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TABLE 1—PROPOSED LIST OF APPROPRIATE TEST STANDARDS FOR INCLUSION IN SGS’S NRTL SCOPE OF
RECOGNITION—Continued
Test standard
Test standard title
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
1203 ..........................................
1574 ..........................................
2108 ..........................................
8750 ..........................................
60745–1 ....................................
60745–2–1 ................................
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
UL
60745–2–2 ................................
60745–2–3 ................................
60745–2–4 ................................
60745–2–5 ................................
60745–2–6 ................................
60745–2–8 ................................
60745–2–9 ................................
60745–2–11 ..............................
60745–2–12 ..............................
60745–2–13 ..............................
60745–2–14 ..............................
60745–2–15 ..............................
UL 60745–2–16 ..............................
UL 60745–2–17 ..............................
UL 62368–1 ....................................
Explosion Proof and Dust-Ignition-Proof Electrical Equipment for Use in Hazardous (Classified) Locations.
Track Lighting Systems.
Low Voltage Lighting Systems.
Light Emitting Diode (LED) Equipment for Use in Lighting Products.
Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools—Safety—Part 1: General Requirements.
Hand-Held Motor Operated Electrical Tools—Safety—Part 2–1: Particular Requirements for Drills and Impact Drills.
Particular Requirements for Screwdrivers and Impact Wrenches.
Particular Requirements for Grinders, Polishers and Disk-Type Sanders.
Particular Requirements for Sanders and Polishers Other Than Disk Type.
Particular Requirements for Circular Saws.
Particular Requirements for Hammers.
Particular Requirements for Shears and Nibblers.
Particular Requirements for Tappers.
Particular Requirements for Reciprocating Saws.
Particular Requirements for Concrete Vibrators.
Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools—Safety—Part 2–13: Particular Requirements for Chain Saws.
Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools—Safety—Part 2–14: Particular Requirements for Planers.
Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools—Safety—Part 2–15: Particular Requirements for Hedge Trimmers.
Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools—Safety—Part 2–16: Particular Requirements for Tackers.
Hand-Held Motor-Operated Electric Tools—Safety—Part 2–17: Particular Requirements for Routers and
Trimmers.
Audio/Video, Information and Communication Technology Equipment—Part 1: Safety Requirements.
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III. Preliminary Finding on the
Applications
SGS submitted acceptable
applications for expansion of its scope
of recognition. OSHA’s review of the
application files and its detailed on-site
assessments indicate that SGS can meet
the requirements prescribed by 29 CFR
1910.7 for expanding its recognition to
include the addition of three sites and
these 39 test standards for NRTL testing
and certification listed above. This
preliminary finding does not constitute
an interim or temporary approval of
SGS’s applications.
OSHA welcomes public comment as
to whether SGS meets the requirements
of 29 CFR 1910.7 for expansion of its
recognition as an NRTL. Comments
should consist of pertinent written
documents and exhibits. Commenters
needing more time to comment must
submit a request in writing, stating the
reasons for the request. Commenters
must submit the written request for an
extension by the due date for comments.
OSHA will limit any extension to 10
days unless the requester justifies a
longer period. OSHA may deny a
request for an extension if it is not
adequately justified. To obtain or review
copies of the exhibits identified in this
notice, as well as comments submitted
to the docket, contact the Docket Office,
Room N–2625, Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, U.S. Department
of Labor, at the above address. These
materials also are available online at
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https://www.regulations.gov under
Docket No. OSHA–2006–0040.
OSHA staff will review all comments
to the docket submitted in a timely
manner and, after addressing the issues
raised by these comments, will
recommend to the Assistant Secretary
for Occupational Safety and Health
whether to grant SGS’s applications for
expansion of its scope of recognition.
The Assistant Secretary will make the
final decision on granting the
applications. In making this decision,
the Assistant Secretary may undertake
other proceedings prescribed in
Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. OSHA
will publish a public notice of this final
decision in the Federal Register.
Authority and Signature
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210, authorized the preparation of
this notice. Accordingly, the Agency is
issuing this notice pursuant to 29 U.S.C.
657(g)(2), Secretary of Labor’s Order No.
1–2012 (77 FR 3912, Jan. 25, 2012), and
29 CFR 1910.7.
Signed at Washington, DC, on July 15,
2016.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0018]
Asbestos in General Industry;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Collections of Information
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
collections of information contained in
the Standard on Asbestos in General
Industry (29 CFR 1910.1001).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
September 19, 2016.
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
SUMMARY:
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your comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2010–0018, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 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 the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2010–0018) 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 from the Web site. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Theda Kenney at
the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney or Todd Owen,
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:
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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 collections of
information in accord with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA–95) (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
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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 basic purpose of the collections
of information in the Standard is to
document that employers in general
industry are providing their workers
with protection from exposure to
hazardous asbestos. Asbestos exposure
results in asbestosis, an emphysema-like
condition; lung cancer; mesothelioma;
and gastrointestinal cancer.
Several provisions of the Standard are
collections of information, including:
Implementing an exposure monitoring
program that notifies workers of their
exposure monitoring results,
establishing a written compliance
program, and informing laundry
personnel of the requirement to prevent
release of airborne asbestos above the
time-weighted average and excursion
limit. Other collections of information
in the Standard include: maintaining
records of information obtained
concerning the presence, location, and
quantity of asbestos-containing
materials (ACMs) and/or presumed
asbestos-containing materials (PACMs)
in a building/facility; notifying
housekeeping workers of the presence
and location of ACMs and PACMs in
areas they may occupy during their
work; and using information, data, and
analyses to demonstrate that PACMs do
not contain asbestos. In addition, the
collections of information in the
Standard include: providing medical
surveillance for workers potentially
exposed to ACMs and/or PACMs,
including administering a worker
medical questionnaire, providing
information to the examining physician,
and providing the physician’s written
opinion to the worker; maintaining
records of exposure monitoring,
objective data used for exposure
determinations, and medical
surveillance; and making specified
records (e.g., exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records) available
to designated parties.
These collections of information
permit employers, workers and their
designated representatives, OSHA, and
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other specified parties to determine the
effectiveness of an employer’s asbestoscontrol program. Accordingly, the
requirements ensure that workers
exposed to asbestos receive all of the
protections afforded by the Standard.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed collections of
information 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
collections of information, 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 decrease of 6 burden hours
(from 11,694 to 11,688 burden hours).
The decrease is due to the removal of
burden hours associated with OSHA
requests to access records from
employers. Usually, OSHA requests
access to records during an inspection.
Information collected by the Agency
during the investigation is not subject to
the PRA under 5 CFR 1320.4(a)(2).
There is also an estimated increase in
operation and maintenance costs of
$38,624, from $925,026 to $963,650.
The increase in operation and
maintenance costs is due to the increase
in medical exam costs, offset by a
decrease in estimated costs for contract
industrial hygiene services to conduct
exposure monitoring sampling, due to
the Agency’s use of a different data
source to calculate the exposure
monitoring sampling estimate.
OSHA is providing the following
summary information about the
Asbestos in General Industry
information collection:
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Asbestos in General Industry (29
CFR 1910.1001).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0133.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 121.
Frequency of Responses: Varies.
Total Responses: 32,173.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
11,688.
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Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $963,650.
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 (Docket
No. OSHA–2010–0018) for this ICR. 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 the 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 their
social security number and date 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 from 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 from 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
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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 July 15,
2016.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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Project in Campbell County, Wyoming
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Draft supplemental
environmental impact statement;
extension of comment period.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) requested public
comments on draft Supplement 6 to
NUREG–1910, ‘‘Generic Environmental
Impact Statement for In Situ Leach
Uranium Milling Facilities.’’ The public
comment period was originally
scheduled to close on August 22, 2016.
The NRC has decided to extend the
public comment period to allow more
time for members of the public to
develop and submit their comments.
DATES: The due date for comments in
the document published on July 7, 2016
(81 FR 44333) is extended. Comments
should be filed no later than September
6, 2016. Comments received after this
date will be considered, if it is practical
to do so, but the Commission is able to
ensure consideration only for comments
received on or before this date.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0164. Address
questions about NRC dockets to Carol
Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463;
email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For
technical questions, contact the
individual listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section of this
document.
• Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey,
Office of Administration, Mail Stop:
OWFN–12–H08, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001.
For additional direction on obtaining
information and submitting comments,
see ‘‘Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments’’ in the
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Jill
Caverly, Office of Nuclear Material
Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415–
7674; email: Jill.Caverly@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
I. Obtaining Information and
Submitting Comments
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Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2013–
0164 when contacting the NRC about
the availability of information for this
action. You may obtain publiclyavailable information related to this
action by any of the following methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and search
for Docket ID NRC–2013–0164.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): You may obtain publiclyavailable documents online in the
ADAMS Public Documents collection at
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. To begin the search, select
‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then
select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS
Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS,
please contact the NRC’s Public
Document Room (PDR) reference staff at
1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by
email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. Draft
Supplement 6 to NUREG–1910 is
available in ADAMS under Accession
Number ML16181A082. NUREG–1910
is available in ADAMS under Accession
Numbers ML091480244 (Volume 1) and
ML091480188 (Volume 2).
• NRC’s PDR: You may examine and
purchase copies of public documents at
the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One
White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
B. Submitting Comments
Please include Docket ID NRC–2013–
0164 in your comment submission.
The NRC cautions you not to include
identifying or contact information that
you do not want to be publicly
disclosed in your comment submission.
The NRC will post all comment
submissions at https://
www.regulations.gov as well as enter the
comment submissions into ADAMS.
The NRC does not routinely edit
comment submissions to remove
identifying or contact information.
If you are requesting or aggregating
comments from other persons for
submission to the NRC, then you should
inform those persons not to include
identifying or contact information that
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2010-0018]
Asbestos in General Industry; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Collections of Information
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
collections of information contained in the Standard on Asbestos in
General Industry (29 CFR 1910.1001).
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
September 19, 2016.
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
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your comments and attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA-2010-0018, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 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 the
OSHA docket number (OSHA-2010-0018) 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 from the Web
site. All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. You may also
contact Theda Kenney at the address below to obtain a copy of the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Todd Owen, 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 collections of
information in accord with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA-95)
(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 basic purpose of the collections of information in the Standard
is to document that employers in general industry are providing their
workers with protection from exposure to hazardous asbestos. Asbestos
exposure results in asbestosis, an emphysema-like condition; lung
cancer; mesothelioma; and gastrointestinal cancer.
Several provisions of the Standard are collections of information,
including: Implementing an exposure monitoring program that notifies
workers of their exposure monitoring results, establishing a written
compliance program, and informing laundry personnel of the requirement
to prevent release of airborne asbestos above the time-weighted average
and excursion limit. Other collections of information in the Standard
include: maintaining records of information obtained concerning the
presence, location, and quantity of asbestos-containing materials
(ACMs) and/or presumed asbestos-containing materials (PACMs) in a
building/facility; notifying housekeeping workers of the presence and
location of ACMs and PACMs in areas they may occupy during their work;
and using information, data, and analyses to demonstrate that PACMs do
not contain asbestos. In addition, the collections of information in
the Standard include: providing medical surveillance for workers
potentially exposed to ACMs and/or PACMs, including administering a
worker medical questionnaire, providing information to the examining
physician, and providing the physician's written opinion to the worker;
maintaining records of exposure monitoring, objective data used for
exposure determinations, and medical surveillance; and making specified
records (e.g., exposure monitoring and medical surveillance records)
available to designated parties.
These collections of information permit employers, workers and
their designated representatives, OSHA, and other specified parties to
determine the effectiveness of an employer's asbestos-control program.
Accordingly, the requirements ensure that workers exposed to asbestos
receive all of the protections afforded by the Standard.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
Whether the proposed collections of information 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 collections of information, 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 decrease of 6 burden hours
(from 11,694 to 11,688 burden hours). The decrease is due to the
removal of burden hours associated with OSHA requests to access records
from employers. Usually, OSHA requests access to records during an
inspection. Information collected by the Agency during the
investigation is not subject to the PRA under 5 CFR 1320.4(a)(2). There
is also an estimated increase in operation and maintenance costs of
$38,624, from $925,026 to $963,650. The increase in operation and
maintenance costs is due to the increase in medical exam costs, offset
by a decrease in estimated costs for contract industrial hygiene
services to conduct exposure monitoring sampling, due to the Agency's
use of a different data source to calculate the exposure monitoring
sampling estimate.
OSHA is providing the following summary information about the
Asbestos in General Industry information collection:
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title: Asbestos in General Industry (29 CFR 1910.1001).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0133.
Affected Public: Businesses or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 121.
Frequency of Responses: Varies.
Total Responses: 32,173.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 11,688.
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Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $963,650.
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 (Docket No. OSHA-2010-0018) for this ICR.
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 the 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 their social security number
and date 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 from 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 from 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 July 15, 2016.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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