[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 6, 2012)][Notices][Pages 13357-13359]
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[FR Doc No: 2012-5414]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2012-0004]
The Cadmium in Construction 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 its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements specified in the Cadmium in
Construction Standard (29 CFR 1926.1127).
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
May 7, 2012.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
Facsimile: If your comments, including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages, you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
1648.
Mail, hand delivery, express mail, messenger, or courier service:
When using this method, you must submit a copy of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, OSHA Docket No. OSHA-2012-0004,
U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Room N-2625, 200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210. Deliveries (hand, express mail, messenger, and courier
service) are accepted during the Department of Labor's and Docket
Office's normal business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA-2012-0004) for the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any personal information you provide, are
placed in the public docket without change, and may be made available online
at http://www.regulations.gov. For further information on submitting
comments see the "Public Participation" heading in the section of this
notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov or the OSHA Docket Office at
the address above. All documents in the docket (including notice) are
listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index; however, some
information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly available to
read or download from the Web site. All submissions, including
copyrighted material, are available for inspection and copying at the
OSHA Docket Office. You may also contact Theda Kenney at the address
below to obtain a copy of the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Todd Owen, Directorate
of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3468,
200 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693-
2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its 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-95) (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 (the 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 efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The information collection requirements specified in the Cadmium in
Construction Standard protect workers from the adverse health effects
that may result from their exposure to cadmium. The major information
collection requirements of the Standard include: conducting worker
exposure monitoring, notifying workers of their cadmium exposures,
implementing a written compliance program, implementing medical
surveillance of workers, providing examining physicians with specific
information, ensuring that workers receive a copy of their medical
surveillance results, maintaining workers' exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records for specific periods, and providing access
to these records by OSHA, the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, the worker who is the subject of the records, the
worker's representative, and other designated parties.
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,
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 its approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the Cadmium in Construction
Standard (29 CFR 1926.1127). The Agency is proposing to retain its
previous estimate of 37,231 burden hours; however, it is proposing to
increase the currently approved operation and maintenance costs from
$1,775,457 to $1,930,703, a total increase of $155,246. The increase is
due to the Agency increasing the cost to perform medical surveillance
and exposure monitoring.
Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Title: Cadmium in Construction Standard (29 CFR 1926.1127).
OMB Number: 1218-0186.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits; Federal Government;
State, Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 10,000.
Frequency of Response: On occasion; Quarterly; Semi-annually;
Annually.
Total Responses: 261,889.
Average Time per Response: Varies from two minutes (.03 hour) for a
secretary to compile and maintain training records to 1.5 hours to
administer worker medical examinations.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 37,231.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $1,930,703.
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 http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other material must identify the Agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2012-0004). You
may supplement electronic submissions by uploading document files
electronically. If you wish to mail additional materials in reference
to an electronic or 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 the Agency can attach them
to your comments.
Because of security procedures, the use of regular mail may cause a
significant delay in the receipt of comments. For information about
security procedures concerning the delivery of materials by hand,
express delivery, messenger, or courier service, please contact the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-5627).
Comments and submissions are posted without change at
http://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 http://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g.,
copyrighted material) is not publicly available to read
or download through this Web site. All submissions,
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on using
the http://www.regulations.gov Web site to submit
comments and access the docket is available at the Web site's
"User Tips" link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office for
information about materials not available through the Web
site and for assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH, 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 at Washington, DC, on March 1, 2012.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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