Inorganic Arsenic Standard; Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements, 1970-1971 [2015-00370]
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Summary of the Changes
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updated (1) Objectives and Scope of
Activities; (2) Estimated Annual
Operating Cost and Staff Years; and (3)
Membership and Designation.
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0186]
1. Objectives and Scope of
Activities—The objectives and scope
section of the ACA Charter outlines the
areas of focus where the ACA will
provide advice and recommendations.
The current ACA Charter states that the
ACA will advise on strategies to expand
apprenticeship into the Manufacturing,
Energy, and the Healthcare industries.
The proposed ACA Charter is being
updated to reflect the industries
currently being targeted for expansion
and now includes Transportation/
Logistics, Healthcare, Energy, Advanced
Manufacturing, and Information
Technology and Communications
industries.
2. Estimated Annual Operating Cost
and Staff Years—The operating costs in
the proposed Charter are being
increased to account for increases in
travel costs, resulting from an increase
in the number of ACA members from
outside of the Washington, DC
metropolitan area. Further cost have
been updated to more accurately
account for the decrease in contractor
support and the subsequent increase in
federal staff time utilized to support the
ACA, as well as, the participation of its
ex-officio federal members.
3. Membership and Designation—
Given the apprenticeship expansion
efforts, the ACA representatives will be
balanced in terms of (1) points of view,
(2) sectors (employers, labor and
public), and (3) industries targeted for
expansion. Therefore, the range of
voting members is being increased from
24–27 members to 27–30 members to
provide the flexibility to ensure balance
is maintained and all the necessary
stakeholder groups are represented. In
addition, the current ACA Charter states
that the ACA may consult with industry
experts and others as appropriate. The
proposed ACA Charter includes
language to affirm that the ACA will
consult with industry experts, and
further clarifies that they will
specifically consult with experts from
the industries that are being targeted for
apprenticeship expansion.
Inorganic Arsenic Standard; Extension
of the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
Portia Wu,
Assistant Secretary for the Employment and
Training Administration.
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Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
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 Inorganic Arsenic
Standard (29 CFR part 1910.1018).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
March 16, 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–2011–0186, 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 OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0186) 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
SUMMARY:
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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
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 information collection
requirements in the Inorganic Arsenic
Standard provide protection for workers
from the adverse health effects
associated with exposure to inorganic
arsenic. The Inorganic Arsenic Standard
requires employers to: Monitor workers’
exposure to inorganic arsenic and notify
workers of exposure-monitoring results;
notify anyone who cleans protective
clothing or equipment of inorganic
arsenic exposure; develop, update and
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maintain a housekeeping and
maintenance plan; monitor worker
health by providing medical
surveillance; post warning signs and
apply labels to shipping and storage
containers of inorganic arsenic; develop
and maintain worker exposure
monitoring and medical records;
establish and implement written
compliance programs; and provide
workers with information about their
exposures and the health effects of
exposure to inorganic arsenic.
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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
The Agency is requesting an
adjustment of 14,728 burden hours
(from 637 to 15,365 hours) primarily
due to the Agency’s identification and
inclusion of 688 covered coal-fired
electric power plant establishments
(including cogenerators) and workers at
these establishments. The operation and
maintenance cost increased from
$54,197 to $1,078,069 due to the
increase in establishments and workers,
and also in the cost of exposure
monitoring samples, medical
examinations and chest x-rays. The
Agency makes the new assumption that
personal breathing zone samples,
collected by a contract industrial
hygienist and analyzed by a contract
laboratory, will be used instead of vapor
badges for exposure monitoring under
the Standard.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Inorganic Arsenic Standard (29
CFR 1910.1018).
OMB Number: 1218–0104.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 691.
Frequency of Response: On occasion;
quarterly; semi-annually; annually.
Total Responses: 24,764.
Average Time per response: Varies
from five minutes (.08 hour) for a
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secretary to develop and maintain
records to eight hours for a supervisor
to update each compliance plan.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
15,365.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $1,078,069.
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; or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the Agency name
and the OSHA docket number for this
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0186).
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,
date, and 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 dates 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 through 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 through the Web site, and for
assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
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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 January 7,
2015.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
ACTION:
Notice.
The National Endowment for
the Arts (NEA), 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. This program
helps to ensure that requested data is
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 is properly assessed.
Currently, the NEA is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
information collection of an NEA
applicant survey. A copy of the current
information collection request can be
obtained by contacting the office listed
below in the address section of this
notice.
SUMMARY:
Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
address section below within 60 days
from the date of this publication in the
Federal Register. The NEA 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;
DATES:
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2011-0186]
Inorganic Arsenic Standard; 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 the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements specified in the Inorganic Arsenic
Standard (29 CFR part 1910.1018).
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
March 16, 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-2011-0186, 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 OSHA
docket number (OSHA-2011-0186) 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
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 information collection requirements in the Inorganic Arsenic
Standard provide protection for workers from the adverse health effects
associated with exposure to inorganic arsenic. The Inorganic Arsenic
Standard requires employers to: Monitor workers' exposure to inorganic
arsenic and notify workers of exposure-monitoring results; notify
anyone who cleans protective clothing or equipment of inorganic arsenic
exposure; develop, update and
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maintain a housekeeping and maintenance plan; monitor worker health by
providing medical surveillance; post warning signs and apply labels to
shipping and storage containers of inorganic arsenic; develop and
maintain worker exposure monitoring and medical records; establish and
implement written compliance programs; and provide workers with
information about their exposures and the health effects of exposure to
inorganic arsenic.
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
The Agency is requesting an adjustment of 14,728 burden hours (from
637 to 15,365 hours) primarily due to the Agency's identification and
inclusion of 688 covered coal-fired electric power plant establishments
(including cogenerators) and workers at these establishments. The
operation and maintenance cost increased from $54,197 to $1,078,069 due
to the increase in establishments and workers, and also in the cost of
exposure monitoring samples, medical examinations and chest x-rays. The
Agency makes the new assumption that personal breathing zone samples,
collected by a contract industrial hygienist and analyzed by a contract
laboratory, will be used instead of vapor badges for exposure
monitoring under the Standard.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title: Inorganic Arsenic Standard (29 CFR 1910.1018).
OMB Number: 1218-0104.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 691.
Frequency of Response: On occasion; quarterly; semi-annually;
annually.
Total Responses: 24,764.
Average Time per response: Varies from five minutes (.08 hour) for
a secretary to develop and maintain records to eight hours for a
supervisor to update each compliance plan.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 15,365.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $1,078,069.
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; or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other material must identify the Agency name
and the OSHA docket number for this ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2011-0186).
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, date, and 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
dates 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 through 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 through 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 January 7, 2015.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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