DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. ICR-96-1]

Permit-Required Confined Spaces (29 CFR 1910.146); Announcement of OMB Approval of Information Collection Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice; Announcement of the OMB Approval of Information Collection Requirements

SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is announcing that the collections of information in the Permit-Required Confined Spaces standard, 29 CFR 1910.146, have been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This document announces the OMB approval number and expiration date.

DATES: Effective December 1, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Bielaski, Directorate of Policy, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3627, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 219-8076, ext. 142.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of January 25, 1996 (61 FR 2267), the Agency announced its intent to request renewal of its current OMB approval for 29 CFR 1910.146, Permit-Required Confined Spaces. In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), OMB has renewed its approval for the information collection and assigned OMB control number 1218-0203.

The approval expires on June 30, 1999. Under 5 CFR 1320.5(b), an Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the collection displays a valid control number.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 18th day of November 1997.

John F. Martonik,
Acting Director, Directorate of Safety Standards Programs.

[FR Doc. 97-31413 Filed 11-28-97; 8:45 am)