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the Agency also noted that additional
time and information is needed to make
decisions on the type, amount, and
location of post-accident breathable air
to be furnished for trapped miners.
On August 4, 2006, MSHA reissued
the PPL (as PPL Number P06–V–9) to
include an alternative to the distance
table for self-contained self-rescuer
(SCSR) storage locations to allow mine
operators to use a functionality test to
establish distances between SCSR
storage locations.
At this time, MSHA is soliciting
information from the mining
community on topics related to postaccident breathable air that would be
sufficient to maintain miners trapped
underground for a sustained period of
time.
The MINER Act requires that all
approved plans:
(1) Afford miners a level of safety
protection at least consistent with the
existing standards, including standards
mandated by law and regulation;
(2) Reflect the most recent credible
scientific research;
(3) Be technologically feasible, make
use of current commercially available
technology, and account for the specific
physical characteristics of the mine; and
(4) Reflect the improvements in mine
safety gained from experience under
this Act and other worker safety and
health laws.
In making decisions on requirements
for post-accident breathable air
provisions in the plan, MSHA will take
these factors into consideration. Please
consider these factors as you develop
your responses.
When answering the questions below,
please key your response to the topic
and number of the question, and explain
the reasons supporting your views.
Please provide relevant information on
which you rely, including, but not
limited to, past experience, as well as
data, studies and articles, and standard
professional practices. Include any data
related to technological feasibility or
other related issues.

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Issues on Which Information is
Requested
MSHA requests information on the
following issues related to the
breathable air provision of the MINER
Act:
A. Emergency Supply of Breathable Air
1. What factors should MSHA
consider in determining a ‘‘sustained
period of time?’’ Should a specific time
period be adopted? If so, what is the
appropriate time period and why? The
Agency has received suggestions
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breathable air to a continuous supply.
Please include the rationale for the
recommended period of time.
2. Should factors such as mine size,
mine design and layout, number of
miners potentially affected, and
distance from the portals to the working
section be used, and if so, how, in
determining the sufficient quantity of
breathable air? What other factors
should be considered and how should
they be considered?
3. Where should the post-accident
breathable air supply be located in
relation to: working sections; outby
work stations; and along travel routes?
4. The MINER Act requires that plans
be periodically updated to reflect
changes in operations in the mine. What
specific changes in operations would
result in a need to update the breathable
air provision of the plan?
B. Oxygen Sources
1. Please provide information and
make recommendations on the best way
to provide breathable air. Please
elaborate on the arguments for and
against using oxygen, compressed air, or
chemically-induced oxygen to maintain
trapped miners for a sustained period of
time. What other available means of
technology appropriate to maintain
miners would you recommend, and
why?
2. MSHA solicits information on how
compressed air lines routed through
mine openings could be protected
against damage from explosion or fire.
How could techniques such as burying
or armoring air lines provide adequate
protection?
3. MSHA solicits information on
availability and possible obstacles in
developing and deploying systems for
providing oxygen.
C. Emergency Shelters
Section 13 of the MINER Act requires
the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) to conduct
research concerning various types of
refuge alternatives, including
commercially-available portable refuge
chambers. In the interim, MSHA solicits
comments on the use of emergency
shelters which contain sufficient
quantities of post-accident breathable
air to maintain trapped miners.
1. Until specifications for refuge
alternatives are developed, what type of
emergency shelters (e.g., inflatable or
other portable quick-deploy designs)
should be provided, what safety features
should they offer, where should they be
located, and why?
2. How should the use of emergency
shelters be tied to emergency supplies of
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3. If post-accident breathable air is
provided through emergency shelters,
provide information on appropriate
distances between installations and
proximity to working sections. Please
provide specific feasibility
considerations, if any.
4. Under what circumstances, if any,
could a barricade be used as an
emergency shelter to provide postaccident breathable air?
Dated: August 25, 2006.
David G. Dye,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety
and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. ICR–1218–0184 (2006)]

Standard on 4,4′-Methylenedianiline
(MDA) in General Industry; Extension
of the Office of Management and
Budget’s Approval of Information
Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: OSHA requests public
comment concerning its proposed
extension of the information collection
requirements specified by the Standard
on 4,4′-Methylenedianiline in General
Industry (29 CFR 1910.1050). The
standard protects employees from the
adverse health effects that may result
from occupational exposure to MDA,
including cancer and liver disease.
DATES: Comments must be submitted by
the following dates:
Hard copy: Your comments must be
submitted (postmarked or received) by
October 30, 2006.
Facsimile and electronic
transmission: Your comments must be
received by October 30, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by OSHA Docket No. ICR–
1218–0184 (2006), by any of the
following methods:

I. Submission of Comments
Regular mail, express delivery, hand
delivery, and messenger service: Submit
your comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, Room N–2625,
U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–2350
(OSHA’s TTY number is (877) 889–
5627). OSHA Docket Office and

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Department of Labor hours are 8:15 a.m.
to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Facsimile: If your comments are 10
pages or fewer in length, including
attachments, you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
Electronic: You may submit
comments through the Internet at
http://ecomments.osha.gov. Follow
instructions on the OSHA Web page for
submitting comments.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read or download comments or
background materials, such as the
complete Information Collection
Request (ICR) (containing the
Supporting Statement, OMB–83–I Form,
and attachments), go to OSHA’s Web
page at http://www.OSHA.gov. In
addition, the ICR, comments, and
submissions are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office
at the address above. You may also
contact Todd Owen at the address
below to obtain a copy of the ICR. For
additional information on submitting
comments, please see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ section in
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jamaa 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:

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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 (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program
ensures that information is in the
desired format, reporting burden (time
and costs) is minimized, collection
instruments are understandable, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is correct. The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of
1970 (the Act) 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 information collection
requirements specified in the Standard
on 4,4′-Methylenedianiline in General
Industry (the ‘‘Standard’’) protect
employees from the adverse health

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effects that may result from their
exposure to MDA, including cancer and
liver disease. The major paperwork
requirements specify that employers
must develop a written emergency plan
for each workplace where there is a
possibility of an emergency (i.e., an
unexpected and potentially hazardous
release of MDA); perform initial,
periodic, and additional exposure
monitoring; and notifying each
employee in writing within 15 days
after the receipt of exposure-monitoring
results, either individually or by
posting. In addition, employers must
perform routine visual inspections of
the hands, face, and forearms of each
employee potentially exposed to MDA
for signs of dermal exposure to MDA
and, if they determine that employees
have been exposed to MDA, they must
maintain records of the corrective
actions taken. Employers must also:
Establish and implement a written
compliance program and implement a
respiratory protection program in
accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134
(OSHA’s Respiratory Protection
Standard).
Employers must label any container of
MDA-contaminated protective work
clothing or equipment that will be taken
out of changing rooms or other
workplace areas for cleaning,
maintenance, or disposal. Employers
must also inform personnel who
launder MDA-contaminated clothing of
the requirement to prevent release of
MDA, while personnel who launder or
clear MDA-contaminated protective
clothing or equipment must receive
information about the potentially
harmful effects of MDA. In addition,
employers are to post and maintain
legible warning signs demarcating
regulated areas and entrances or
accessways to regulated areas, as well as
provide employees with information
and training on the Standard and
specific components of the MDA
program at the time of their initial
assignment, and at least annually
thereafter; employers must provide
employees, OSHA, and the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (‘‘NIOSH’’) with access to the
training materials.
Additional paperwork provisions of
the Standard require employers to
provide employees with medical
examinations, including initial,
periodic, emergency, and additional
examinations. Under specified
conditions, employers also must
establish a multiple-physician review
mechanism to provide employees with
a second opinion regarding the results
of these medical examinations and a
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MDA exposure. As part of the medical
surveillance program, employers must
ensure that the examining physician
receives specific written information,
and that they obtain from the physician
a written opinion regarding the
employee’s medical results and
exposure limitations.
The recordkeeping provisions require
employers to establish and maintain
records of the monitoring data or
objective data they use to gain an
exemption from the Standard, as well as
exposure-monitoring, medical
surveillance, and medical removal
information collected under the
Standard. Employers also must make
any required record available to OSHA
compliance officers and NIOSH for
examination and copying, and provide
exposure-monitoring and medical
surveillance records to employees and
their designated representatives.
Finally, employers who cease to do
business without a successor employer
to receive and retain records for the
required periods must notify NIOSH at
least 90 days before disposing of the
records and transmit the records to
NIOSH if so requested.
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 to protect
employees, 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 proposes to extend the Office
of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
approval of the collection of information
requirements specified by the Standard
4,4′-Methylenedianiline in General
Industry (29 CFR 1910.1050), and to
decrease the total burden hour estimate
by two hours. The Agency will
summarize the comments submitted in
response to this notice, and will include
this summary in this request to OMB to
extend the approval of these
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Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved information
collection requirements.
Title: 4,4′-Methylenedianiline
Standard in General Industry (29 CFR
1910.1050).
OMB Number: 1218–0184.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 13.
Frequency of Recordkeeping: On
occasion; quarterly; semi-annually;
annually.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from five minutes (.08 hours) to provide
information to the physician to two
hours to perform periodic monitoring.
Total Annual Hours Requested: 293.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $19,037.
IV. Authority and Signature
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., 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)
and Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 5–
2002 (67 FR 65008).
Signed at Washington, DC, on August 24,
2006.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 06–7254 Filed 8–29–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
Maritime Advisory Committee for
Occupational Safety and Health; Notice
of Meeting
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Maritime Advisory Committee
for Occupational Safety and Health
(MACOSH); Notice of meeting.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Maritime Advisory
Committee for Occupational Safety and
Health (MACOSH) was established to
advise the Assistant Secretary of Labor
for OSHA on issued relating to
occupational safety and health in the
maritime industries. The purpose of this
Federal Register notice is to announce
to MACOSH meeting scheduled for
September 2006.
DATES: The Committee will meet on
September 26, 2006 from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., and September 27, 2006 from 8:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The Committee will meet at
the U.S. Department of Labor, 200

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Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20210. On Tuesday September 26,
the Committee will meet in conference
room C–5521 room #4; on Wednesday
September 27, the Committee will meet
in conference room N–3437 rooms A, B,
and C. Mail comments, views, or
statements in response to this notice to
Jim Maddux, Director, Office of
Maritime, OSHA, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N–3609, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210;
phone (202) 693–2086; FAX: (202) 693–
1663.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information about MACOSH,
and this meeting contact: Jim Maddux,
Director, Office of Maritime, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N–3609,
200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; phone (202)
693–2086. Individuals with disabilities
wishing to attend the meeting should
contact Vanessa L. Welch at (202) 693–
2086 no later than September 19, 2006
to obtain appropriate accommodations.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: All
MACOSH meetings, including work
group meetings, are open to the public.
All interested persons are invited to
attend the MACOSH meetings at the
times and places listed above. Since the
Committee has just been re-established,
and his nine new members, the agenda
will include discussions of OSHA’s
programs and activities such as:
Standards and guidance; enforcement;
cooperative programs; and science,
technology and medicine. The agenda
will also include discussions on forming
MACOSH work groups; identification of
maritime safety and health issues;
radiation screening of cargo containers
and general administrative procedures.
Public Participation: Written data,
views or comments for consideration by
MACOSH on the various agenda items
listed above should be submitted to
vanessa L. Welch at the address listed
above. Submissions received by
September 12, 2006, will be provided to
Committee members and will be
included in the record of the meeting.
Requests to make oral presentations to
the Committee may be granted as time
permits. anyone wishing to make an oral
presentation to the committee on any of
the agenda items listed above should
notify Vanessa L. Welch by September
12, 2006. The request should state the
amount of time desired, the capacity in
which the person will appear,, and a
brief outline of the content of the
presentation.
Authority: Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety
and Health, directed the preparation of this
notice under the authority granted by 6(b)(1)

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and 7(b) of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 655, 656), the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C.
App. 2), and 29 CFR part 1912.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 23rd day of
August, 2006.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 06–7237 Filed 8–29–06; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–13
(44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), and as part of
its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden, the
National Science Foundation invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on this information collection.
DATES: Written comments should be
received by October 30, 2006 to be
assured of consideration. Comments
received after that date will be
considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments
regarding the information collection and
requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request should be
addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 201 Wilson Blvd., Rm 295,
Arlington, VA 22230, or by e-mail to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Plimpton, the NSF Reports
Clearance Officer, phone (703) 292–
7556, or send e-mail to
[email protected]. Individuals who use
a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at
1–800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and
8 p.m., Eastern time, Monday through
Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Generic Clearance of the
Science Resources Statistics Survey
Improvement Projects.
OMB Approval Number: 3145–0174.
Expiration Date of Approval:
December 31, 2009.
Abstract: Generic Clearance of the
Science Resources Statistics Survey
Improvement Projects. The National
Science Foundation’s Division of
Science Resources Statistics (NSF/SRS)
needs to collect timely data on constant
changes in the science and technology
sector and to provide the most complete

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