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subsidiary of Valspar Global Wood 

Coatings, d/b/a Engineered Polymer 

Solutions, High Point, North Carolina 

and out-stationed personnel who were 

adversely affected by increased imports. 

The amended notice applicable to 

TA–W–56,863 is hereby issued as 

follows: 

All workers of Valspar-Furniture Sales 

Group & International Color Design Center, a 

subsidiary of Valspar Global Wood Coatings, 

d/b/a/ Engineered Polymer Solutions, High 

Point, North Carolina (TA–W–56,863), 

including out-stationed personnel in Virginia 

(TA–W–863A), Vermont (TA–W–863B), 

California (TA–W–863C) and Michigan (TA–

W–863D) who became totally or partially 

separated from employment on or after 

March 14, 2004, through May 6, 2007, are 

eligible to apply for adjustment assistance 

under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974, 

and are also eligible to apply for alternative 

trade adjustment assistance under Section 

246 of the Trade Act of 1974. 

Signed at Washington, DC this 13th day of 

April 2007. 

Richard Church, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E7–7724 Filed 4–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request for Attestations by Facilities 

Temporarily Employing H–1C 

Nonimmigrant Aliens as Registered 

Nurses; Comment Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: 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/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 Employment and 

Training Administration (ETA) is 

soliciting comments on a request to 

reinstate, without modification, 

collection of information on the ETA 

Form 9081, Attestations by Facilities 

Temporarily Employing H–1C 

Nonimmigrant Aliens as Registered 

Nurses. Reinstatement of this collection 

is necessary to support implementation 

of the Nursing Relief for Disadvantaged 

Areas Act of 1999, which was 

reauthorized by the Congress on 

December 20, 2006. 

DATES: Written Comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

addressee’s section below on or before 

June 25, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

to the Employment and Training 

Administration Office of Foreign Labor 

Certification, U.S. Department of Labor, 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., Room 

C–4312, Washington, DC 20210; 

Attention: Brian Pasternak. Telephone 

number: (202) 693–3010 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Fax: (202) 693–2768. 

E-mail: H–1C9089.Comments@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

On November 12, 1999, the Nursing 

Relief for Disadvantaged Areas Act of 

1999 (NRDAA), Public Law 106–95, 

amended the Immigration and 

Nationality Act (INA) to establish the 

H–1C program to reduce the shortage of 

qualified nurses in Health Professional 

Shortage Areas (HPSAs). The ETA and 

Employment Standards Administration 

(ESA) promulgated regulations at 20 

CFR part 655, subparts L and M, 

governing the filing and enforcement of 

attestations by facilities seeking to 

employ aliens as registered nurses in 

HPSAs on a temporary basis. 

The NRDAA allows qualified 

hospitals to employ temporary foreign 

workers as registered nurses for up to 

three (3) years under the H–1C visas. 

Facilities seeking H–1C visas are 

required to file attestations with the 

Secretary of Labor. Each facility must 

attest that (1) It meets the definition of 

‘‘facility’’ based on the Social Security 

Act and the Public Health Service Act, 

(2) it did not and will not lay off a 

registered nurse in the period between 

90 days before and 90 days after the 

filing of any H–1C petition, (3) it will 

not employ a number of H–1C nurses 

that exceeds 33 percent of the total 

number of registered nurses employed 

at the facility, and (4) it will not 

authorize the H–1C nurse to perform 

nursing services at any worksite other 

than a worksite controlled by the facility 

or transfer the H–1C nurse’s place of 

employment from one work place to 

another. 

The NRDAA expired on June 13, 

2005. However, on December 20, 2006, 

with the enactment of Public Law 109–

423, Congress reauthorized the H–1C 

program for an additional three (3) 

years. The key provisions of the 

program remain unaffected and take 

effect immediately. The mechanism for 

employers or facilities to make 

attestations to the Secretary of Labor is 

the ETA Form 9081, and to expedite 

implementation of the reauthorized 

statute, the ETA is requesting a 

reinstatement, without modifications, to 

this information collection. 

II. Review Focus 

The Department of Labor 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 submissions 

of responses. 

A copy of the proposed ICR can be 

obtained by contacting the office listed 

above in the addressee section of this 

notice. 

III. Current Actions 

Type of Review: Reinstatement. 

Agency: Employment and Training 

Administration. 

Title: Attestations by Facilities 

Temporarily Employing H–1C 

Nonimmigrant Aliens as Registered 

Nurses. 

OMB Number: 1205–0415. 

Affected Public: Businesses and notfor-profit institutions. Cite/Reference/ 

Form/etc.: Nursing Relief for 

Disadvantaged Areas Act of 1999, as 

amended; ETA Form 9081. 

Total Respondents: 14. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Total Responses: 172 attestations on 

an annual basis. 

Average Time per Response: 40 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 68 

hours. 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 

$0. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/ 

maintaining): $0. 


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Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of the information collection 

request; they will also become a matter 

of public record. 

Dated: April 12, 2007. 

William L. Carlson, 

Administrator, Office of Foreign Labor 

Certification. 

[FR Doc. E7–7689 Filed 4–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Announcement of Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

Control Numbers Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice; announcement of OMB 

approval of information collection 

requirements. 

SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration announces that 

OMB has extended its approval for a 

number of information collection 

requirements found in sections of 29 

CFR parts 1910, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1926, 

and 1928; and for OSHA’s Data 

Initiative. OSHA sought approval under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA–95), and, as required by that Act, 

is announcing the approval numbers 

and expiration dates for those 

requirements. 

DATES: This notice is effective April 24, 

2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Todd Owen or Theda Kenney, 

Directorate of Standards and Guidance, 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room N–3609, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210, 

telephone: (202) 693–2222. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a series 

of Federal Register notices, the Agency 

announced its requests to OMB to renew 

its current extensions of approvals for 

various information collection 

(paperwork) requirements in its safety 

and health standards for general 

industry, shipyard employment, 

longshoring, marine terminals, the 

construction industry, and agriculture 

(i.e., 29 CFR parts 1910, 1915, 1917, 

1918, 1926, and 1928); and for OSHA’s 

Data Initiative. In these Federal Register 

notices, the Agency provided 60-day 

comment periods for the public to 

respond to OSHA’s burden hour and 

cost estimates. 

In accordance with PRA–95 (44 U.S.C. 

3501–3520), OMB renewed its approval 

for these information collection 

requirements and assigned OMB control 

numbers to these requirements. The 

table below provides the following 

information for each of these OMBapproved requirements: The title of the 

collection; the date of the Federal 

Register notice; the Federal Register 

reference (date, volume, and leading 

page); OMB’s control number; and the 

new expiration date. 

Title 

Date of Federal Register publication, 

Federal Register reference, and OSHA 

docket number 

OMB control 

No. Expiration date 

Electrical Protective Equipment (29 CFR 1910.137), and Electric 

Power Generation, Transmission, and Distribution (29 CFR 

1910.269).

09/14/2006, 71 FR 54309, Docket No. 

1218–0190 (2006).

1218–0190 02/28/2010 

Ethylene Oxide (EtO) (29 CFR 1910.1047) ................................... 10/16/2006, 71 FR 60769, Docket No. 

1218–0108 (2006).

1218–0108 02/28/2010 

4,4-Methylenedianiline Construction (29 CFR 1926.60) ................ 08/16/2006, 71 FR 47253, Docket No. 

1218–0184 (2006).

1218–0183 02/28/2010 

4,4-Methylenedianiline General Industry (29 CFR 1910.1050) ..... 08/30/2006, 71 FR 51639, Docket No. 

1218–0184 (2006).

1218–0184 02/28/2010 

OSHA Data Initiative (ODI) ............................................................ 05/22/2006, 71 FR 29355, Docket No. 

1218–0209 (2006).

1218–0209 03/31/2010 

Walking—Working Surfaces Standard (29 CFR part 1910, subpart D).09/14/2006, 71 FR 54311, Docket No. 

1218–0199 (2006).

1218–0199 02/28/2010 

In accordance with 5 CFR 1320.5(b), 

an agency cannot conduct, sponsor, or 

require a response to a collection of 

information unless the collection 

displays a valid OMB control number 

and the agency informs respondents that 

they are not required to respond to the 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Authority and Signature 

Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 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 at Washington, DC, on April 17, 

2007. 

Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 

Assistant Secretary of Labor. 

[FR Doc. E7–7728 Filed 4–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

Asbestos in General Industry; 

Extension of the Office of Management 

and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of 

Information Collection (Paperwork) 

Requirements; Correction 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Request for public comment; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration (OSHA) 

published a document in the Federal 

Register on April 5, 2007, soliciting 

public comments concerning its 

proposal to extend OMB approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified in its Asbestos in General 

Industry Standard (29 CFR 1910.1001). 

The document contained an incorrect 

docket number. 

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. 


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