62006 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 207 / Thursday, October 27, 2005 / Notices 

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 

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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 

in Construction Standard (§ 1910.1027; 

‘‘the Standard’’). These revisions 

included: removing the word ‘‘signed’’

that appeared in paragraph (1)(10) of the 

Standard; and allowing employers the 

option of posting employee-monitoring 

results, or individually informing each 

employee of these results. These 

changes reduced paperwork burden 

hours while maintaining worker 

protection and improving consistency 

among standards. 

The information collection 

requirements specified in the Standard 

protect employees from the adverse 

health effects that may result from their 

exposure to Cadmium. The major 

information collection requirements 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 proposes to extend OMB’s 

approval of these information collection 

requirements necessitated by the 

Cadmium in Construction Standard (29 

CFR 1926.1127). The Agency will 

include a summary of the comments 

submitted in response to this notice in 

its request to OMB to extend the 

approval of these collections of 

information requirements. 

Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collections requirements. 

Title: Cadmium in Construction 

Standard. 

OMB Number: 1218–0186. 

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

or tribal government. 

Number of Respondents: 10,000. 

Frequency: On occasion; quarterly; 

semi-annually; annually. 

Average Time Per Response: Varies 

from two minutes (.03 hour) for a 

secretary to compile and maintain 

training records to 1.5 hours to 

administer employee medical 

examinations. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

39,311. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $1,657,460. 

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. 05–21482 Filed 10–26–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards; Subcommittee Meeting on 

Power Uprates; Notice of Meeting 

The ACRS Subcommittee on Power 

Uprates will hold a meeting on 

November 15–16, 2005, Grand Ballroom 

at the Quality Inn and Suites, 1380 

Putney Road, Brattleboro, Vermont. 

The agenda for the subject meeting 

shall be as follows: 

Tuesday, November 15, 2005—8:30 

a.m. until the conclusion of business. 

Wednesday, November 16, 2005—8:30 

a.m. until the conclusion of business. 

The Subcommittee will review the 

application by Entergy Nuclear 

Northeast (Entergy) for an extended 

power uprate for the Vermont Yankee 

Nuclear Power Station. The 

Subcommittee will hear presentations 

by and hold discussions with 

representatives of the NRC staff, their 

contractors, Entergy and other interested 

persons regarding this matter. The 

Subcommittee will gather information, 

analyze relevant issues and facts, and 

formulate proposed positions and 

actions, as appropriate, for deliberation 

by the full Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

Federal Official, Mr. Ralph Caruso 

(Telephone: 301–415–8065) five days 

prior to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Electronic recordings will be permitted. 

Signs will not be permitted in the 

meeting room. 

Further information regarding this 

meeting can be obtained by contacting 

the Designated Federal Official between 

7:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. (ET). Persons 

planning to attend this meeting are