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Modification Request: The petitioner 

requests a modification of the existing 

standard, 30 CFR 56.13020, as it relates 

to the use of compressed air. The 

alternative method provides a direct 

reduction of a miner’s exposure to 

respirable dust, thus reducing health 

risks while providing no less a degree of 

safety than that provided by the 

standard. 

The petitioner proposes the following 

alternative method: 

1. The proposed alternative method 

has been developed jointly between 

Unimin Corporation and the National 

Institute for Occupational Safety and 

Health (NIOSH) and has been 

successfully tested by NIOSH. The 

system consists of four major 

components: A cleaning booth, an air 

spray manifold, an air reservoir, and an 

exhaust ventilation system. 

2. The petitioner will use a clothes 

cleaning booth, CCB Elite I & II, serial 

number 5405, manufactured by S.K. 

Bowling, Inc. 

3. Only miners trained in the 

operation of the clothes cleaning booth 

(booth) will be permitted to use the 

booth to clean their clothes. 

4. The petitioner will incorporate the 

NIOSH Clothes Cleaning Process and 

manufacturer’s instruction manuals into 

their MSHA Part 46 Training Plan and 

train affected miners in the process. 

5. Miners entering the booth shall 

examine valves and nozzles for damage 

or malfunction and will close the door 

fully before opening the air valve. Any 

defects shall be repaired prior to the 

booth being used. 

6. Miners entering the booth will wear 

eye protection, earplugs or muffs for 

hearing protection, and respiratory 

protection meaning a full-face or 

halfmask respirator that meets or 

exceeds the minimum requirements of 

an N95 filter to which the miner has 

been fit-tested. As an alternative, the use 

of a full-face respirator will also meet 

the requirement for eye protection. A 

conspicuously posted sign will 

announce the required personal 

protective equipment for entering the 

booth. 

7. Airflow through the booth will be 

at least 2,000 cubic feet per minute 

(cfm) to maintain negative pressure 

during use of the cleaning system in 

order to prevent contamination of the 

environment outside the booth. Airflow 

will be in a downward direction, thus 

moving contaminants away from the 

miner’s breathing zone. 

8. Air pressure through the spray 

manifold will be limited to 30 pounds 

per square inch or less. A lock box with 

a single, plant manager-controlled key, 

will be used to prevent tampering of the 

pressure regulator. 

9. The air spray manifold will consist 

of schedule 80, steel pipe that has a 

failure pressure of 1,300 pounds per 

square inch. It will be capped at the 

base and actuated by an electrically 

controlled ball valve at the top. 

10. Air nozzles must not exceed 30 

pound(s) per square inch gauge. 

11. The uppermost spray of the spray 

manifold will be located below the 

booth user’s breathing zone. A 

mechanical device can be used to cover 

the upper air nozzles to meet the 

specific height of the user. 

12. Air nozzles shall be guarded to 

eliminate the possibility of incidental 

contact, which could create mechanical 

damage to the air nozzles during the 

clothes cleaning process. 

13. The petitioner shall conduct 

periodic maintenance checks of the 

booth in accordance with the 

recommendations contained in the 

manufacturer’s instruction manual. 

14. The air receiver tank supplying air 

to the manifold system will be of 

sufficient volume to permit no less than 

20 seconds of continuous cleaning time. 

15. An appropriate hazard warning 

sign will be posted on the booth to state, 

at a minimum, ‘‘Compressed Air’’ and 

‘‘Respirable Dust.’’ 

16. A pressure relief valve design for 

the booth’s air reservoir will be 

installed. 

17. The mine will exhaust dust-laden 

air from the booth into a local exhaust 

ventilation system or duct outside the 

facility while ensuring there is no 

reentrainment back into the structure. 

The petitioner asserts that the 

alternate method proposed will at all 

times guarantee no less than the same 

measure of protection afforded the 

miners under the mandatory standard. 

Song-Ae Aromie Noe, 

Acting Director, Office of Standards, 

Regulations, and Variances. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03188 Filed 2–14–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–43–P 

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 its proposal to 

extend OMB approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified by the Acrylonitrile Standard. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by April 

18, 2022. 

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 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. 

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 

and requests to speak, including 

personal information in the public 

docket, which may be 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 or Theda Kenney, 

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 its 

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 


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ensures that information is in the 

desired format, reporting burden (time 

and costs) is minimal, 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 information collection 

requirements specified in the 

Acrylonitrile (AN) Standard (29 CFR 

1910.1045) protect workers 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 collection, 

and transmission techniques. 

III. Proposed Actions 

The agency is requesting an 

adjustment increase of 12,087 burden 

hours (from 2,619 hours to 14,706 

hours). The increase in burden is due to 

an increase in the number of employees 

and the number of establishments. In 

addition, the estimated capital cost to 

the employer has increased from 

$208,077.00 to $1,164,652.89, a total 

increase of $956,575.89. This increase is 

due to an increase in the number of 

workers being sampled and receiving 

medical exams. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Acrylonitrile Standard (29 CFR 

1910.1045). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0126. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 139. 

Number of Responses: 38,022. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

14,706. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $1,164,652.89. 

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; or (3) by hard copy. Please 

note: While OSHA’s Docket Office is 

continuing to accept and process 

submissions by regular mail due to the 

COVID–19 pandemic, the Docket Office 

is closed to the public and not able to 

receive submissions to the docket by 

hand, express mail, messenger, and 

courier service. All comments, 

attachments, and other material must 

identify the agency name and the OSHA 

docket number for the ICR (Docket No. 

OSHA–2011–0195). You may 

supplement electronic submissions by 

uploading document files electronically. 

If you wish to mail additional materials 

in reference to an electronic or a 

facsimile submission, you must submit 

them to the OSHA Docket Office (see 

the section of this notice titled 

ADDRESSES). The additional materials 

must clearly identify your electronic 

comments by your name, date, and the 

docket number so that the agency can 

attach them to your comments. 

Due to security procedures, the use of 

regular mail may cause a significant 

delay in the receipt of comments. 

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 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. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on February 3, 

2022. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2022–03192 Filed 2–14–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2006–0028] 

MET Laboratories, 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 MET 

Laboratories, Inc., for expansion of its 

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 

March 2, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments by any of 

the following methods: 

Electronically: Submit comments and 

attachments electronically at https://

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the 


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