Department of Labor November 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Department of Labor (DOL) is submitting this Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)-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.

This document provides notice of the pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of a proposed individual exemption from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA or the Act). If the proposed exemption is granted, the Meta Platforms Inc. Health and Welfare Benefit Plan (the Plan) would enter into an insurance contract with Prudential Life Insurance Company of America (Prudential). The contract would cover the Plan's group term life insurance benefits, accidental death and dismemberment benefits, and survivor income benefits (the Covered Insurance). Prudential would then reinsure the Covered Insurance by entering into a reinsurance contract with Ekahi Insurance Company, LLC (Ekahi), an insurance company that is owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta). Importantly, at all times and in all events, Prudential would remain fully and completely responsible to the Plan with respect to the Covered Insurance, regardless of whether Ekahi met its obligations to Prudential.

This notice announces that the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has approved under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 an information collection request developed by the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (Department or EBSA). Accordingly, EBSA is now collecting information from retirement plan administrators (e.g., via their recordkeepers) in order to establish and maintain the Retirement Savings Lost and Found online searchable database described in section 523 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. This database will help connect missing participants and other individuals who have lost track of their retirement benefits with retirement plans that may be holding such benefits. This information collection request is voluntary. This notice also provides guidance and announces an enforcement policy, both to incentivize and encourage the voluntary submission of data.

The Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95). This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents is properly assessed. Currently, the Department of Labor is soliciting comments concerning the collection of data for an evaluation of the fourth round of the Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants Program. A copy of the proposed Information Collection Request (ICR) can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addressee section of this notice.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Panther Creek Mining, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Panther Creek Mining, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Kingston Mining, Inc.

This notice is to advise interested persons that OSHA will conduct a virtual public meeting on November 13, 2024, in advance of the 47th session of the United Nations Sub-Committee of Experts on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (UNSCEGHS) to be held as an in-person meeting December 4-6, 2024, in Geneva, Switzerland. OSHA, along with the U.S. Interagency Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) Coordinating Group, plans to consider the comments and information gathered at the November 13, 2024, public meeting when developing the U.S. Government positions for the UNSCEGHS meeting December 4-6, 2024.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Greenbrier Minerals, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Kingston Mining, Inc.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Panther Creek Mining, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Panther Creek Mining, LLC.

Federal OSHA currently has coverage over private sector employers at Hill Air Force Base and the Tooele Army Depot while the Utah State Plan covers private sector employers on all other United States military facilities within the State. This document gives notice of OSHA's approval of a change to the State of Utah's Occupational Safety and Health State Plan reinstating Federal OSHA enforcement authority over private sector employment on all United States military facilities and bases in Utah.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Tunnel Ridge, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Buchanan Minerals, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by Buchanan Minerals, LLC.

This notice is a summary of a petition for modification submitted to the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) by ACI Tygart Valley.

The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This request helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format; reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized; collection instruments are clearly understood; and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the OWCP/DEEOIC is soliciting comments concerning the collection for Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act Forms (EE-1, EE-1-SPA EE-2, EE-2-SPA, EE-3, EE-3-SPA, EE-4, EE-4-SPA, Form EE-5, EE-7, EE-7-SPA, EE/EN-8, EE/EN-9, EE/EN-10, EE/EN-12, EE/EN-13, EE/EN-16, EE-17A, EE-17B AND EE/EN-20).

The Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre- clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed collections of information, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is soliciting comments on the information collection entitled Training Plans, New Miner Training, Newly-hired Experienced Miner Training.

OSHA invites interested persons to submit nominations for membership on the Maritime Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (MACOSH).

The Department of Labor (DOL) is soliciting comments concerning a proposed extension for the authority to conduct the information collection request (ICR) titled, "Rehabilitation Maintenance Certificate (OWCP-17)." This comment request is part of continuing Departmental efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA).

In this notice, OSHA announces the applications of SGS North America, Inc., for expansion of recognition as a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and presents the agency's preliminary finding to grant the applications.

This document provides notice of the pendency before the Department of Labor (the Department) of a proposed individual exemption from certain of the prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). This proposed exemption would permit the purchase of a parcel of improved real property by the Boilermakers Western States Apprenticeship Fund (the Plan or Applicant) from a local union lodge whose members may be participants in the Plan. The Plan requests the exemption in order to continue to utilize the property to carry out its training program and its administrative duties.

The Privacy Act of 1974 and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular No. A-108 require that each agency publish notice of a new or modified system of records that it maintains. The Office of Workers Compensation proposes to add a new system of records for its Ombuds Office. The system consists of an online form for Ombud's Office inquiries and a database to store the information from the form so the Ombud's office can track the inquiry and the actions it is taking to resolve the issue.