Division of Federal Employees' Compensation; Proposed Extension of Existing Collection; Comment Request, 10071-10072 [2011-3957]
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Roentgenographic Interpretation (CM–
933), Roentgenographic Quality
Rereading (CM–933b), Medical History
and Examination for Coal Mine
Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (CM–988),
Report of Arterial Blood Gas Study
(CM–1159) and Report of Ventilatory
Study (CM–2907). A copy of the
proposed information collection request
can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addresses section of
this Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
April 25, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Vincent Alvarez, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Ave., NW., Room S–3201, Washington,
DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0372,
fax (202) 693–1447, E-mail
Alvarez.Vincent@dol.gov. Please use
only one method of transmission for
comments (mail, fax, or E-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Black Lung
Benefits Act of 1977 as amended, 20
U.S.C. 901 et seq. and 20 CFR 718.102
set forth criteria for the administration
and interpretation of x-rays. When a
miner applies for benefits, the Division
of Coal Mine Workers’ Compensation
(DCMWC) is required to schedule a
series of four diagnostic tests to help
establish eligibility for black lung
benefits. Each of the diagnostic tests has
its own form that sets forth the medical
results. The forms are:
Roentgenographic Interpretation (CM–
933), Roentgenographic Quality
Rereading (CM–933b), Medical History
and Examination for Coal Mine
Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (CM–988),
Report of Arterial Blood Gas Study
(CM–1159), and Report of Ventilatory
Study (CM–2907). This information
collection is currently approved for use
through August 31, 2011.
II. Review Focus: The Department of
Labor 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
Number of
respondents
Number of
responses
Time to complete
CM–933 .................................
CM–933b ...............................
CM–988 .................................
CM–1159 ...............................
CM–2907 ...............................
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Total Respondents: 24,000.
Total Annual Responses: 24,000.
Average Time per Response: 3
minutes–30 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 5,840.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $35,520.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: February 16, 2011.
Vincent Alvarez,
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of
Labor.
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Frequency of response
* 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.
III. Current Actions: The Department
of Labor seeks the approval for the
extension of this currently-approved
information collection in order to carry
out its responsibility to administer the
Black Lung Benefits Act.
Agency: Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs.
Type of Review: Extension.
Title: Roentgenographic Interpretation
(CM–933), Roentgenographic Quality
Rereading (CM–933b), Medical History
and Examination for Coal Mine
Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (CM–988),
Report of Arterial Blood Gas Study
(CM–1159), and Report of Ventilatory
Study (CM–2907).
OMB Number: 1240–0023.
Agency Number: CM–933, CM–933b,
CM–988, CM–1159 and CM–2907.
Affected Public: Business or other for
profit, and not-for-profit institutions.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs
Division of Federal Employees’
Compensation; Proposed Extension of
Existing Collection; Comment Request
ACTION:
Notice.
The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
program helps to ensure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
SUMMARY:
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format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. Currently, the Office
of Workers’ Compensation Programs is
soliciting comments concerning the
proposed collection: Notice of
Recurrences (CA–2a). A copy of the
proposed information collection request
can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the addresses section of
this Notice.
Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before
April 25, 2011.
DATES:
Mr. Vincent Alvarez, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Ave., NW., Room S–3201, Washington,
DC 20210, telephone (202) 693–0372,
fax (202) 693–1447, E-mail
ADDRESSES:
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Alvarez.Vincent@dol.gov. Please use
only one method of transmission for
comments (mail, fax, or E-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs administers the
Federal Employees’ Compensation Act,
(5 U.S.C. 8101, et seq.), which provides
for continuation of pay or compensation
for work related injuries or disease that
result from federal employment.
Regulation 20 CFR 10.104 designates
form CA–2a as the form to be used to
request information from claimants with
previously-accepted injuries, who claim
a recurrence of disability, and from their
supervisors. The form requests
information relating to the specific
circumstances leading up to the
recurrence as well as information about
their employment and earnings. The
information provided is used by OWCP
claims examiners to determine whether
a claimant has suffered a recurrence of
disability related to an accepted injury
and, if so, the appropriate benefits
payable. This information collection is
currently approved for use through May
31, 2011.
II. Review Focus: The Department of
Labor 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.
III. Current Actions: The Department
of Labor seeks the approval for the
extension of this currently approved
information collection in order to
ensure the accurate payment of benefits
to current and former Federal
employees with recurring work-related
injuries.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs.
Title: Notice of Recurrences.
OMB Number: 1240–0009.
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Agency Number: CA–2a.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households.
Total Respondents: 314.
Total Annual Responses: 314.
Average Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 157.
Frequency: Annually.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $148.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Dated: February 16, 2011.
Vincent Alvarez,
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of
Labor.
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Draft NRC Regulatory Issue Summary
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Distribution System Voltages;
Reopening of Public Comment Period
Nuclear Regulatory
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ACTION: Reopening of public comment
period.
AGENCY:
This notice revises a notice
published on January 18, 2011, in the
Federal Register (76 FR 2924), which
announced, in part, that the public
comment period for the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) Draft
Regulatory Issue Summary 2011–XX,
Adequacy of Station Electric
Distribution System Voltages, closes on
February 17, 2011. The purpose of this
notice is to reopen the public comment
period on the Draft RIS for an additional
30 days to allow more time for industry
to assemble comments.
DATES: Comment period expires on
March 19, 2011. Comments submitted
after this date will be considered if it is
practical to do so, but assurance of
consideration cannot be given except for
comments received on or before this
date.
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You may submit comments
by any one of the following methods.
Please include Docket ID NRC–2011–
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0013 in the subject line of your
comments. Comments submitted in
writing or in electronic form will be
posted on the NRC Web site and on the
Federal Rulemaking Web site
Regulations.gov. Because your
comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information,
the NRC cautions you against including
any information in your submission that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed.
The NRC requests that any party
soliciting or aggregating comments
received from other persons for
submission to the NRC inform those
persons that the NRC will not edit their
comments to remove any identifying or
contact information, and therefore, they
should not include any information in
their comments that they do not want
publicly disclosed.
Federal rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for documents filed under Docket ID
NRC–2011–0013. Comments may be
submitted electronically through this
Web site. Address questions about NRC
dockets to Carol Gallagher, telephone:
301–492–3668, e-mail:
Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov.
Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Chief, Rules, Announcements, and
Directives Branch (RADB), Division of
Administrative Services, Office of
Administration, Mail Stop: TWB–05–
B01M, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555–
0001, or by fax to RADB at 301–492–
3446.
Availability: Publicly available
documents related to this notice can be
accessed using any of the methods
described in this section.
NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR):
The public may examine and have
copied, for a fee, publicly available
documents related to the NFS facility
and license renewal at the NRC’s PDR,
located at One White Flint North, 11555
Rockville Pike, Room O1–F21,
Rockville, Maryland 20852–2738.
Members of the public can contact the
NRC’s PDR reference staff by calling 1–
800–397–4209, by faxing a request to
301–415–3548, or by e-mail to
pdr.resource@nrc.gov.
NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access
and Management System (ADAMS):
Members of the public can access the
NRC’s ADAMS at https://www.nrc.gov/
reading-rm/adams.html. From this Web
site, the Draft RIS (ADAMS Accession
Number: ML102950322) can be obtained
by entering the accession numbers
provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kenn A Miller, Office of Nuclear
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Division of Federal Employees' Compensation; Proposed Extension
of Existing Collection; Comment Request
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies
with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing
collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This program helps to
ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format,
reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of
collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed.
Currently, the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed collection: Notice of Recurrences (CA-
2a). A copy of the proposed information collection request can be
obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addresses section
of this Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the
addresses section below on or before April 25, 2011.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Vincent Alvarez, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Ave., NW., Room S-3201, Washington, DC 20210, telephone
(202) 693-0372, fax (202) 693-1447, E-mail
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Alvarez.Vincent@dol.gov. Please use only one method of transmission for
comments (mail, fax, or E-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background: The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
administers the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, (5 U.S.C. 8101, et
seq.), which provides for continuation of pay or compensation for work
related injuries or disease that result from federal employment.
Regulation 20 CFR 10.104 designates form CA-2a as the form to be used
to request information from claimants with previously-accepted
injuries, who claim a recurrence of disability, and from their
supervisors. The form requests information relating to the specific
circumstances leading up to the recurrence as well as information about
their employment and earnings. The information provided is used by OWCP
claims examiners to determine whether a claimant has suffered a
recurrence of disability related to an accepted injury and, if so, the
appropriate benefits payable. This information collection is currently
approved for use through May 31, 2011.
II. Review Focus: The Department of Labor 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.
III. Current Actions: The Department of Labor seeks the approval
for the extension of this currently approved information collection in
order to ensure the accurate payment of benefits to current and former
Federal employees with recurring work-related injuries.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.
Title: Notice of Recurrences.
OMB Number: 1240-0009.
Agency Number: CA-2a.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Total Respondents: 314.
Total Annual Responses: 314.
Average Time per Response: 30 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 157.
Frequency: Annually.
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $148.
Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized
and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget
approval of the information collection request; they will also become a
matter of public record.
Dated: February 16, 2011.
Vincent Alvarez,
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs,
U.S. Department of Labor.
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