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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). 

Dated: Signed at Washington, DC, on 

October 21, 2005. 

Jonathan L. Snare, 

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 05–21480 Filed 10–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0185 (2006)] 

The Cadmium in General Industry 

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 comment. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comment concerning its request for an 

extension of the information collection 

requirements contained in the Cadmium 

in General Industry Standard (29 CFR 

1910.1027). This standard controls 

occupational exposure to cadmium, 

thereby preventing serious disease (e.g., 

lung cancer, prostate cancer, kidney 

disease) and death among exposed 

employees. 

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–

1218–0185 (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 final rule for the Standards 

Improvement Project—Phase II (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 Cadmium 

Standard. These revisions included: 

removing the word ‘‘signed’’ that 

appears in the introductory sentence in 

paragraph (1)(10)(1) of the Standard; 

and allowing employers the option of 

posting employee-monitoring results, or 

individually informing each employee 

of these results. Those changes reduced 

paperwork burden hours while 

maintaining worker protection and 

improving consistency among 

standards. 

The information collection 

requirements specified in the Cadmium 

in General Industry Standard protect 

employees from the adverse health 

effects that may result from 

occupational exposure to cadmium. The 

major information collection 

reuqirements in the Standard include 

conducting employee exposure 

monitoring, notifying employees of their 

cadmium exposures, implementing a 

written compliance program, 

implementing medical-surveillance of 

employees, providing examining 

physicians with specific information, 

ensuring that employees receive a copy 

of their medical-surveillance results, 

maintaining employees’ exposuremonitoring and medical-surveillance 

records for specific periods, and 

providing access to these records by 

OSHA, the National Institute for 

Occupational Safety and Health, the 

employee who is the subject of the 

records, the employee’s representative, 

and other designated parties. 

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 that OMB extend 

the approval of the collection of 

information (paperwork) requirements 

necessitated by the Cadmium in General 

Industry Standard (29 CFR 1910.1027). 

As part of this proposal, the Agency is 

requesting a 167-hour burden reduction 

(adjustment) resulting from not 

identifying any new employers who will 

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gather information necessary to meet the 

objective data requirements required 

specified by paragraph 

§ 1910.1027(d)(2)(iii) of the 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 its 

approval of these information collection 

requirements. 

Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection requirements. 

Title: Cadmium in General Industry 

Standard. 

OMB Number: 1218–0185. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal government; State, local, 

or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 53,161. 

Frequency: On occasion; quarterly; 

semi-annually; annually. 

Average Time Per Response: Varies 

from five minutes (.08 hour) for several 

provisions (e.g., maintaining an 

employee’s exposure-monitoring or 

medical-surveillance record, providing 

information about an employee to the 

physician) to 1.5 hours to review and 

update a compliance program or 

administer an employee medical 

examination. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

121,177. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $6,190,817. 

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 

(887) 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. 05–21481 Filed 10–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0186 (2006)] 

The Cadmium in Construction 

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 comment. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comment concerning its request for an 

extension of the information collection 

requirements contained in the Cadmium 

in Construction Standard (29 CFR 

1926.1127). This standard controls 

occupational exposure to cadmium, 

thereby preventing serious disease (e.g., 

lung cancer, prostate cancer, kidney 

disease) and death among exposed 

employees. 

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–

1218–0186 (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 final rule for the Standards