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Technology and Training, as authorized 

by Title IV, Section 404 of Public Law 

102–575, October 30, 1992. The specific 

duties of the Board are to (1) provide 

leadership, policy advice, and 

professional oversight to the Center; (2) 

advise the Secretary on priorities and 

the allocation of grants among the 

activities of the Center; and (3) submit 

an annual report to the President and 

the Congress. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kirk 

Cordell, Executive Director, National 

Center for Preservation Technology and 

Training, National Park Service, 645 

College Avenue, Natchitoches, 

Louisiana 71457, (318) 356–7444. 

Dated: June 3, 2009. 

Ken Salazar, 

Secretary of the Interior. 

[FR Doc. E9–14590 Filed 6–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0015] 

The Hexavalent Chromium 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 comments 

concerning its proposal to extend OMB 

approval of the information collection 

requirements contained in the 

Hexavalent Chromium (VI) (29 CFR 

1910.1026) Standard, and on a potential 

change to burden hour and cost 

estimates to the Standard’s employee 

exposure notification requirement in 

response to a court remand. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

August 21, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may 

submit comments and attachments 

electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the 

instructions online for submitting 

comments. 

Facsimile: If your comments, 

including attachments, are not longer 

than 10 pages, you may fax them to the 

OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Mail, hand delivery, express mail, 

messenger, or courier service: When 

using this method, you must submit 

three copies of your comments and 

attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, 

Docket No. OSHA–2009–0015, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Occupational 

Safety and Health Administration, 

Room N–2625, 200 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210. 

Deliveries (hand, express mail, 

messenger, and courier service) are 

accepted during the Department of 

Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal 

business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., 

e.t. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and OSHA 

docket number for the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) (OSHA–2009– 

0015). All comments, including any 

personal information you provide, are 

placed in the public docket without 

change, and may be made available 

online at http://www.regulations.gov. 

For further information on submitting 

comments see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading in the section of 

this notice titled ‘‘SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION.’’ 

Docket: To read or download 

comments or other material in the 

docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov 

or the OSHA Docket Office at the 

address above. All documents in the 

docket (including this Federal Register 

notice) are listed in the http:// 

www.regulations.gov index; however, 

some information (e.g., copyrighted 

material) is not publicly available to 

read or download through the Web site. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

You may contact Jamaa Hill at the 

address below to obtain a copy of the 

ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jamaa N. Hill or Todd Owen, Directorate 

of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. 

Department of Labor, 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). 

OSHA published the final rule 

governing occupational exposure to 

hexavalent chromium on February 28, 

2006. The information collection 

requirements specified in the Chromium 

(VI) standard protect employees from 

the adverse health effects that may 

result from occupational exposure to 

hexavalent chromium. The major 

information collection requirements in 

the Standard include conducting 

employee exposure monitoring, 

notifying employees of their chromium 

(VI) exposures, implementing medical 

surveillance of employees, providing 

examining physicians with specific 

information, implementing a respiratory 

protection program, demarcating 

regulated areas, implementing employee 

information and training programs, 

notifying laundry personnel of 

chromium (VI) hazards, and 

maintaining employees’ exposure 

monitoring and medical surveillance 

records for specific periods. 

A number of parties subsequently 

challenged several provisions of the 

final CR(VI) standards in the United 

States Court of Appeals for the Third 

Circuit (see Public Citizen and Edison 

Electric Institute v. U.S. Department of 

Labor, XX F.3d XXXX (3d Cir. 2009)). In 

its decision, the court found that OSHA 

failed to explain why the Cr(VI) 

standards require employee notification 

only of chromium exposures exceeding 

the permissible exposure limit, noting 

that prior health standards required 

notification of all exposure monitoring 

results. The court remanded the 

standards, and ordered OSHA to 

provide an explanation for not 

including notification of all exposure 

monitoring results, or to revise the 

standards appropriately. OSHA 

currently is considering how to respond 

to the court’s remand order. 

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 


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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 

its approval of the information 

collection requirements contained in the 

Chromium (VI) Standard (29 CFR 

1910.1026). 

The Agency will summarize the 

comments submitted in response to this 

notice and will include this summary in 

the request to OMB. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Hexavalent Chromium Standard 

(29 CFR 1910.1026). 

OMB Number: 1218–0252. 

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

Local, or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 78,126. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Average Time per Response: Time per 

response ranges from 15 minutes (.25 

hour) to notify employees of exposure 

monitoring results to 20 hours to 

conduct exposure monitoring. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

725,319 hours. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $47,751,607. 

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 as follows: 

(1) Electronically at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, which is the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal; (2) by 

facsimile (FAX); or (3) by hard copy. All 

comments, attachments, and other 

material must identify the Agency name 

and the OSHA docket number for the 

ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2009–0015). 

You may supplement electronic 

submissions by uploading document 

files electronically. If you wish to mail 

additional materials in reference to an 

electronic or facsimile submission, you 

must submit them to the OSHA Docket 

Office (see the section of this notice 

titled ADDRESSES). The additional 

materials must clearly identify your 

electronic comments by your name, 

date, and the docket number so the 

Agency can attach them to your 

comments. 

Because of security procedures, the 

use of regular mail may cause a 

significant delay in the receipt of 

comments. For information about 

security procedures concerning the 

delivery of materials by hand, express 

delivery, messenger, or courier service, 

please contact the OSHA Docket Office 

at (202) 693–2350 (TTY (877) 889– 

5627). 

Comments and submissions are 

posted without change at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA 

cautions commenters about submitting 

personal information such as social 

security numbers and date of birth. 

Although all submissions are listed in 

the http://www.regulations.gov index, 

some information (e.g., copyrighted 

material) is not publicly available to 

read or download through this Web site. 

All submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

Information on using the http:// 

www.regulations.gov Web site to submit 

comments and access the docket is 

available at the Web site’s ‘‘User Tips’’ 

link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office 

for information about materials not 

available through the Web site, and for 

assistance in using the Internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Jordan Barab, 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. 5–2007 (72 FR 31160). 

Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of 

June 2009. 

Jordan Barab, 

Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. E9–14578 Filed 6–19–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0012] 

National Advisory Committee on 

Occupational Safety and Health 

(NACOSH); Announcement of Meeting 

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration (OSHA), Labor. 

ACTION: Announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Advisory 

Committee on Occupational Safety and 

Health (NACOSH) will meet July 15, 

2009, in Washington, DC. 

DATES: NACOSH meeting: NACOSH will 

meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday, 

July 15, 2009. 

Submission of comments, requests to 

speak, and requests for special 

accommodations: Comments, requests 

to speak at the NACOSH meeting, and 

requests for special accommodations for 

the NACOSH meeting must be 

submitted (postmarked, sent, 

transmitted) by July 3, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: NACOSH meeting: 

NACOSH will meet in Room N–3437 A/ 

B/C, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210. 

Submission of comments and requests 

to speak: You may submit comments 

and requests to speak at the NACOSH 

meeting, identified by docket number 

for this Federal Register notice (Docket 

No. OSHA–2009–0012), by any one of 

the following methods: 

Electronically: You may submit 

materials, including attachments, 

electronically at: http:// 

www.regulations.gov, the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal. Follow the online 

instructions for making submissions. 

Facsimile: If your submission, 

including attachments, does not exceed 

10 pages, you may fax it to the OSHA 

Docket Office at (202) 693–1648. 

Mail, express delivery, hand delivery, 

messenger or courier service: Submit 

three copies of your submissions to the 

OSHA Docket Office, Room N–2625, 

U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210, telephone: (202) 693–2550 

(TTY (877) 889–5627). Deliveries (hand, 

express mail, messenger and courier 

service) are accepted during the 

Department of Labor’s and OSHA 

Docket Office’s normal business hours, 

8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t. 

Requests for special accommodations: 

Submit requests for special 

accommodations for the NACOSH 

meeting by hard copy, telephone, or email to Ms. Veneta Chatmon, OSHA, 

Office of Communications, Room 

N3647, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–1999; email chatmon.veneta@dol.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number for this Federal Register notice 

(Docket No. OSHA–2009–0012). 

Because of security-related procedures, 

submission by regular mail may result 

in significant delay in their receipt. In 

addition, please contact the OSHA 

Docket Office for information about 

security procedures for making 

submissions by hand delivery, express 

delivery, and messenger or courier 


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