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Number of Annual Responses: 

1,910,978. 

Annual Time Burden: 150,674 hours. 

Annual Other Burden Costs: $69,865. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

proposed information collection 

request; they will become a matter of 

public record and be available at https:// 

www.reginfo.gov. 

Song-ae Aromie Noe, 

Certifying Officer, Mine Safety and Health 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23373 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4520–43–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2021–0003] 

COVID–19 Recordkeeping and 

Reporting in Healthcare 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 COVID–19 

Recordkeeping and Reporting in 

Healthcare 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–2021–0003) 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 these 

requirements is to protect workers from 

the grave danger posed by COVID–19 in 

healthcare. 

The COVID–19 Recordkeeping and 

Reporting in Healthcare Standard (29 

CFR 1910.502; hereafter, ‘‘the 

Standard’’) contains information 

collection requirements that require 

employers to: establish and maintain a 

COVID–19 log of each instance 

identified by the employer in which an 

employee is COVID–19 positive, 

regardless of whether the instance is 

connected to exposure to COVID–19 at 

work; make available upon employee 

request, the individual COVID–19 log 

entry for examination and copying to 

that requested authorized employee and 

to anyone having written consent of that 

employee by the end of the day; report 

to OSHA each work-related COVID–19 

fatality within 8 hours of the employer 

and each work-related COVID–19 inpatient hospitalization within 24 hours 

of the employer learning about the inpatient hospitalization. 

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 

COVID–19 Recordkeeping and 

Reporting in Healthcare Standard. The 

agency is requesting an adjustment 

decrease in burden from 23,715 to 

23,714 hours, a difference of one hour. 

This reduction is due to rounding up 

the totals from decimals to whole 

numbers. 

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: COVID–19 Recordkeeping and 

Reporting in Healthcare Standard. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0277. 


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81950 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 196 / Wednesday, October 9, 2024 / Notices 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 748,814. 

Number of Responses: 207,860. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

23,714. 

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 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–2021–0003). 

You may supplement electronic 

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 

submissions, 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 2, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23363 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice: 24–070] 

Agency Information Collection: NASA 

Communications Research 

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Notice of new information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: NASA, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections. 

DATES: Comments are due by November 

8, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for this information 

collection should be sent within 30 days 

of publication of this notice to 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

Find this particular information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review-Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to NASA PRA Clearance 

Officer, Stayce Hoult, NASA 

Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, JC0000, 

Washington, DC 20546, phone 256–714– 

8575, or email hq-ocio-pra-program@

mail.nasa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This information collection supports 

NASA’s efforts to implement the 

National Aeronautics and Space Act, as 

amended, 51 U.S.C. 20112(a)(3) to better 

understand and inform strategies to 

improve the outcomes in how we 

‘‘provide for the widest practicable and 

appropriate dissemination of 

information concerning its activities and 

the results thereof.’’ Through this effort, 

NASA seeks to collect information that 

will help best understand the current 

results of its communications to the 

American public, and how to apply 

resources to most efficiently and 

effectively fulfill that foundational 

function of NASA. This data collection 

is part of an effort to have an audienceoriented and data-driven approach to 

assessing NASA’s performance against 

this mandate in a manner that is 

objective, standardized, and repeatable. 

This information will be used by 

NASA to measure the American public’s 

knowledge of the agency, its activities, 

the overall sector and the government’s 

role in it, and how those factors vary 

across demographics. This type of 

research is standard in the commercial 

communications industry. NASA will 

use the information to adjust its 

communication strategies and methods, 

widen dissemination, better reach 

demographics with low awareness or 

misinformation, and tailor information 

to specific appropriate audiences, 

ensuring more effective and equitable 

dissemination. 

II. Methods of Collection 

Web-based, email, and telephone. 

III. Data 

Title: NASA Communications 

Research. 

OMB Number: 2700–xxxx. 

Type of review: New Information 

Collection. 

Affected Public: Individuals in the 

U.S. Population. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Activities: 1,500. 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

per Activity: 1. 

Annual Responses: 1,500. 

Estimated Time per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 375 hours. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (1) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of NASA, including 

whether the information collected has 

practical utility; (2) the accuracy of 

NASA’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including automated 

collection techniques or the use of other 

forms of information technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection. 


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