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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, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0026]
I. Background
Mechanical Power Press Standard;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget (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 its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval for the
information collection requirements
specified in its Mechanical Power Press
Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by April
15, 2024.
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–2010–0026 for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments,
including any personal information, in
the public docket, which may be made
available online. Therefore, OSHA
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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, the 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 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 effort in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following sections describe who
use the information collected under
each requirement, as well as how they
use it. The purposes of these
requirements are to address the burden
hours associated with gathering
information on inspection,
maintenance, and modification of
presses. Employers are expected to
establish and follow an inspection
program and conduct regular and
periodic inspections of each power
press. Additionally, employers are to
maintain records of certification.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
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• 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
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Mechanical Power Press Standard. The
agency is requesting that there is no
change in burden hours in the
information collection requirements of
this standard. The costs are adjusted
due to updated calculations.
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: Mechanical Power Press
Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0229.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 104,035.
Frequency of Responses: Monthly.
Total Responses: 62,421.
Average Time per Response: 20
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
20,807.
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; or (2) by
facsimile (fax); if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at 202–693–1648.
All comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the
ICR (OSHA–2010–0026). You may
supplement electronic submissions by
uploading document files electronically.
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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 from 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. 8–2020 (85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on February 9,
2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Update of Statistical Policy Directive
No. 3: Compilation, Release, and
Evaluation of Principal Federal
Economic Indicators—Changing
Timing of Public Comments by
Employees of the Executive Branch
Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Executive
Office of the President.
ACTION: Notice of adoption of a revised
Statistical Policy Directive No. 3.
AGENCY:
The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) announces the
adoption of a revised Statistical Policy
Directive No. 3: Compilation, Release,
and Evaluation of Principal Federal
Economic Indicators (Directive No. 3).
The procedures in Directive No. 3,
published in 1985, were designed to
ensure equitable, policy-neutral, and
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timely release and dissemination of
Principal Federal Economic Indicators.
The goals of Directive No. 3 remain
sound; this Notice announces the
adoption of procedures consistent with
these goals to reflect advances in
communication technologies and
methods. OMB has solely modified the
provision, ‘‘employees of the Executive
Branch shall not comment publicly on
the data until at least one hour after the
official release time,’’ by replacing ‘‘one
hour’’ with ‘‘thirty minutes.’’ This
change reduces the delay after official
release time before commentary from
employees of the Executive Branch,
while retaining a necessary time delay
between policy-neutral release of the
official statistics and subsequent
Executive Branch interpretations of this
statistical data.
DATES: Effective Date: The effective date
of this Directive is February 19, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Please send correspondence
about OMB’s decision to Dominic
Mancini, Office of Management and
Budget, New Executive Office Building,
Washington, DC 20503, or email
Statistical_Directives@omb.eop.gov with
the subject ‘‘More Info: Directive No. 3.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karin Orvis, Office of Management and
Budget, telephone 202-395-5989, email
Statistical_Directives@omb.eop.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Summary: Under the Budget and
Accounting Procedures Act of 1950 (31
U.S.C. 1104(d)) and the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
3504(e)) (the PRA), the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
announces a change of one provision
within Statistical Policy Directive No. 3:
Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of
Principal Federal Economic Indicators
(50 FR 38932, Sept. 25, 1985) (Directive
No. 3). In particular, OMB modifies the
provision in Directive No. 3,
‘‘employees of the Executive Branch
shall not comment publicly on the data
until at least one hour after the official
release time,’’ by replacing ‘‘one hour’’
with ‘‘thirty minutes.’’
Background: Directive No. 3’s
purposes are ‘‘to preserve the time
value’’ of the Principal Federal
Economic Indicators (PFEIs), ‘‘strike a
balance between timeliness and
accuracy,’’ ‘‘prevent early access to
information that may affect financial
and commodity markets,’’ and ‘‘preserve
the distinction between the policyneutral release of data by statistical
agencies and their interpretation by
policy officials.’’ Directive No. 3 also
provides for the periodic evaluation of
each indicator. Directive No. 3 remains
a robust, comprehensive source of
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guidance for Federal statistical agencies
and recognized statistical units
producing PFEIs. The government and
private sector widely watch and heavily
rely upon these statistical series as
indicators of the current condition and
direction of the economy.
The procedures in Directive No. 3,
published in 1985, were designed to
ensure equitable, policy-neutral, and
timely release and dissemination of
PFEIs. The goals of Directive No. 3
remain sound, and OMB has not
changed them. In furtherance of these
goals, OMB retains a minimum time
period that Executive Branch employees
must wait after the policy-neutral
release of the data before Executive
Branch employees can comment on
those data.
In April 2019, OMB published in the
Federal Register a request for comments
on a proposal to reduce the duration of
the prohibition of commentary by
employees of the Executive Branch
following the PFEI release from one
hour to something shorter, including the
consideration of the option of having no
delay at all (84 FR 14682, Apr. 11,
2019). OMB received sixteen in-scope
comments in response to that Notice.
All in-scope commenters strongly
supported either a retention of the onehour delay, or a delay of some duration,
after official release time before
employees of the Executive Branch
could comment on the PFEI releases,
with no commenters in support of
removing the delay entirely.1
In August 2023, OMB published in
the Federal Register a request for public
comments on an updated proposal to
reduce the duration of the prohibition of
commentary by employees of the
Executive Branch following the PFEI
release from one hour to 30 minutes.
OMB noted that it agreed with the
previous comments on this issue
submitted in 2019 and understood that
maintaining some delay as part of
Directive No. 3 continues to be
important to maintain the bright line
between the release of data and any
commentary on such data by Executive
Branch officials. OMB noted that it was
considering this updated proposal
because, while the delay is important to
ensuring a bright line between the data
release and the Executive Branch’s
policy interpretation, since 1985 there
have been many changes in the way the
public communicates, as well as in how
the relevant statistical agencies
disseminate information. For example,
1 Public comments received in response to the
April 2019 FRN are available at
www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2019-00010001/comment.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2010-0026]
Mechanical Power Press Standard; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget (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 for the
information collection requirements specified in its Mechanical Power
Press Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
April 15, 2024.
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-2010-0026 for the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments, including any personal
information, in the public docket, which may be made 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, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, 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, the 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 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 effort in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following sections describe who use the information collected
under each requirement, as well as how they use it. The purposes of
these requirements are to address the burden hours associated with
gathering information on inspection, maintenance, and modification of
presses. Employers are expected to establish and follow an inspection
program and conduct regular and periodic inspections of each power
press. Additionally, employers are to maintain records of
certification.
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
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the Mechanical Power Press
Standard. The agency is requesting that there is no change in burden
hours in the information collection requirements of this standard. The
costs are adjusted due to updated calculations.
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: Mechanical Power Press Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218-0229.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 104,035.
Frequency of Responses: Monthly.
Total Responses: 62,421.
Average Time per Response: 20 minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 20,807.
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; or (2) by facsimile (fax); if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer than 10 pages you may fax them to
the OSHA Docket Office at 202-693-1648. All comments, attachments, and
other material must identify the agency name and the OSHA docket number
for the ICR (OSHA-2010-0026). You may supplement electronic submissions
by uploading document files electronically.
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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 from 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. 8-2020
(85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on February 9, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2024-03128 Filed 2-14-24; 8:45 am]
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