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Frequency: Annually.

Number of Respondents: 317,492.

Number of Annual Responses:

317,492.

Estimated Time Per Response: 45

minutes.

Total Burden Hours: 238,119.

Total Annualized Capital/Startup

Costs: $0.

Total Annual Costs (operating/

maintaining systems or purchasing

services): $0.

Description: The Occupational

Employment Statistics (OES) survey is a

Federal/State establishment survey of

wage and salary workers designed to

produce data on current occupational

employment and wages. OES survey

data assists in the development of

employment and training programs

established by the Workforce

Investment Act (WIA) of 1998. The WIA

replaced the Job Training Partnership

Act (JTPA) of 1982, and the Perkins

Vocational Education Act of 1984.

WIA mandates that the Secretary of

Labor shall oversee the development,

maintenance, and continuous

improvement of a nationwide

employment statistics system of

employment statistics that include—

‘‘(A) statistical data from cooperative

statistical survey projection programs

and data from administrative reporting

system that, taken together, enumerate,

estimate, and project employment

opportunities and conditions at

national, State and local levels in a

timely manner, including statistics on—

(ii) industrial distribution of

occupations, as well as current and

projected employment opportunities,

wages, benefits (where data is available),

and skill trends by occupation and

industry, with particular attention paid

to State and local conditions;’’

Ira L. Mills,

Department Clearance Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Trade Adjustment Assistance

Program; Designation of Certifying

Officers

AGENCY: Employment and Training

Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice of designation of

certifying officers.

SUMMARY: The trade adjustment

assistance program operates under the

Trade Act of 1974 to furnish program

benefits to domestic workers adversely

affected in their employment by imports

of articles which are like or are directly

competitive with articles produced by

the firm employing the workers. The

North American Free Trade AgreementTransitional Adjustment Assistance

amended the Trade Act of 1974 to

provide assistance to workers impacted

by a shift in production from the

workers’ firm to Mexico or Canada, or

increased company or customer imports

from Mexico or Canada of articles like

or directly competitive with those

produced by the workers’ firm. Workers

become eligible for program benefits

only if the worker group is certified

under the Act as eligible to apply for

adjustment assistance. From time to

time the agency issues an Order

designating officials of the agency

authorized to act as certifying officers.

Employment and Training Order No.

1–01, was issued to revise the listing of

officials designated as certifying

officers, superseding the previous

Order. Employment and Training Order

No. 1–01, is published below.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 10th day of

May 2001.

Raymond J. Uhalde,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor,

Employment and Training Administration.

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29596 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 105 / Thursday, May 31, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0179(2001)]

Methylene Chloride Standard (29 CFR

1910.1052); Extension of the Office of

Management and Budget’s (OMB)

Approval of the Information-Collection

(Paperwork) Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for

public comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments

concerning its request to extend OMB

approval of the collection-ofinformation requirements specified by

the Methylene Chloride Standard (29

CFR 1910.1052).

DATES: Submit written comments on or

before July 30, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Docket Office, Docket No. ICR–

1218–0179(2001), OSHA, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room N–2625,

200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)

693–2350. Commenters may transmit

written comments of 10 pages or less by

facsimile to (202) 693–1648.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Todd Owen, Directorate of Policy,

OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room

N–3641, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)

693–2444. A copy of the Agency’s

Information-Collection Request (ICR)

supporting the need for the information

collections specified in the Methylene

Chloride Standard is available for

inspection and copying in the docket

Office or by requesting a copy from

Todd Owen at (202) 693–2444. For

electronic copies of the ICR contact

OSHA on the Internet at http://

www.osha.gov/comp-links.html, and

select ‘‘Information Collection

Requests.’’

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–95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This

program ensures that information is in

the desired format, reporting burden

(time and cost) is minimal, collection

instruments are understandable, and

OSHA’s estimate of the informationcollection burden is correct.

The information-collection

requirements specified in the methylene

chloride (MC) Standard protect

employees from the adverse health

effects that may result from exposure to

MC. In terms of burden-hour estimates,

the major information-collection

requirements in the MC Standard

include employee exposure monitoring,

notifying employees of their MC

exposures, administering medical

examinations to employees, providing

examining physicians with specific

program and employee information,

ensuring that employees receive a copy

of their medical-examination results,

maintaining employees’ exposuremonitoring and medical-examination

records for specific periods, and

providing access to these records by

OSHA, the National Institute for

Occupational Safety and Health, the

affected employees, and their

authorized representatives.

II. Special Issues for Comment

OSHA has a particular interest in

comments on the following issues:

• Whether the proposed informationcollection 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 cost) 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 extend OMB

approval of the collection-ofinformation requirements in the MC

Standard. The Agency will summarize

the comments submitted in response to

this notice, and will include this

summary in its request to OMB to

extend the approval of this informationcollection requirements.

Type of Review: Extension of

currently approved informationcollection requirements.

Title: Methylene Chloride.

OMB Number: 1218–0179.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; not-for-profit institutions; Federal

government; State, local or tribal

governments.

Number of Respondents: 92,000.

Frequency of Response: Occasionally.

Average Time Per Response: Varies

from 1 hour for administering a medical

examination to 5 minutes to maintain an

employee’s medical or exposure record.

Estimated Total Burden Hours:

524,615 hours.

Estimated Cost (Operation and

Maintenance): $46,248,000.

IV. Authority and Signature

R. Davis Layne, Acting 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),

Secretary of Labor’s Order 3–2000 (65

FR 50017).

Signed at Washington, DC on May 24,

2001.

R. Davis Layne,

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor.

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health

Administration

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0206(2001)]

Standard on Grain Handling Facilities;

Extension of the Office of Management

and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of an

Information-Collection (Paperwork)

Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health

Administration (OSHA), Labor.

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for

public comment.

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments

concerning the proposed extension of

the information-collection requirements

contained in the Standard on Grain

Handling Facilities, 29 CFR 1910.272.

DATES: Submit written comments on or

before July 30, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

to the Docket Office, Docket No. ICR–

1218–0206(2001), OSHA, U.S.

Department of Labor, Room N–2625,

200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)

693–2350. Commenters may transmit

written comments of 10 pages or less in

length by facsimile to (202) 693–1648.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Theda Kenney, Directorate of Safety

Standards Programs, OSHA, U.S.