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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 

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. 5–2007 (72 FR 31159). 

Signed at Washington, DC, on October 10, 

2017. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0034] 

Subpart A (‘‘General Provisions’’) and 

Subpart B (‘‘Confined and Enclosed 

Spaces and Other Dangerous 

Atmospheres in Shipyard 

Employment’’); 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, 

subpart A (‘‘General Provisions’’) and 

subpart B (‘‘Confined and Enclosed 

Spaces and Other Dangerous 

Atmospheres in Shipyard 

Employment’’). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

(postmarked, sent, or received) by 

December 15, 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–2011–0034, 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 

Department of Labor’s and Docket 

Office’s normal business hours, 10:00 

a.m. to 3:00 p.m., e.t. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and the OSHA 

docket number (OSHA–2011–0034) 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, 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 accord 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 OSH 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 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). 

The following is a description of the 

requirements in subparts A and B that 

pertain to the collection and retention of 

information. 

One provision in subpart A contains 

paperwork requirements (§ 1915.7). 

Section 1915.7(b)(2) specifies that 

shipyard employers must maintain a 

roster of designated competent persons 

(for inspecting and testing spaces 

covered by subpart B), or a statement 

that a marine chemist will perform these 

inspections and tests. Section 1915.7(d) 

requires employers to ensure that 

competent persons, marine chemists, 

and certified industrial hygienists 

(CIHs) make a record of each inspection 

and test they conduct, post the record 

near the covered space while work is in 

progress, and retain the record for at 

least three months. In addition, 

employers must make the roster or 

statement, and the inspection and test 

records available for inspection by 

designated parties. 

Subpart B consists of several 

standards governing entry into confined 

and enclosed spaces and other 

dangerous atmospheres in shipyard 

employment. These standards require 

that employers: 

• Ensure that competent persons 

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confined or enclosed space 

(§§ 1915.12(a)–(c)); 

• Warn workers not to enter 

hazardous spaces and other dangerous 

atmospheres (§ 1915.12 (a)–(c) and 

§ 1915.16); 

• Certify that workers who will be 

entering confined or enclosed spaces 

have been trained (§ 1915.12(d)(5)); 

• Establish and train shipyard rescue 

teams or arrange for outside rescue 

teams, and provide them with 

information on the hazards that they 

may encounter (§ 1915.12(e)); 

• Ensure that one person on each 

rescue team maintains a current first aid 

training certificate (§ 1915.12(e)(1)(iv)); 

• Exchange information regarding 

hazards, safety rules, and emergency 

procedures concerning confined and 

enclosed spaces, and atmospheres with 

other employers whose workers may 

enter these spaces and atmospheres 

(§ 1915.12(f)); 

• Ensure testing of spaces having 

contained bulk quantities of 

combustible or flammable liquids or 

gases, and toxic, corrosive, or irritating 

substances before cleaning and other 

cold work is started, and as necessary 

thereafter while the operations are 

ongoing (§§ 1915.13(b)(2) and (4)); 

• Post signs prohibiting ignition 

sources within or near a space that has 

contained bulk quantities of flammable 

or combustible liquids or gases 

(§ 1915.13(b)(10)); 

• Ensure that confined and enclosed 

spaces and other dangerous 

atmospheres, and boundaries of spaces 

or pipelines are tested before workers 

perform hot work in these work areas 

(§ 1915.14(a)(1)); 

• Post certificates of testing 

conducted by a marine chemist or Coast 

Guard authorized person, indicating it is 

‘‘Safe for Hot Work,’’ in the immediate 

vicinity of the hot-work operation while 

the operation is in progress 

(§ 1915.14(a)(2)). Where testing of a 

space or an adjacent space is performed 

by a competent person, marine chemist 

or Coast Guard authorized person and 

determined to be ‘‘Not Safe for Hot 

Work,’’ a warning label must be affixed 

(§ 1915.14(b)(2)); and 

Retain certificates of testing on file for 

at least three months after completing 

the operation (§ 1915.14(a)(2)). 

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 requesting that OMB extend 

its approval of the collection of 

information (paperwork) requirements 

mandated by Subpart A (‘‘General 

Provisions’’) and Subpart B (‘‘Confined 

and Enclosed Spaces and Other 

Dangerous Atmospheres in Shipyard 

Employment’’) of 29 CFR part 1915. The 

Agency is requesting an adjustment 

increase of 247,083 burden hours (from 

338,981 to 586,064 hours). The 

adjustment increase is due to an 

increase in the number of 

establishments affected by these 

standards. 

The Agency will summarize the 

comments submitted in response to this 

notice and will include this summary in 

its request to OMB. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: Subpart A (‘‘General 

Provisions’’) and Subpart B (‘‘Confined 

and Enclosed Spaces and Other 

Dangerous Atmospheres in Shipyard 

Employment’’) (29 CFR part 1915). 

OMB Control Number: 1218–0011. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Not-for-profit organizations; 

Federal Government; State, Local or 

Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 4,871. 

Frequency of Responses: On occasion. 

Total Responses: 3,495,964. 

Average Time per Response: Various. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 

586,064. 

Estimated Cost (Operation and 

Maintenance): $0. 

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 (Docket 

No. OSHA–2011–0034) for the ICR. 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 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 October 5, 

2017. 

Loren Sweatt, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for 

Occupational Safety and Health. 

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