[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 50 (Monday, March 17, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 12368]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04261]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; COVID-19 Recordkeeping and Reporting in 
Healthcare Standard

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: 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.

DATES: The OMB will consider all written comments that the agency 
receives on or before April 16, 2025.

ADDRESSES: 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: Nicole Bouchet by telephone at 202-
693-0213, or by email at DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This collection of information contains 
collection of information requirements originally intended to assist 
both employers and employees in addressing the risk of occupational 
exposure to COVID-19. Specifically, OSHA found in 2021 that these 
requirements were necessary to address the grave danger to healthcare 
employees from transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the workplace, 
resulting in COVID-19. For additional substantive information about 
this ICR, see the related notice published in the Federal Register on 
October 9, 2024 (89 FR 81949).
    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) 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; (3) ways to enhance the quality, 
utility and clarity of the information collection; and (4) 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.
    On February 5, 2025, OSHA announced that until further notice it 
was not enforcing the requirement to establish, maintain, and provide 
copies of a COVID-19 log under 29 CFR 1910.502(q)(2)(ii) and 
(q)(3)(ii)-(iv) or to report COVID-19 fatalities and hospitalizations 
under 29 CFR 1910.502(r). OSHA intends to initiate a rulemaking to 
remove all of Subpart U, including those requirements, from 29 CFR 
1910. If OSHA removes subpart U the associated information collection 
request would become moot.
    A rulemaking to remove subpart U will take time. To ensure full 
compliance with the technical requirements of the PRA during this 
interim period, DOL seeks PRA authorization for this information 
collection for three (3) years. DOL notes that this extension request 
does not indicate any intent by the agency to enforce any portion of 
subpart U. 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-OSHA.
    Title of Collection: COVID-19 Recordkeeping and Reporting in 
Healthcare Standard.
    OMB Control Number: 1218-0277.
    Affected Public: Private Sector--Businesses or other for-profits.
    Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 78,571.
    Total Estimated Number of Responses: 207,860.
    Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 23,714 hours.
    Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $0.

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))

Nicole Bouchet,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2025-04261 Filed 3-14-25; 8:45 am]
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