[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51149-51151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25919]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
September 25, 1997.
The Department of Labor (DOL) has submitted the following public
information collection requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). A copy of
each individual ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be
obtained by calling the Department of Labor, Departmental Clearance
Officer, Theresa M. O'Malley (202 219-5096 ext. 143) or by E-Mail to
OMalley-Theresa@dol.gov. Individuals who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TTY/TDD) may call 202 219-4720 between 1:00 p.m.
and 4:00 p.m. Eastern time, Monday-Friday.
Comments should be sent to Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for BLS, DM, ESA, ETA, MSHA, OSHA,
PWBA, or VETS, Office of Management and Budget, Room 10235, Washington,
DC 20503, (202 395-7316), within 30 days from the date of this
publication in the Federal Register.
The OMB is particularly interested in comments which:
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;
Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
Minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Agency: Employment and Training Administration.
Title: Guidelines for the State Employment Security Agency Program
and Budget Plan for the Unemployment Insurance Program.
OMB Number: 1205-0132 (revision).
Frequency: Annual.
Affected Public: Federal Government; State, Local or Tribal
Government.
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Average
time per
Activity Respondents respondent
(hours)
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ETA 8632A...................................... 53 1
ETA 8632....................................... 53 27
ETA 8632 (QC).................................. 37 4
ETA 5633, 8633A................................ 53 1
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Total Burden Hours: 2,109.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $60,700.
Description: The Program Budget Plan (PBP) is the annual planning
and budget instrument for the Unemployment Insurance system nationwide.
It facilitates State planning and allows for the development of
Corrective Action Plans for deficient performance, as well as, plans
for program enhancements made possible by increased funding allocation
requests. This is the 14th edition of this document.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.
OMB Number: 1220-0045 (revision).
Frequency: Annual.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; Farms; State, Local or Tribal Government.
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Average
time per
Form No. Respondents respondent
(minutes)
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BLS 9300....................................... 230,000 50
Renotification Package......................... 150,000 9
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Total Burden Hours: 207,291.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses is
the primary indicator of the Nation's progress in providing every
working man and woman safe and healthful working conditions. Survey
data are also used to evaluate the effectiveness of the Federal and
State programs and to prioritize scarce resources.
Agency: Employment Standards Administration.
Title: Health Insurance Claim form.
OMB Number: 1215-0055 (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Individuals or households; Business or other for-
profit; Not-for-profit institutions; Federal Government; State, Local
or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 763,516.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 13 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 167,868.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $2,800.
Description: This information is collected to ensure payment of
appropriate benefits or charges of diagnostic and treatment services
under both the Federal Employees' and Black Lung Compensation mandates,
and for reporting payment information required by the Internal Revenue
Service are made.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Telecommunications (29 CFR 1910.268(c))--Training
Certifications.
OMB Number: 1218-0new (formerly 1218-0210) (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 213,980.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5 minutes.
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Total Burden Hours: 17,118.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The training certification required in 29 CFR
1910.268 is necessary to assure compliance with the
requirement that employees have been trained in the various precautions
and safe practices in telecommunications.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Manlifts (29 CFR 1910.68(e)(3)--Inspection Certifications.
OMB Number: 1218-0new (formerly 1218-0210) (extension).
Frequency: Weekly, Monthly.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 3,000.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.15 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 51,005.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The information collection requirement of this
standard is necessary to assure compliance with the requirements for
manlifts by a competent person. The inspection is intended to assure
that the manlifts are in safe operating condition, and all safety
devices, such as belt switches, are working properly. The failure of
belts of switches could cause serious injury or death to an employee.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Construction Records for Tests and Inspections for Personnel
Hoists (29 CFR 1926.552 (c)(15)).
OMB Number: 1218-0new (formerly 1218-0210) (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 14,400.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 15 minutes (every 3 months).
Total Burden Hours: 15,840.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The construction standard on personnel hoists requires
employers to conduct tests and inspections for hoists that their
employees use. The certification records, which attest to the safety of
the hoists, are necessary to ensure compliance with the standard.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Aerial Lifts (29 CFR 1910.67(b) (2)--Manufacturer's
Certification.
OMB Number: 1218-0new (formerly 1218-0120) (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 900.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 72.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: This standard requires that when aerial lifts are
``field modified'' for uses other than those intended by the
manufacturer, the modification must be certified in writing by the
manufacturer or by any other equivalent entity, such as a nationally
recognized testing laboratory to be in conformity with all applicable
provisions of ANSI A92.2-1969 and the OSHA standard, to be at least as
safe as the equipment was before modification.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
(29 CFR 1904).
OMB Number: 1218-0176 (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; Farms; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 816,766.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 1.9 hours.
Total Burden Hours: 1,492,710.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $31,032,694.
Description: The OSH Act and 29 CFR 1904 prescribe that certain
employers maintain records of job related injuries and illnesses. The
data are needed by OSHA to carry out intervention and enforcement
activities to guarantee workers a safe and healthful workplace. The
data are also needed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to produce
national statistics on occupational injuries and illnesses.
Approximately 816,000 employers keep these records. Only 65 percent
must record a case.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records (29 CFR
1910-1020).
OMB Number: 1218-0065 (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 747,874.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 9 minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 448,886.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The purpose of the Access to Employee Exposure and
Medical Records Standard and its information collection requirements
are to provide employees and their designated representatives the right
to access relevant exposure and medical records, and to provide
representatives of the Assistant Secretary the right of access to these
records in order to fulfill responsibilities under the Occupational
Safety and Health Act. Access by employees, their representatives, and
the Assistant Secretary is necessary to yield both direct and indirect
improvement in the detection, treatment, and prevention of occupational
disease. Each employer is responsible for assuring compliance with this
standard, but the activities involved in complying with the access to
medical provisions can be carried out, on behalf of the employer, by
the physician or other health care personnel in charge of employee
medical records.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Formaldehyde Standard (29 CFR 1910.1048).
OMB Number: 1218-0145 (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Not-for-profit
institutions; State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 112,066.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: Time ranges from 5 minutes to
maintain records to 1 hour for medical exams.
Total Burden Hours: 521,110.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): $54,209,103.
Description: The Formaldehyde Standard and its information
collection is designed to provide protection for employees from the
adverse effects associated with occupational exposure to formaldehyde.
The standard requires employers to monitor employee exposure to
formaldehyde and provide notification to employees of their exposure to
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formaldehyde. Employers are required to make available medical exams to
employees who are or may be exposed to formaldehyde at or above the
action level (0.5 parts per million calculated as an eight hour time-
weighted average), or exceeding the short term exposure limit (two
parts formaldehyde per million parts per air). Exposure monitoring and
medical records are to be retained for prescribed amounts of time, and
under certain circumstances such records may be transferred to the
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Employers are
also required to communicate the hazards associated with exposure to
formaldehyde through signs, labels, material safety data sheets, and
training.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Construction Fall Protection Plans and Records (29 CFR
1926.502 and 1926.503).
OMB Number: 1218-0197 (extension).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
Number of Respondents: 6,000 (sites of net installation
certification); 100,000 (sites using fall protection plan); and 4
million (workers trained).
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 5 minutes (safety net certification
records); 1 hour 5 minutes (fall protection plan); 5 minutes (training
certification records).
Total Burden Hours: 767,246.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0.
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The construction standard for fall protection allows
employers to develop alternative procedures to the use of conventional
fall protection systems when the systems are infeasible or create a
greater hazard. The alternative procedures (plan) must be written.
Also, employers who use safety net systems may certify that the
installation meets the standard's criteria in lieu of performing a
drop-test on the net. In addition, employers are required to prepare
training certification records for their employees. The plan and
certification records ensure that employers comply with the
requirements to protect workers from falls,which account for the
largest number of fatalities among construction workers.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Forging Machines (29 CFR 1920.218(a)(2)(I) and (ii))--
Inspection Certifications.
OMB Number: 1210-0 new (formerly 1218-1210) (extension).
Frequency: Bi-weekly.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 27,700.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 10 Minutes.
Total Burden Hours: 244,868.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The inspection certifications required by 29 CFR
1910.218(a)(2)(I) and (ii) are necessary to assure compliance with the
requirements for forging machines They are intended to assure that the
forging machines have periodic and regular maintenance checks and that
guards and point of operation protection devices have scheduled and
record inspections.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Title: Aboveground Tank Venting Devices (29 CFR 1910.106(b)(v)(I)
and 29 CFR 1926.152(I)(2)(v)(I)--Withdrawal of Paperwork for
Manufacturer's Certification of Test.
OMB Number: 1218-0 new (formerly 1218-0210) (withdrawal).
Frequency: On occasion.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 0.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 0.
Total Burden Hours: 0.
Total annualized capital/startup costs: 0
Total annual costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing
services): 0.
Description: The requirements for the testing of venting devices on
aboveground flammable and combustible liquid tanks are found at 29 CFR
1910.106(b)(2)(v)(I) and 29 CFR 1926.152(I)(2)(v)(I). The requirements
are for a one-time test of the flow capacity of each type and size of
tank venting devices 12 inches or smaller in nominal pipe size
installed on aboveground tanks. 29 CFR 1910.106(b)(2)(v)(I) and 29 CFR
1926.152(I)(2)(v)(I) are two of 33 provisions currently contained in
the paperwork package entitled ``Certification Records for Tests,
Inspections, Maintenance Checks and Training (OMB Control Number 1218-
0210); however, OSHA has determined that there are no collections of
information required by these provisions. These provisions contain no
explicit requirements for the collection of information regarding that
testing.
Theresa M. O'Malley,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 97-25919 Filed 9-29-97; 8:45 am]
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