Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 195 / Tuesday, October 8, 2024 / Notices 81577 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0195] 

Acrylonitrile 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 the Office of Management and 

Budget’s (OMB) approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified in the Acrylonitrile Standard. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

December 9, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronically: You may submit 

comments and attachments 

electronically at https://

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 https://

www.regulations.gov. Documents in the 

docket are listed in the https://

www.regulations.gov index; however, 

some information (e.g., copyrighted 

material) is not publicly available to 

read or download through the websites. 

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–2011–0195) 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 

uses the information collected under 

each requirement, as well as how they 

use it. The purpose of the requirements 

specified in the Acrylonitrile (AN) 

Standard (29 CFR 1910.1045) are to 

provide worker protection from the 

adverse health effects that may result 

from their exposure to AN. 

The major information collection 

requirements of the AN Standard 

include notifying workers of their AN 

exposures, implementing a written 

compliance program, providing 

examining physicians with specific 

information, ensuring that workers 

receive a copy of their medical 

examination results, maintaining 

worker’s exposure monitoring and 

medical records for specific periods, 

and providing access to these records by 

OSHA, the National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH), the affected workers, and 

designated representatives. 

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, and 

transmission techniques. 

III. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is requesting that OMB extend 

the approval of the information 

collection requirements contained in the 

Acrylonitrile Standard. The agency is 

requesting an adjustment decrease in 

burden from 14,706 to 11,373 hours, a 

difference of 3,333 hours. This decrease 

in burden is due to a decrease in the 

number of employees and the number of 

establishments. Also, the agency is 

requesting a decrease in cost from 

$1,164,653 to $930,142, a difference of 

$234,511. 

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: Acrylonitrile Standard. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0126. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 104. 

Number of Responses: 25,937. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

11,373. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $930,142. 

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 https://

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 (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0195). 

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submission by uploading document files 

electronically. 

Comments and submissions are 

posted without change at https://

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 https://www.regulations.gov index, 

some information (e.g., copyrighted 

material) is not publicly available to 

read or download from this website. All 

submission, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

Information on using the https://

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 October 1, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23236 Filed 10–7–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of Workers’ Compensation 

Programs 

Advisory Board on Toxic Substances 

and Worker Health 

AGENCY: Office of Workers’ 

Compensation Programs, Labor. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting of 

the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances 

and Worker Health (Advisory Board) for 

the Energy Employees Occupational 

Illness Compensation Program Act 

(EEOICPA). 

DATES: The Advisory Board will meet 

October 30, 2024, via teleconference, 

from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

ADDRESSES: Submission of comments, 

materials for the record, and requests for 

special accommodations: You must 

submit comments, materials, and 

requests for accommodations by October 

23, 2024, identified by the Advisory 

Board name and the meeting date of 

October 30, 2024, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Electronically: Send to: 

EnergyAdvisoryBoard@dol.gov (specify 

in the email subject line, for example 

‘‘Request to Speak: Advisory Board on 

Toxic Substances and Worker Health’’). 

• Mail, express delivery, hand 

delivery, messenger, or courier service: 

Submit one copy to the following 

address: U.S. Department of Labor, 

Office of Workers’ Compensation 

Programs, Advisory Board on Toxic 

Substances and Worker Health, Room 

S–3522, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20210. 

Instructions: Your submissions must 

include the Agency name (OWCP), the 

committee name (the Advisory Board), 

and the meeting date (October 30). Due 

to security-related procedures, receipt of 

submissions by regular mail may 

experience significant delays. For 

additional information about 

submissions, see the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice. 

OWCP will make available publicly, 

without change, any comments, 

including any personal information that 

you provide. Therefore, OWCP cautions 

interested parties against submitting 

personal information such as Social 

Security numbers and birthdates. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

press inquiries: Ms. Laura McGinnis, 

Office of Public Affairs, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room S–1028, 200 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20210; telephone (202) 693–4672; email 

Mcginnis.Laura@DOL.GOV. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Board will meet via 

teleconference on Wednesday, October 

30, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 

Eastern time. The teleconference 

number and other details for 

participating remotely will be posted on 

the Advisory Board’s website, http://

www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/ 

compliance/AdvisoryBoard.htm, 72 

hours prior to the commencement of the 

first meeting date. Advisory Board 

meetings are open to the public. 

The Advisory Board is mandated by 

Section 3687 of EEOICPA. The Secretary 

of Labor established the Board under 

this authority and Executive Order 

13699 (June 26, 2015). The purpose of 

the Advisory Board is to advise the 

Secretary with respect to: (1) the Site 

Exposure Matrices (SEM) of the 

Department of Labor; (2) medical 

guidance for claims examiners for 

claims with the EEOICPA program, with 

respect to the weighing of the medical 

evidence of claimants; (3) evidentiary 

requirements for claims under Part B of 

EEOICPA related to lung disease; (4) the 

work of industrial hygienists and staff 

physicians and consulting physicians of 

the Department of Labor and reports of 

such hygienists and physicians to 

ensure quality, objectivity, and 

consistency; (5) the claims adjudication 

process generally, including review of 

procedure manual changes prior to 

incorporation into the manual and 

claims for medical benefits; and (6) such 

other matters as the Secretary considers 

appropriate. The Advisory Board 

sunsets on December 19, 2029. 

The Advisory Board operates in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. app. 2) 

and its implementing regulations (41 

CFR part 102–3). 

Agenda: The tentative agenda for the 

Advisory Board meeting includes: 

• Review and follow-up on Advisory 

Board’s previous recommendations, 

data requests, and action items; 

• Conduct Ethics, FACA, and 

EEOICPA training sessions; 

• Review responses to submitted 

Board questions; 

• Working group review; 

• Claims review; 

• Review of Board tasks, structure 

and work agenda; and 

• Consideration of any new issues. 

OWCP transcribes and prepares 

detailed minutes of Advisory Board 

meetings. OWCP posts the transcripts 

and minutes on the Advisory Board web 

page, http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/ 

regs/compliance/AdvisoryBoard.htm, 

along with written comments, speaker 

presentations, and other materials 

submitted to the Advisory Board or 

presented at Advisory Board meetings. 

Public Participation, Submissions and 

Access to Public Record 

Advisory Board meetings: All 

Advisory Board meetings are open to 

the public. Information on how to 

participate in the meeting remotely will 

be posted on the Advisory Board’s 

website. 

Submission of written comments for 

the record: You may submit comments 

using one of the methods listed in the 

SUMMARY section. Your submission must 

include the Agency name (OWCP) and 

date for this Advisory Board meeting 

(October 30, 2024). OWCP will post 

your comments on the Advisory Board 

website and provide your submissions 

to Advisory Board members. 

Because of security-related 

procedures, receipt of submissions by 

regular mail may experience significant 

delays. 


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