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(5) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Crystal Rennie by telephone at 202–
693–0456, or by email at DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The ETA
requires grantees to submit Quarterly
Progress Reports on enrolled
apprentices in Registered
Apprenticeship programs and/or preapprenticeship program participants,
along with a narrative summary of the
partnership progress and
implementation measures identified by
the grantee in the project work plan.
These reports help ETA gauge the
effects of the American Apprenticeship
Grants grants, identify grantees and
programs that could serve as useful
models, and target technical assistance
appropriately. The reports can also be
used to inform future evaluations. For
additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on
April 15, 2020 (85 FR 21022).
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–ETA.
Title of Collection: American
Apprenticeship Initiative Grants.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0528.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households; State, Local and Tribal
governments; Private Sector—not-forprofit institutions.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 12,046.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 12,184
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
12,680 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Crystal R. Rennie,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Radiation
Sampling and Exposure Records
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
ACTION:
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting this Mining Safety
and Health Administration (MSHA)sponsored information collection
request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are
invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments that agency receives
on or before July 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) if the
information will be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information collection; and
(5) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anthony May by telephone at 202–693–
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or
by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
103(h) of the Federal Mine Safety and
Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), 30 U.S.C.
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813(h), authorizes MSHA to collect
information necessary to carry out its
duty in protecting the safety and health
of miners. Further, section 101(a) of the
Mine Act, 30 U.S.C. 811, authorizes the
Secretary of Labor to develop,
promulgate, and revise as may be
appropriate, improved mandatory
health or safety standards for the
protection of life and prevention of
injuries in coal and metal and nonmetal
mines. Under the authority of Section
103 of the Federal Mine Safety and
Health Act of 1977, MSHA is required
to issue regulations requiring operators
to maintain accurate records of
employee exposures to potentially toxic
materials or harmful physical agents
which are required to be monitored or
measured under any applicable
mandatory health or safety standard
promulgated under this Act.
Airborne radon and radon daughters
exist in every uranium mine and in
several other underground mining
commodities. Radon is radioactive gas.
It diffuses into the underground mine
atmosphere through the rock and the
ground water. Radon decays in a series
of steps into other radioactive elements,
which are solids, called radon
daughters. Radon and radon daughters
are invisible and odorless. Decay of
radon and its daughters results in
emissions of alpha energy. Medical
doctors and scientists have associated
high radon daughter exposures with
lung cancer. The health hazard arises
from breathing air contaminated with
radon daughters which are in turn
deposited in the lungs. The lung tissues
are sensitive to alpha radioactivity. The
amounts of airborne radon daughters to
which most miners can be exposed with
no adverse effects have been established
and are expressed as working levels
(WL).
The current MSHA standard is a
maximum personal exposure of 4
working level months per year. Excess
lung cancer in uranium miners, just as
coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, silicosis,
and other debilitating occupational
diseases, has been recognized for many
years. Thus, an adequate base of
accurate exposure level data is essential
to control miners’ exposures and permit
an evaluation of the effectiveness of
existing regulations. The standard at 30
CFR 57.5037 established the procedures
to be used by the mine operator in
sampling mine air for the presence and
concentrations of radon daughters.
Operators are required to conduct
weekly sampling where concentrations
of radon daughters exceed 0.3 WL.
Sampling is required biweekly where
uranium mines have readings of 0.1 WL
to 0.3 WL and every 3 months in non-
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uranium underground mines where the
readings are 0.1 WL to 0.3 WL. Mine
operators are required to keep records of
all mandatory samplings. Records must
include the sample date, location, and
results, and must be retained at the
mine site or nearest mine office for at
least 2 years. The standard at 30 CFR
57.5040 requires mine operators to
calculate and record individual
exposures to radon daughters on MSHA
Form 4000–9 ‘‘Record of Individual
Exposure to Radon Daughters.’’ The
calculations are based on the results of
the weekly sampling required by 30 CFR
57.5037. Records must be maintained by
the operator and submitted to MSHA
annually. For additional substantive
information about this ICR, see the
related notice published in the Federal
Register on March 6, 2020 (85 FR
13189).
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–MSHA.
Title of Collection: Radiation
Sampling and Exposure Records.
OMB Control Number: 1219–0003.
Affected Public: Private Sector:
Businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 4.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 404.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
402 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $20.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Dated: June 16, 2020.
Anthony May,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Safety
Defects; Examination, Correction, and
Records
Notice of availability; request
for comments.
ACTION:
The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting this Mining Safety
and Health Administration (MSHA)sponsored information collection
request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are
invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments that agency receives
on or before July 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) if the
information will be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information collection; and
(5) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anthony May by telephone at 202–693–
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or
by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
103(h) of the Federal Mine Safety and
Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), 30 U.S.C.
813(h), authorizes MSHA to collect
information necessary to carry out its
duty in protecting the safety and health
of miners. Further, section 101(a) of the
Mine Act, 30 U.S.C. 811, authorizes the
Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to
develop, promulgate, and revise as may
SUMMARY:
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be appropriate, improved mandatory
health or safety standards for the
protection of life and prevention of
injuries in coal and metal and nonmetal
mines. For additional substantive
information about this ICR, see the
related notice published in the Federal
Register on March 25, 2020 (85 FR
16963).
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–MSHA.
Title of Collection: Safety Defects;
Examination, Correction, and Records.
OMB Control Number: 1219–0089.
Affected Public: Private Sector:
Businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 12,280.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 4,101,012.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
881,962 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $215,299.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Dated: June 17, 2020.
Anthony May,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Radiation Sampling and Exposure Records
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Mining Safety
and Health Administration (MSHA)-sponsored information collection
request (ICR) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review
and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that agency receives
on or before July 23, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether the collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the
Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) if the information will be processed and used in a timely
manner; (3) the accuracy of the agency's estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (4) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (5) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are
to respond, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anthony May by telephone at 202-693-
4129 (this is not a toll-free number) or by email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 103(h) of the Federal Mine Safety
and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act), 30 U.S.C. 813(h), authorizes MSHA to
collect information necessary to carry out its duty in protecting the
safety and health of miners. Further, section 101(a) of the Mine Act,
30 U.S.C. 811, authorizes the Secretary of Labor to develop,
promulgate, and revise as may be appropriate, improved mandatory health
or safety standards for the protection of life and prevention of
injuries in coal and metal and nonmetal mines. Under the authority of
Section 103 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, MSHA is
required to issue regulations requiring operators to maintain accurate
records of employee exposures to potentially toxic materials or harmful
physical agents which are required to be monitored or measured under
any applicable mandatory health or safety standard promulgated under
this Act.
Airborne radon and radon daughters exist in every uranium mine and
in several other underground mining commodities. Radon is radioactive
gas. It diffuses into the underground mine atmosphere through the rock
and the ground water. Radon decays in a series of steps into other
radioactive elements, which are solids, called radon daughters. Radon
and radon daughters are invisible and odorless. Decay of radon and its
daughters results in emissions of alpha energy. Medical doctors and
scientists have associated high radon daughter exposures with lung
cancer. The health hazard arises from breathing air contaminated with
radon daughters which are in turn deposited in the lungs. The lung
tissues are sensitive to alpha radioactivity. The amounts of airborne
radon daughters to which most miners can be exposed with no adverse
effects have been established and are expressed as working levels (WL).
The current MSHA standard is a maximum personal exposure of 4
working level months per year. Excess lung cancer in uranium miners,
just as coal workers' pneumoconiosis, silicosis, and other debilitating
occupational diseases, has been recognized for many years. Thus, an
adequate base of accurate exposure level data is essential to control
miners' exposures and permit an evaluation of the effectiveness of
existing regulations. The standard at 30 CFR 57.5037 established the
procedures to be used by the mine operator in sampling mine air for the
presence and concentrations of radon daughters. Operators are required
to conduct weekly sampling where concentrations of radon daughters
exceed 0.3 WL. Sampling is required biweekly where uranium mines have
readings of 0.1 WL to 0.3 WL and every 3 months in non-
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uranium underground mines where the readings are 0.1 WL to 0.3 WL. Mine
operators are required to keep records of all mandatory samplings.
Records must include the sample date, location, and results, and must
be retained at the mine site or nearest mine office for at least 2
years. The standard at 30 CFR 57.5040 requires mine operators to
calculate and record individual exposures to radon daughters on MSHA
Form 4000-9 ``Record of Individual Exposure to Radon Daughters.'' The
calculations are based on the results of the weekly sampling required
by 30 CFR 57.5037. Records must be maintained by the operator and
submitted to MSHA annually. For additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice published in the Federal
Register on March 6, 2020 (85 FR 13189).
This information collection is subject to the PRA. A Federal agency
generally cannot conduct or sponsor a collection of information, and
the public is generally not required to respond to an information
collection, unless the OMB approves it and displays a currently valid
OMB Control Number. In addition, notwithstanding any other provisions
of law, no person shall generally be subject to penalty for failing to
comply with a collection of information that does not display a valid
OMB Control Number. See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this information collection for
three (3) years. OMB authorization for an ICR cannot be for more than
three (3) years without renewal. The DOL notes that information
collection requirements submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs receive
a month-to-month extension while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL-MSHA.
Title of Collection: Radiation Sampling and Exposure Records.
OMB Control Number: 1219-0003.
Affected Public: Private Sector: Businesses or other for-profits.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 4.
Total Estimated Number of Responses: 404.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 402 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $20.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D).
Dated: June 16, 2020.
Anthony May,
Acting Departmental Clearance Officer.
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