This request for
clearance of the supplementary data system is approve for a single
collection of data. While this approval continues through September
1985, this clearance terminates after a single collection of
information from each participating State has been accomplished or
on September 30, l985, whichever occurs first. No State may be
asked to provide data under this clearance after the State has once
provided a data set or after September 30, l985. OMB will consider
extending this clearance and approving of additional collections of
information for the supplementary data system upon a showing by the
Department that the data show statistically significant differences
over time after the data have been standardize to eliminate the
effects of interindustry shifts in employment and standardized data
have been compared for identical States across each set of data
collections conducted from 1976 through the data collectio hereby
approved. Any request for extension or revision of this approval
must be accompanied by the analysis described above. In addition to
the three copies of the clearance package usually submitted, DOL is
to provide an additional two (2) sets of any package requesting
extension or revision of this approval. Each package is to contain
a full set of th analysis described above. The data are to be
presented in aggregate fo all States consistently included in the
collection and for each State.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/1985
09/30/1985
30
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0
324,600
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0
0
0
0
PROVIDES DETAILED INFORMATION ON
CHARACTERISTICS OF WORK-RELATED INJURIES AND ILLNESSES AND THE
ACCIDENTS OR EXPOSURES WHICH PRODUCED THEM. NEEDED BY THE
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION IN PROGRAM DIRECTION,
COMPLIANCE, AND STANDARDS SETTING. THIRTY STATES VOLUNTARILY
PROVIDE INFORMATION FROM STATE WORKERS' COMPENSATION
RECORDS.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.