Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 58 / Monday, March 25, 2024 / Notices 20703 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

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: 

Michelle Neary by telephone at 202– 

693–6312, or by email at DOL_PRA_

PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Certificate of Medical Necessity is 

completed by the coal miner’s doctor 

and is used by OWCP to determine if 

the miner meets impairment standards 

to qualify for durable medical 

equipment or home nursing. For 

additional substantive information 

about this ICR, see the related notice 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 12, 2024 (89 FR 2255). 

Comments are invited on: (1) whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (2) if the 

information will be processed and used 

in a timely manner; (3) the accuracy of 

the agency’s estimates of the burden and 

cost of the collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (4) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collection; and 

(5) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

This information collection is subject 

to the PRA. A Federal agency generally 

cannot conduct or sponsor a collection 

of information, and the public is 

generally not required to respond to an 

information collection, unless the OMB 

approves it and displays a currently 

valid OMB Control Number. In addition, 

notwithstanding any other provisions of 

law, no person shall generally be subject 

to penalty for failing to comply with a 

collection of information that does not 

display a valid OMB Control Number. 

See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6. 

DOL seeks PRA authorization for this 

information collection for three (3) 

years. OMB authorization for an ICR 

cannot be for more than three (3) years 

without renewal. The DOL notes that 

information collection requirements 

submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs 

receive a month-to-month extension 

while they undergo review. 

Agency: DOL–OWCP. 

Title of Collection: Certification of 

Medical Necessity. 

OMB Control Number: 1240–0024. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 1,500. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 1,500. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

563 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $0. 

(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D)) 

Michelle Neary, 

Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2024–06150 Filed 3–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–CK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2017–0005] 

Electric Power Generation, 

Transmission, and Distribution 

Standards for Construction and 

General Industry and Electrical 

Protective Equipment Standards for 

Construction and General Industry; 

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 Electric Power 

Generation, Transmission, and 

Distribution Standards for Construction 

and General Industry and Electrical 

Protective Equipment Standards for 

Construction and General Industry. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by May 

24, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronically: You may submit 

comments and attachments 

electronically at http://

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 http://

www.regulations.gov. Documents in the 

docket 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 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–2017–0005) 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). 


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The Electric Power Generation, 

Transmission, and Distribution 

Standards (29 CFR 1926 and 29 CFR 

1910.269) and the Electrical Protective 

Equipment Standards (29 CFR 1926.97 

and 29 CFR 1910.137) specify a number 

of collection of information 

requirements. The following describes 

the collection of information 

requirements contained in the 

standards. 

Electric Power Generation, 

Transmission, and Distribution 

Standard (§§ 1926 and 1910.269). 

For host employer responsibilities 

paragraphs 1910.269(a)(3)(i) and 

1926.950(c)(1) for construction and 

general industry, before work begins, 

the host employer must inform the 

contract employers of: the 

characteristics of the host employer’s 

installation listed; conditions listed in 

paragraphs of this section that are 

known to the host employer; 

information about the design and 

operation of the host employer’s 

installation that the contract employer 

needs to make the assessments required 

by this section; and any other 

information about the design and 

operation of the host employer’s 

installation that is known by the host 

employer, that the contract employer 

requests, that is related to the protection 

of the contract employer’s employees. 

For contract employer responsibilities 

paragraph 1910.269(a)(3)(ii) and 

1926.950(c)(2) for construction and 

general industry, contract employers 

must ensure that each of the employees 

is instructed in the hazardous 

conditions relevant to the employee’s 

work that the contract employer is 

aware of as a result of information 

communicated to the contract employer 

by the host employer; before work 

begins, the contract employer must 

advise the host employer of any unique 

hazardous conditions presented by the 

contract employer’s work; and the 

contract employer must advise the host 

employer of any unanticipated 

hazardous conditions found during the 

contract employer’s work that the host 

employer did not mention. The contract 

employer shall provide this information 

to the host employer within 2 working 

days after discovering the hazardous 

condition. 

In job briefing the information 

provided by the employer in paragraphs 

1910.269(1)(i) and 1926.952(a)(1) for 

construction and general industry, in 

assigning an employee or a group of 

employees to perform a job, the 

employer must provide the employee in 

charge of the job with all available 

information that relates to the 

determination of existing characteristics 

and conditions required. 

For the engineering analyses to 

determine maximum anticipated per 

unit transient overvoltage in paragraphs 

1910.269(l)(3)(ii) and 1926.960(c)(1)(ii) 

for construction and general industry, 

the employer must determine the 

maximum anticipated per-unit transient 

overvoltage, phase-to-ground, through 

an engineering analysis or assume a 

maximum anticipated per-unit transient 

overvoltage, phase-to-ground, in 

accordance with the tables listed. When 

the employer uses portable protective 

gaps to control the maximum transient 

overvoltage, the value of the maximum 

anticipated per-unit transient 

overvoltage, phase-to-ground, must 

provide for five standard deviations 

between the statistical sparkover voltage 

of the gap and the statistical withstand 

voltage corresponding to the electrical 

component of the minimum approach 

distance. The employer must make any 

engineering analysis conducted to 

determine maximum anticipated perunit transient overvoltage available 

upon request to employees and to the 

Assistant Secretary or designee for 

examination and copying. 

Electrical Protective Equipment 

Standard (§§ 1926.97 and 1910.137). 

Testing Certification 

(§§ 1926.97(c)(2)(xii) and 

1910.137(c)(2)(xii)). 

Employers must certify that the 

electrical protective equipment used by 

their workers have passed the tests 

specified in paragraphs (c)(2)(vii)(D), 

(c)(2)(viii), (c)(2)(ix), and (c)(2)(xi) of the 

Standards. The certification must 

identify the equipment that passed the 

tests and the dates of the tests. The two 

standards require testing: periodically 

(generally, every 6 months for rubber 

insulating gloves and every 12 months 

for most other types of rubber insulating 

equipment); after any repairs; and before 

the equipment is returned to service 

after any inspection finds certain 

defects. In addition, the employer must 

test rubber insulating gloves before 

reuse after employees use them without 

protector gloves and must certify that 

testing. These performance-based 

standards ensure that employers 

maintain the most recent test records for 

equipment that passes the required test 

without specifying precisely how the 

employer must maintain those records. 

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 extends 

the approval of the information 

collection requirements specified in the 

Electric Power Generation, 

Transmission, and Distribution 

Standards for Construction and General 

Industry and the Electrical Protective 

Equipment Standards for Construction 

and General Industry. The agency is 

requesting an adjustment increase in 

burden from 380,735 to 394,614 hours, 

a difference of 13,879 hours. This 

increase in burden is due to an increase 

in the number of projects and an 

increase in the number of 

establishments. 

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: Electric Power Generation, 

Transmission, and Distribution 

Standards for Construction and General 

Industry and Electrical Protective 

Equipment for Construction and General 

Industry. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0253. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 21,396. 

Number of Responses: 2,067,172. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

394,614. 

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, 

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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 (OSHA–2017–0005). 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 

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 March 18, 

2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2024–06153 Filed 3–22–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2007–0042] 

TUV Rheinland of North America, Inc.: 

Application for Expansion of 

Recognition 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In this notice, OSHA 

announces the application of TUV 

Rheinland of North America, Inc., 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 

April 9, 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–2007–0042). 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 April 9, 

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 TUV 

Rheinland of North America, Inc. 

(TUVRNA), is applying for an expansion 

of current recognition as a NRTL. 

TUVRNA requests the addition of two 

test standards 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 TUVRNA, 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. 

TUVRNA currently has ten facilities 

(sites) recognized by OSHA for product 

testing and certification, with the 


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