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30 days from the date of this publication
in the Federal Register. In order to
ensure the appropriate consideration,
comments should reference the
applicable OMB Control Number (see
below).
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments which:
(1) 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;
(2) 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;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(4) 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: Mine Safety and Health
Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Safety Standards
for Underground Coal Mine
Ventilation—Belt Entry Used as an
Intake Air Course to Ventilate Working
Sections and Areas Where Mechanized
Mining Equipment Is Being Installed or
Removed.
OMB Control Number: 1219–0144.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 2,055.
Total Number of Responses: 24,767.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 5,181.
Total Estimated Annual Cost Burden
(operating/maintaining): $863,397.
Description: MSHA published a final
rule revising the Agency’s requirements
for mine rescue teams for underground
coal mines on February 8, 2008.
Background: The United Mine
Workers of America challenged the final
rule in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit (Court). On
February 10, 2009, the Court vacated
several of the rule’s provisions.
Consistent with the Court’s decision,
MSHA revised its requirements for mine
rescue teams for underground coal
mines on June 17, 2009. The 2008 mine
rescue team standard and 2009 revision
added burden to existing information
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collection requirements and imposed
two new information collection
requirements.
MSHA last submitted paperwork
package 1219–0144 to OMB in May
2009, under the emergency review
procedures in 5 CFR 1320.13.
Section 4 of the Mine Improvement
and New Emergency Response (MINER)
Act of 2006 required MSHA to
promulgate standards for mine rescue
teams for underground coal mines. The
May 2009 paperwork package 1219–
0144 addressed only the increased
burden associated with the revised and
new standards and did not include the
information collection burden for the
existing mine rescue team standard not
addressed by the MINER Act, which had
been approved under paperwork
package 1219–0078 for both coal and
metal and nonmetal mines. This
paperwork package 1219–0144
combines the additional burden from
the revised and new standards for
underground coal mine rescue teams
with the existing information collection
burden, which has been removed from
paperwork package 1219–0078. (The
metal and nonmetal mine rescue team
paperwork package, OMB control
number 1219–0078, has been extended
to February 28, 2013, ICR reference
number 200912–1219–003.)
This package covers the following
requirements for coal mines:
• Each operator of a coal mine who
provides rescue teams is required to
send the District Manager a statement
describing the mine’s method of
compliance with the standard.
• Small or remote mines may submit
an application of an arrangement for
alternative mine rescue capability to
MSHA for approval.
• A person trained in the use and care
of the breathing apparatus is required to
certify by signature and date that the
required inspections and tests were
done, take corrective action if indicated,
and record any corrective action taken.
• Each member of a mine rescue team
must be examined annually by a
physician who must certify that each
person is physically fit to perform mine
rescue and recovery work.
• A record of the training received by
each mine rescue team member in the
use, care, and maintenance of the type
of breathing apparatus that will be used
by the mine rescue team must be made
and kept on file at the mine rescue
station for a period of one year. The
operator must provide the District
Manager information concerning the
schedule of upcoming training when
requested.
• Each mine must have a mine rescue
notification plan outlining the
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procedures to be followed in notifying
the mine rescue teams when there is an
emergency that requires their services.
• Underground coal mine operators
must certify that each designated coal
mine rescue team meets the
requirements of 30 CFR part 49 subpart
B.
• Coal mine operators must make
arrangements for 24-hour emergency
medical assistance and transportation
for injured persons and to post this
information at appropriate places at the
mine, including the names, titles,
addresses, and telephone numbers of all
persons or services currently available
under those arrangements. For
additional information, see related
notice published in the Federal Register
on April 13, 2010 (Vol. 75 page 18888).
Dated: August 24, 2010.
Linda Watts Thomas,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010–21580 Filed 8–30–10; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Submission for OMB Emergency
Review: Comment Request
August 24, 2010.
The Department of Labor has
submitted the following (see below)
information collection request (ICR),
utilizing emergency review procedures,
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) (Pub. L.
104–13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5
CFR 1320.13. OMB approval has been
requested by September 16, 2010. A
copy of this ICR, with applicable
supporting documentation, including
among other things a description of the
likely respondents, proposed frequency
of responses, and estimated total burden
may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov
Web site at https://www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain or by contacting
Linda Watts-Thomas on 202–693–4223
(this is not a toll-free number)/e-mail:
DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. Interested
parties are encouraged to send
comments to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for the Department of Labor—
BLS, Office of Management and Budget,
Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503,
Telephone: 202–395–7314/Fax: 202–
395–6974 (these are not toll-free
numbers), e-mail:
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov.
Comments and questions about the ICR
listed below should be received 5 days
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prior to the requested OMB approval
date.
The OMB is particularly interested in
comments which:
• 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
Total
respondents
Frequency
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Type of Review: Revision of currently
approved collection.
Title of Collection: National
Compensation Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1220–0164.
Affected Public: Private sector
establishments and State and local
governments.
Total
annual
responses
Average
minutes per
response
Burden
hours
34,929
4,974
Annual ..........
Annual ..........
63,508
10,312
46.58
34.92
49,303
6,002
Totals to NCS Program ..................................................
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Private Sector ........................................................................
State and Local Governments ..............................................
39,904
......................
73,820
........................
55,305
Total Burden Cost: (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost: (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Description: The National
Compensation Survey (NCS) is an
ongoing survey of earnings and benefits
among private firms, State, and local
government. NCS is the integration of
the sampling, collection, and processing
for the Employment Cost Index (ECI),
the Employee Benefits Survey (EBS),
and the Locality Pay Surveys (LPS) into
a single, unified program of
compensation statistics. This integration
improves data for policymakers and
researchers, reduces respondent burden,
improves the utilization of BLS
resources, and enhances the published
measures of compensation. Data from
the integrated program include
estimates of wages by job levels
covering broad groups of related
occupations, and data that directly links
benefit plan costs with detailed plan
provisions. The integrated program’s
single sample also produces both timeseries indexes and cost levels for
industry and occupational groups,
thereby increasing the analytical
potential of the data. Benefits of the
integrated sample include: improved
measures of trends; better integration of
benefit costs and plan provisions; data
for narrow occupations; and broad
regional and occupational coverage.
NCS employs probability methods for
selection of occupations. This ensures
that sampled occupations represent all
occupations in the workforce, while
minimizing the reporting burden on
respondents. Data from the NCS are
critical for setting Federal white-collar
salaries, determining monetary policy
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(as a Principal Federal Economic
Indicator), and for compensation
administrators and researchers in the
private sector. The survey collects data
from a sample of employers. The data
consist of information about the duties,
responsibilities, and compensation
(earnings and benefits) for a sample of
occupations for each sampled employer.
The NCS is proposing to add two
questions on domestic partner benefits.
This collection timeline will allow data
on domestic partner benefits to be
published in 2011. These questions will
only be asked of wage and benefits
sample members who offer defined
benefit (DB) and/or health benefits to
their employees. Currently in private
industry DB plans are offered in 11% of
establishments and health benefits to
63%. In State and local governments DB
access is 84% and health benefits access
is 88%. These two questions will add
approximately 180 hours annually to
private industry sample respondent
burden hours (14,614 total sample of
private establishments). For the
government sample these two questions
will add approximately 62 hours
annually to government respondent
burden hours (2,164 total sample of
State and local government
establishments).
Why are we requesting Emergency
Processing? Emergency clearance is
being sought for the National
Compensation Survey for the purpose of
the addition of two questions on
domestic partner benefits to the existing
‘‘Other Benefits’’ questions. The
Department of Labor’s LGBT (Lesbian,
Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender)
roundtable and recent Congressional
actions on the proposed Domestic
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Partnership Benefits and Obligations
Act (HR 2517) have greatly increased
the need for information on domestic
partner benefits in both private industry
and State and local governments. In
order for BLS to produce data in 2011,
NCS data collection of these questions
must begin in September 2010 during
the NCS collection quarter (which starts
September 16, 2010).
The BLS will submit an ICR
immediately following this approval, as
the current NCS package expires in
January 2011. This ICR will be
submitted to OMB under the standard
clearance process and will give the
public a second opportunity chance to
comment on this collection in
accordance with PRA95 (44 USC 3506).
Linda Watts-Thomas,
Acting, Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Submission for OMB Emergency Review: Comment Request
August 24, 2010.
The Department of Labor has submitted the following (see below)
information collection request (ICR), utilizing emergency review
procedures, to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and
clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) and 5 CFR 1320.13. OMB
approval has been requested by September 16, 2010. A copy of this ICR,
with applicable supporting documentation, including among other things
a description of the likely respondents, proposed frequency of
responses, and estimated total burden may be obtained from the
RegInfo.gov Web site at https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or by
contacting Linda Watts-Thomas on 202-693-4223 (this is not a toll-free
number)/e-mail: DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov. Interested parties are
encouraged to send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the Department of Labor--BLS,
Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503,
Telephone: 202-395-7314/Fax: 202-395-6974 (these are not toll-free
numbers), e-mail: OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov. Comments and questions
about the ICR listed below should be received 5 days
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prior to the requested OMB approval date.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments which:
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 submissions of responses.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Type of Review: Revision of currently approved collection.
Title of Collection: National Compensation Survey.
OMB Control Number: 1220-0164.
Affected Public: Private sector establishments and State and local
governments.
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Average
Total Frequency Total annual minutes per Burden hours
respondents responses response
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Private Sector............... 34,929 Annual........... 63,508 46.58 49,303
State and Local Governments.. 4,974 Annual........... 10,312 34.92 6,002
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Totals to NCS Program.... 39,904 ................. 73,820 .............. 55,305
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Total Burden Cost: (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost: (operating/maintenance): $0.
Description: The National Compensation Survey (NCS) is an ongoing
survey of earnings and benefits among private firms, State, and local
government. NCS is the integration of the sampling, collection, and
processing for the Employment Cost Index (ECI), the Employee Benefits
Survey (EBS), and the Locality Pay Surveys (LPS) into a single, unified
program of compensation statistics. This integration improves data for
policymakers and researchers, reduces respondent burden, improves the
utilization of BLS resources, and enhances the published measures of
compensation. Data from the integrated program include estimates of
wages by job levels covering broad groups of related occupations, and
data that directly links benefit plan costs with detailed plan
provisions. The integrated program's single sample also produces both
time-series indexes and cost levels for industry and occupational
groups, thereby increasing the analytical potential of the data.
Benefits of the integrated sample include: improved measures of trends;
better integration of benefit costs and plan provisions; data for
narrow occupations; and broad regional and occupational coverage. NCS
employs probability methods for selection of occupations. This ensures
that sampled occupations represent all occupations in the workforce,
while minimizing the reporting burden on respondents. Data from the NCS
are critical for setting Federal white-collar salaries, determining
monetary policy (as a Principal Federal Economic Indicator), and for
compensation administrators and researchers in the private sector. The
survey collects data from a sample of employers. The data consist of
information about the duties, responsibilities, and compensation
(earnings and benefits) for a sample of occupations for each sampled
employer.
The NCS is proposing to add two questions on domestic partner
benefits. This collection timeline will allow data on domestic partner
benefits to be published in 2011. These questions will only be asked of
wage and benefits sample members who offer defined benefit (DB) and/or
health benefits to their employees. Currently in private industry DB
plans are offered in 11% of establishments and health benefits to 63%.
In State and local governments DB access is 84% and health benefits
access is 88%. These two questions will add approximately 180 hours
annually to private industry sample respondent burden hours (14,614
total sample of private establishments). For the government sample
these two questions will add approximately 62 hours annually to
government respondent burden hours (2,164 total sample of State and
local government establishments).
Why are we requesting Emergency Processing? Emergency clearance is
being sought for the National Compensation Survey for the purpose of
the addition of two questions on domestic partner benefits to the
existing ``Other Benefits'' questions. The Department of Labor's LGBT
(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) roundtable and recent
Congressional actions on the proposed Domestic Partnership Benefits and
Obligations Act (HR 2517) have greatly increased the need for
information on domestic partner benefits in both private industry and
State and local governments. In order for BLS to produce data in 2011,
NCS data collection of these questions must begin in September 2010
during the NCS collection quarter (which starts September 16, 2010).
The BLS will submit an ICR immediately following this approval, as
the current NCS package expires in January 2011. This ICR will be
submitted to OMB under the standard clearance process and will give the
public a second opportunity chance to comment on this collection in
accordance with PRA95 (44 USC 3506).
Linda Watts-Thomas,
Acting, Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2010-21617 Filed 8-30-10; 8:45 am]
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