's use of PPE. If such hazards are present, or
likely to be present, the employer must communicate selection decisions
to affected employees and verify that the required occupational hazard
assessment has been performed. Paragraph (d)(2) requires that the
verification document, which must be identified as a certification of
hazard assessment, must contain the following information: occupation,
the date(s) of the hazard assessment, and the name of the person
performing the hazard assessment.\2\
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\2\ Paragraph (g) of Sec. 1910.132 specifies that the section's
hazard assessment (paragraph (d)) and training (paragraph (f))
requirements only apply to PPE for the eyes and face, head, feet and
hands.
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The hazard assessment assures that potential workplace hazards
necessitating PPE use have been identified and that the PPE selected is
appropriate for those hazards and the affected employees. The required
certification of the hazard assessment verifies that the required
hazard assessment was conducted.
Training and Verification (29 CFR 1910.132(f)). Paragraph (f)
requires that employers provide training for each employee who is
required to wear PPE. Paragraph (f)(3) requires that employers also
provide retraining when there is reason to believe that any previously
trained employee does not have the understanding and skill to use PPE
properly. Circumstances where such retraining is required include
changes in the workplace or in the types of PPE used that render prior
training obsolete, and inadequacies in the employee's knowledge or use
of PPE that indicate the employee had not retained the requisite
understanding and skill.
Paragraph (f)(4) requires that employers certify that employees
have received and understood the PPE training required in Sec.
1910.132(f). The training certification must include the name of the
employee(s) trained, the date of training, and the subject of the
certification (i.e., a statement identifying the document as a
certification of training in the use of PPE).
The training certification verifies that employees have received
the necessary training and know how to properly use PPE. OSHA
compliance officers may require employers to disclose the certification
records during an Agency inspection.
The part 1910 standards on PPE protection for the eyes and face
(Sec. 1910.133), head (Sec. 1910.135), feet (Sec. 1910.136), and
hands (Sec. 1910.138) do not contain any separate information
collection requirements.
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 requiring OMB to extend their approval of the collection of
information requirements contained in the general industry PPE
standards. The Agency is requesting an increase in burden hours for the
existing collection of information requirements from 3,169,344 to
3,953,759 (a total increase of 784,415 hours). The Agency will
summarize the comments submitted in response to this notice, and will
include this summary in its request to OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved information
collection requirement.
Title: Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) Standards for General
Industry (29 CFR part, 1910, subpart I).
OMB Number: 1218-0205.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits; Federal
Governments; State, local or tribal government; Not-for-profit
institutions.
Number of Respondents: 3,400,000.
Frequency: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies from one minute (.02 hour) to
maintain a training certification record to 29 hours to perform a
hazard assessment.
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Estimated Total Burden Hours: 3,953,759.
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 and supporting materials in response to
this notice by (1) hard copy, (2) FAX transmission (facsimile), or (3)
electronically through the OSHA Web page. Because of security-related
problems, there may be a significant delay in the receipt of comments
by regular mail. Please contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
2350 (TTY) (877) 889-5627) for information about security procedures
concerning the delivery of submissions by express delivery, hand
delivery, and courier service.
Comments, submissions, and background documents are available for
inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office at the above address.
Comments and submissions posted on OSHA's Web page are available at
https://www.OSHA.gov. Contact the OSHA Docket Office for information
about materials not available through the OSHA Web page and for
assistance in using the Web page to locate docket submissions.
Electronic copies of this Federal Register notice as well as other
relevant documents are available on OSHA's Web page. Since all
submissions become public, private information such as social security
numbers should not be submitted.
V. Authority and Signature
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 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. 5-2002 (67 FR
65008).
Signed at Washington, DC, on July 19, 2006.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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