Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 106 / Thursday, June 1, 2000 / Notices 35127

Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance (DTAA); this system is now

known as the Trade Act Participant

Report (TAPR). States implemented the

TAPR beginning with the first quarter of

fiscal year 1999 (October through

December, 1998), and have continued to

collect and report data every quarter

since then.

Because both Trade Adjustment

Assistance (TAA) and Title III of the Job

Training Partnership Act (JTPA) serve

adult dislocated workers, the TAPR was

modeled on the Standardized Program

Information Report (SPIR) system used

by the JTPA programs. The passage of

the Workforce Investment Act of 1998

(WIA), which replaced JTPA, made

substantial changes in Federal

employment and training programs,

including changes in the way

participant data are defined, gathered,

and reported.

II. Review Focus

The Department of Labor is

particularly interested in comments

which:

• Evaluate whether the proposed

revision of information collection 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 Actions

In order to maintain coordination and

continuity with the dislocated worker

program under Title One of WIA, and to

make other improvements, DTAA is

proposing revisions to the TAPR that

make it substantially the same as the

system to be used by the WIA programs.

The major changes are the following:

1. The definitions of Race and

Ethnicity are now compliant with the

most recent OMB definitions.

2. Date for defining and judging

outcomes for participants are now based

upon Wage Record data rather than

surveys of individuals program exiters.

It is estimated that this will

substantially reduce the reporting

burden on the States.

3. Minor revisions in the sequence

and definitions of some of the TAPR

fields have been made in order to

increase the degree of continuity with

the new system to be used by the

dislocated workers program under WIA

Title I.

4. The format for reporting dates has

been changed from MMDDYYYY to

YYYYMMDD to conform with the new

WIA-Based system.

Type of Review: Revision.

Agency: Employment and Training

Administration.

Title: Trade Act Participant Reporrt

(TAPR).

OMB Number: 1205–0392.

Affected Public: State governments.

Frequency: Quarterly.

Total Responses: 200 (50 per quarter).

Average Time per Response: 40 hours

per quarter.

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 8,000.

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintaining): $120,000.

Comments submitted in response to

this comment request will be

summarized and/or included in the

request for Office of Management and

Budget approval of the information

collection request; they will also

become a matter of public record.

Dated: May 25, 2000.

Edward A. Tomchick.

Director, Division of Trade Adjustment

Assistance.

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BILLING CODE 4510–30–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0108(2000)]

Ethylene Oxide (EtO) Standard (29 CFR

1910.1047); Extension of the Office of

Management of Budget’s (OMB)

Approval of Information-Collection

(Paperwork) Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA); Labor.

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for

public comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments

concerning the extension of the

information-collection requirements

contained in the Ethylene Oxide

Standard (the ‘‘EtO Standard’’) (29 CFR

1910.1047).

Request For Comment

The Agency has a particular interest

in comments on the following issues:

• Whether the information-collection

requirements are necessary for the

proper performance of the Agency’s

functions, including whether the

information is useful;

• The accuracy of the Agency’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-collection

and -transmission techniques.

DATES: Submit written comments on or

before July 31, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Docket Office, Docket No. ICR–

1218–0108(2000), Occupational Safety

and Health Administration, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room N–2625,

200 Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202)

693–2350. Commenters may transmit

written comments of 10 pages or less in

length by facsimile to (202) 693–1648.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Todd R. Owen, Directorate of Policy,

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration, U.S. Department of

Labor, Room N–3641, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC;

telephone: (202) 693–2444. A copy of

the Agency’s Information-Collection

Request (ICR) supporting the need for

the information-collection requirements

in the EtO Standard is available for

inspection and copying in the Docket

Office, or you may request a mailed

copy by telephoning Todd R. Owen at

(202) 693–2444. For electronic copies of

the ICR on the EtO Standard, contact

OSHA on the Internet at http://

www.osha.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Department of Labor, as part of its

continuing effort to reduce paperwork

and respondent burden, conducts a

preclearance consultation program to

provide the general public and Federal

agencies 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.(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures

that information is in the desired

format, reporting burden (time and

costs) is minimal, collection

instruments clearly understood, and

OSHA’s estimate of the information

burden is correct. The Occupational

Safety and Health Act of the 1970 (the

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Act) authorizes information colelction

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).

The information-collection

requirements specificied in the EtO

Standard protect employees from the

adverse health effects that may result

from their exposure to EtO. The major

information-collection requirements of

the EtO Standard include notifying

employees of their EtO exposures,

implementing a written compliance

program, providing examining

physicians with specific information,

ensuring that employees receive a copy

of their medical-examination results,

maintaining employees’ exposuremonitoring and medical records for

specific periods, and providing access to

these records by OSHA, the National

Institute for Occupational Safety and

Health, the affected employees, and

their authorized representatives.

II Proposed Actions

OSHA proposed to increase the

existing burden-hour estimate, and to

extend OMB’s approval, of the

collection-of-information (paperwork)

requirements contained in the EtO

Standard. The Agency is increasing its

previous estimate, 50,300 hours, by 989

hours. This increase occurred because of

the increase in the number of hospitals

using EtO sterilizers. OSHA will

summarize the commentss submitted in

response to this notice, and will include

this summary in the request to OMB to

extend the approval of the informationcollection requirements contained in the

EtO Standard.

Type of Review: Extension of

currently approved informationcollection requirements.

Title: Ethylene Oxide Standard (29

CFR 1910.1047).

OMB Number: 1218–0108.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Federal government; State, Local

or Tribal government.

Number of Respondents: 5,782.

Frequency: On occasion.

Total Responses: 232,564.

Average Time per Response: Varies

from 5 minutes to provide information

to the examining physician to 10 hours

to develop a compliance plan.

Estimated Total Burden Hours:

51,289.

Estimated Cost (Operation and

Maintenance): $7,074,850.

III. Authority and Signature

Charles N. Jeffress, Assistant Secretary

of Labor for Occupational Safety and

Health, directed the prepreation of this

notice. The authority for this notice is

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(44 U.S.C. 3506) and Secretary of

Labor’s Order No 6–96 (62 FR 111).

Signed at Washington, D.C., on May 25,

2000.

Charles N. Jeffress,

Assistant Secretary of Labor.

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BILLING CODE 4510–26–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0190 (2000)]

Electrical Power Generation,

Transmission, and Distribution (29

CFR 1910.269) and Electrical

Protective Equipment (29 CFR

1910.137)); Extension of the Office of

Management and Budget’s (OMB)

Approval of an Information Collection

(Paperwork) Request

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA); Labor.

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for

public comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments

concerning the proposed extension of

the information collection requirements

contained in the standards on Electrical

Power Generation, Transmission, and

Distribution, 29 CFR 1910.269, and

Electrical Protective Equipment, 29 CFR

1910.137.

Request For Comment: The Agency

seeks comments on the following issues:

• Whether the information collection

requirements are necessary for the

proper performance of the Agency’s

functions, including whether the

information is useful;

• The accuracy of the Agency’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 transmission

and collection techniques.

DATES: Submit written comments on or

before July 31, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Docket Office, Docket No. ICR–

1218–0190(2000), Occupational Safety

and Health Administration, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room N–2625,

200 Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202)

693–2350. Commenters may transmit

written comments of 10 pages or less in

length by facsimile to (202) 693–1648.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Theda Kenney, Directorate of Safety

Standards Programs, Occupational

Safety and Health Administration, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room 3–3609, 200

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202)

693–2222. A copy of the Agency’s

Information Collection Request (ICR)

supporting the need for the information

collection requirements contained in the

standards on Electrical Power

Generation, Transmission, and

Distribution (29 CFR 1910.269) and

Electrical Protective Equipment (29 CFR

1910.137) is available for inspection and

copying in the Docket Office, or mailed

on request by telephoning Theda

Kenney at (202) 693–2222 or Barbara

Bielaski at (202) 693–2444. For

electronic copies of the ICR, contact

OSHA on the Internet at http://

www.osha.gov/comp-links.html, and

click on ‘‘Information Collection

Requests.’’

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. Background

The Department of Labor, as part of its

continuing effort to reduce paperwork

and respondent burden, conducts a

preclearance consultation program to

provide the general public and Federal

agencies with an opportunity to

comment on proposed and continuing

informatin 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 correct.

The Occupational Safety and Health

Act of 1970 (the Act) 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.)

In this regard, the information collection

requirement contained in 29 CFR

1910.269 will ensure that employers

train employees in all aspects of

electrical power generation,

transmission, and distribution. The

information collection requirement in

29 CFR 1910.137 will ensure that

equipment used by exposed employees

is in reliable working condition.