Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 173 / Thursday, September 6, 2018 / Notices 45283 

Issued: August 30, 2018. 

Katherine Hiner, 

Supervisory Attorney. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19279 Filed 9–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0005] 

The Cadmium in General Industry 

Standard; 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 the proposal to 

extend OMB approval of the 

information collection requirements 

contained in the Cadmium in General 

Industry Standard. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

November 5, 2018. 

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 a 

copy of your comments and attachments 

to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No. 

OSHA–2012–0005, Occupational Safety 

and Health Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room N–3653, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries 

(hand, express mail, messenger, and 

courier service) are accepted during the 

OSHA Docket Office’s normal business 

hours, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and the OSHA 

docket number (OSHA–2012–0005) for 

the Information Collection Request 

(ICR). 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 above 

address. 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 website. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

You may also contact Christie Garner at 

(202) 693–2222 to obtain a copy of the 

ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Mockler or Christie Garner, 

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 its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent (i.e., employer) burden, 

conducts a preclearance process 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, the reporting burden 

(time and costs) is minimal, the 

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 

accidents (see 29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH 

Act also requires OSHA to obtain such 

information with a minimum burden 

upon employers, especially those 

operating small businesses, and to 

reduce to the maximum extent feasible 

unnecessary duplication of effort in 

obtaining said information (see 29 

U.S.C. 657). 

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 collection 

and transmission techniques. 

The information collection 

requirements specified in the Cadmium 

in General Industry Standard protect 

workers from the adverse health effects 

that may result from their exposure to 

cadmium. The major information 

collection requirements of the standard 

include: conducting worker exposure 

monitoring, notifying workers of their 

cadmium exposures, implementing a 

written compliance program, 

implementing medical surveillance of 

workers, providing examining 

physicians with specific information, 

ensuring that workers receive a copy of 

their medical surveillance results, 

maintaining workers’ exposure 

monitoring and medical surveillance 

records for specific periods, and 

providing access to these records to the 

workers who are the subject of the 

records, the worker’s representative, and 

other designated parties. 

The agency is requesting a burden 

hour adjustment decrease of 2,636 (from 

75,998 to 73,362 hours). The agency 

estimates a decrease of exposed workers 

in the cross-industry sectors as well as 

in the specific-industry sectors. On the 

other hand, the number of plants is 

estimated to increase slightly in both 

sectors. As a result, the operation and 

maintenance costs have increased from 

$4,799,475 to $5,453,858, a total 

increase of $654,383, due to increased 

costs for exposure monitoring sampling 

and medical exams. 

III. Proposed Actions 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Cadmium in General Industry 

(29 CFR 1910.1027). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0185. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 50,679. 

Frequency: On occasion; Quarterly; 

Biennially; Semi-annually; Annually. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

208,899. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

73,362. 


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Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $2,312,424. 

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 (Docket 

No. OSHA–2012–0005) for the ICR. 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 

electronic comments by your name, 

date, and the docket number so that 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 dates 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 website. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

Information on using the http://

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 

Loren Sweatt, 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. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on August 30, 

2018. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2018–19288 Filed 9–5–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2018–0005] 

Whistleblower Protection; Public 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration (OSHA) is 

announcing a public meeting to solicit 

comments and suggestions from 

stakeholders in the financial industry, 

including employers, employees, and 

representatives of employers and 

employees, on issues facing the agency 

in its administration of the 

whistleblower protection provisions of 

the Consumer Financial Protection Act 

of 2010, Section 1057 of the Dodd-Frank 

Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act of 2010, and the 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act. 

DATES: The public meeting will be held 

on October 16, 2018, from 1:00 p.m. to 

3:00 p.m. ET. Persons interested in 

attending the meeting must register by 

September 30, 2018. In addition, 

comments relating to the ‘‘Scope of 

Meeting’’ section of this document must 

be submitted in written or electronic 

form by October 9, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be 

held in Room N–4437 A–B, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. 

Written Comments: Submit written 

comments to the OSHA Docket Office, 

Docket No. OSHA–2018–0005, Room N– 

3653, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350. 

You may submit materials, including 

attachments, electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submissions. All 

comments should be identified with 

Docket No. OSHA–2018–0005. 

Registration To Attend and/or To 

Participate in the Meeting: If you wish 

to attend the public meeting, make an 

oral presentation at the meeting, or 

participate in the meeting via telephone, 

you must register using this link https:// 

www.eventbrite.com/e/occupationalsafety-and-health-administrationfinancial-stakeholder-meetingregistration-48336609099 by close of 

business on September 30, 2018. 

Participants may speak and pass out 

written materials, but there will not be 

an opportunity to give an electronic 

presentation. Actual times provided for 

presentation will depend on the number 

of requests, but no more than 10 

minutes per participant. There is no fee 

to register for the public meeting. 

Registration on the day of the public 

meeting will be permitted on a spaceavailable basis beginning at 12:00 p.m. 

ET. After reviewing the requests to 

present, we will contact each 

participant prior to the meeting with the 

approximate time that the participant’s 

presentation is scheduled to begin. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For press inquiries: Mr. Frank 

Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of 

Communications, U.S. Department of 

Labor; telephone (202) 693–1999; email 

meilinger.francis2@dol.gov. 

For general information: Mr. Anthony 

Rosa, Deputy Director, OSHA 

Directorate of Whistleblower Protection 

Programs, U.S. Department of Labor; 

telephone (202) 693–2199; email 

osha.dwpp@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of Meeting 

OSHA is interested in obtaining 

information from the public on key 

issues facing the agency’s whistleblower 

program. This meeting is the second in 

a series of meetings requesting public 

input on this program. For this meeting, 

OSHA is focusing on issues relating to 

whistleblower protection in the 

financial industry. In particular, the 

agency invites input on the following: 

1. How can OSHA deliver better 

whistleblower customer service? 

2. What kind of assistance can OSHA 

provide to help explain the 

whistleblower laws it enforces? 

Request for Comments 

Regardless of attendance at the public 

meeting, interested persons may submit 

written or electronic comments (see 

ADDRESSES). Submit a single copy of 

electronic comments or two paper 

copies of any mailed comments, except 

that individuals may submit one paper 

copy. To permit time for interested 

persons to submit data, information, or 

views on the issues in the ‘‘Scope of 

Meeting’’ section of this notice, submit 

comments by October 9, 2018. Please 


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