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appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g.,
permitting electronic submission of
responses.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[OMB 1140–NEW]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed eCollection of
eComments Requested; New
Collection; Personal Identity
Verification—ATF Form 8620.40
Overview of This Information
Collection
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and Explosives, Department of
Justice.
ACTION: 60-Day notice.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
(ATF), Department of Justice (DOJ), will
submit the following information
collection request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
The proposed information collection
(IC) is also being published to obtain
comments from the public and affected
agencies.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and
will be accepted for 60 days until May
2, 2022.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you have additional comments
regarding the estimated public burden
or associated response time,
suggestions, or need a copy of the
proposed information collection
instrument with instructions, or
additional information, contact: Lakisha
Gregory, Chief, Personnel Security
Division, by mail at 99 New York
Avenue NE, Mailstop 1.E–300,
Washington, DC 20226, by email at
Lakisha.Gregory@atf.gov, or by
telephone at 202–648–9260.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Written
comments and suggestions from the
public and affected agencies concerning
the proposed collection of information
are encouraged. Your comments should
address one or more of the following
four points:
—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;
—Evaluate whether and, if so, how the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected can be
enhanced; and
—Minimize the burden of the collection
of information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
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1. Type of Information Collection
(check justification or form 83): New
Collection.
2. The Title of the Form/Collection:
Personal Identity Verification.
3. The agency form number, if any,
and the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection:
Form number (if applicable): ATF
Form 8620.40.
Component: Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S.
Department of Justice.
4. Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract:
Primary: Individuals or households.
Other (if applicable): None.
Abstract: The Personal Identity
Verification—ATF Form 8620.40 will be
used to document identifying and
citizenship information of a candidate
for employment at the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
Explosives.
5. An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: An estimated 2,000
respondents will provide information to
complete this form once annually, and
it will take approximately 5 minutes to
complete the form.
6. An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The estimated annual public
burden associated with this collection is
167 hours, which is equal to 2,000 (total
respondents) * 1 (# of response per
respondent) * .833333 (5 minutes or the
time taken to prepare each response).
If additional information is required
contact: Melody Braswell, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Two Constitution
Square, 145 N Street NE, Mail Stop 3.E–
405A, Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: February 25, 2022.
Melody Braswell,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008]
Commercial Diving Operations
Standard; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
OSHA solicits public
comments concerning the proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
specified by the Commercial Diving
Operations Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
2, 2022.
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.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Documents in the
docket 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 website.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
through the OSHA Docket Office.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202)
693–2350 (TTY (877) 889–5627) for
assistance in locating docket
submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0008) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments,
including personal information in the
public docket, which may be available
online. Therefore, OSHA cautions
interested parties about submitting
personal information such as social
security numbers and birthdates. For
further information on submitting
comments, see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Seleda Perryman or Theda Kenney,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
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OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor;
telephone (202) 693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of
the 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 (PRA)
(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 (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 incidents (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 effort in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The information collection
requirements specified in the
Commercial Diving Operations (CDO)
Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart T)
for general industry helps protect
workers from the adverse health effects
that may result from their involvement
in CDO, and provide access to these
records by OSHA, the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health, the
affected workers, and designated
representatives. The major information
collection requirements of the CDO
Standard include the following
elements of the Standard.
§ 1910.401(b). Allows employers to
deviate from the requirements of the
subpart to the extent necessary to
prevent or minimize a situation that is
likely to cause death, serious physical
harm, or major environmental damage.
They must provide written notice to the
OSHA Area Director within 48 hours
and must describe the reason for and
extent of the deviation.
§§ 1910.410(a)(3) and (a)(4).
Employers must train all dive team
members in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation and first aid (i.e., the
American Red Cross standard course or
equivalent). Additionally, employers
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must train dive team members exposed
to hyperbaric conditions, or who control
exposure of other workers to such
conditions, in diving-related physics
and physiology.
§§ 1910.420(a) and (b). Employers
must develop and maintain a safe
practices manual and make it available
to each dive team member at the dive
location. For each diving mode used at
the dive location, the manual must
contain: Safety procedures and
checklists for diving operations;
assignments and responsibilities of the
dive team members; equipment
procedures and checklists; and
emergency procedures for fire,
equipment failures, adverse
environmental conditions, and medical
illness and injury.
§ 1910.421(b). Employers are to keep
at the dive location a list of telephone
or call numbers for the following
emergency facilities and services: An
operational decompression chamber (if
such a chamber is not at the dive
location), accessible hospitals, available
physicians and means of emergency
transportation, and the nearest U.S.
Coast Guard Rescue Coordination
Center.
§ 1910.421(f). Requires employers to
brief dive team members on the divingrelated tasks they are to perform, safety
procedures for the diving mode used at
the dive location, any unusual hazards
or environmental conditions likely to
affect the safety of the diving operation,
and any modifications to operating
procedures necessitated by the specific
diving operation. Before assigning
diving-related tasks, employers must ask
each dive team member about their
current state of physical fitness, and
inform the member about the procedure
for reporting physical problems or
adverse physiological effects during and
after the dive.
§ 1910.421(h). If the diving operation
occurs in an area capable of supporting
marine traffic and occurs from a surface
other than a vessel, employers are to
display a rigid replica of the
international code flag ‘‘A’’ that is at
least one meter in height so that it is
visible from any direction; the employer
must illuminate the flag during night
diving operations.
§ 1910.422(e). Employers must
develop and maintain a depth-time
profile for each diver that includes, as
appropriate, any breathing gas changes
or decompression.
§§ 1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through (b)(2).
Requires the employer to: Instruct the
diver to report any physical symptoms
or adverse physiological effects,
including symptoms of decompression
sickness (DCS); advise the diver of the
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location of a decompression chamber
that is ready for use; and alert the diver
to the potential hazards of flying after
diving. For any dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100
feet, or that uses mixed gas in the
breathing mixture, the employer must
also inform the diver to remain awake
and in the vicinity of the decompression
chamber that is at the dive location for
at least one hour after the dive or any
decompression or treatment associated
with the dive.
§ 1910.423(d). Employers are to record
and maintain the following information
for each diving operation: The names of
dive-team members; date, time, and
location; diving modes used; general
description of the tasks performed; an
estimate of the underwater and surface
conditions; and the maximum depth
and bottom time for each diver. In
addition, for each dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100
feet, or that uses mixed gas in the
breathing mixture, the employer must
record and maintain the following
information for each diver: Depth-time
and breathing gas profiles;
decompression table designation
(including any modifications); and
elapsed time since the last pressure
exposure if less than 24 hours or the
repetitive dive designation. If the dive
results in DCS symptoms, or the
employer suspects that a diver has DCS,
the employer must record and maintain
a description of the DCS symptoms
(including the depth and time of
symptom onset) and the results of
treatment.
§ 1910.423(e). Requires employers to
assess each DCS incident by:
Investigating and evaluating it based on
the recorded information, consideration
of the past performance of the
decompression profile used, and the
diver’s individual susceptibility to DCS;
taking appropriate corrective action to
reduce the probability of a DCS
recurrence; and, within 45 days of the
DCS incident, preparing a written
evaluation of this assessment, including
any corrective action taken.
§§ 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(i) through
(c)(1)(iii), (c)(3)(i), (f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2).
Employers must record by means of
tagging or a logging system any work
performed on equipment, including any
modifications, repairs, tests,
calibrations, or maintenance performed
on the equipment. This record is to
include the date and description of the
work, as well as the name or initials of
the individual who performed the work.
Employers must test two specific
types of equipment, including,
respectively: The output of air
compressor systems used to supply
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breathing air to divers for air purity
every six months by means of samples
taken at the connection to the
distribution system; and breathing-gas
hoses at least annually at one and onehalf times their working pressure.
Employers must mark each umbilical
(i.e., separate lines supplying air and
communications to a diver, as well as a
safety line, tied together in a bundle),
beginning at the diver’s end, in 10-foot
increments for 100 feet, then in 50-foot
increments thereafter. Employers must
also regularly inspect and maintain
mufflers located in intake and exhaust
lines on decompression chambers and
test depth gauges using dead-weight
testing, or calibrate the gauges against a
master reference gauge; such testing or
calibration is to occur every six months
or if the employer finds a discrepancy
larger than two percent of the full scale
between any two equivalent gauges.
Employers must make a record of the
tests, calibrations, inspections, and
maintenance performed on the
equipment.
§§ 1910.440(a)(2) and (b). Employers
must record any diving-related injuries
or illnesses that result in a dive-team
member remaining in the hospital for at
least 24 hours. This record is to describe
the circumstances of the incident and
the extent of any injuries or illnesses.
Employers must make any record
required by the Subpart available, on
request, for inspection and copying to
an OSHA compliance officer or to a
representative of the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH). Employers are to provide
workers, their designated
representatives, and OSHA compliance
officers with exposure and medical
records generated under the Subpart in
accordance with § 1910.1020 (‘‘Access
to worker exposure and medical
records’’); these records include safe
practices manuals, depth-time profiles,
diving records, DCS incident
assessments, and hospitalization
records. Additionally, employers must
make equipment inspection and testing
records available to workers and their
designated representative on request.
Employers must retain these records
for the following periods: Safe practices
manuals, current document only; depthtime profiles, until completing the
diving record or the DCS incident
assessment; diving records, one year,
except five years if a DCS incident
occurred during the dive; DCS incident
assessments, five years; hospitalization
records, five years; and equipment
inspections and testing records, current
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removes the equipment from service.
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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 to protect workers,
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 increase in burden from
67,168 hours to 170,806 hours, a
difference of 103,638 hours. The
increase in burden is due to the increase
in the number of professional divers
going from 3,280 to 3,460 in which
increased the number of affected
facilities.
OSHA will summarize the comments
submitted in response to this notice and
will include this summary in the
request to OMB to extend the approval
of the information collection
requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Commercial Diving Operations
Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart T).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0069.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 1,153.
Number of Responses: 1,397,799.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
170,806.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $0.
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. Please
note: While OSHA’s Docket Office is
continuing to accept and process
submissions by hand, express mail,
messenger, and courier service, all
comments, attachments, and other
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material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008).
You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document
files electronically. If you wish to mail
additional materials in reference to an
electronic or a 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 that the
agency can attach them to your
comments.
Due to security procedures, the use of
regular mail may cause a significant
delay in the receipt of comments.
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 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 through this website.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the https://
www.regulations.gov website to submit
comments and access the docket is
available at the website’s ‘‘User Tips’’
link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at
(202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–5627)
for information about materials not
available from the website, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, Deputy 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 in Washington, DC, on February 15,
2022.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2011-0008]
Commercial Diving Operations 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 the proposal to
extend OMB approval of the information collection requirements
specified by the Commercial Diving Operations Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
May 2, 2022.
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.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Documents in the docket 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 website. All submissions, including
copyrighted material, are available for inspection through the OSHA
Docket Office. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350 (TTY
(877) 889-5627) for assistance in locating docket submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA-2011-0008) for the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments, including personal information in
the public docket, which may be available online. Therefore, OSHA
cautions interested parties about submitting personal information such
as social security numbers and birthdates. For further information on
submitting comments, see the ``Public Participation'' heading in the
section of this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seleda Perryman or Theda Kenney,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
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OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone (202) 693-2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of the 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 (PRA) (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 (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 incidents (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 effort in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The information collection requirements specified in the Commercial
Diving Operations (CDO) Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart T) for
general industry helps protect workers from the adverse health effects
that may result from their involvement in CDO, and provide access to
these records by OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health, the affected workers, and designated representatives. The
major information collection requirements of the CDO Standard include
the following elements of the Standard.
Sec. 1910.401(b). Allows employers to deviate from the
requirements of the subpart to the extent necessary to prevent or
minimize a situation that is likely to cause death, serious physical
harm, or major environmental damage. They must provide written notice
to the OSHA Area Director within 48 hours and must describe the reason
for and extent of the deviation.
Sec. Sec. 1910.410(a)(3) and (a)(4). Employers must train all dive
team members in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid (i.e., the
American Red Cross standard course or equivalent). Additionally,
employers must train dive team members exposed to hyperbaric
conditions, or who control exposure of other workers to such
conditions, in diving-related physics and physiology.
Sec. Sec. 1910.420(a) and (b). Employers must develop and maintain
a safe practices manual and make it available to each dive team member
at the dive location. For each diving mode used at the dive location,
the manual must contain: Safety procedures and checklists for diving
operations; assignments and responsibilities of the dive team members;
equipment procedures and checklists; and emergency procedures for fire,
equipment failures, adverse environmental conditions, and medical
illness and injury.
Sec. 1910.421(b). Employers are to keep at the dive location a
list of telephone or call numbers for the following emergency
facilities and services: An operational decompression chamber (if such
a chamber is not at the dive location), accessible hospitals, available
physicians and means of emergency transportation, and the nearest U.S.
Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center.
Sec. 1910.421(f). Requires employers to brief dive team members on
the diving-related tasks they are to perform, safety procedures for the
diving mode used at the dive location, any unusual hazards or
environmental conditions likely to affect the safety of the diving
operation, and any modifications to operating procedures necessitated
by the specific diving operation. Before assigning diving-related
tasks, employers must ask each dive team member about their current
state of physical fitness, and inform the member about the procedure
for reporting physical problems or adverse physiological effects during
and after the dive.
Sec. 1910.421(h). If the diving operation occurs in an area
capable of supporting marine traffic and occurs from a surface other
than a vessel, employers are to display a rigid replica of the
international code flag ``A'' that is at least one meter in height so
that it is visible from any direction; the employer must illuminate the
flag during night diving operations.
Sec. 1910.422(e). Employers must develop and maintain a depth-time
profile for each diver that includes, as appropriate, any breathing gas
changes or decompression.
Sec. Sec. 1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through (b)(2). Requires the employer
to: Instruct the diver to report any physical symptoms or adverse
physiological effects, including symptoms of decompression sickness
(DCS); advise the diver of the location of a decompression chamber that
is ready for use; and alert the diver to the potential hazards of
flying after diving. For any dive outside the no-decompression limits,
deeper than 100 feet, or that uses mixed gas in the breathing mixture,
the employer must also inform the diver to remain awake and in the
vicinity of the decompression chamber that is at the dive location for
at least one hour after the dive or any decompression or treatment
associated with the dive.
Sec. 1910.423(d). Employers are to record and maintain the
following information for each diving operation: The names of dive-team
members; date, time, and location; diving modes used; general
description of the tasks performed; an estimate of the underwater and
surface conditions; and the maximum depth and bottom time for each
diver. In addition, for each dive outside the no-decompression limits,
deeper than 100 feet, or that uses mixed gas in the breathing mixture,
the employer must record and maintain the following information for
each diver: Depth-time and breathing gas profiles; decompression table
designation (including any modifications); and elapsed time since the
last pressure exposure if less than 24 hours or the repetitive dive
designation. If the dive results in DCS symptoms, or the employer
suspects that a diver has DCS, the employer must record and maintain a
description of the DCS symptoms (including the depth and time of
symptom onset) and the results of treatment.
Sec. 1910.423(e). Requires employers to assess each DCS incident
by: Investigating and evaluating it based on the recorded information,
consideration of the past performance of the decompression profile
used, and the diver's individual susceptibility to DCS; taking
appropriate corrective action to reduce the probability of a DCS
recurrence; and, within 45 days of the DCS incident, preparing a
written evaluation of this assessment, including any corrective action
taken.
Sec. Sec. 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(i) through (c)(1)(iii),
(c)(3)(i), (f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2). Employers must record by means of
tagging or a logging system any work performed on equipment, including
any modifications, repairs, tests, calibrations, or maintenance
performed on the equipment. This record is to include the date and
description of the work, as well as the name or initials of the
individual who performed the work.
Employers must test two specific types of equipment, including,
respectively: The output of air compressor systems used to supply
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breathing air to divers for air purity every six months by means of
samples taken at the connection to the distribution system; and
breathing-gas hoses at least annually at one and one-half times their
working pressure. Employers must mark each umbilical (i.e., separate
lines supplying air and communications to a diver, as well as a safety
line, tied together in a bundle), beginning at the diver's end, in 10-
foot increments for 100 feet, then in 50-foot increments thereafter.
Employers must also regularly inspect and maintain mufflers located in
intake and exhaust lines on decompression chambers and test depth
gauges using dead-weight testing, or calibrate the gauges against a
master reference gauge; such testing or calibration is to occur every
six months or if the employer finds a discrepancy larger than two
percent of the full scale between any two equivalent gauges. Employers
must make a record of the tests, calibrations, inspections, and
maintenance performed on the equipment.
Sec. Sec. 1910.440(a)(2) and (b). Employers must record any
diving-related injuries or illnesses that result in a dive-team member
remaining in the hospital for at least 24 hours. This record is to
describe the circumstances of the incident and the extent of any
injuries or illnesses.
Employers must make any record required by the Subpart available,
on request, for inspection and copying to an OSHA compliance officer or
to a representative of the National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health (NIOSH). Employers are to provide workers, their designated
representatives, and OSHA compliance officers with exposure and medical
records generated under the Subpart in accordance with Sec. 1910.1020
(``Access to worker exposure and medical records''); these records
include safe practices manuals, depth-time profiles, diving records,
DCS incident assessments, and hospitalization records. Additionally,
employers must make equipment inspection and testing records available
to workers and their designated representative on request.
Employers must retain these records for the following periods: Safe
practices manuals, current document only; depth-time profiles, until
completing the diving record or the DCS incident assessment; diving
records, one year, except five years if a DCS incident occurred during
the dive; DCS incident assessments, five years; hospitalization
records, five years; and equipment inspections and testing records,
current tag or log entry until the employer removes the equipment from
service.
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 to
protect workers, 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 increase in burden from
67,168 hours to 170,806 hours, a difference of 103,638 hours. The
increase in burden is due to the increase in the number of professional
divers going from 3,280 to 3,460 in which increased the number of
affected facilities.
OSHA will summarize the comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in the request to OMB to extend
the approval of the information collection requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title: Commercial Diving Operations Standard (29 CFR part 1910,
subpart T).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0069.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 1,153.
Number of Responses: 1,397,799.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 170,806.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.
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. Please note:
While OSHA's Docket Office is continuing to accept and process
submissions by hand, express mail, messenger, and courier service, all
comments, attachments, and other material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2011-0008). You
may supplement electronic submissions by uploading document files
electronically. If you wish to mail additional materials in reference
to an electronic or a 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 that the agency can attach
them to your comments.
Due to security procedures, the use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of comments.
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
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 through this
website. All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on
using the https://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and
access the docket is available at the website's ``User Tips'' link.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-5627)
for information about materials not available from the website, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, Deputy 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 in Washington, DC, on February 15, 2022.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2022-04367 Filed 3-1-22; 8:45 am]
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