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General Wage Determination

Publication

General wage determinations issued

under the Davis-Bacon and related Acts,

including those noted above, may be

found in the Government Printing Office

(GPO) document entitled ‘‘General Wage

Determinations Issued Under The DavisBacon and Related Acts.’’ This

publication is available at each of the 50

Regional Government Depository

Libraries and many of the 1,400

Government Depository Libraries across

the country.

The general wage determinations

issued under the Davis-Bacon and

related Acts are available electronically

by subscription to the FedWorld

Bulletin Board System of the National

Technical Information Service (NTIS) of

the U.S. Department of Commerce at 1–

800–363–2068

Hard-copy subscriptions may be

purchased from:

Superintendent of Documents, U.S.

Government Printing Office,

Washington, DC 20402, (202) 512–1800

When ordering hard-copy

subscription(s), be sure to specify the

State(s) of interest, since subscriptions

may be ordered for any or all of the

seven separate volumes, arranged by

State. Subscriptions include an annual

edition (issued in January or February)

which includes all current general wage

determinations for the States covered by

each volume. Throughout the remainder

of the year, regular weekly updates are

distributed to subscribers.

Signed at Washington, DC this 21st Day of

September 2000.

Carol J. Poleskey,

Chief, Branch of Construction Wage

Determinations.

[FR Doc. 00–24838 Filed 9–28–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–27–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

[Docket No. ICR–1218–00189(2000)]

Lead in Construction; Extension of the

Office of Management of Budget’s

(OMB) Approval of InformationCollection (Paperwork) Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for

public comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments

concerning its request for an extension

of the information-collection

requirements contained in its standards

titled, ‘‘Lead in Construction’’ (29 CFR

1926.62).

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 November 28, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Docket Office, Docket No. ICR–

1218–0197(2000), OSHA, 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:

Kathleen Martinez, Directorate of

Policy, OSHA, U.S. Department of

Labor, Room N–3641, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210;

telephone: (202) 693–2444. A copy of

the Agency’s Information-Collection

Request (ICR) supporting the need for

the information-collection requirements

specified by its Lead in Construction is

available for inspection and copying in

the Docket Office, or you may request a

mailed copy by telephoning Kathleen

Martinez at (202) 693–2444. For

electronic copies of this ICR, 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. 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

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).

The basic purpose of the informationcollection requirements in the Lead in

Construction Standard is to document

that employers in the construction

industry are providing their employees

with protection from hazardous lead

exposures. Lead exposure can result in

both acute and chronic effects, and can

be fatal at high exposure levels. Health

affects associated with lead exposure

include: Neurological problems that

may result in seizures, coma, and death;

high blood pressure; kidney and

reproductive problems; and decreased

red blood cell production.

The standard specifies the following

requirements that impose paperwork

burdens on employers: Establishing a

compliance program and notifying other

onsite employers (at multi-employer

worksites) and laundry personnel of the

lead hazard; instituting programs for

exposure monitoring and medical

surveillance (including medical

examinations); notifying employees of

exposure levels, biological-monitoring

results, the option for multiplephysician review, and the availability of

chelation; providing information to

physicians; obtaining written medical

opinions; implementing employeeinformation and training programs

(including providing employees with

copies of the standard, and employees

and other specified parties with copies

of the training and information

materials); recording medical removals;

maintaining and transferring records of

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exposure-monitoring and medicalsurveillance results, medical removals,

and objective data used for the initialexposure-monitoring exemption; and

making records available to specified

parties. These paperwork requirements

permit OSHA and other specified

parties to determine the effectiveness of

an employer’s compliance activities,

thereby ensuring that they are providing

employees with all of the protection

afforded by the standard.

II. Proposed Actions

OSHA proposes to extend OMB’s

approval of the collection-ofinformation (paperwork) requirements

contained in the Lead in Construction

Standard. The Agency will summarize

the comments submitted in response to

this notice, and will include this

summary in its request to OMB to

extend the approval of the informationcollection requirements contained in the

standard.

Type of Review: Extension of

currently approved informationcollection requirements.

Title: Lead in Construction (29 CFR

1926.62).

OMB Number: 1218–0189.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations; Federal, State,

Local, or Tribal governments.

Number of Respondents: 147,073.

Frequency: On occasion.

Average Time per Response: Varies

from 5 minutes for a supervisor to

provide OSHA with written compliance

plans, training-program materials, and

other records during an inspection, to

2.44 hours for a supervisor to write a

compliance plan.

Estimated Total Burden Hours:

1,814,6971.

Estimated Cost (Operation and

Maintenance): $87,087,005.

III. Authority and Signature

Charles N. Jeffress, 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) and Secretary of

Labor’s Order No 3–2000 (65 FR 50017).

Signed at Washington, DC on September

25, 2000.

Charles N. Jeffress,

Assistant Secretary of Labor.

[FR Doc. 00–25066 Filed 9–28–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–26–U

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0180(2000)]

Bloodborne Pathogens 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: Notice of an opportunity for

public comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments

concerning the increased burden hours

proposed for, and the extension of, the

information-collection requirements

contained in its Bloodborne Pathogens

Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030).

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 November 28, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Docket Office, Docket No. ICR–

1218–0180(2000), OSHA, 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,

OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room

N–3641, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202)

693–2444. A copy of the Agency’s

Information-Collection Request (ICR)

supporting the need for the informationcollection requirements specified by the

Bloodborne Pathogens Standard is

available for inspection and copying in

the Docket Office, or you may request a

mailed copy by telephoning Todd Owen

at (202) 693–2444. For electronic copies

of this ICR, 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. 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

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).

The information-collection

requirements specified in the

Bloodborne Pathogens Standard protect

employees from the adverse health

effects that can result from exposure to

bloodborne pathogens, including the

human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

and hepatitis B virus (HBV). The major

information-collection provisions

require employers to: Develop and

maintain exposure-control plans;

develop a housekeeping schedule;

provide employees with HBV

vaccinations, as well as post-HBVexposure medical evaluations and

follow-ups; provide employees with

information and training; maintain

medical and training records for

specified periods; and provide OSHA,

the National Institute for Occupational

Safety and Health, and employees and

their authorized representatives with

access to these records. In addition, HIV

and HBV research laboratories and

production facilities must also adopt or

develop, and review at least once a year,

a biosafety manual.

II. Proposed Actions

OSHA proposes to increase the

existing burden hours specified for, and

to extend OMB’s approval of, the

collection-of-information (paperwork)

requirements contained in its

Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. The

Agency is increasing its previous

burden-hour estimate of 5,162,397 hours

by 71,607 hours. This adjustment

resulted when OSHA revised several