[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 82 (Thursday, April 28, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25220-25221]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09110]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Agency Information Collection Activities; Withdrawal of Prior 
Notice and Proposed Submission of Information Collection for OMB 
Review; Comment Request; Medical Exception Request

    The Department of Commerce (Department) published a notice in the 
Federal Register of its intent to request that the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) extend approval, without change, under the Paperwork 
Reduction Act (PRA), to a collection of information for its employees 
to request a medical exception to the COVID-19 vaccination requirement 
on January 25, 2022. That notice was withdrawn in light of the January 
21, 2022 nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining implementation and 
enforcement of the federal employee vaccination requirement pursuant to 
the President's Executive Order 14043 of September 9, 2021, ``Requiring 
Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees.'' The 
Department sought comment on its new notice of intent to request that 
OMB approve, without change, under the PRA, a collection of information 
for its employees to request a medical exception to the COVID-19 
vaccination requirement via the Federal Register on February 15, 2022, 
87 FR 8561, during a 60-day comment period. This notice allows for an 
additional 30 days for public comments. We invite the general public 
and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and continuing 
information collections, which helps us assess the impact of our 
information collection requirements and minimize the public's reporting 
burden.
    Agency: Office of the Secretary, Commerce.
    Title: Request for a Medical Exemption to the COVID-19 Vaccination 
Requirement Form.
    OMB Control Number: 0690-0036.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission; Extension of an already 
approved collection.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,000.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 167.
    Needs and Uses: Under Executive Order 14043, every Federal agency 
must ``implement, to the extent consistent with applicable law, a 
program to require COVID-19 vaccination for all of its federal 
employees, with exceptions only as required by law.'' In following this 
directive, the Department imposed a requirement that its employees must 
receive and submit proof of COVID-19 vaccination. As required by 29 
U.S.C. 701 et seq. and 29 CFR part 1630, the Department allows an 
exception from the vaccination requirement for employees who 
demonstrate medical reasons or disabilities that would make the COVID-
19 vaccine unsafe for them. To obtain this exception, employees can 
submit the Request for Medical Exception to the COVID-19 Vaccination 
Requirement form available from the Department's COVID-19 Information 
Hub. The Department uses the information on this form to verify 
employees' assertions that they are entitled to an exception to the 
COVID-19 vaccination requirement because of their medical or disability 
statuses.
    Affected Public: Federal employees and medical providers.
    Legal Authority: Executive Order (E.O.) 14043.

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    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website 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 and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0690-0032.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-09110 Filed 4-27-22; 8:45 am]
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