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conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed new collection 

of the ‘‘Survey of Workplace Violence 

Prevention.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) can 

be obtained by contacting the individual 

listed below in the Addresses section of 

this notice.

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice on or 

before January 31, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Amy A. 

Hobby, BLS Clearance Officer, Division 

of Management Systems, Bureau of 

Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 2 

Massachusetts Avenue, NE., 

Washington, DC 20212, telephone 

number 202–691–7628 (this is not a toll 

free number).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Amy A. Hobby, BLS Clearance Officer, 

telephone number 202–691–7628. (See 

ADDRESSES section).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background 

The National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) and the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS), U.S. Department of 

Labor (DOL), have agreed to conduct a 

survey to evaluate the employer’s 

perspective regarding policies, training, 

and other related issues on workplace 

violence prevention, including risk 

factors associated with workplace 

violence and prevention strategies, in 

workplaces within the United States. 

As an integral part of a broad-based 

initiative to reduce the incidence of 

occupational violence in the United 

States, NIOSH conducts, funds, and 

publishes research on risk factors and 

prevention strategies related to 

workplace violence. In 2002, Congress 

appropriated two million dollars to 

NIOSH and directed them ‘‘* * * to 

develop an intramural and extramural 

prevention research program that will 

target all aspects of workplace violence 

and to coordinate its efforts with the 

Departments of Justice and Labor.’’ A 

portion of the intramural funding has 

been allocated to conduct the Survey of 

Workplace Violence Prevention. 

The findings of the survey will allow 

characterization of how the issue of 

workplace violence is being addressed 

in workplaces and may be useful to 

identify where educational 

interventions and prevention strategies 

are needed. 

I.Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• 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 submissions 

of responses. 

III. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the Survey 

of Workplace Violence Prevention. 

The NIOSH has been conducting 

research on workplace violence risk 

factors and prevention strategies for a 

number of years using data from NIOSH 

sources, the BLS, the Bureau of Justice 

Statistics, the National Electronic Injury 

Surveillance System, and others. The 

vast majority of the knowledge 

regarding workplace violence is based 

on information about workers who have 

been victims of violent incidents, both 

fatal and nonfatal. Very little 

information exists regarding policies, 

training, and other related issues from 

an employer’s perspective. 

To gather this information, NIOSH 

has elected to enter into an Interagency 

Agreement (IA) with the BLS. NIOSH 

recognizes that the BLS is an unbiased, 

reliable, and objective source of 

information and has established 

contacts and infrastructure to conduct 

such a survey. 

The data collected from the Survey of 

Workplace Violence Prevention will be 

used by NIOSH to identify by industry 

sector (the North American Industry 

Classification System/NAICS) and 

establishment size: (1) Workplace 

violence prevention polices and 

programs, (2) training regarding 

workplace violence prevention, (3) risk 

factors associated with workplace 

violence, and (4) workplace violence 

prevention strategies. 

Type of Review: New collection. 

Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Title: Survey of Workplace Violence 

Prevention. 

OMB Number: 1220–NEW. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions; farms; 

and State, local or tribal government. 

Total Respondents: 40,000. 

Frequency: Nonrecurring. 

Total Responses: 40,000. 

Average Time Per Response: 20 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 13,334 

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (Capital/Startup):

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (Operating/

Maintenance): $0. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record.

Signed in Washington, DC, this 22nd day 

of November, 2004. 

Cathy Kazanowski, 

Chief, Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics.

[FR Doc. 04–26375 Filed 11–29–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR 1218–0069 (2005)] 

Commercial Diving Operations; 

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 comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comment concerning its request for an 

extension of the information collection 

requirements contained in the 

Commercial Diving Operations Standard 

(29 CFR part 1910, subpart T).

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

the following dates: 

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Hard copy: Your comments must be 

submitted (postmarked or received) by 

January 31, 2005. 

Facsimile and electronic 

transmission: Your comments must be 

received by January 31, 2005.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–

1218–0069 (2005), by any of the 

following methods: 

Regular mail, express delivery, hand 

delivery, and messenger service: Submit 

your comments and attachments to the 

OSHA Docket Office, Room N–2625, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350 

(OSHA’s TTY number is (877) 889–

5627). OSHA Docket Office and 

Department of Labor hours are 8:15 a.m. 

to 4:45 p.m., e.t. 

Facsimile: If your comments are 10 

pages or fewer in length, including 

attachments, you may fax them to the 

OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Electronic: You may submit 

comments through the Internet at

http://ecomments.osha.gov. Follow 

instructions on the OSHA Web page for 

submitting comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read or download comments or 

background materials, such as the 

complete Information Collection 

Request (ICR) (containing the 

Supporting Statement, OMB–83–I Form, 

and attachments), go to OSHA’s Web 

page at http://www.OSHA.gov. In 

addition, comments, submissions, and 

the ICR are available for inspection and 

copying at the OSHA Docket Office at 

the address above. You also may contact 

Theda Kenney at the address below to 

obtain a copy of the ICR. For additional 

information on submitting comments, 

please see the ‘‘Public Participation’’

heading in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Theda Kenney, Directorate of Standards 

and Guidance, OSHA, Room N–3609, 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 

693–2222.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation—Submission of 

Comments on This Notice and Internet 

Access to Comments and Submission 

You may submit comments and 

supporting materials in response to this 

notice by (1) hard copy, (2) FAX 

transmission (facsimile), or (3) 

electronically through the OSHA Web 

page. Because of security-related 

problems, a significant delay may occur 

in receiving comments by regular mail. 

Please contact the OSHA Docket Office 

at (202) 693–2350 (TTY (877) 889–

5627)) for information about security 

procedures concerning the delivery of 

submissions by express delivery, hand 

delivery, and courier service. 

All comments, submissions, and 

background documents are available for 

inspection and copying at the OSHA 

Docket Office at the above address. 

Comments and submissions posted on 

OSHA’s Web page are available at

http://www.OSHA.gov. Contact the 

OSHA Docket Office for information 

about materials not available through 

the OSHA Web page, and for assistance 

using the Web page to locate docket 

submissions. 

Electronic copies of this Federal 

Register notice, as well as other relevant 

documents, are available on OSHA’s 

Web page. 

II. Background 

The Department of Labor, as part of its 

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–95) (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 Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) 

authorizes information collection by 

employers as necessary or appropriate 

for enforcement of the Act or for 

developing information regarding the 

causes and prevention of occupational 

injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 

U.S.C. 657). 

Subpart T (‘‘the Subpart’’) contains a 

number of paperwork requirements. The 

following paragraphs describe these 

reuqirements; specify who uses them, 

and what purpose they serve. 

§ 1910.401(b). Description of the 

requirement. Allows employers to 

deviate from the requirements of the 

Subpart to the extent necessary to 

prevent or minimize a situation that is 

likely to cause death, serious physical 

harm, or major environmental damage 

(but not situations in which purely 

economic or property damage is likely 

to occur). Employers must notify the 

OSHA Area Director within 48 hours of 

taking such action; this notification 

must describe the situation responsible 

for the deviation and the extent of the 

deviation from the requirements. On 

request of the Area Director, employers 

must submit this information is writing. 

Use and purpose. Employers use this 

provision to respond to unexpected and 

sudden emergencies that could cause 

serious injury and death to their 

employees, or prevent major harm to the 

environment. Notification allows OSHA 

to determine that the situation was 

serious and unusual, required 

immediate action not specified by the 

Subpart, and that the response was 

appropriate to prevent serious injury 

and death to employees, or major harm 

to the environment. 

§§ 1910.410(a)(3) and (a)(4).

Description of the requirements.

Paragraph (a)(3) requires employers to 

train all dive-team members in 

cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first 

aid (i.e., the American Red Cross 

standard couse or equivalent), while 

paragraph (a)(4) specifies that employers 

train dive-team members exposed to 

hyperbaric conditions, or who control 

exposures of other employees to such 

conditions, in diving-related physics 

and physiology.

Use and purpose. Ensures that diveteam members know how to render 

emergency first-aid to diving casualties, 

which improves treatment outcomes. 

Training dive-team members involved 

in hyperbaric operations in divingrelated physics and physiology results 

in an understanding of how underwater 

barometric pressure affects the 

development of diving-related medical 

conditions such as decompression 

sickness (the ‘‘bends;’’ referred to 

hereafter as ‘‘DCS’’) and air embolism, 

thereby enabling theme to prevent these 

conditions. 

§§ 1910.420(a). Description of the 

requirement. Under paragraph (a), 

employers must develop and maintain a 

safe-practices manual and make it 

available to each dive-team member at 

the dive location. In addition, for each 

diving mode used at the dive location, 

the manual must contain: safety 

procedures and checklists for diving 

operations; assignments and 

responsibilities of the dive-team 

members; equipment procedures and 

checklists; and emergency procedures 

for fire, equipment failures, adverse 

environmental conditions, and medical 

illness and injury. 

Use and purpose. The safe-practices 

manual ensures that dive-team members 

are familiar with the employer’s safety 

and emergency procedures, the 

functions each member is to perform 

during diving operations conducted at 

the dive location, and how these 

procedures and functions relate to the 

requirements of the Subpart. This 

knowledge enables dive-team members 

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to perform their diving-related tasks 

effectively and safely, thereby, reducing 

the risk of serious injury and death. 

§ 1910.421(b). Description of the 

requirement. Under this provision, 

employers are to keep at the dive 

location a list of telephone or call 

numbers for the following emergency 

facilitates and services: An operational 

decompression chamber (when such a 

chamber is not at the dive location); 

accessible hospitals; available 

physicians and means of emergency 

transportation; and the nearest U.S. 

Coast Guard Rescue Coordination 

Center. 

Use and purpose: This list of 

telephone and call numbers ensures that 

emergency facilities and services and 

available to provide prompt medical 

care for an injured diver. 

§ 1910.421(f). Description of the 

requirement. Requires employers to 

brief dive-team members on the divingrelated tasks they are to perform, safety 

procedures for the diving mode used at 

the dive location, any unusual hazards 

or environmental conditions likely to 

affect the safety of the diving operation, 

and any modifications to operating 

procedures necessitated by the specific 

diving operation. Before assigning 

diving-related tasks, employers must ask 

each dive-team member about their 

current state of physical fitness, and 

inform the member about the procedure 

for reporting physical problems or 

adverse physiological effects during and 

after the dive. 

Use and purpose. This requirement 

updates the divers’ knowledge of the 

diving operation, including new 

information regarding diving hazards 

and environmental conditions that may 

jeopardize their safety. The assessment 

of a diver’s physical fitness to dive 

reduces the risk that they will 

experience medical problems while 

diving; information about the procedure 

used to report diving-related medical 

problems ensures that divers will obtain 

prompt treatment of these conditions, 

which will prevent the problems from 

becoming serious and life-threatening. 

§ 1910.421(h). Description of the 

requirement. When the diving operation 

occurs in an area capable of supporting 

marine traffic and occurs from a surface 

other than a vessel, employers are to 

display a rigid replica of the 

international code flag ‘‘A’’ that is at 

least one meter in height so that it is 

visible from any direction; the employer 

must illuminate the flag during night 

diving operations.

Use and purpose. The flag warns 

transiting vessels that diving operations 

are underway and to avoid the diving 

location, thereby protecting divers from 

impacting with a vessel while they are 

underwater or swimming on the surface. 

§ 1910.422(e). Description of the 

requirement. Employers must develop 

and maintain a depth-time profile for 

each diver that includes, as appropriate, 

any breathing gas changes or 

decompression. 

Use and purpose. Informs the diver 

regarding the depth and time parameters 

of the dive, which serves as the basis for 

determining the decompression 

schedule necessary to avoid divingrelated medical problems. 

§§ 1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through (b)(2). 

Description of the requirements.

Requires the employer to: Instruct each 

diver to report any physical symptoms 

or adverse physiological effects, 

including symptoms of DCS; advise 

each diver of the location of a 

decompression chamber that is ready for 

use; and alert each diver to the potential 

hazards of flying after diving. For any 

dive outside the no-decompression 

limits, deeper than 100 feet, or that uses 

mixed gas in the breathing mixture, the 

employer also must inform the diver to 

remain awake and in the vicinity of the 

decompression chamber that is at the 

dive location for at least one hour after 

a dive, or after any decompression or 

treatment associated with a dive. 

Use and purpose. This information 

allows the diver to recognize divingrelating medical problems, receive 

prompt treatment for such problems at 

the available decompression chamber, 

and alerts them to a condition (i.e.,

flying) that increases the risk of DCS. 

For divers involved in dives that 

increase the risk of DCS (i.e., dives 

outside the no-decompression limits, 

deeper than 100 feet, or that used mixed 

gas in the breathing mixture), informing 

them to remain awake and near the 

decompression chamber for one hour 

after a dive, or after any decompression 

or treatment associated with a dive, 

enables them a receive prompt and 

effective treatment for DCS should it 

occur. 

§ 1910.423(d). Description of the 

requirement. Paragraph (d)(1) specifies 

that employers are to record and 

maintain the following information for 

each diving operation: The names of 

dive-team members; date, time, and 

location; diving modes used; general 

description of the tasks performed; an 

estimate of the underwater and surface 

conditions; and the maximum depth 

and bottom time for each diver. In 

addition, for each dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100 

feet, or that uses mixed gas in the 

breathing mixture, paragraph (d)(2) 

requires the employer to record and 

maintain the following information for 

each diver: Depth-time and breathinggas profiles; decompression table 

designation (including any 

modifications); and elapsed time since 

the last pressure exposure when it is 

less than 24 hours or the repetitive dive 

designation. Under paragraph (d)(3), if 

the dive results in DCS symptoms, or 

the employer suspects that a diver has 

DCS, the employer must record and 

maintain a description of the DCS 

symptoms (including the depth and 

time of symptom onset) and the results 

of treatment. 

Use and purpose: This information 

permits appropriate and effective 

treatment of a diver should DCS occur 

after a dive or should the diver have a 

relapse of DCS after initial treatment, 

thereby preventing the condition from 

resulting in a serious injury or death. 

Maintaining these records ensures that 

the information is available for use by: 

the party involved in treatment when 

the diver experiences late-onset DCS or 

a subsequent relapse after treatment; 

and the employer for assessing the DCS 

incident (see § 1910.423(e) below). 

§ 1910.423(e). Description of the 

requirement. Requires employers to 

assess each DCS incident by: 

investigating and evaluating it based on 

the recorded information, consideration 

of the past performance of the 

decompression profile used, and the 

diver’s individual susceptibility to DCS; 

taking appropriate corrective action to 

reduce the probability of a DCS 

recurrence; and, within 45 days of the 

DCS incident, preparing a written 

evaluation of this assessment, including 

any corrective action taken.

Use and purpose. A written 

assessment enables employers to 

identify salient variables in existing 

decompression procedures that may be 

responsible for the DCS incident, to 

document modifications of these 

variables that they believe will reduce 

the occurrence of DCS, and to evaluate 

the effectiveness of these modifications 

during subsequent diving operations. 

Systematic assessment of 

decompression procedures in this 

manner reduces the incidence of DCS, 

which improves the safety of 

decompression procedures used by 

employers and protects divers from the 

serious and deadly effects fo DCS. 

§ 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(ii), (c)(3)(i), 

(f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2). Description of the 

requirements. Paragraph (a) contains a 

general requirement that employers 

must record by means of tagging or a 

logging system any work performed on 

equipment, including any 

modifications, repairs, tests, 

calibrations, or maintenance performed 

on the equipment. This record is to 

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include a description of the work, the 

name or initials of the individual who 

performed the work, and the date they 

completed the work. Paragraphs (b)(4) 

and (c)(1)(iii) require employers to test 

two specific types of equipment, 

including, respectively: the output of air 

compressor systems used to supply 

breathing air to divers for air purity 

every six months by means of samples 

taken at the connection to the 

distribution system; and breathing-gas 

hoses at least annually at one and onehalf times their working pressure. Under 

paragraph (c)(3)(i), employers must 

mark each umbilical (i.e., separate lines 

supplying air and communications to a 

diver, as well as a safety line, tied 

together in a bundle), beginning at the 

diver’s end, in 10-foot increments for 

100 feet, then in 50-foot increments. 

Paragraph (f)(3)(ii) mandates that 

employers regularly inspect and 

maintain mufflers located in intake and 

exhaust lines on decompression 

chambers. According to paragraph 

(g)(2), employers are to test depth 

gauges using dead-weigh testing, or 

calibrate the gauges against a master 

reference gauge; such testing or 

calibration is to occur every six months 

and when the employer finds a 

discrepancy larger than two percent of 

the full scale between any two 

equivalent gauges. Employers must 

make a record of the tests, calibrations, 

inspections, and maintenance 

performed on the equipment specified 

by these paragraphs in accordance with 

§ 1910.430(a). 

Use and purpose. The records 

required by paragraph (a) (and generated 

by work performed under paragraphs 

(b)(4), (c)(1)(ii), (f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2)) 

permit employers and employees to 

determine the operating condition of 

diving equipment before placing it in 

service. By using only equipment that 

these records demonstrate is in safe 

working order, employers and 

employees will prevent severe injury 

and death during diving operations. 

Additionally, marking umbilicals as 

required by paragraph (c)(3)(i) permits 

diving supervisors and the employees 

who are tending a diver to determine 

the diver’s depth, which ensures that 

the diver undergoes proper 

decompression as specified by the 

depth-time profile of the dive; by 

undergoing proper decompression, the 

diver avoids DCS. 

§§ 1910.440(a)(2) and (b). Description 

of the requirements. Under paragraph 

(a)(2) of this provision, employers must 

record any diving-related injuries and 

illnesses that result in a dive-team 

member remaining in hospital for at 

least 24 hours. This record is to describe 

the circumstances of the incident and 

the extent of any injuries or illnesses.

Paragraph (b) of this provision 

regulates the availability of the records 

required by the Subpart, including who 

has access to these records, the retention 

periods for various records, and in some 

cases, the final disposition of the 

records. Under paragraph (b)(1), 

employers must make any record 

required by the Subpart available, on 

request, for inspection and copying by 

an OSHA compliance officer or to a 

representative of the National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH). Paragraph (b)(2) specifies that 

employers are to provide employees, 

their designated representatives, and 

OSHA compliance officers with 

exposure and medical records generated 

under the Subpart in accordance with 

§ 1910.1020 (‘‘Access to employee 

exposure and medical records’’); these 

records include safe-practices manuals, 

depth-time profiles, diving records, DCS 

incident assessments, and 

hospitalization records. This paragraph 

also mandates that employers make 

equipment inspection and testing 

records available to employees and their 

designated representative on request. 

According to paragraph (b)(3), 

employers must retain these records for 

the following periods: Safe-practices 

manuals, current document only; depthtime profiles, until completing the 

diving record or the DCS incident 

assessment; diving records, one year, 

except five years when a DCS incident 

occurred during the dive; DCS incident 

assessments, five years; hospitalization 

records, five years; and equipment 

inspections and testing records (i.e.,

current tag or log entry), until the 

employer removes the equipment from 

service. Paragraphs (b)(4) and (b)(5) 

specify the requirements for disposing 

of these records. Under paragraph (b)(4), 

employers are to forward to NIOSH any 

record with an expired five-year 

retention period. Paragraph (b)(5) states 

that employers who cease to do business 

must transfer records without unexpired 

retention dates to the successor 

employer who will retain them for the 

required period; however, when 

employers cease to do business without 

a successor employer, they must transfer 

the records to NIOSH. 

Use and purpose. The hospitalization 

records required under paragraph (a)(2) 

will assist employers and employees, 

and eventually NIOSH, in determining 

which depth-time diving profiles and 

associated decompression procedures 

are especially hazardous, thereby 

permitting employers to modify these 

procedures to prevent DCS and other 

medical problems. Regarding the recordavailability requirements of paragraphs 

(b)(1) and (b)(2), OSHA compliance 

officers use these records as an efficient 

means of assessing employer 

compliance with the major requirements 

of the Subpart, while NIOSH may 

compile these records for research 

purposes. Employees and their 

designated representatives use the 

records to assess the safety of an 

employer’s diving procedures, and to 

determine if equipment is in safe 

working order. 

The record-retention periods specified 

by paragraph (b)(3) reinforce the 

requirements of paragraphs (b)(1) and 

(b)(2) by allowing an adequate period to 

inspect records for compliance 

purposes, to review them in 

determining if equipment is in safe 

working order, and to analyze them 

when assessing the safety of existing 

diving procedures or developing 

improved procedures. Sending the 

records to NIOSH as required by 

paragraph (b)(4) makes them available 

for research purposes (e.g., assessing the 

medical effects of decompression 

procedures); in addition, employers and 

employees will have continuous access 

to the records when they need them to 

evaluate the safety of diving procedures, 

identify the causes of latent health 

effects, or for other reasons. The 

requirements of paragraph (b)(5) ensure 

that a responsible party (i.e., a successor 

employer or NIOSH) will make the 

records available as mandated by 

paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2). 

III. 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, 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 collection 

and transmission techniques. 

IV. Proposed Actions 

OSHA proposes to extend the Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

approval of the collection of information 

(paperwork) requirements necessitated 

by the Commercial Diving Operations 

Standard, 29 CFR part 1910, subpart T. 

The Agency will include this summary 

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in its request to OMB to extend the 

approval of these collections of 

information requirements. 

Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection requirements. 

Title: Commercial Diving Operations. 

OMB Number: 1218–0069. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; not for profit organizations, 

Federal government; State, local or 

tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 3,000. 

Frequency: On occasion, annually. 

Average Time Per Response: Varies 

from 3 minutes (.05 hour) to replace the 

safe practices manual to 1 hour to 

develop a new manual. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours:

205,397. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $0. 

V. Authority and Signature 

John L. Henshaw, 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. 5–2002 (67 FR 

65008).

Signed in Washington, DC, on November 

23, 2004. 

John L. Henshaw, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor.

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–M

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 

ADMINISTRATION 

Records Schedules; Availability and 

Request for Comments

AGENCY: National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed records schedules; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Archives and 

Records Administration (NARA) 

publishes notice at least once monthly 

of certain Federal agency requests for 

records disposition authority (records 

schedules). Once approved by NARA, 

records schedules provide mandatory 

instructions on what happens to records 

when no longer needed for current 

Government business. They authorize 

the preservation of records of 

continuing value in the National 

Archives of the United States and the 

destruction, after a specified period, of 

records lacking administrative, legal, 

research, or other value. Notice is 

published for records schedules in 

which agencies propose to destroy 

records not previously authorized for 

disposal or reduce the retention period 

of records already authorized for 

disposal. NARA invites public 

comments on such records schedules, as 

required by 44 U.S.C. 3303a(a).

DATES: Requests for copies must be 

received in writing on or before January 

14, 2005. Once the appraisal of the 

records is completed, NARA will send 

a copy of the schedule. NARA staff 

usually prepare appraisal 

memorandums that contain additional 

information concerning the records 

covered by a proposed schedule. These, 

too, may be requested and will be 

provided once the appraisal is 

completed. Requesters will be given 30 

days to submit comments.

ADDRESSES: You may request a copy of 

any records schedule identified in this 

notice by contacting the Life Cycle 

Management Division (NWML) using 

one of the following means: 

Mail: NARA (NWML), 8601 Adelphi 

Road, College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

E-mail: records.mgt@nara.gov.

Fax: 301–837–3698. 

Requesters must cite the control 

number, which appears in parentheses 

after the name of the agency which 

submitted the schedule, and must 

provide a mailing address. Those who 

desire appraisal reports should so 

indicate in their request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

M. Wester, Jr., Director, Life Cycle 

Management Division (NWML), 

National Archives and Records 

Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, 

College Park, MD 20740–6001. 

Telephone: 301–837–3120. E-mail: 

records.mgt@nara.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each year 

Federal agencies create billions of 

records on paper, film, magnetic tape, 

and other media. To control this 

accumulation, agency records managers 

prepare schedules proposing retention 

periods for records and submit these 

schedules for NARA’s approval, using 

the Standard Form (SF) 115, Request for 

Records Disposition Authority. These 

schedules provide for the timely transfer 

into the National Archives of 

historically valuable records and 

authorize the disposal of all other 

records after the agency no longer needs 

them to conduct its business. Some 

schedules are comprehensive and cover 

all the records of an agency or one of its 

major subdivisions. Most schedules, 

however, cover records of only one 

office or program or a few series of 

records. Many of these update 

previously approved schedules, and 

some include records proposed as 

permanent.

No Federal records are authorized for 

destruction without the approval of the 

Archivist of the United States. This 

approval is granted only after a 

thorough consideration of their 

administrative use by the agency of 

origin, the rights of the Government and 

of private persons directly affected by 

the Government’s activities, and 

whether or not they have historical or 

other value. 

Besides identifying the Federal 

agencies and any subdivisions 

requesting disposition authority, this 

public notice lists the organizational 

unit(s) accumulating the records or 

indicates agency-wide applicability in 

the case of schedules that cover records 

that may be accumulated throughout an 

agency. This notice provides the control 

number assigned to each schedule, the 

total number of schedule items, and the 

number of temporary items (the records 

proposed for destruction). It also 

includes a brief description of the 

temporary records. The records 

schedule itself contains a full 

description of the records at the file unit 

level as well as their disposition. If 

NARA staff has prepared an appraisal 

memorandum for the schedule, it too 

includes information about the records. 

Further information about the 

disposition process is available on 

request. 

Schedules Pending:

1. Department of Homeland Security, 

Transportation Security Administration 

(N1–560–04–16, 15 items, 13 temporary 

items). Files accumulated by the Office 

of Maritime and Land Security relating 

to organizational structure records. Also 

included are reference files concerning 

planning, personnel, employment, 

property management, and information 

technology and electronic copies of 

records created using electronic mail 

and word processing. Proposed for 

permanent retention are recordkeeping 

copies of rulemaking and regulations 

files. 

2. Department of Homeland Security, 

United States Secret Service (N1–87–

05–1, 9 items, 6 temporary items). 

Inputs and outputs for an electronic 

system containing investigative and 

criminal history information. Also 

included are electronic copies of records 

created using electronic mail and word 

processing. Master files, a public use 

version of the master files, and system 

documentation are proposed for 

permanent retention. 

3. Department of Justice, Federal 

Bureau of Investigation (N1–65–05–1, 3 

items 3 temporary items). Recordings of 

incoming calls to agency field office