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collection: 2,000 hours annual burden 

hours associated with this collection. 

If Additional Information is Required 

Contact: Lynn Murray, Department 

Clearance Officer, United States 

Department of Justice, Policy and 

Planning Staff, Justice Management 

Division, Two Constitution Square, 145 

N Street, NE., Suite 2E–502, 

Washington, DC 20530. 

Dated: January 6, 2011. 

Lynn Murray, 

Department Clearance Officer, PRA, United 

States Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2011–478 Filed 1–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0056] 

OSHA–7 Form (‘‘Notice of Alleged 

Safety and Health Hazards’’); 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. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comments concerning its proposal to 

extend OMB approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified in the OSHA–7 Form. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

March 14, 2011. 

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 

your comments and attachments to the 

OSHA Docket Office, OSHA Docket No. 

OSHA–2010–0056, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Occupational Safety and Heath 

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 for the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) (OSHA–2010– 

0056). 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 this Federal Register 

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 through the Web site. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

You may also contact Todd Owen at the 

address below to obtain a copy of the 

ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Todd Owen, Directorate of Standards 

and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department 

of Labor, Room N–3609, 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., workers filing 

occupational safety or health 

complaints) 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 (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). 

Under paragraphs (a) and (c) of 29 

CFR § 1903.11 (‘‘Complaints by 

employees’’) workers and their 

representatives may notify the OSHA 

area director or an OSHA compliance 

officer of safety and health hazards 

regulated by the Agency that they 

believe exist in their workplaces at any 

time. These provisions state further that 

this notification must be in writing and 

‘‘shall set forth with reasonable 

particularity the grounds for the notice, 

and shall be signed by the employee or 

representative of the employee.’’ 

In addition to providing specific 

hazard information to the Agency, 

paragraph (a) permits workers/worker 

representatives to request an inspection 

of the workplace. Paragraph (c) also 

addresses situations in which workers/ 

worker representatives may provide the 

information directly to the OSHA 

compliance officer during an inspection. 

An employer’s former workers may also 

submit complaints to the Agency. 

To address the requirements of 

paragraphs (a) and (c), especially the 

requirement that the information be in 

writing, the Agency developed the 

OSHA–7 Form; this form standardized 

and simplified the hazard reporting 

process. For paragraph (a), they may 

complete an OSHA–7 Form obtained 

from the Agency’s Web site and then 

send it to OSHA online, or deliver a 

hardcopy of the form to the OSHA area 

office by mail or facsimile, or by hand. 

They may also write a letter containing 

the information and hand deliver it to 

the area office, or send it by mail or 

facsimile. In addition, they may provide 

the information orally to the OSHA area 

office or another party (e.g., a Federal 

safety and health committee for Federal 

workers), in which case the area office 

or other party completes the hardcopy 

version of the form. For the typical 

situation addressed by paragraph (c), a 

worker/worker representative informs 

an OSHA compliance officer orally of 

the alleged hazard during an inspection, 

and the compliance officer then 

completes the hardcopy version of the 

OSHA–7 Form; occasionally, the 

worker/worker representative provides 

the compliance officer with the 

information on the hardcopy version of 

the OSHA–7 Form. 

The information in the hardcopy 

version of the OSHA–7 Form includes 

information about the employer and 

alleged hazards, including: the 


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establishment’s name; the site’s address 

and telephone and facsimile numbers; 

the name and telephone number of the 

management official; the type of 

business; a description and the specific 

location of the hazards, including the 

approximate number of workers 

exposed or threatened by the hazards; 

and whether or not the worker/worker 

representative informed another 

government agency about the hazards 

(and the name of the agency if so 

informed). 

Additional information on the 

hardcopy version of the form concerns 

the complainant including: whether or 

not the complainant wants OSHA to 

reveal their name to the employer; 

whether the complainant is a worker or 

a worker representative, or for 

information provided orally, a member 

of a Federal safety and health committee 

or another party (with space to specify 

the party); the complainant’s name, 

telephone number, and address; and the 

complainant’s signature attesting that 

they believe a violation of an OSHA 

standard exists at the named 

establishment; and the date of the 

signature. A worker representative must 

also provide the name of the 

organization they represent and their 

title. 

The information contained in the 

online version of the OSHA–7 Form is 

similar to the hardcopy version. 

However, the online version requests 

the complainant’s e-mail address, and 

does not ask for the site’s facsimile 

number or the complainant’s signature 

and signature date. 

The Agency uses the information 

collected on the OSHA–7 Form to 

determine whether reasonable grounds 

exist to conduct an inspection of the 

workplace. The description of the 

hazards, including the number of 

exposed workers, allows the Agency to 

assess the severity of the hazards and 

the need to expedite the inspection. The 

completed form also provides the 

employer with notice of the complaint 

and may serve as the basis for obtaining 

a search warrant if the employer denies 

the Agency access to the workplace. 

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 

workers 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 relating to the 

OSHA–7 Form. The Agency is 

requesting an increase in burden hours 

from 12,775 to 13,414 (a total increase 

of 639 burden hours). The Agency 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 a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Notice of Alleged Safety and 

Health Hazards, OSHA–7 Form. 

OMB Number: 1218–0064. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households. 

Number of Respondents: 50,715. 

Total Responses: 50,715. 

Frequency of Recordkeeping: On 

occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies 

from 15 minutes (.25 hour) to 

communicate the required information 

orally to the Agency to 25 minutes (.42 

hour) to provide the information in 

writing and send it to OSHA. 

Total Burden Hours Requested: 

13,414. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $1,116. 

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–2010–0056). 

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 date 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, PhD, 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. 4–2010 (75 FR 55355). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on January 10, 

2011. 

David Michaels, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2011–602 Filed 1–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0055] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request Submitted for Public 

Comment and Recommendations; 

Recording and Reporting Occupational 

Injuries and Illnesses (1218–0176) 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 


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