61998 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 207 / Thursday, October 27, 2005 / Notices 

1OMB approved the reduction of 1,938 burden 

hours after reviewing the Information Collection 

Request for the Standards Improvement ProjectPhase-II Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, published 

October 31, 2002 (67 FR 66494). On January 5, 

2005, when the Final rule was published (70 FR 

1112) documentation was submitted to OMB 

revising the reduction of 1,938 hours to 1,220 hours 

to reflect the decrease in time to conduct exposure 

monitoring. 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR 1218–0189(2006)] 

Standard on Lead in Construction; 

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 comment. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comment concerning its request for an 

extension of the information collection 

requirements contained in 29 CFR 

1926.62. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

the following dates: 

Hard copy: Your comments must be 

submitted (postmarked or received) by 

December 27, 2005. 

Facsimile and electronic 

transmission: Your comments must be 

received by December 27, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–

1218–0189(2006), by any of the 

following methods: 

Regular mail, express delivery, hand 

delivery, and messenger service: Submit 

your comments and attachments to the 

OSHA Docket Office, Room N–2625, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350 

(OSHA’s TTY number is (877) 889–

5627). OSHA Docket Office and 

Department of Labor hours are 8:15 a.m. 

to 4:45 p.m., ET. 

Facsimile: If your comments are 10 

pages or fewer in length, including 

attachments, you may fax them to the 

OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Electronic: You may submit 

comments through the Internet at 

http://ecomments.osha.gov. Follow 

instructions on the OSHA Web page for 

submitting comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read or download comments or 

background materials, such as the 

complete Information Collection 

Request (ICR) (containing the 

Supporting Statement, OMB–83–I Form, 

and attachments), go to OSHA’s Web 

page at http://www.OSHA.gov. In 

addition, the ICR, comments and 

submissions are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office 

at the address above. You may also 

contact Todd Owen at the address 

below to obtain a copy of the ICR. For 

additional information on submitting 

comments, please see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Todd Owen, Directorate of Standards 

and Guidance, OSHA, Room N–3609; 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, 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–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 Act) 

(29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) authorizes 

information collection by employers as 

necessary or appropriate for 

enforcement of the Act or for developing 

information regarding the causes and 

prevention of occupational injuries, 

illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). 

On January 5, 2005, OSHA published 

the Standards Improvement Project—

Phase II, Final rule (70 FR 1112). The 

final rule removed and revised 

provisions of standards that were 

outdated, duplicative, unnecessary, or 

inconsistent and clarified or simplified 

regulatory language. The final rule 

contained several revisions to 

collections of information contained in 

the Lead in Construction Standard.1

These revisions included: allowing 

employers the option to post employee 

exposure-monitoring results instead of 

requiring individual notification and 

updating compliance plans annually. 

Those changes reduced paperwork 

burden hours while maintaining worker 

protection and improving consistency 

among standards. The reductions in 

burden hours were taken in the prior 

ICR. The following is a brief description 

of the current collection of information 

requirements contained in the Lead in 

Construction Standard. 

The purpose of the Lead in 

Construction Standard and its 

information collection requirements is 

to reduce occupation lead exposure in 

the construction industry. Lead 

exposure can result in both acute and 

chronic effects and can be fatal in severe 

cases of lead toxicity. Some of the 

health affects associated with lead 

exposure include brain disorders which 

can lead to seizures, coma, and death; 

anemia; neurological problems; high 

blood pressure; kidney problems; 

reproductive problems; and decreased 

red blood cell production. The Standard 

requires that employers: establish and 

maintain a training program; review the 

compliance program annually; provide 

exposure-monitoring, and medical 

surveillance programs; and maintain 

exposure-monitoring and medical 

surveillance records. The records are 

used by employees, physicians, 

employers and OSHA to determine the 

effectiveness of the employer’s 

compliance efforts. The Standard seeks 

to reduce disease by requiring exposuremonitoring to determine if lead 

exposures are too high, by requiring 

medical surveillance to determine if 

employee blood lead levels are too high, 

and by requiring treatment to reduce 

blood lead levels. 

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 proposes to request OMB’s 

approval to extend the collection of 

information (paperwork) requirements 

necessitated by the Standard on Lead in 

Construction (29 CFR 1926.62). The 

Agency will include this summary in its 

request to OMB to extend the approval 

of these collection of information 

requirements. 

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Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection requirements. 

Title: Lead in Construction (29 CFR 

1962.62). 

OMB Number: 1218–0189. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; State, 

Local or Tribal Government. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Average Time Per Response: Varies 

from 1 minute (.02 hour) for a clerical 

employee to notify employees of their 

right to seek a second medical opinion 

to 8 hours to develop a compliance 

plan. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

1,560,718. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $68,576,683. 

IV. Public Participation—Submission of 

Comments on This Notice and Internet 

Access to Comments and Submissions 

You may submit comments and 

supporting materials in response to this 

notice by (1) hard copy, (2) FAX 

transmission (facsimile), or (3) 

electronically through the OSHA Web 

page. Because of security-related 

problems, there may be a significant 

delay in the receipt of comments by 

regular mail. Please contact the OSHA 

Docket Office at (202) 693–2350 (TTY) 

(877) 889–5627) for information about 

security procedures concerning the 

delivery of submissions by express 

delivery, hand delivery and courier 

service. 

All comments, submissions and 

background documents are available for 

inspection and copying at the OSHA 

Docket Office at the above address. 

Comments and submissions posted on 

OSHA’s Web page are available at 

http://www.OSHA.gov. Contact the 

OSHA Docket Office for information 

about materials not available through 

the OSHA Web page and for assistance 

using the Web page to locate docket 

submissions. Electronic copies of this 

Federal Register notice as well as other 

relevant documents are available on 

OSHA’s Web page. Since all 

submissions become public, private 

information such as social security 

numbers should not be submitted. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Jonathan L. Snare, 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 

et seq.), and Secretary of Labor’s Order 

No. 5–2002 (67 FR 65008). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on October 21, 

2005. 

Jonathan L. Snare, 

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 05–21476 Filed 10–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR 1218–0202 (2006)] 

Hazardous Waste Operations and 

Emergency Response (HAZWOPER); 

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 comment. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comment concerning its request for an 

extension of the information collection 

requirements contained in its Standard 

on Hazardous Waste Operations and 

Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) (29 

CFR 1910.120). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

the following dates: 

Hard copy. Your comments must be 

submitted (postmarked or received) by 

December 27, 2005. 

Facsimile and electronic 

transmission. Your comments must be 

received by December 27, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–

1218–0202 (2006), by any of the 

following methods: 

Regular mail, express delivery, hand 

delivery, and messenger service: Submit 

your comments and attachments in the 

OSHA Docket Office, Room N–2625, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350 

(OSHA’s TTY number is (877) 889–

5627). OSHA Docket Office and 

Department of Labor hours are 8:15 a.m. 

to 4:45 p.m., ET. 

Facsimile: If your comments are 10 

pages or fewer in length, including 

attachments, you may fax them to the 

OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Electronic: You may submit 

comments through the Internet at 

http://ecomments.osha.gov. Follow 

instructions on the OSHA Web page for 

submitting comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read or download comments or 

background materials, such as the 

complete Information Collection 

Request (ICR)(containing the Supporting 

Statement, OMB–83–I Form, and 

attachments), go to OSHA’s Web page at 

http://OSHA.gov. In addition, the ICR, 

comments, and submissions are 

available for inspection and copying at 

the OSHA Docket Office at the address 

above. You also may contact Theda 

Kenney at the address below to obtain 

a copy of the ICR. For additional 

information on submitting comments, 

please see the ‘‘Public Participation’’

heading in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Theda Kenney or Todd Owen, 

Directorate of Standards and Guidance, 

OSHA, Room N–3609, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210, 

telephone: (202) 693–2222. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Department of Labor, as part of its 

continuing efforts 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 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 Act) 

(29 U.S.C. 651 et seq.) authorizes 

information collection by employers as 

necessary or appropriate for 

enforcement of the Act or for developing 

information regarding the causes and 

prevention of occupational injuries, 

illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). 

The standard specifies a number of 

collection of information (paperwork) 

requirements. Employers can use the 

information collected under the 

HAZWOPER rule to develop the various 

programs the standard requires and to 

ensure that their employees are trained 

properly about the safety and health 

hazards associated with hazardous 

waste operations and emergency 

response to hazardous waste releases. 

OSHA will use the records developed in 

response to this standard to find 

adequate compliance with the safety 

and health provisions. The employer’s 

failure to collect and distribute the 

information required in this standard 

will affect significantly OSHA’s effort to 

control and reduce injuries and 

fatalities. Such failure would also be 

contrary to the direction Congress 

provided in Superfund Amendments