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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, 

as amended, see Title 15, United States 

Code, Sections 78dd–1 and 78dd–3. 

(h) The term ‘‘Plea Agreement’’ means 

the Plea Agreement entered into 

between the United States of America, 

by and through the United States 

Department of Justice, Criminal 

Division, Fraud Section and Money 

Laundering and Asset Recovery Section, 

and the United States Attorney’s Office 

for the Eastern District of New York and 

Goldman Sachs (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. Cr. 

No. 20–438 (MKB). 

Effective Date: This exemption will be 

in effect for a period of up to five (5) 

years, beginning on the date of the 

conviction of Goldman Sachs (Malaysia) 

Sdn. Bhd. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 24th day of 

May, 2021. 

Christopher Motta, 

Chief, Division of Individual Exemptions, 

Office of Exemption Determinations, 

Employee Benefits Security Administration, 

U.S. Department of Labor. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11366 Filed 5–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Bureau of Labor Statistics 

Information Collection Activities; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

Department of Labor. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as 

part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

conducts a pre-clearance consultation 

program to provide the general public 

and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing collections of 

information in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This 

program helps to ensure that requested 

data can be provided in the desired 

format, reporting burden (time and 

financial resources) is minimized, 

collection instruments are clearly 

understood, and the impact of collection 

requirements on respondents can be 

properly assessed. The Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) is soliciting comments 

concerning the proposed revision of the 

‘‘Survey of Occupational Injuries and 

Illnesses.’’ A copy of the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) can 

be obtained by contacting the individual 

listed below in the Addresses section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

Addresses section of this notice on or 

before July 27, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Nora 

Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, 

Division of Management Systems, 

Bureau of Labor Statistics, Room 4080, 

2 Massachusetts Avenue NE, 

Washington, DC 20212. Written 

comments also may be transmitted by 

email to BLS_PRA_Public@bls.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nora Kincaid, BLS Clearance Officer, 

202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free 

number). (See ADDRESSES section.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 24(a) of the Occupational 

Safety and Health Act of 1970 requires 

the Secretary of Labor to develop and 

maintain an effective program of 

collection, compilation, and analysis of 

statistics on occupational injuries and 

illnesses. The Commissioner of Labor 

Statistics has been delegated the 

responsibility for ‘‘Furthering the 

purpose of the Occupational Safety and 

Health Act by developing and 

maintaining an effective program of 

collection, compilation, analysis and 

publication of occupational safety and 

health statistics.’’ The BLS fulfills this 

responsibility, in part, by conducting 

the Survey of Occupational Injuries and 

Illnesses in conjunction with 

participating state statistical agencies. 

The BLS Survey of Occupational 

Injuries and Illnesses provides the 

Nation’s primary indicator of the 

progress towards achieving the goal of 

safer and healthier workplaces. The 

survey produces the overall rate of 

occurrence of work injuries and 

illnesses by industry which can be 

compared to prior years to produce 

measures of the rate of change. These 

data are used to assess the Nation’s 

progress in improving the safety and 

health of America’s work places; to 

prioritize scarce federal and state 

resources; to guide the development of 

injury and illness prevention strategies; 

and to support Occupational Safety and 

Health Administration (OSHA) and state 

safety and health standards and 

research. Data are essential for 

evaluating the effectiveness of federal 

and state programs for improving work 

place safety and health. For these 

reasons, it is necessary to provide 

estimates separately for participating 

states. 

Effective with the release of estimates 

from the Survey of Occupational and 

Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) in 

November 2023, the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) will introduce the 

publication of a new biennial case and 

demographic data series for cases that 

involve days of job transfer or restriction 

(DJTR) for all industries. This shift will 

result in significant changes to the SOII 

news release and how publication tables 

are presented to provide additional data 

on the case circumstances and worker 

demographics for DJTR cases, in 

addition to details that have long been 

published for cases involving days away 

from work (DAFW). Biennial estimates 

for DJTR and DAFW will be released 

together. Summary industry estimates, 

produced annually, will remain 

unchanged. 

II. Current Action 

Office of Management and Budget 

clearance is being sought for the Survey 

of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. 

The survey measures the overall rate of 

occurrence of work injuries and 

illnesses by industry for private 

industry, state governments, and local 

governments. For the more serious 

injuries and illnesses, those with days 

away from work (DAFW), the survey 

provides detailed information on the 

injured/ill worker (age, sex, race, 

industry, occupation, and length of 

service), the time in shift, and the 

circumstances of the injuries and 

illnesses classified by standardized 

codes (nature of the injury/illness, part 

of body affected, primary and secondary 

sources of the injury/illness, and the 

event or exposure which produced the 

injury/illness). 

Days of job transfer or restriction 

(DJTR) cases have become more 

prevalent since 1992 when detailed data 

were first collected only for days-awayfrom-work (DAFW) cases. In 1992, DJTR 

cases accounted for 21 percent of total 

days away from work, days of restricted 

work activity, or job transfer cases 

(DART). By 2011, DJTR accounted for 40 

percent of these cases. At that time, the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began a 

series of three 3-year pilot studies from 

2011–19 to collect DJTR case details for 

select industries. When these pilot 

studies concluded with 2019 data, DJTR 

cases accounted for 43 percent of DART 

cases. 

The aforementioned pilot studies 

conducted by the BLS were intended to 

learn more about occupational injuries 

and illnesses that resulted in days of job 

transfer or work restriction (DJTR) by 

comparing the circumstances and 

worker characteristics of injuries and 

illnesses that required days away from 

work (DAFW) to recuperate and those 

that led to DJTR only. Detailed data on 

DJTR cases will lead to a better 

understanding of how occupational 

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injuries and illnesses are managed and 

give a more complete accounting of the 

types of injuries and illnesses that occur 

to workers and how they occurred. Prior 

to these pilot studies, the BLS Survey of 

Occupational Injuries and Illnesses 

(SOII) collected and published only data 

on the case circumstances and worker 

characteristics for DAFW cases. These 

pilot studies expanded the SOII to 

collect and report the same detail for 

DJTR cases for select industries. Data 

from these pilots can be found at 

https://www.bls.gov/iif/soiidata.htm#djtr. 

The proportion of DJTR cases as a 

percentage of DART cases among 

private industry overall has trended 

higher since 1992, while the proportion 

of DAFW cases has trended downward 

over this period. Both the incidence rate 

and number of cases of DJTR has 

exceeded that of DAFW in the 

manufacturing industry sector since the 

late 1990s. The pilot collection of DJTR 

case details has provided important 

insights into workplace safety and 

health data that were previously 

unavailable. Analysis of DJTR data 

showed that their inclusion provides a 

more complete understanding of the 

circumstances leading to occupational 

injuries and illnesses than DAFW cases 

alone can provide. For example, DJTR 

cases as a percentage of DART cases in 

the Food services and drinking places 

industry remained the same regardless 

of the age of the worker. While in the 

Amusement, gambling, and recreation 

industry, workers under the age of 45 

had a higher percentage of DJTR cases 

than DAFW cases. If studying only a few 

selected industries, policy makers and 

researchers would be unable to 

determine the complete picture of this 

phenomenon. If all industries could be 

analyzed, safety resources and return-towork strategies could be developed to 

address the unique work experiences by 

the age of the worker or by other 

characteristics. 

Based on the findings from these 

studies and the depth of information 

they produced, as well as the 

recommendation from the National 

Academy of Sciences (NAS) A Smarter 

National Surveillance System for 

Occupational Safety and Health in the 

21st Century,1 the BLS decided to 

collect information on DJTR cases for all 

industries. Particularly, 

Recommendation A from Chapter 4 of 

the NAS report noted, ‘‘BLS should 

routinely collect detailed case and 

demographic data for injuries and 

illnesses resulting in job transfer or 

restricted duty as well as those resulting 

in days away from work.’’ The report 

further notes that this could be easily 

accomplished in the short term with 

minimal impact to respondent burden 

due to the fact that these data are 

already recorded by employers. 

III. Desired Focus of Comments 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is 

particularly interested in comments 

that: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submissions 

of responses. 

Title of Collection: Survey of 

Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. 

OMB Number: 1220–0045. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions; 

Farms; State, Local or Tribal 

Governments. 

BLS 9300 RESPONDENT BURDEN ESTIMATES

Form 9300 Total 

respondents Frequency Total responses 

Average time 

per response 

(minutes) 

Estimated 

burden 

hours 

Total Reporting Burden ..................... 86,200 Annually ............................................ 86,200 63.698 91,513 

Total Recording Burden .................... 232,800 Annually ............................................ 232,800 24.831 96,346 

Totals ......................................... 232,800 Annually ............................................ 232,800 ........................ 187,859 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 25th day of 

May 2021. 

Leslie Bennett, 

Acting Chief, Division of Management 

Systems. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11367 Filed 5–27–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Mine Safety and Health Administration 

Petitions for Modification of 

Application of Existing Mandatory 

Safety Standards 

AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice includes the 

summaries of three petitions for 

modification submitted to the Mine 

Safety and Health Administration 

(MSHA) by the party listed below. 

DATES: All comments on the petitions 

must be received by MSHA’s Office of 

Standards, Regulations, and Variances 

on or before June 28, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit your 

comments including the docket number 

of the petition by any of the following 

methods: 

1. Electronic Mail: zzMSHAcomments@dol.gov. Include the docket 

number of the petition in the subject 

line of the message. 

2. Facsimile: 202–693–9441. 

3. Regular Mail or Hand Delivery: 

MSHA, Office of Standards, 

Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th