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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–ETA. 

Title of Collection: DOL-Only 

Performance Accountability, 

Information, and Reporting System. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0521. 

Affected Public: State, Local, and 

Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 22,687,331. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 46,167,618. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

11,735,522 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $9,491,287. 

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

Michael Howell, 

Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31725 Filed 1–3–25; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission for OMB 

Review; Comment Request; Workforce 

Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 

Common Performance Reporting 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor 

(DOL) is submitting this Employment 

and Training Administration (ETA)- 

sponsored information collection 

request (ICR) to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are 

invited. 

DATES: The OMB will consider all 

written comments that the agency 

receives on or before February 5, 2025. 

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: 

Michael Howell by telephone at 202– 

693–6782, or by email at DOL_PRA_

PUBLIC@dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 

Act requires states to report on 

performance in core programs such as 

the Wagner-Peyser Act programs, the 

Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth 

programs, Adult Education and Family 

Literacy Act programs, and the 

Vocational Rehabilitation Act programs. 

This ICR contains the data to be 

collected for the measure states are to 

use to report on performance. For 

additional substantive information 

about this ICR, see the related notice 

published in the Federal Register on 

June 24, 2024 (89 FR 52511). 

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) 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; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information collection; and 

(4) 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–ETA. 

Title of Collection: Workforce 

Innovation and Opportunity Act 

(WIOA) Common Performance 

Reporting. 

OMB Control Number: 1205–0526. 

Affected Public: State, Local, and 

Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Respondents: 19,114,129. 

Total Estimated Number of 

Responses: 19,114,129. 

Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 

4,849,727 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Other Costs 

Burden: $33,300,000. 

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

Michael Howell, 

Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31728 Filed 1–3–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–FN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008] 

Commercial Diving Operations 

Standard; Extension of the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

Approval of Information Collection 

(Paperwork) Requirements 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

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 Commercial Diving 

Operations Standard. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

March 7, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: 

Electronically: You may submit 

comments, including 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 the OSHA 

docket number (OSHA–2011–0008) for 

the Information Collection Request 

(ICR). OSHA will place comments, 

including personal information, in the 

public docket, which may be available 

online. Therefore, OSHA cautions 

interested parties about submitting 


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personal information such as social 

security number and date of birth. 

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, 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 incidents (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 

Commercial Diving Operations (CDO) 

Standard for general industry helps 

protect workers from the adverse health 

effects that may result from their 

involvement in CDO, and provide 

access to these records by OSHA, the 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health, the affected workers, 

and designated representatives. The 

major information collection 

requirements of the CDO Standard 

include the following elements of the 

Standard. 

§ 1910.401(b). Allows employers to 

deviate from the requirements of the 

Subpart to the extent necessary to 

prevent or minimize a situation that is 

likely to cause death, serious physical 

harm, or major environmental damage. 

They must provide written notice to the 

OSHA Area Director within 48 hours 

and must describe the reason for and 

extent of the deviation. 

§§ 1910.410(a)(3) and (a)(4). 

Employers must train all dive team 

members in cardiopulmonary 

resuscitation and first aid (i.e., the 

American Red Cross standard course or 

equivalent). Additionally, employers 

must train dive team members exposed 

to hyperbaric conditions, or who control 

exposure of other workers to such 

conditions, in diving-related physics 

and physiology. 

§§ 1910.420(a) and (b). Employers 

must develop and maintain a safe 

practices manual and make it available 

to each dive team member at the dive 

location. For each diving mode used at 

the dive location, the manual must 

contain: Safety procedures and 

checklists for diving operations; 

assignments and responsibilities of the 

dive team members; equipment 

procedures and checklists; and 

emergency procedures for fire, 

equipment failures, adverse 

environmental conditions, and medical 

illness and injury. 

§ 1910.421(b). Employers are to keep 

at the dive location a list of telephone 

or call numbers for the following 

emergency facilities and services: An 

operational decompression chamber (if 

such a chamber is not at the dive 

location), accessible hospitals, available 

physicians and means of emergency 

transportation, and the nearest U.S. 

Coast Guard Rescue Coordination 

Center. 

§ 1910.421(f). Requires employers to 

brief dive team members on the divingrelated tasks they are to perform, safety 

procedures for the diving mode used at 

the dive location, any unusual hazards 

or environmental conditions likely to 

affect the safety of the diving operation, 

and any modifications to operating 

procedures necessitated by the specific 

diving operation. Before assigning 

diving-related tasks, employers must ask 

each dive team member about their 

current state of physical fitness and 

inform the member about the procedure 

for reporting physical problems or 

adverse physiological effects during and 

after the dive. 

§ 1910.421(h). If the diving operation 

occurs in an area capable of supporting 

marine traffic and occurs from a surface 

other than a vessel, employers are to 

display a rigid replica of the 

international code flag ‘‘A’’ that is at 

least one meter in height so that it is 

visible from any direction; the employer 

must illuminate the flag during night 

diving operations. 

§ 1910.422(e). Employers must 

develop and maintain a depth-time 

profile for each diver that includes, as 

appropriate, any breathing gas changes 

or decompression. 

§§ 1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through (b)(2). 

Requires the employer to: Instruct the 

diver to report any physical symptoms 

or adverse physiological effects, 

including symptoms of decompression 

sickness (DCS); advise the diver of the 

location of a decompression chamber 

that is ready for use; and alert the diver 

to the potential hazards of flying after 

diving. For any dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100 

feet, or that uses mixed gas in the 

breathing mixture, the employer must 

also inform the diver to remain awake 

and in the vicinity of the decompression 

chamber that is at the dive location for 

at least one hour after the dive or any 

decompression or treatment associated 

with the dive. 

§ 1910.423(d). Employers are to record 

and maintain the following information 

for each diving operation: The names of 

dive-team members; date, time, and 

location; diving modes used; general 

description of the tasks performed; an 

estimate of the underwater and surface 

conditions; and the maximum depth 

and bottom time for each diver. In 

addition, for each dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100 

feet, or that uses mixed gas in the 

breathing mixture, the employer must 

record and maintain the following 

information for each diver: Depth-time 

and breathing gas profiles; 

decompression table designation 

(including any modifications); and 

elapsed time since the last pressure 

exposure if less than 24 hours or the 

repetitive dive designation. If the dive 

results in DCS symptoms, or the 

employer suspects that a diver has DCS, 

the employer must record and maintain 

a description of the DCS symptoms 

(including the depth and time of 

symptom onset) and the results of 

treatment. 

§ 1910.423(e). Requires employers to 

assess each DCS incident by: 

Investigating and evaluating it based on 

the recorded information, consideration 

of the past performance of the 

decompression table used, and the 

diver’s individual susceptibility to DCS; 

taking appropriate corrective action to 

reduce the probability of a DCS 

recurrence; and, within 45 days of the 

DCS incident, preparing a written 

evaluation of this assessment, including 

any corrective action taken. 

§§ 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(1) 

through (c)(1)(iii), (c)(3)(i), (f)(3)(ii), and 

(g)(2). Employers must record by means 

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performed on equipment, including any 

modifications, repairs, tests, 

calibrations, or maintenance performed 

on the equipment. This record is to 

include a description of the work, the 

name or initials of the individual who 

performed the work, and the date they 

completed the work. 

Employers must test two specific 

types of equipment, including, 

respectively: The output of air 

compressor systems used to supply 

breathing air to divers for air purity 

every six months by means of samples 

taken at the connection to the 

distribution system; and breathing-gas 

hoses at least annually at one and onehalf times their working pressure. 

Employers must mark each umbilical 

(i.e., separate lines supplying air and 

communications to a diver, as well as a 

safety line, tied together in a bundle), 

beginning at the diver’s end, in 10-foot 

increments for 100 feet, then in 50-foot 

increments thereafter. Employers must 

also regularly inspect and maintain 

mufflers located in intake and exhaust 

lines on decompression chambers and 

test depth gauges using dead-weight 

testing or calibrate the gauges against a 

master reference gauge; such testing or 

calibration is to occur every six months 

or if the employer finds a discrepancy 

larger than two percent of the full scale 

between any two equivalent gauges. 

Employers must make a record of the 

tests, calibrations, inspections, and 

maintenance performed on the 

equipment. 

§§ 1910.440(a)(2) and (b). Employers 

must record any diving-related injuries 

or illnesses that result in a dive-team 

member remaining in the hospital for at 

least 24 hours. This record is to describe 

the circumstances of the incident and 

the extent of any injuries or illnesses. 

Employers must make any record 

required by the Subpart available, on 

request, for inspection and copying to 

an OSHA compliance officer or to a 

representative of the National Institute 

for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH). Employers are to provide 

workers, their designated 

representatives, and OSHA compliance 

officers with exposure and medical 

records generated under the Subpart in 

accordance with § 1910.1020 (‘‘Access 

to worker exposure and medical 

records’’); these records include safe 

practices manuals, depth-time profiles, 

diving records, DCS incident 

assessments, and hospitalization 

records. Additionally, employers must 

make equipment inspection and testing 

records available to workers and their 

designated representative on request. 

Employers must retain these records 

for the following periods: Safe practices 

manuals, current document only; depthtime profiles, until completing the 

diving record or the DCS incident 

assessment; diving records, one year, 

except five years if a DCS incident 

occurred during the dive; DCS incident 

assessments, five years; hospitalization 

records, five years; and equipment 

inspections and testing records, current 

tag or log entry until the employer 

removes the equipment from service. 

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, and 

transmission techniques. 

III. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is requesting that OMB extend 

the approval of the information 

collection requirements contained in the 

Commercial Diving Standard. The 

agency is requesting an adjustment 

decrease in the burden hours amount 

from 170,806 hours to 135,450 hours, a 

difference of 35,356 hours. This 

adjustment decrease is due decrease in 

the number of professional divers, going 

from 3,460 to 2,900 divers, which 

resulted in a corresponding decrease in 

the number of affected facilities. 

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: Commercial Diving Operations 

Standard. 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0069. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 930. 

Number of Responses: 1,132,688. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Varies. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

135,450. 

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) to the OSHA docket, if 

your comments including attachments, 

are not longer than 10 page, at (202) 

693–1948. 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–2011–0008). 

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 December 

20, 2024. 

James S. Frederick, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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