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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 http://

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal; (2) by 

facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All 

comments, attachments, and other 

materials must identify the Agency 

name and the OSHA docket number 

(Docket No. OSHA–2010–0057) for the 

ICR. You may supplement electronic 

submissions by uploading document 

files electronically. If you wish to mail 

additional materials in reference to an 

electronic or 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 the 

Agency can attach them to your 

comments. 

Because of security procedures, the 

use of regular mail may cause a 

significant delay in the receipt of 

comments. For information about 

security procedures concerning the 

delivery of materials by hand, express 

delivery, messenger, or courier service, 

please contact the OSHA Docket Office 

at (202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889– 

5627). 

Comments and submissions are 

posted without change at http://

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 http://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 

http://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 from the website, and for 

assistance in using the internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Loren Sweatt, 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 January 8, 

2018. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00392 Filed 1–11–18; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0194] 

Cotton Dust 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 the Office of Management and 

Budget’s (OMB) approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified in the Cotton Dust Standard. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

March 13, 2018. 

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. 

Facsimile: If your comments, 

including attachments, are not longer 

than 10 pages, you may fax them to the 

OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Mail, hand delivery, express mail, 

messenger, or courier service: When 

using this method, you must submit a 

copy of your comments and attachments 

to the OSHA Docket Office, OSHA 

Docket No. OSHA–2011–0194, 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Labor, Room N–3653, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20210. 

Deliveries (hand, express mail, 

messenger, and courier service) are 

accepted during the Department of 

Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal 

business hours, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., 

ET. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and the OSHA 

docket number (OSHA–2011–0194) for 

the Information Collection Request 

(ICR). All comments, including any 

personal information you provide, are 

placed in the public docket without 

change, and may be made available 

online at http://www.regulations.gov. 

For further information on submitting 

comments, see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading in the section of 

this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

Docket: To read or download 

comments or other material in the 

docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov 

or the OSHA Docket Office at the 

address above. All 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 from the website. All 

submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

You may also contact Theda Kenney at 

the phone number below to obtain a 

copy of the ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charles McCormick 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 accord with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA–95) (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, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

OSHA’s estimate of the information 

collection burden is accurate. The 

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 

1970 (the 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 efforts in 

obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657). 


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The information collection 

requirements specified in the Cotton 

Dust Standard protect workers from the 

adverse health effects that may result 

from their exposure to cotton dust. The 

major information collection 

requirements of the Cotton Dust 

Standard include: Performing exposure 

monitoring, including initial, periodic, 

and additional monitoring; notifying 

each worker of their exposure 

monitoring results either in writing or 

by posting; implementing a written 

compliance program; and establishing a 

respiratory protection program in accord 

with OSHA’s Respiratory Protection 

Standard (29 CFR 1910.134). 

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, 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 

OSHA is requesting to decrease its 

current burden hours from 21,549 to 

9,532 hours, a total decrease of 12,017 

hours. The decrease was due to a 

decrease in the number of exposed 

employees from 11,786 to 4,957. In 

addition, there was a $1,555,336 

decrease in the overall cost of medical 

exams (from $2,896,328 to $1,340,992), 

as a result of a decrease in the number 

of medical exams. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Cotton Dust Standard (29 CFR 

1910.1043). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0061. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 5,474. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Total Responses: 25,712. 

Average Time per Response: Various. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 9,532 

hours. 

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 http://

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal; (2) by 

facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All 

comments, attachments, and other 

material must identify the Agency name 

and the OSHA docket number for the 

ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0194). 

You may supplement electronic 

submissions by uploading document 

files electronically. If you wish to mail 

additional materials in reference to an 

electronic or 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 the 

Agency can attach them to your 

comments. 

Because of security procedures, the 

use of regular mail may cause a 

significant delay in the receipt of 

comments. For information about 

security procedures concerning the 

delivery of materials by hand, express 

delivery, messenger, or courier service, 

please contact the OSHA Docket Office 

at (202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889– 

5627). 

Comments and submissions are 

posted without change at http://

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 http://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 

http://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 from the website and for 

assistance in using the internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Loren Sweatt, 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 January 8, 

2018. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2018–00393 Filed 1–11–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND 

BUDGET 

Request for Information 

AGENCY: Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of 

Management and Budget. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The Chief Statistician of the 

United States and the Statistical and 

Science Policy Branch (SSP) in the U.S. 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) seek to establish priorities and 

coordinate research efforts across the 

Federal Statistical System to focus on 

improving federal statistics. In 

particular, a priority has been placed on 

using new techniques and 

methodologies based on combining data 

from multiple sources. To support this 

effort, information is requested on: (1) 

Current and emerging techniques for 

linking and analyzing combined data; 

(2) on-going research on methods to 

describe the quality of statistical 

products that result from these 

techniques; (3) computational 

frameworks and systems for conducting 

such work; (4) privacy or confidentiality 

issues that may arise from combining 

such data; and (5) suggestions for 

additional research in those or related 

areas. While there are regulatory and 

statutory constraints on combining data 

within the federal government, the 

information sought concerns how best 

to combine data once they are accessed 

appropriately and successfully. The 

intent is for the research to inform the 

adoption of revised statistical standards 

regarding the use of such combined data 

for federal purposes, including but not 

limited to the production of principal 

key economic indicators and 

demographic statistical products. 

DATES: Submit written comments within 

60 days of publication date. 

ADDRESSES: All responses must be 

submitted electronically to the 

following email address: FN-OMBCombined-Data-RFI@omb.eop.gov. 

You will receive an electronic 

confirmation acknowledging receipt of 

your response, but will not receive 

individualized feedback. 


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