Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Standards for Construction and General Industry and Electrical Protective Equipment Standards for Construction and General Industry; Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements, 20703-20705 [2024-06153]
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michelle Neary by telephone at 202–
693–6312, or by email at DOL_PRA_
PUBLIC@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Certificate of Medical Necessity is
completed by the coal miner’s doctor
and is used by OWCP to determine if
the miner meets impairment standards
to qualify for durable medical
equipment or home nursing. For
additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on
January 12, 2024 (89 FR 2255).
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.
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–OWCP.
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Title of Collection: Certification of
Medical Necessity.
OMB Control Number: 1240–0024.
Affected Public: Individuals or
Households.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 1,500.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 1,500.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
563 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $0.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Michelle Neary,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
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BILLING CODE 4510–CK–P
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2017–0005]
Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and
General Industry and Electrical
Protective Equipment Standards for
Construction and General Industry;
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 the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Electric Power
Generation, Transmission, and
Distribution Standards for Construction
and General Industry and Electrical
Protective Equipment Standards for
Construction and General Industry.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
24, 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://
SUMMARY:
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www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the websites.
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–2017–0005) 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).
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The Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standards (29 CFR 1926 and 29 CFR
1910.269) and the Electrical Protective
Equipment Standards (29 CFR 1926.97
and 29 CFR 1910.137) specify a number
of collection of information
requirements. The following describes
the collection of information
requirements contained in the
standards.
Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standard (§§ 1926 and 1910.269).
For host employer responsibilities
paragraphs 1910.269(a)(3)(i) and
1926.950(c)(1) for construction and
general industry, before work begins,
the host employer must inform the
contract employers of: the
characteristics of the host employer’s
installation listed; conditions listed in
paragraphs of this section that are
known to the host employer;
information about the design and
operation of the host employer’s
installation that the contract employer
needs to make the assessments required
by this section; and any other
information about the design and
operation of the host employer’s
installation that is known by the host
employer, that the contract employer
requests, that is related to the protection
of the contract employer’s employees.
For contract employer responsibilities
paragraph 1910.269(a)(3)(ii) and
1926.950(c)(2) for construction and
general industry, contract employers
must ensure that each of the employees
is instructed in the hazardous
conditions relevant to the employee’s
work that the contract employer is
aware of as a result of information
communicated to the contract employer
by the host employer; before work
begins, the contract employer must
advise the host employer of any unique
hazardous conditions presented by the
contract employer’s work; and the
contract employer must advise the host
employer of any unanticipated
hazardous conditions found during the
contract employer’s work that the host
employer did not mention. The contract
employer shall provide this information
to the host employer within 2 working
days after discovering the hazardous
condition.
In job briefing the information
provided by the employer in paragraphs
1910.269(1)(i) and 1926.952(a)(1) for
construction and general industry, in
assigning an employee or a group of
employees to perform a job, the
employer must provide the employee in
charge of the job with all available
information that relates to the
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determination of existing characteristics
and conditions required.
For the engineering analyses to
determine maximum anticipated per
unit transient overvoltage in paragraphs
1910.269(l)(3)(ii) and 1926.960(c)(1)(ii)
for construction and general industry,
the employer must determine the
maximum anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage, phase-to-ground, through
an engineering analysis or assume a
maximum anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage, phase-to-ground, in
accordance with the tables listed. When
the employer uses portable protective
gaps to control the maximum transient
overvoltage, the value of the maximum
anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage, phase-to-ground, must
provide for five standard deviations
between the statistical sparkover voltage
of the gap and the statistical withstand
voltage corresponding to the electrical
component of the minimum approach
distance. The employer must make any
engineering analysis conducted to
determine maximum anticipated perunit transient overvoltage available
upon request to employees and to the
Assistant Secretary or designee for
examination and copying.
Electrical Protective Equipment
Standard (§§ 1926.97 and 1910.137).
Testing Certification
(§§ 1926.97(c)(2)(xii) and
1910.137(c)(2)(xii)).
Employers must certify that the
electrical protective equipment used by
their workers have passed the tests
specified in paragraphs (c)(2)(vii)(D),
(c)(2)(viii), (c)(2)(ix), and (c)(2)(xi) of the
Standards. The certification must
identify the equipment that passed the
tests and the dates of the tests. The two
standards require testing: periodically
(generally, every 6 months for rubber
insulating gloves and every 12 months
for most other types of rubber insulating
equipment); after any repairs; and before
the equipment is returned to service
after any inspection finds certain
defects. In addition, the employer must
test rubber insulating gloves before
reuse after employees use them without
protector gloves and must certify that
testing. These performance-based
standards ensure that employers
maintain the most recent test records for
equipment that passes the required test
without specifying precisely how the
employer must maintain those records.
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
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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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extends
the approval of the information
collection requirements specified in the
Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and General
Industry and the Electrical Protective
Equipment Standards for Construction
and General Industry. The agency is
requesting an adjustment increase in
burden from 380,735 to 394,614 hours,
a difference of 13,879 hours. This
increase in burden is due to an increase
in the number of projects and an
increase in the number of
establishments.
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: Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and General
Industry and Electrical Protective
Equipment for Construction and General
Industry.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0253.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 21,396.
Number of Responses: 2,067,172.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
394,614.
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
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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–2017–0005). You may
supplement electronic submission by
uploading document files electronically.
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
submission, 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 March 18,
2024.
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–2007–0042]
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TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc.:
Application for Expansion of
Recognition
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In this notice, OSHA
announces the application of TUV
Rheinland of North America, Inc., for
expansion of the scope of recognition as
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a Nationally Recognized Testing
Laboratory (NRTL) and presents the
agency’s preliminary finding to grant
the application.
DATES: Submit comments, information,
and documents in response to this
notice, or requests for an extension of
time to make a submission, on or before
April 9, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted as follows:
Electronically: You may submit
comments, including attachments,
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency’s name and the
docket number for this rulemaking
(Docket No. OSHA–2007–0042). 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. Therefore, OSHA
cautions commenters about submitting
information they do not want made
available to the public, or submitting
materials that contain personal
information (either about themselves or
others), such as Social Security numbers
and birthdates.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Documents in the
docket (including this Federal Register
notice) are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the 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.
Extension of comment period: Submit
requests for an extension of the
comment period on or before April 9,
2024 to the Office of Technical
Programs and Coordination Activities,
Directorate of Technical Support and
Emergency Management, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW, Room N–3653,
Washington, DC 20210, or by fax to
(202) 693–1644.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Information regarding this notice is
available from the following sources:
Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank
Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of
Communications, U.S. Department of
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Labor, telephone: (202) 693–1999;
email: meilinger.francis2@dol.gov.
General and technical information:
Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson, Director,
Office of Technical Programs and
Coordination Activities, Directorate of
Technical Support and Emergency
Management, Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, U.S. Department
of Labor, phone: (202) 693–1911 or
email: robinson.kevin@dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Notice of the Application for
Expansion
OSHA is providing notice that TUV
Rheinland of North America, Inc.
(TUVRNA), is applying for an expansion
of current recognition as a NRTL.
TUVRNA requests the addition of two
test standards to the NRTL scope of
recognition.
OSHA recognition of a NRTL signifies
that the organization meets the
requirements specified in 29 CFR
1910.7. Recognition is an
acknowledgment that the organization
can perform independent safety testing
and certification of the specific products
covered within the scope of recognition.
Each NRTL’s scope of recognition
includes (1) the type of products the
NRTL may test, with each type specified
by the applicable test standard and (2)
the recognized site(s) that has/have the
technical capability to perform the
product-testing and productcertification activities for test standards
within the NRTL’s scope. Recognition is
not a delegation or grant of government
authority; however, recognition enables
employers to use products approved by
the NRTL to meet OSHA standards that
require product testing and certification.
The agency processes applications by
a NRTL for initial recognition, as well
as for an expansion or renewal of
recognition, following requirements in
Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. This
appendix requires that the agency
publish two notices in the Federal
Register in processing an application. In
the first notice, OSHA announces the
application and provides the
preliminary finding. In the second
notice, the agency provides the final
decision on the application. These
notices set forth the NRTL’s scope of
recognition or modifications of that
scope. OSHA maintains an
informational web page for each NRTL,
including TUVRNA, which details that
NRTL’s scope of recognition. These
pages are available from the OSHA
website at https://www.osha.gov/dts/
otpca/nrtl/.
TUVRNA currently has ten facilities
(sites) recognized by OSHA for product
testing and certification, with the
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2017-0005]
Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and General Industry and Electrical
Protective Equipment Standards for Construction and General Industry;
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 the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements specified in the Electric Power
Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Standards for Construction
and General Industry and Electrical Protective Equipment Standards for
Construction and General Industry.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
May 24, 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 websites. 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-2017-0005) 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).
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The Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution
Standards (29 CFR 1926 and 29 CFR 1910.269) and the Electrical
Protective Equipment Standards (29 CFR 1926.97 and 29 CFR 1910.137)
specify a number of collection of information requirements. The
following describes the collection of information requirements
contained in the standards.
Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Standard
(Sec. Sec. 1926 and 1910.269).
For host employer responsibilities paragraphs 1910.269(a)(3)(i) and
1926.950(c)(1) for construction and general industry, before work
begins, the host employer must inform the contract employers of: the
characteristics of the host employer's installation listed; conditions
listed in paragraphs of this section that are known to the host
employer; information about the design and operation of the host
employer's installation that the contract employer needs to make the
assessments required by this section; and any other information about
the design and operation of the host employer's installation that is
known by the host employer, that the contract employer requests, that
is related to the protection of the contract employer's employees.
For contract employer responsibilities paragraph 1910.269(a)(3)(ii)
and 1926.950(c)(2) for construction and general industry, contract
employers must ensure that each of the employees is instructed in the
hazardous conditions relevant to the employee's work that the contract
employer is aware of as a result of information communicated to the
contract employer by the host employer; before work begins, the
contract employer must advise the host employer of any unique hazardous
conditions presented by the contract employer's work; and the contract
employer must advise the host employer of any unanticipated hazardous
conditions found during the contract employer's work that the host
employer did not mention. The contract employer shall provide this
information to the host employer within 2 working days after
discovering the hazardous condition.
In job briefing the information provided by the employer in
paragraphs 1910.269(1)(i) and 1926.952(a)(1) for construction and
general industry, in assigning an employee or a group of employees to
perform a job, the employer must provide the employee in charge of the
job with all available information that relates to the determination of
existing characteristics and conditions required.
For the engineering analyses to determine maximum anticipated per
unit transient overvoltage in paragraphs 1910.269(l)(3)(ii) and
1926.960(c)(1)(ii) for construction and general industry, the employer
must determine the maximum anticipated per-unit transient overvoltage,
phase-to-ground, through an engineering analysis or assume a maximum
anticipated per-unit transient overvoltage, phase-to-ground, in
accordance with the tables listed. When the employer uses portable
protective gaps to control the maximum transient overvoltage, the value
of the maximum anticipated per-unit transient overvoltage, phase-to-
ground, must provide for five standard deviations between the
statistical sparkover voltage of the gap and the statistical withstand
voltage corresponding to the electrical component of the minimum
approach distance. The employer must make any engineering analysis
conducted to determine maximum anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage available upon request to employees and to the Assistant
Secretary or designee for examination and copying.
Electrical Protective Equipment Standard (Sec. Sec. 1926.97 and
1910.137).
Testing Certification (Sec. Sec. 1926.97(c)(2)(xii) and
1910.137(c)(2)(xii)).
Employers must certify that the electrical protective equipment
used by their workers have passed the tests specified in paragraphs
(c)(2)(vii)(D), (c)(2)(viii), (c)(2)(ix), and (c)(2)(xi) of the
Standards. The certification must identify the equipment that passed
the tests and the dates of the tests. The two standards require
testing: periodically (generally, every 6 months for rubber insulating
gloves and every 12 months for most other types of rubber insulating
equipment); after any repairs; and before the equipment is returned to
service after any inspection finds certain defects. In addition, the
employer must test rubber insulating gloves before reuse after
employees use them without protector gloves and must certify that
testing. These performance-based standards ensure that employers
maintain the most recent test records for equipment that passes the
required test without specifying precisely how the employer must
maintain those records.
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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extends the approval of the information
collection requirements specified in the Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution Standards for Construction and General
Industry and the Electrical Protective Equipment Standards for
Construction and General Industry. The agency is requesting an
adjustment increase in burden from 380,735 to 394,614 hours, a
difference of 13,879 hours. This increase in burden is due to an
increase in the number of projects and an increase in the number of
establishments.
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: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and General Industry and Electrical
Protective Equipment for Construction and General Industry.
OMB Control Number: 1218-0253.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 21,396.
Number of Responses: 2,067,172.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 394,614.
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
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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-2017-0005).
You may supplement electronic submission by uploading document files
electronically.
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 submission, 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 March 18, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2024-06153 Filed 3-22-24; 8:45 am]
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