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Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 1–2012 

(76 FR 3912), and 29 CFR part 1902. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on September 

21, 2017. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20760 Filed 9–27–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062] 

Powered Industrial Trucks 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 comments. 

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public 

comments concerning its proposal to 

extend the Office of Management and 

Budget’s (OMB) approval of the 

information collection requirements 

specified in the Powered Industrial 

Trucks Standard. The information 

collection requirements address truck 

design, construction and modification, 

as well as certification of training and 

evaluation for truck operators. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

November 27, 2017. 

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 a 

copy of your comments and attachments 

to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No. 

OSHA–2011–0062, Occupational Safety 

and Health Administration, U.S. 

Department of Labor, Room N–3653, 

200 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries 

(hand, express mail, messenger, and 

courier service) are accepted during the 

Docket Office’s normal business hours, 

10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and the OSHA 

docket number (OSHA–2011–0062) for 

the Information Collection Request 

(ICR). 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 from the Web site. All 

submissions, including copyrighted 

material, are available for inspection 

and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. 

You may also contact Theda Kenney at 

the address below to obtain a copy of 

the ICR. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Theda Kenney or Todd Owen, 

Directorate of Standards and Guidance, 

OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; 

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 accord with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

(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 OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et 

seq.) authorizes information collection 

by employers as necessary or 

appropriate for enforcement of the OSH 

Act or for developing information 

regarding the causes and prevention of 

occupational injuries, illnesses, and 

accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act 

also requires that OSHA obtain such 

information with minimum burden 

upon employers, especially those 

operating small businesses, and to 

reduce to the maximum extent feasible 

unnecessary duplication of efforts in 

obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657). 

Paragraph (a)(4) of the Powered 

Industrial Trucks Standard requires 

employers to obtain the manufacturer’s 

written approval before modifying a 

truck in a manner that affects its 

capacity and safe operation; if the 

manufacturer grants such approval, the 

employer must revise capacity, 

operation, and maintenance instruction 

plates, tags, and decals accordingly. For 

front-end attachments not installed by 

the manufacturer, paragraph (a)(5) 

mandates that employers provide a 

marker on the trucks that identifies the 

attachment, as well as the weight of 

both the truck and the attachment when 

the attachment is at maximum elevation 

with a laterally centered load. Paragraph 

(a)(6) specifies that employers must 

ensure that the markers required by 

paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(5) remain 

affixed to the trucks and are legible. 

Paragraphs (1)(4) and (1)(6) of the 

Standard contain the paperwork 

requirements necessary to certify the 

evaluation and training provided to 

powered industrial truck operators. 

Accordingly, these paragraphs specify 

the following requirements for 

employers. 

• Paragraph (1)(4)(iii)—Evaluate each 

operator’s performance at least once 

every three years. 

• Paragraph (l)(6)—Certify that each 

operator meets the training and 

evaluation requirements specified by 

paragraph (l). This certification must 

include the operator’s name, the 

training date, the evaluation date, and 

the identity of the individual(s) who 

performed the training and evaluation. 

Requiring labels (markings) on 

modified equipment notifies workers of 

the conditions under which they can 

safely operate powered industrial 

trucks, thereby preventing such hazards 

as fires and explosions caused by poorly 

designed electrical systems, rollovers/ 

tipovers that result from exceeding a 

truck’s stability characteristics, and 

falling loads that occur when loads 

exceed the lifting capacities of 

attachments. Certification of worker 

training and evaluation provides a 

means of informing employers that their 

workers received the training and 

demonstrated the performance 

necessary to operate a truck within its 

capacity and control limitations. By 

ensuring that workers operate only 

trucks that are in proper working order, 

and do so safely, employers prevent 

possible severe injury or death of truck 

operators and other workers who are in 

the vicinity of the trucks. Finally, these 

paperwork requirements are the most 

efficient means for an OSHA 

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compliance officer to determine that an 

employer properly notified workers 

about the design and construction of, 

and modifications made to, the trucks 

they are operating, and that an employer 

provided them with the required 

training. 

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 proposing to increase the 

existing burden hour estimate of the 

collection of information requirements 

specified by the Standard. In this regard, 

the Agency is proposing to increase the 

current burden hour estimate from 

888,244 hours to 911,764 hours, a total 

increase of 23,520 hours. The 

adjustment increase is due to updated 

data indicating a growth in the number 

of powered industrial trucks from 

1,179,441 to 1,210,679 and the number 

of operators from 1,769,162 to 

1,816,018. 

Upon further analysis, OSHA has 

determined that these training 

provisions are not considered to be 

collections of information under the 

PRA. In addition, the Agency was able 

to gather data updating the number of 

trucks and operators. 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: Powered Industrial Trucks (29 

CFR 1910.178). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0242. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits. 

Number of Respondents: 1,210,679. 

Number of Responses: 2,397,144. 

Frequency of Reponses: On occasion; 

annually; triennially. 

Average Time per Response: Various. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

427,866. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $256,626. 

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 

materials must identify the Agency 

name and the OSHA docket number for 

the ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062). 

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 that 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 from 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 from the Web site, and for 

assistance in using the Internet to locate 

docket submissions. 

V. Authority and Signature 

Loren Sweatt, Deputy 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. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on September 

19, 2017. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20770 Filed 9–27–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–26–P 

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE 

CORPORATION 

[MCC FR 17–05] 

Notice of Entering Into a Compact With 

the Federal Democratic Republic of 

Nepal 

AGENCY: Millennium Challenge 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Section 

610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge 

Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701–7718), as 

amended, and the heading ‘‘Millennium 

Challenge Corporation’’ of the 

Department of State, Foreign 

Operations, and Related Programs 

Appropriations Act, 2017, the 

Millennium Challenge Corporation 

(MCC) is publishing a summary of the 

Millennium Challenge Compact 

between the United States of America, 

acting through MCC, and the Republic 

of Nepal. Representatives of MCC and 

Nepal signed the compact on September 

14, 2017. The complete text of the 

compact has been posted at: https://

assets.mcc.gov/content/uploads/ 

compact-nepal.pdf. 

Dated: September 25, 2017. 

Jeanne M. Hauch, 

Vice President and General Counsel, 

Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Summary of the Nepal Compact 

Overview of MCC Nepal Compact 

MCC’s Board of Directors has 

approved a five-year, $500 million 

compact with Nepal aimed at reducing 

poverty through economic growth. The 

compact seeks to assist Nepal in 

addressing two binding constraints to 

economic growth: (i) Inadequate supply 

of electricity; and (ii) high cost of 

transportation. The compact will 

address these binding constraints by 

investing in two projects: The Electricity 

Transmission Project and the Road 

Maintenance Project. 

Background and Context 

Nepal’s economic growth, labor 

productivity, and gross domestic 

product per capita are among the lowest