11872 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 32 / Thursday, February 15, 2024 / Notices 

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Washington, DC. 

Dated: February 9, 2024. 

Darwin Arceo, 

Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03103 Filed 2–14–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–FY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0026] 

Mechanical Power Press Standard; 

Extension of the Office of Management 

and Budget (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 its proposal to 

extend the Office of Management and 

Budget’s (OMB) approval for the 

information collection requirements 

specified in its Mechanical Power Press 

Standard. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by April 

15, 2024. 

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. 

Docket: To read or download 

comments or other material in the 

docket, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Documents in the 

docket 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 

through the OSHA Docket Office. 

Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 

693–2350 (TTY (877) 889–5627) for 

assistance in locating docket 

submissions. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and OSHA 

docket number OSHA–2010–0026 for 

the Information Collection Request 

(ICR). OSHA will place all comments, 

including any personal information, in 

the public docket, which may be made 

available online. Therefore, OSHA 

cautions interested parties about 

submitting personal information such as 

social security numbers and birthdates. 

For further information on submitting 

comments, see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading in the section of 

this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Seleda Perryman, 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 

the 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) 

(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, 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 (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 effort in obtaining 

information (29 U.S.C. 657). 

The following sections describe who 

use the information collected under 

each requirement, as well as how they 

use it. The purposes of these 

requirements are to address the burden 

hours associated with gathering 

information on inspection, 

maintenance, and modification of 

presses. Employers are expected to 

establish and follow an inspection 

program and conduct regular and 

periodic inspections of each power 

press. Additionally, employers are to 

maintain records of certification. 

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 to protect workers, 

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. 

III. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is requesting that OMB extend 

the approval of the information 

collection requirements contained in the 

Mechanical Power Press Standard. The 

agency is requesting that there is no 

change in burden hours in the 

information collection requirements of 

this standard. The costs are adjusted 

due to updated calculations. 

OSHA will summarize the comments 

submitted in response to this notice and 

will include this summary in the 

request to OMB to extend the approval 

of the information collection 

requirements. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Mechanical Power Press 

Standard. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0229. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 104,035. 

Frequency of Responses: Monthly. 

Total Responses: 62,421. 

Average Time per Response: 20 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

20,807. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $0. 

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; or (2) by 

facsimile (fax); if your comments, 

including attachments, are not longer 

than 10 pages you may fax them to the 

OSHA Docket Office at 202–693–1648. 

All comments, attachments, and other 

material must identify the agency name 

and the OSHA docket number for the 

ICR (OSHA–2010–0026). You may 

supplement electronic submissions by 

uploading document files electronically. 


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1Public comments received in response to the 

April 2019 FRN are available at 

www.regulations.gov/document/OMB-2019-0001- 

0001/comment. 

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 from 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 at 

(202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–5627) 

for information about materials not 

available from the website, and for 

assistance in using the internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

James S. Frederick, 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. 8–2020 (85 FR 58393). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on February 9, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03128 Filed 2–14–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Update of Statistical Policy Directive 

No. 3: Compilation, Release, and 

Evaluation of Principal Federal 

Economic Indicators—Changing 

Timing of Public Comments by 

Employees of the Executive Branch 

AGENCY: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Executive 

Office of the President. 

ACTION: Notice of adoption of a revised 

Statistical Policy Directive No. 3. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) announces the 

adoption of a revised Statistical Policy 

Directive No. 3: Compilation, Release, 

and Evaluation of Principal Federal 

Economic Indicators (Directive No. 3). 

The procedures in Directive No. 3, 

published in 1985, were designed to 

ensure equitable, policy-neutral, and 

timely release and dissemination of 

Principal Federal Economic Indicators. 

The goals of Directive No. 3 remain 

sound; this Notice announces the 

adoption of procedures consistent with 

these goals to reflect advances in 

communication technologies and 

methods. OMB has solely modified the 

provision, ‘‘employees of the Executive 

Branch shall not comment publicly on 

the data until at least one hour after the 

official release time,’’ by replacing ‘‘one 

hour’’ with ‘‘thirty minutes.’’ This 

change reduces the delay after official 

release time before commentary from 

employees of the Executive Branch, 

while retaining a necessary time delay 

between policy-neutral release of the 

official statistics and subsequent 

Executive Branch interpretations of this 

statistical data. 

DATES: Effective Date: The effective date 

of this Directive is February 19, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please send correspondence 

about OMB’s decision to Dominic 

Mancini, Office of Management and 

Budget, New Executive Office Building, 

Washington, DC 20503, or email 

Statistical_Directives@omb.eop.gov with 

the subject ‘‘More Info: Directive No. 3.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karin Orvis, Office of Management and 

Budget, telephone 202-395-5989, email 

Statistical_Directives@omb.eop.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary: Under the Budget and 

Accounting Procedures Act of 1950 (31 

U.S.C. 1104(d)) and the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

3504(e)) (the PRA), the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

announces a change of one provision 

within Statistical Policy Directive No. 3: 

Compilation, Release, and Evaluation of 

Principal Federal Economic Indicators 

(50 FR 38932, Sept. 25, 1985) (Directive 

No. 3). In particular, OMB modifies the 

provision in Directive No. 3, 

‘‘employees of the Executive Branch 

shall not comment publicly on the data 

until at least one hour after the official 

release time,’’ by replacing ‘‘one hour’’ 

with ‘‘thirty minutes.’’ 

Background: Directive No. 3’s 

purposes are ‘‘to preserve the time 

value’’ of the Principal Federal 

Economic Indicators (PFEIs), ‘‘strike a 

balance between timeliness and 

accuracy,’’ ‘‘prevent early access to 

information that may affect financial 

and commodity markets,’’ and ‘‘preserve 

the distinction between the policyneutral release of data by statistical 

agencies and their interpretation by 

policy officials.’’ Directive No. 3 also 

provides for the periodic evaluation of 

each indicator. Directive No. 3 remains 

a robust, comprehensive source of 

guidance for Federal statistical agencies 

and recognized statistical units 

producing PFEIs. The government and 

private sector widely watch and heavily 

rely upon these statistical series as 

indicators of the current condition and 

direction of the economy. 

The procedures in Directive No. 3, 

published in 1985, were designed to 

ensure equitable, policy-neutral, and 

timely release and dissemination of 

PFEIs. The goals of Directive No. 3 

remain sound, and OMB has not 

changed them. In furtherance of these 

goals, OMB retains a minimum time 

period that Executive Branch employees 

must wait after the policy-neutral 

release of the data before Executive 

Branch employees can comment on 

those data. 

In April 2019, OMB published in the 

Federal Register a request for comments 

on a proposal to reduce the duration of 

the prohibition of commentary by 

employees of the Executive Branch 

following the PFEI release from one 

hour to something shorter, including the 

consideration of the option of having no 

delay at all (84 FR 14682, Apr. 11, 

2019). OMB received sixteen in-scope 

comments in response to that Notice. 

All in-scope commenters strongly 

supported either a retention of the onehour delay, or a delay of some duration, 

after official release time before 

employees of the Executive Branch 

could comment on the PFEI releases, 

with no commenters in support of 

removing the delay entirely.1

In August 2023, OMB published in 

the Federal Register a request for public 

comments on an updated proposal to 

reduce the duration of the prohibition of 

commentary by employees of the 

Executive Branch following the PFEI 

release from one hour to 30 minutes. 

OMB noted that it agreed with the 

previous comments on this issue 

submitted in 2019 and understood that 

maintaining some delay as part of 

Directive No. 3 continues to be 

important to maintain the bright line 

between the release of data and any 

commentary on such data by Executive 

Branch officials. OMB noted that it was 

considering this updated proposal 

because, while the delay is important to 

ensuring a bright line between the data 

release and the Executive Branch’s 

policy interpretation, since 1985 there 

have been many changes in the way the 

public communicates, as well as in how 

the relevant statistical agencies 

disseminate information. For example, 


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