Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 226 / Friday, November 25, 2005 / Notices 71173 

Dated: November 18, 2005. 

Brenda E. Dyer, 

Department Clearance Officer, Department of 

Justice. 

[FR Doc. 05–23258 Filed 11–23–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–18–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR–1218–0244 (2006)] 

OSHA Strategic Partnership Program 

for Worker Safety and Health (OSPP) 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Request for public comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 5 CFR 

1320.8(d), the Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration (OSHA) requests 

comments concerning its proposed 

extension of the collection of 

information requirements specified in 

the OSHA Strategic Partnership Program 

for Worker Safety and Health (OSPP). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

the following dates: 

Hard copy: Your comments must be 

submitted (postmarked or received) by 

January 24, 2006. 

Facsimile and electronic 

transmission: Your comments must be 

received by January 24, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–

1218–0244(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., e.t. 

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 Cathy Oliver 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: 

Cathy Oliver, Directorate of Cooperative 

and State Programs, Occupational Safety 

and Health Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room N–3700, 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, (202) 693–2208. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Department of Labor, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent (i.e., employer) burdens, 

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 correct. The 

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 

the 1970 (the Act) 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 

et seq.). 

The OSPP allows OSHA to enter into 

an extended, voluntary, cooperative 

relationship with groups of employers, 

employees, and representatives 

(sometimes including other 

stakeholders, and sometimes involving 

only one employer) to encourage, assist 

and recognize their efforts to eliminate 

serious hazards and achieve a high level 

of worker safety and health that goes 

beyond what historically has been 

achieved through traditional 

enforcement methods. Each OSHA 

Strategic Partnership (OSP) determines 

which information will be needed, 

determining the best collection method, 

and clarifying how the information will 

be used. At a minimum, each OSP must 

identify baseline illness and injury data 

corresponding to all summary line items 

on the OSHA 200/300 logs, and must 

track changes at either the worksite 

level or participant-aggregate level. An 

OSP may also include other measures of 

success, such as training activity, self 

inspections, and/or workers’

compensation data. 

In this regard, the information 

collection requirements for the OSPP is 

used by the Agency to gauge the 

effectiveness of its programs, identify 

needed improvements, and ensure that 

its resources are being used to good and 

effective purposes. 

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 function, including whether 

the information is useful; 

• The accuracy of OSHA’s estimate of 

the burden (time and costs) for the 

information collection requirements, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• The quality, utility, and clarity of 

the information collected; 

• Ways to minimize the burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

III. Proposed Actions 

OSHA is requesting that OMB extend 

the approval of the collection of 

information (paperwork) requirements 

outlined by the Strategic Partnership 

Program. In addition, the Agency 

proposes to use a blanket approval, 

eliminating the need for the Agency to 

submit the collection of information 

requirements for each individual 

partnership to OMB for approval. The 

Agency also proposes to increase the 

existing burden hours estimates as a 

result of the increasing the number of 

partnerships. OSHA 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 the collection of information 

requirements. 

Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection requirements. 

Title: OSHA Strategic Partnership 

Program for Worker Safety and Health 

(OSPP). 

OMB Number: 1218–0244. 

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

Federal government; State, local or 

tribal governments. 

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Frequency: Annually. 

Number of Respondents: 5,113. 

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 11 

hours. 

Total Burden Hours: 57,923. 

IV. Public Participation—Submission of 

Comments on This Notice and Internet 

Access to Comments and Submissions 

You may submit comments in 

response to this document by (1) hard 

copy, (2) FAX transmission (facsimile), 

or (3) electronically through the OSHA 

Web page. Because of security-related 

problems, there may be 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 November 

17, 2005. 

Jonathan L. Snare, 

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 05–23291 Filed 11–23–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–M 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. ICR 1218–0217(2006)] 

Blasting and the Use of Explosives; 

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 part 

1926, subpart U—Blasting and the Use 

of Explosives as well as several newlyidentified information collection 

requirements contained in this subpart. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted by 

the following dates: 

Hard copy: Your comments must be 

submitted (postmarked or received) by 

January 24, 2006. 

Facsimile and electronic 

transmission: Your comments must be 

received by January 24, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–

1218–0127(2006), by any of the 

following methods: 

Regular method, 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., e.t. 

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 Michael Buchet 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: 

Michael Buchet, Directorate of 

Construction, OSHA, Room N–3468, 

200 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20210, telephone: (202) 

693–2020. 

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). 

The following is a brief description of 

the requirements in subpart U that 

pertain to the collection and retention of 

information: 

General Provisions (§ 1926.900) 

Section 1926.900(d)—Paragraph (d) 

states that employers must ensure that 

explosives not in use are kept in a 

locked magazine, unavailable to persons 

not authorized to handle the explosives. 

The employers must maintain an 

inventory and use records of all 

explosives; in use and not in use. In 

addition, the employer must notify the 

appropriate authorities in the event of 

loss, theft, or unauthorized entry into a 

magazine. 

Section 1926.900(k)(3)(i)—Paragraph 

(k)(3)(i) requires employers to display 

adequate signs warning against the use 

of mobile radio transmitters on all roads 

within 1,000 feet of blasting operations 

to prevent the accidental discharge of 

electric blasting caps caused by current 

induced by radar, radio transmitters, 

lightning, adjacent powerlines, dust