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compliance with all the terms and 

conditions in this petition. 

(j) Within 60 days after the Proposed 

Decision and Order becomes final, the 

petitioner will submit proposed 

revisions for its approved 30 CFR part 

48 training plan to the District Manager. 

The revisions will specify initial and 

refresher training regarding the terms 

and conditions in the Proposed Decision 

and Order. 

The petitioner asserts that the 

proposed alternative method will at all 

times guarantee no less than the same 

measure of protection as that afforded 

by the existing standard. 

Dated: March 28, 2012. 

George F. Triebsch, 

Director, Office of Standards, Regulations and 

Variances. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7789 Filed 3–30–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0009] 

The Asbestos in Shipyards Standard; 

Extension of the Office of Management 

and Budget’s 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 the Office of Management and 

Budget’s (OMB) approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified in the Asbestos in Shipyards 

Standard (29 CFR 1915.1001). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

June 1, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronically: You may submit 

comments and attachments 

electronically at http://www.regulations.

gov, which is the Federal e-Rulemaking 

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–2012–0009, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Occupational Safety and Health 

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 (OSHA–2012–0009) 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 

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 from the Web site. All 

submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

You may also contact Theda Kenney at 

the address below to obtain a copy of 

the ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Theda Kenney or 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., employer) burden, 

conducts a preclearance consultation 

program to provide the public with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and continuing information collection 

requirements in accord 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). 

The information collection 

requirements specified in the Asbestos 

in Shipyards Standard protect workers 

from the adverse health effects that may 

result from occupational exposure to 

asbestos. The major information 

collection requirements in the Standard 

include: Implementing an exposure 

monitoring program that informs 

workers of their exposure-monitoring 

results; at multi-employer worksites, 

when establishing regulated areas for 

the type of work performed with 

asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) 

and/or presumed asbestos-containing 

materials (PACMs), employers notifying 

other on-site employers of the 

requirements that pertain to regulated 

areas, and the measures the employers 

can use to protect their workers from 

asbestos overexposure; developing 

specific information and training 

programs for workers; providing 

medical surveillance for workers 

potentially exposed to ACMs and/or 

PACMs, including administering a 

worker medical questionnaire, 

providing information to the examining 

physician, and providing the 

physician’s written opinion to the 

worker; and maintaining records of 

objective data used for exposure 

determinations, worker exposure 

monitoring and medical surveillance 

records, training records, the record 

(i.e., information, data, and analyses) 

used to demonstrate that PACMs do not 

contain asbestos, and notifications made 

and received by building/facility owners 

regarding the content of ACMs and 

PACMs. 

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; 

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• 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. 

III. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is proposing to extend the 

information collection requirements 

contained in the Asbestos in Shipyards 

Standard (29 CFR 1915.1001). The 

Agency is requesting a decrease in its 

current burden hour total from 1,623 

hours to 1,613, for a total decrease of 10 

hours. The adjustment is primarily the 

result of a decrease in the number of 

shipyards that may have employees 

exposed to asbestos. The Agency will 

summarize the comments submitted in 

response to this notice and will include 

this summary in the request to OMB. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Asbestos in Shipyards Standard 

(29 CFR 1915.1001). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0195. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies 

from 5 minutes (.08 hour) to provide 

information to the examining physician 

to 1.83 hours to develop alternative 

control methods. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,613. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $37,650. 

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–2012–0009). 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 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 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, Ph.D., 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. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on March 27, 

2012. 

David Michaels, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7737 Filed 3–30–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 

Notice of Availability of Calendar Year 

2013 Competitive Grant Funds 

AGENCY: Legal Services Corporation. 

ACTION: Solicitation for proposals for the 

provision of civil legal services. 

SUMMARY: The Legal Services 

Corporation (LSC) is the national 

organization charged with administering 

Federal funds provided for civil legal 

services to low-income people. 

LSC hereby announces the availability 

of competitive grant funds and is 

soliciting grant proposals from 

interested parties who are qualified to 

provide effective, efficient and high 

quality civil legal services to eligible 

clients in the service area(s) of the states 

and territories identified below. The 

exact amount of congressionally 

appropriated funds and the date, terms, 

and conditions of their availability for 

calendar year 2013 have not been 

determined. 

DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section for grants competition dates. 

ADDRESSES: Legal Services 

Corporation—Competitive Grants, 3333 

K Street NW., Third Floor, Washington, 

DC 20007–3522. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of Program Performance by email 

at competition@lsc.gov, or visit the 

grants competition Web site at 

www.grants.lsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Request for Proposals (RFP) will be 

available the week of April 9, 2012. 

Applicants must file a Notice of Intent 

to Compete (NIC) to participate in the 

competitive grants process. Applicants 

must file the NIC by May 11, 2012, 

5 p.m. E.D.T. Other key application and 

filing dates including the dates for filing 

grant applications are published at 

www.grants.lsc.gov/resources/notices. 

LSC is seeking proposals from: (1) 

Non-profit organizations that have as a 

purpose the provision of legal assistance 

to eligible clients; (2) private attorneys; 

(3) groups of private attorneys or law 

firms; (4) state or local governments; 

and (5) sub-state regional planning and 

coordination agencies that are 

composed of sub-state areas and whose 

governing boards are controlled by 

locally elected officials. 

The RFP, containing the NIC and 

grant application, guidelines, proposal 

content requirements, service area 

descriptions, and specific selection 

criteria, will be available from 

www.grants.lsc.gov the week of April 9, 

2012. LSC will not fax the RFP to 

interested parties. 

Below are the service areas for which 

LSC is requesting grant proposals. 

Service area descriptions will be 

available at www.grants.lsc.gov/aboutgrants/where-we-fund. LSC will post all 

updates and/or changes to this notice at 

www.grants.lsc.gov. Interested parties 

are asked to visit www.grants.lsc.gov 

regularly for updates on the LSC 

competitive grants process. 

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