[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9735-9736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02704]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2012-0031]
4, 4'-Methylenedianiline (MDA) 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, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning the proposal to
extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements specified in the 4, 4'-
Methylenedianiline (MDA) in Construction Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
April 21, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit comments, including attachments,
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting
comments.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://www.regulations.gov. Documents in the docket are
listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index; however, some
information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the website. All submissions, including
copyrighted material, are available for inspection through the OSHA
Docket Office. Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-2350 (TTY
(877) 889-5627) for assistance in locating docket submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and the
OSHA docket number (OSHA-2012-0031) for the Information Collection
Request (ICR). OSHA will place comments, including personal
information, in the public docket, which may be available online.
Therefore, OSHA cautions interested parties about submitting personal
information such as social security number and date of birth.
For further information on submitting comments, see the ``Public
Participation'' heading in the section of this notice titled
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seleda Perryman, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, telephone (202)
693-2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of the 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) (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 (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 incidents (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 effort in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The information collection requirements specified in the 4', 4'-
Methylenedianiline in Construction Standard (the ``MDA Standard'') (29
CFR 1926.60) protect employees from the adverse health effects that may
result from their exposure to MDA, including cancer, liver and skin
disease. The major paperwork requirements specify that employers must
perform initial, periodic, and additional exposure monitoring; notify
each worker in writing of their results as soon as possible but no
longer than 5 days after receiving exposure monitoring results; and
routinely inspect the hands, face, and forearms of each worker
potentially exposed to MDA for signs of dermal exposure to MDA.
Employers must also: establish a written compliance program; institute
a respiratory protection program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134
(OSHA's Respiratory Protection Standard); and develop a written
emergency plan for any construction operation that could have an MDA
emergency (i.e., an unexpected and potentially hazardous release of
MDA).
Employers must label any material or products containing MDA,
including containers used to store MDA-contaminated protective clothing
and equipment. They also must inform personnel who launder MDA-
contaminated clothing of the requirement to prevent release of MDA, and
personnel who launder or clean MDA-contaminated protective clothing or
equipment must receive information about the potentially harmful
effects of MDA. In addition, employers must post warning signs at
entrances or access ways to regulated areas, as well as train workers
exposed to MDA at the time of their initial assignment, and at least
annually thereafter.
Other paperwork provisions of the MDA Standard require employers to
provide workers with medical examinations, including initial, periodic,
emergency and follow-up examinations. As part of the medical-
surveillance program, employers must ensure that the examining
physician receives specific written information, and that they obtain
from the physician a written opinion regarding the worker's medical
results and exposure limitations.
The MDA Standard also specifies that employers are to establish and
maintain exposure-monitoring and medical-surveillance records for each
worker who is subject to these requirements, make any required record
available to OSHA compliance officers and the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for examination and copying, and
provide exposure-monitoring and medical-surveillance records to workers
and their designated representatives.
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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the 4, 4'-Methylenedianiline (MDA)
in Construction Standard. The agency is requesting an adjustment
decrease in the burden hours from 1,012 hour to 954 hours, a difference
of 58 hours. This adjustment decrease is due to a decrease in the
number of new employees. Also, the agency is requesting a decrease in
the capital cost from $152,658 to $150,486. This reduction in cost is
due to the decrease in the number of employees receiving medical exams.
OSHA will summarize the comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in the request to OMB to extend
the approval of the information collection requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of currently approved collection.
Title: 4, 4'-Methylenedianiline (MDA) in Construction Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218-0183.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 330.
Number of Responses: 2,395.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 954.
Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $150,486.
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 https://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile (fax) to the OSHA docket, if your
comments including attachments, are not longer than 10 pages, at (202)
693-1948. or (3) by hard copy. All comments, attachments, and other
materials must identify the agency name and the OSHA docket number for
the ICR (Docket No. OSHA-2012-0031). You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document files electronically.
Comments and submissions are posted without change at https://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and
date of birth.
Although all submissions are listed in the https://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to read or download through this
website. All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on
using the https://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and
access the docket is available at the website's ``User Tips'' link.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office for information about materials not
available through the website, and for assistance in using the internet
to locate docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
Scott C. Ketcham, Deputy 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 8-2020
(85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC.
Scott C. Ketcham,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
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