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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Secretary
Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request
February 20, 2009.
The Department of Labor (DOL) hereby announces the submission of
the following public information collection requests (ICR) 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 ICR, with applicable supporting
documentation; including, among other things, a description of the
likely respondents, proposed frequency of response, and estimated total
burden may be obtained from the RegInfo.gov Web site at http://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain or by contacting Darrin King on 202-
693-4129 (this is not a toll-free number)/e-mail: DOL_PRA_PUBLIC@dol.gov.
Interested parties are encouraged to send comments to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, Telephone:
202-395-7316/Fax: 202-395-6974 (these are not toll-free numbers), e-
mail: OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov within 30 days from the date of this
publication in the Federal Register. In order to ensure the appropriate
consideration, comments should reference the OMB Control Number (see
below).
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: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a previously approved
collection
Title of Collection: 1,2-Dibromo-3-Chloropropane (DBCP) Standard
(29 CFR 1910.1044).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0101.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden: $0.
Description: The purpose of DBCP Standard is to provide protection
for employees from the adverse health effects caused by occupational
exposure to DBCP. To ensure that employees are receiving this
protection, the Standard requires employers to provide OSHA with access
to various records. However, no employers are currently producing or
using DBCP; therefore, the Standard imposes no cost burdens on
employers. For additional information, see the related 60-day
preclearance notice published in the Federal Register at Vol. 73 FR
58983 on October 8, 2008. PRA documentation prepared in association
with the preclearance notice is available on http://www.regulations.gov
under docket number OSHA-2008-0038.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a previously approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Cadmium in General Industry Standard (29 CFR
1910.1027).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0185.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 53,161.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 92,259.
Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden: $4,644,185.
Description: The purpose of this standard and its information
collection requirements is to provide protection for employees from the
adverse health effects that may result from occupational exposure to
cadmium. The major information collection requirements in the Standard
include conducting employee exposure monitoring, notifying employees of
their cadmium exposures, implementing a written compliance program,
implementing medical surveillance of employees, providing examining
physicians with specific information, ensuring that employees receive a
copy of their medical surveillance results, maintaining employees'
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 employee who is the
subject of the records, the employee's representative, and other
designated parties. For additional information, see the related 60-day
preclearance notice published in the Federal Register at Vol. 73 FR
74199 on December 5, 2008. PRA documentation prepared in association
with the preclearance notice is available on http://www.regulations.gov
under docket number OSHA-2008-0052.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a previously approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Cadmium in Construction Standard (29 CFR
1926.1127).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0186.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 10,000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 39,331.
Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden: $1,775,457.
Description: The Cadmium in Construction Standard requires
employers to protect employees from the adverse health effects that may
result from their exposure to cadmium. The major information collection
requirements in the Standard include conducting employee exposure
monitoring, notifying employees of their cadmium exposures,
implementing a written compliance program, implementing medical
surveillance of employees, providing examining physicians with specific
information, ensuring that employees receive a copy of their medical
surveillance results, maintaining employees' 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 employee who is the subject of the records, the
employee's representative, and other designated parties. For additional
information, see the related 60-day preclearance notice published in
the Federal Register at Vol. 73 FR 74197 on December 5, 2008. PRA
documentation prepared in association with the preclearance notice is
available on http://www.regulations.gov under docket number OSHA-2008-
0051.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a previously approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Asbestos in Shipyards (29 CFR 1915.1001).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0195.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 316.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,624.
Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden: $37,798.
Description: The information collection requirements specified in
the Asbestos in Shipyards Standard protect employees from the adverse
health effects that may result from occupational exposure to asbestos.
The major information collection requirements in the Standard include:
Implementing an exposure monitoring program that informs employees
of their exposure-monitoring results;
At multi-employer worksites, notification of other on-site
employers by employers establishing regulated areas for the type of
work performed with asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) and/or
presumed asbestos-containing materials (PACMs), the requirements that
pertain to regulated areas and the measures the employers can use to
protect their employees from asbestos overexposure;
Developing specific information and training programs for
employees;
Providing medical surveillance for employees potentially exposed to
ACMs and/or PACMs, including administering an employee medical
questionnaire, providing information to the examining physician, and
providing the physician's written opinion to the employee; and
Maintaining records of objective data used for exposure
determinations, employee exposure monitoring and medical surveillance
records, training records, the record (i.e., information, data, and
analyses) used to demonstrate that PACM does not contain asbestos, and
notifications made and received by building/facility owners regarding
the content of ACMs and PACMs. For additional information, see the
related 60-day preclearance notice published in the Federal Register at
Vol. 73 FR 65683 on November 4, 2008. PRA documentation prepared in
association with the preclearance notice is available on http://
www.regulations.gov under docket number OSHA-2008-0048.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a previously approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Longshoring and Marine Terminal Operations (29
C.F.R. parts 1918 and 1917, respectively).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0196.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 750.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 35,948.
Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden: $0.
Description: The Standards on Longshoring and Marine Terminal
Operations contain a number of collections of information which are
used by employers to ensure that employees are informed properly about
the safety and health hazards associated with longshoring and marine
terminal operations. OSHA uses the records developed in response to the
collection of information requirements to find out if employers are
complying adequately with the provisions of the Standards. For
additional information, see the related 60-day preclearance notice
published in the Federal Register at Vol. 73 FR 74527 on December 8,
2008. A corrections notice to this Federal Register notice was
published at Vol. 73 FR 77074 on December 18, 2008. PRA documentation
prepared in association with the preclearance notice is available on
http://www.regulations.gov under docket number OSHA-2008-0050.
Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Type of Review: Extension without change of a previously approved
collection.
Title of Collection: Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency
Response (HAZWOPER) (29 CFR 1910.120).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0202.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 34,812.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,199,954.
Estimated Total Annual Costs Burden: $3,111,762.
Description: Section 126(e) of the "Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986" (SARA) (Pub. L. 99-499) which became law
on October 17, 1986, required the Secretary of Labor, pursuant to
Section 6 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act),
to promulgate standards for the safety and health protection of
employees engaged in hazardous waste operations and emergency response.
Section 126(a) of SARA also specified that those standards were to
become effective a year after publication. Section 126(b) lists 11
worker protection provisions that the Secretary of Labor had to include
in OSHA's final standard. Those provisions require OSHA to address the
preparation of various written programs, plans and records; the
training of employees; the monitoring of airborne hazards; the conduct
of medical surveillance; and the distribution of information to
employees. The provisions also require the collection of information
from employers engaged in hazardous waste operations and their
emergency response to such operations. The final standard covers the
provisions mandated in SARA. For additional information, see the
related 60-day preclearance notice published in the Federal Register at
Vol. 73 FR 77072 on December 18, 2008. PRA documentation prepared in
association with the preclearance notice is available on
http://www.regulations.gov under docket number OSHA-2008-0049.
Darrin A. King,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
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