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sections, eight contain information 

collection requirements—utilities; 

medical service and first aid; sanitation; 

control of hazardous energy; retention of 

DOT markings, placards, and labels; 

motor vehicle safety equipment, 

operation and maintenance; and 

servicing multi-piece and single-piece 

rim wheels. 

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 

subpart F of the General Working 

Conditions in Shipyard Employment 

Standard (29 CFR part 1915). The 

agency is requesting an adjustment 

increase in burden from 82,999 to 

84,818 hours, a difference of 1,819 

hours. This increase in hours is a result 

of updated data showing an increase in 

the number of large to medium 

establishments covered by the standard. 

The capital cost has increased from 

$7,678 to $8,784, a total increase of 

$1,106. 

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: General Working Conditions in 

Shipyard Employment Standard. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0259. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 4,096. 

Number of Responses: 258,861. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

84,818. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $8,784. 

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–2014–0021). 

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 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 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 18, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24788 Filed 10–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2006–0040] 

SGS North America, Inc.: Denial of 

Expansion of Recognition 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA 

announces the final decision to deny the 

expansion of the scope of recognition 

for SGS North America, 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 

denial of the request for expansion of 

the scope of recognition of SGS North 

America, Inc., (SGS) as a NRTL. SGS 

requested the addition of two test 

standards to the NRTL scope of 

recognition. OSHA is denying that 

application. 

OSHA 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 

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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 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 SGS, 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. 

SGS submitted an application to 

OSHA to expand recognition as a NRTL 

to include two additional test standards 

on September 1, 2021 (OSHA–2006– 

0040–0079). OSHA staff performed a 

detailed analysis of the application 

packet and reviewed other pertinent 

information. OSHA did not perform any 

on-site reviews in relation to this 

application. 

OSHA published the preliminary 

notice announcing SGS’s expansion 

application and OSHA’s preliminary 

decision to deny the application in the 

Federal Register on August 6, 2024 (89 

FR 63985). The agency requested 

comments by August 21, 2024, but it 

received no comments in response to 

this notice. 

To obtain or review copies of all 

public documents pertaining to the SGS 

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–2006–0040 

contains all materials in the record 

concerning SGS’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 SGS’s 

expansion application and other 

pertinent information. Based on its 

review of this evidence, OSHA finds 

that the standards requested in the 

expansion application do not meet the 

requirements of 29 CFR 1910.7 for 

appropriate test standards or alternative 

test standards for the NRTL Program. 

OSHA, therefore, is proceeding with 

this final notice to deny SGS’s request 

for expansion of the NRTL scope of 

recognition to include the test standards 

listed below in Table 1. 

TABLE 1—TEST STANDARDS FOR WHICH OSHA DENIES INCLUSION IN SGS’S NRTL SCOPE OF RECOGNITION

Test standard Test standard title 

IEC 60335–2–23 ............................. Household and Similar Electrical Appliances—Safety—Part 2–23: Particular Requirements for Appliances 

for Skin or Hair Care. 

IEC 60335–2–30 ............................. Household and Similar Electrical Appliances—Safety—Part 2–30: Particular Requirements for Room Heaters. 

As explained in the preliminary 

decision (89 FR 63985), pursuant to the 

NRTL Program regulation, 29 CFR 

1910.7, for each specified item of 

equipment or material to be listed, 

labeled or accepted, a NRTL must have 

the capability (including proper testing 

equipment and facilities, trained staff, 

written testing procedures, and 

calibration and quality control 

programs) to perform: (i) testing and 

examining of equipment and materials 

for workplace safety purposes to 

determine conformance with 

appropriate test standards; or (ii) 

experimental testing and examining of 

equipment and materials for workplace 

safety purposes to determine 

conformance with appropriate test 

standards or performance in a specified 

manner. § 1910.7(b)(1). 

An ‘‘appropriate test standard’’ is 

defined in the NRTL Program regulation 

as a document which specifies the 

safety requirements for specific 

equipment or class of equipment and 

meets one of two alternative 

requirements. Either the document must 

be (1) recognized in the United States as 

a safety standard providing an adequate 

level of safety, and (2) compatible with 

and maintained current with periodic 

revisions of applicable national codes 

and installation standards and (3) 

developed by a standards developing 

organization under a method providing 

for input and consideration of views of 

industry groups, experts, users, 

consumers, governmental authorities, 

and others having broad experience in 

the safety field involved, or the 

document must be currently designated 

as an American National Standards 

Institute (ANSI) safety-designated 

product standard or an American 

Society for Testing and Materials 

(ASTM) test standard used for 

evaluation of products or materials. 

§ 1910.7(c). 

Notwithstanding the requirements in 

§ 1910.7(b)(1), if a testing laboratory 

desires to use an alternative test 

standard (that is, a test standard that is 

not an appropriate test standard), then 

OSHA evaluates the proposed standard 

to determine whether it provides an 

adequate level of safety before it may be 

used. § 1910.7(d). If a test standard does 

not provide an adequate level of safety, 

it may not be used by a NRTL to 

perform testing or examining of 

equipment and materials for workplace 

safety purposes or experimental testing 

and examining of equipment and 

materials for workplace safety purposes. 

The test standards requested in the 

expansion application, issued by the 

International Electrotechnical 

Commission (IEC), are not appropriate 

test standards under the NRTL program 

because they are not recognized in the 

United States as safety standards 

providing an adequate level of safety. To 

provide an adequate level of safety, 

these test standards would need to be 

evaluated for compliance with U.S. 

electrical safety requirements. The IEC 

develops standards that are broad 

technical safety solutions for electrical 

products, but this does not represent a 

complete safety standard for each 

member country. The process of 

adapting the IEC-based standard to a 

fully compliant U.S. national standard 

is typically conducted by a U.S.-based 

standards development organization 

(SDO), which considers the unique 

requirements for the U.S. market, along 

with the input and consideration of 

views of industry groups, experts, users, 

consumers, governmental authorities, 

and others having broad experience in 

the safety field involved (as set forth in 

§ 1910.7(c)). This information-gathering 

process and evaluation has not been 

undertaken for the test standards in 

SGS’s application (i.e., these test 

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compliance with U.S. electrical safety 

requirements). Nor have these test 

standards been designated by ANSI or 

ASTM. Therefore, they do not meet the 

requirements for appropriate test 

standards under the NRTL program. 

Nor are these test standards 

alternative test standards that may be 

used under the NRTL program to 

perform testing or examining of 

equipment and materials for workplace 

safety purposes or experimental testing 

and examining of equipment and 

materials for workplace safety purposes. 

Again, these test standards have not 

been determined to provide an adequate 

level of safety because they have not 

been evaluated for compliance with U.S. 

electrical safety requirements. 

Pursuant to the authority in 29 CFR 

1910.7, OSHA hereby denies the 

expanded scope of recognition of SGS as 

a NRTL as requested in the application 

identified in this notice. 

III. Authority and Signature 

James S. Frederick, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210, 

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 CFR 1910.7. 

Signed at Washington, DC, on October 18, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–24789 Filed 10–24–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0025] 

UL LLC: Application for Expansion of 

Recognition 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA 

announces the application of UL LLC, 

for expansion of the scope of 

recognition as a Nationally Recognized 

Testing Laboratory (NRTL) and presents 

the agency’s preliminary finding to 

grant the application. 

DATES: Submit comments, information, 

and documents in response to this 

notice, or requests for an extension of 

time to make a submission, on or before 

November 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted as follows: 

Electronically: You may submit 

comments, including attachments, 

electronically at http://

www.regulations.gov, the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency’s name and the 

docket number for this rulemaking 

(Docket No. OSHA–2009–0025). All 

comments, including any personal 

information you provide, are placed in 

the public docket without change and 

may be made available online at https:// 

www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA 

cautions commenters about submitting 

information they do not want made 

available to the public, or submitting 

materials that contain personal 

information (either about themselves or 

others), such as Social Security numbers 

and birthdates. 

Docket: To read or download 

comments or other material in the 

docket, go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Documents in the 

docket (including this Federal Register 

notice) 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. 

Extension of comment period: Submit 

requests for an extension of the 

comment period on or before November 

12, 2024 to the Office of Technical 

Programs and Coordination Activities, 

Directorate of Technical Support and 

Emergency Management, Occupational 

Safety and Health Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Room N–3653, 

Washington, DC 20210, or by fax to 

(202) 693–1644. 

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; 

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, phone: (202) 693–1911 or 

email: robinson.kevin@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Notice of the Application for 

Expansion 

OSHA is providing notice that UL 

LLC (UL), is applying for an expansion 

of current recognition as a NRTL. UL 

requests the addition of one test site to 

the NRTL scope of recognition. 

OSHA 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, as well 

as for an expansion or renewal of 

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 the 

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 UL, which details that NRTL’s 

scope of recognition. These pages are 

available from the OSHA website at 

http://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/ 

index.html. 

UL currently has fifty-five facilities 

(site) recognized by OSHA for product 

testing and certification, with the 

headquarters located at: UL LLC, 333 

Pfingsten Road, Northbrook, Illinois 

60062. A complete list of UL sites 

recognized by OSHA is available at 

https://www.osha.gov/dts/otpca/nrtl/ 

ul.html. 


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