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• 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 

Standard on Blasting and the use of 

Explosives (29 CFR part 1926, subpart 

U) U.S.C. 669). The agency is requesting 

an adjustment decrease in the burden 

hours amount from 1,602 hours to 1,427 

hours, a difference of 175 hours. This 

decrease is due to the change in the 

number of affected sites due to general 

economic growth. 

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 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Standard on Blasting and the 

use of Explosives. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0217. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 171. 

Number of Responses: 758. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Various. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,426. 

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; (2) by 

facsimile (fax) at (202) 693–1648; or (3) 

by hard copy. All comments, 

attachments, and other materials must 

identify the agency name and the OSHA 

docket number for the ICR (Docket No. 

OSHA–2011–0747). You may 

supplement electronic submissions 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 date 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 through 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 for 

information about materials not 

available through 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 18, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2019–0009] 

DEKRA Certification Inc.: Grant of 

Expansion of Recognition 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA 

announces the final decision to expand 

the scope of recognition for DEKRA 

Certification Inc., as a Nationally 

Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL). 

DATES: The expansion of the scope of 

recognition becomes effective on 

October 25, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Information regarding this notice is 

available from the following sources: 

Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank 

Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of 

Communications, U.S. Department of 

Labor; telephone (202) 693–1999 or 

email meilinger.francis2@dol.gov. 

General and technical information: 

Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson, Director, 

Office of Technical Programs and 

Coordination Activities, Directorate of 

Technical Support and Emergency 

Management, Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration, U.S. Department 

of Labor; telephone (202) 693–1911 or 

email robinson.kevin@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Notice of Final Decision 

OSHA hereby gives notice of the 

expansion of the scope of recognition of 

DEKRA Certification Inc. (DEKRA) as a 

NRTL. DEKRA’s expansion covers the 

addition of seventeen test standards to 

the NRTL scope of recognition. 

OSHA’s recognition of a NRTL 

signifies that the organization meets the 

requirements specified in 29 CFR 

1910.7. Recognition is an 

acknowledgment that the organization 

can perform independent safety testing 

and certification of the specific products 

covered within the scope of recognition. 

Each NRTL’s scope of recognition 

includes: (1) the type of products the 

NRTL may test, with each type specified 

by the applicable test standard; and (2) 

the recognized site(s) that has/have the 

technical capability to perform the 

product-testing and productcertification activities for test standards 

within the NRTL’s scope. Recognition is 

not a delegation or grant of government 

authority; however, recognition enables 

employers to use products approved by 

the NRTL to meet OSHA standards that 

require product testing and certification. 

The agency processes applications by 

a NRTL for initial recognition and for an 

expansion or renewal of this 

recognition, following requirements in 

Appendix A to 29 CFR 1910.7. This 

appendix requires that the agency 

publish two notices in the Federal 

Register in processing an application. In 

the first notice, OSHA announces the 

application and provides a preliminary 

finding. In the second notice, the agency 

provides a final decision on the 

application. These notices set forth the 

NRTL’s scope of recognition or 

modifications of that scope. OSHA 

maintains an informational web page for 

each NRTL, including DEKRA, which 

details the NRTL’s scope of recognition. 

These pages are available from the 

OSHA website at http://www.osha.gov/ 

dts/otpca/nrtl/index.html. 

DEKRA submitted an application to 

OSHA for expansion of the NRTL scope 

of recognition on December 24, 2021 

(OSHA–2019–0009–0007), requesting 

the addition of twenty-nine recognized 

testing standards. The application was 

amended on February 1, 2023 (OSHA– 

2019–0009–0008), removing eight 

standards from the original request, 

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the expansion application. The 

December 2021 expansion application 

was amended a second time on June 21, 

2023 (OSHA–2019–0009–0009) to 

withdraw three standards from the 

December 2021 application. The 

December 2021 application was 

amended a third time on February 28, 

2024 (OSHA–2019–0009–0010), to 

withdraw two standards from the 

original request. This notice covers the 

remaining seventeen standards. OSHA 

staff performed a detailed analysis of the 

application packets and reviewed other 

pertinent information. OSHA performed 

an on-site review of DEKRA’s Arnhem, 

Netherlands site on June 5–7, 2023, in 

which assessors found some 

nonconformances with the requirements 

of 29 CFR 1910.7. DEKRA addressed 

these issues sufficiently, and OSHA staff 

has preliminarily determined that 

OSHA should grant the application for 

test standard expansion. 

OSHA published the preliminary 

notice announcing DEKRA’s expansion 

application in the Federal Register on 

September 12, 2024 (89 FR 74294). The 

agency requested comments by 

September 27, 2024, but it received no 

comments in response to this notice. 

To obtain or review copies of all 

public documents pertaining to the 

DEKRA’s application, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or contact the 

Docket Office, Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration, U.S. Department 

of Labor. Docket No. OSHA–2019–0009 

contains all materials in the record 

concerning DEKRA’s recognition. 

Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 

693–2350 (TTY (877) 889–5627) for 

assistance in locating docket 

submissions. 

II. Final Decision and Order 

OSHA staff examined DEKRA’s 

expansion application, its capability to 

meet the requirements of the test 

standards, and other pertinent 

information. Based on its review of this 

evidence, OSHA finds that DEKRA 

meets the requirements of 29 CFR 

1910.7 for expansion of its recognition, 

subject to the limitations and conditions 

listed in this notice. OSHA, therefore, is 

proceeding with this final notice to 

grant DEKRA’s expanded scope of 

recognition. OSHA limits the expansion 

of DEKRA’s recognition to testing and 

certification of products for 

demonstration of conformance to the 

test standards listed below in Table 1. 

TABLE 1—LIST OF APPROPRIATE TEST STANDARDS FOR INCLUSION IN DEKRA’S NRTL SCOPE OF RECOGNITION

Test standard Test standard title 

UL 197 ....................... Commercial Electric Cooking Appliances. 

UL 499 ....................... Electric Heating Appliances. 

UL 507 ....................... Electric Fans. 

UL 508 ....................... Industrial Control Equipment. 

UL 674 ....................... Electric Motors and Generators for Use in Hazardous (Classified) Locations. 

UL 749 ....................... Household Dishwashers. 

UL 921 ....................... Commercial Electric Dishwashers. 

UL 923 ....................... Microwave Cooking Appliances. 

UL 1017 ..................... Vacuum Cleaners, Blower Cleaners and Household Floor Finishing Machines. 

UL 1026 ..................... Household Electric Cooking and Food-Serving Appliances. 

UL 1082 ..................... Household Electric Coffee Makers and Brewing-Type Appliances. 

UL 1206 ..................... Electric Commercial Clothes-Washing Equipment. 

UL 2054 ..................... Household and Commercial Batteries. 

UL 2158 ..................... Electric Clothes Dryers. 

UL 60079–28 ............. Explosive Atmospheres—Part 28: Protection of Equipment and Transmission Systems Using Optical Radiation. 

UL 60730–2–7 ........... Automatic Electrical Controls for Household and Similar Use: Part 2: Particular Requirements for Timers and Time 

Switches. 

NFPA 496 .................. Purged and Pressurized Enclosures for Electrical Equipment. 

OSHA’s recognition of any NRTL for 

a particular test standard is limited to 

equipment or materials for which OSHA 

standards require third-party testing and 

certification before using them in the 

workplace. Consequently, if a test 

standard also covers any products for 

which OSHA does not require such 

testing and certification, a NRTL’s scope 

of recognition does not include these 

products. 

The American National Standards 

Institute (ANSI) may approve the test 

standards listed above as American 

National Standards. However, for 

convenience, we may use the 

designation of the standards-developing 

organization for the standard as opposed 

to the ANSI designation. Under the 

NRTL Program’s policy (see OSHA 

Instruction CPL 1–0.3, Appendix C, 

paragraph XIV), any NRTL recognized 

for a particular test standard may use 

either the proprietary version of the test 

standard or the ANSI version of that 

standard. Contact ANSI to determine 

whether a test standard is currently 

ANSI-approved. 

A. Conditions 

In addition to those conditions 

already required by 29 CFR 1910.7, 

DEKRA must abide by the following 

conditions of the recognition: 

1. DEKRA must inform OSHA as soon 

as possible, in writing, of any change of 

ownership, facilities, or key personnel, 

and of any major change in its 

operations as a NRTL, and provide 

details of the change(s); 

2. DEKRA must meet all the terms of 

its recognition and comply with all 

OSHA policies pertaining to this 

recognition; and 

3. DEKRA must continue to meet the 

requirements for recognition, including 

all previously published conditions on 

DEKRA’s scope of recognition, in all 

areas for which it has recognition. 

Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 

1910.7, OSHA hereby expands the scope 

of recognition of DEKRA as a NRTL, 

subject to the limitations and conditions 

specified above. 

III. Authority and Signature 

James S. Frederick, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health, authorized the 

preparation of this notice. Accordingly, 

the agency is issuing this notice 

pursuant to 29 U.S.C. 657(g)(2), 

Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 8–2020 

(85 FR 58393, Sept. 18, 2020), and 29 

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Signed at Washington, DC, on October 18, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24791 Filed 10–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2013–0016] 

Nemko North America, Inc.: Grant of 

Expansion of Recognition 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA 

announces the final decision to expand 

the scope of recognition for Nemko 

North America, Inc. (NNA) as a 

Nationally Recognized Testing 

Laboratory (NRTL). 

DATES: The expansion of the scope of 

recognition becomes effective on 

October 25, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Information regarding this notice is 

available from the following sources: 

Press inquiries: Contact Mr. Frank 

Meilinger, Director, OSHA Office of 

Communications, phone: (202) 693– 

1999 or email: meilinger.francis2@

dol.gov. 

General and technical information: 

Contact Mr. Kevin Robinson, Director, 

Office of Technical Programs and 

Coordination Activities, Directorate of 

Technical Support and Emergency 

Management, Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration, phone: (202) 

693–1911 or email: robinson.kevin@

dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Notice of Final Decision 

OSHA hereby gives notice of the 

expansion of the scope of recognition of 

Nemko North America, Inc. (NNA) as a 

NRTL. NNA’s expansion covers the 

addition of one test standard and one 

testing site to the NRTL scope of 

recognition. 

OSHA’s recognition of a NRTL 

signifies that the organization meets the 

requirements specified in 29 CFR 

1910.7. Recognition is an 

acknowledgment that the organization 

can perform independent safety testing 

and certification of the specific products 

covered within its scope of recognition. 

Each NRTL’s scope of recognition 

includes (1) the type of products the 

NRTL may test, with each type specified 

by its applicable test standard; and (2) 

the recognized site(s) that has/have the 

technical capability to perform the 

product-testing and productcertification activities for test standards 

within the NRTL’s scope. Recognition is 

not a delegation or grant of government 

authority; however, recognition enables 

employers to use products approved by 

the NRTL to meet OSHA standards that 

require product testing and certification. 

The agency processes an application 

by a NRTL for initial recognition and for 

an expansion or renewal of this 

recognition, following requirements in 

Appendix A, 29 CFR 1910.7. This 

appendix requires that the agency 

publish two notices in the Federal 

Register in processing an application. In 

the first notice, OSHA announces the 

application and provides its preliminary 

finding. In the second notice, the agency 

provides the final decision on the 

application. These notices set forth the 

NRTL’s scope of recognition or 

modifications of that scope. OSHA 

maintains an informational web page for 

each NRTL, including NNA, which 

details the NRTL’s scope of recognition. 

These pages are available from the 

OSHA website at: https://

www.osha.gov/nationally-recognizedtesting-laboratory-program. 

NNA submitted two applications to 

OSHA for expansion of the NRTL scope 

of recognition. The first application, 

dated September 1, 2023 (OSHA–2013– 

0016–0029), requested the expansion of 

the NRTL scope of recognition to 

include one additional test standard. 

The second application, dated 

November 27, 2023 (OSHA–2013–0016– 

0030), requested the expansion of the 

NRTL scope of recognition to include an 

additional recognized testing site 

located at: 5F, No. 413, Sec. 2, Tiding 

Blvd., Nei Hu Dist. 11493 Taipei City, 

Taiwan, R.O.C. OSHA staff performed 

an on-site review of NNA’s testing 

facilities at NNA Taipei on March 4–5, 

2024, in which assessors found some 

nonconformances with the requirements 

of 29 CFR 1910.7. NNA has addressed 

these issues sufficiently, and OSHA staff 

preliminarily determined that OSHA 

should grant the applications. 

OSHA published the preliminary 

notice announcing NNA’s expansion 

applications in the Federal Register on 

September 12, 2024 (89 FR 74296). The 

agency requested comments by 

September 27, 2024, but it received no 

comments in response to this notice. 

OSHA is now proceeding with this final 

decision to grant the expansion of 

NNA’s NRTL scope of recognition. 

Docket No. OSHA–2013–0016 

contains all materials in the record 

concerning NNA’s recognition. To 

obtain or review copies of all public 

documents pertaining to NNA’s 

expansion application, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. All submissions, 

including copyrighted material, are 

available for inspection through the 

OSHA Docket Office. Contact the OSHA 

Docket Office at (202) 693–2350 for 

assistance in locating docket 

submissions. 

II. Final Decision and Order 

OSHA staff examined NNA’s 

expansion applications, its capability to 

meet the requirements of the test 

standards, and other pertinent 

information. Based on its review of this 

evidence, OSHA finds that NNA meets 

the requirements of 29 CFR 1910.7 for 

expansion of its recognition, subject to 

the limitations and conditions listed in 

this notice. OSHA, therefore, is 

proceeding with this final notice to 

grant NNA’s expanded scope of 

recognition. OSHA limits the expansion 

of NNA’s recognition to the additional 

testing site in Taipei City, Taiwan, and 

the additional test standard listed below 

in Table 1. 

TABLE 1—APPROPRIATE TEST STANDARD FOR INCLUSION IN NNA’S NRTL SCOPE OF RECOGNITION

Test standard Test standard title 

UL 2054 ..................... Household and Commercial Batteries. 

OSHA’s recognition of any NRTL for 

a particular test standard is limited to 

equipment or materials for which OSHA 

standards require third-party testing and 

certification before using them in the 

workplace. Consequently, if a test 

standard also covers any products for 

which OSHA does not require such 

testing and certification, a NRTL’s scope 

of recognition does not include these 

products. 


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