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monitoring and medical records for
specific periods, and provide access to
these records by OSHA, the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, the affected employees, and
their authorized representatives.
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 the Agency’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.
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OSHA is requesting OMB to extend its
approval of the information collection
requirements contained in the
Formaldehyde Standard, including an
increase of 28,664 burden hours. 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
currently approved information
collection requirement.
Title: Formaldehyde Standard (29
CFR 1910.1048).
OMB Number: 1218–0145.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 112,638.
Frequency: On occasion, semiannually, annually.
Total Responses: 1,903,049.
Average Time per Response: Time per
response ranges from 5 minutes for
employers to maintain exposure
monitoring and medical records for each
employee to 1 hour for employees to
receive a medical examination.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
519,076 hours.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $55,325,688.
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
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facsimile; or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the Agency name
and the OSHA docket number for this
ICR (OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2007–
0008). You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document
files electronically. If you wish to mail
additional materials in reference to an
electronic or a 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 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://
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.
Electronic copies of this Federal
Register document are available at
http://regulations.gov. This document,
as well as news releases and other
relevant information, also are available
at OSHA’s Web page at http://
www.osha.gov.
V. 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
et seq.) and Secretary of Labor’s Order
No. 5–2002 (67 FR 65008).

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Signed at Washington, DC, on February 12,
2007.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. E7–2665 Filed 2–14–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2007–0009]

Regulation on Access to Employee
Exposure and Medical Records;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
contained in its Regulation on Access to
Employee Exposure and Medical
Records (29 CFR 1910.1020).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent or received) by April
16, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
by any of the following methods:
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.
Fax: 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: You must
submit three copies of your comments
and attachments to the OSHA Docket
Office, OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2007–
0009, U.S. Department of Labor, 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.–4:45 p.m., e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number for this information
collection request (ICR) (OSHA Docket
No. OSHA–2007–0009). All comments,
including any personal information you
provide, are placed in the public docket
without change and may be made

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available online at http://
www.regulations.gov. For further
information on submitting comments
see the ‘‘Public Participation’’ heading
in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document.
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 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 website.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Todd Owen at the
address below to obtain a copy of the
ICR.
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:
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 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) authorizes information
collection requirements 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).
Under the authority granted by the
Act, OSHA published a health
regulation governing access to employee
exposure monitoring data and medical
records. This regulation does not require
employers to collect any information or
to establish any new systems of records.
Rather, it requires that employers
provide employees, their designated
representatives, and OSHA with access
to employee exposure monitoring and
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resulting from these records. In this
regard, the regulation specifies
requirements for record access, record
retention, employee information, trade
secret management, and record transfer.
Accordingly, the Agency attributes the
burden hours and costs associated with
exposure monitoring and measurement,
medical surveillance, and the other
activities required to generate the data
governed by the regulation to the health
standards that specify these activities;
therefore, OSHA did not include these
burden hours and costs in this ICR.
Access to exposure and medical
information enables employees and
their designated representatives to
become directly involved in identifying
and controlling occupational health
hazards, as well as managing and
preventing occupationally-related
health impairment and disease.
Providing the Agency with access to the
records permits it to ascertain whether
or not employers are complying with
the regulation, as well as the
recordkeeping requirements of its other
health standards; therefore, OSHA
access provides additional assurance
that employees and their designated
representatives are able to obtain the
data they need to conduct their
analyses.
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 is requesting that OMB extend
its approval of the collection of
information requirements specified by
the Regulation on Access to Employee
Exposure and Medical Records (29 CFR
1910.1020). This request includes an
increase of 158,880 burden hours. The
Agency will summarize the comments
submitted in response to this notice,
and will include this summary in its
request to OMB to extend the approval

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of these information collection
requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved information
collection requirements.
Title: Access to Employee Exposure
and Medical Records (29 CFR
1910.1020).
OMB Number: 1218–0065.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal government; State, local,
or tribal governments.
Number of Respondents: 734,820.
Frequency of Recordkeeping: On
occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from five minutes (.08 hour) for
employers to provide OSHA with access
to records to 10 minutes (.17 hour) to
maintain employee records.
Total Annual Hours Requested:
720,187.
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 (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 (OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2007–
0009). You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document
files electronically. If, instead, you wish
to mail additional materials in reference
to an electronic or fax submission, you
must submit them to the OSHA Docket
Office (see ADDRESSES section). The
additional materials must clearly
identify your electronic comments by
your name, date, and docket number so
OSHA can attach them to your
comments.
Because of security-related
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

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the http://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download through http://
www.regulations.gov. All submissions,
including copyrighted material, are
available for inspection and copying at
the OSHA Docket Office. Information on
using the http://regulations.gov website
to submit comments and access the
docket is available at the website’s
‘‘User Tips’’ link. Contact the OSHA
Docket Office for information about
materials not available through the
website, and for assistance in using the
internet to locate docket submissions.
Electronic copies of this Federal
Register document are available at
http://regulations.gov. This document,
as well as news releases and other
relevant information, also are available
at OSHA’s webpage at http://
www.osha.gov.
V. 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 February 12,
2007.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. E7–2673 Filed 2–14–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2007–0010]

Federal Advisory Council on
Occupational Safety and Health
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Announcement of meeting.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Federal Advisory Council
on Occupational Safety and Health
(FACOSH) will meet March 1, 2007, in
Washington, DC.
DATES:
FACOSH meeting: FACOSH will meet
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Thursday, March
1, 2007.
Submission of comments and requests
to speak: Comments and requests to
speak at the FACOSH meeting must be
received by February 22, 2007.
ADDRESSES:
FACOSH meeting: FACOSH will meet
in Rooms N–3437 A/B/C, U.S.

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Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Submission of comments and requests
to speak: Comments and requests to
speak at the FACOSH meeting,
identified by OSHA Docket No. 2007–
0010, may be submitted by any 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, is not longer
than 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) 693–2350
(OSHA’s TTY number is (877) 889–
5627). 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.–4:45 p.m., e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number for this Federal Register notice
(Docket No. OSHA–2007–0010).
Submissions in response to this Federal
Register notice, including personal
information provided, will be posted
without change at: http://
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA
cautions interested parties about
submitting personal information such as
social security numbers and birth dates.
Because of security-related procedures,
submissions by regular mail may result
in a significant delay in their receipt.
Please contact the OSHA Docket Office,
at the address above, for information
about security procedures for making
submissions by hand delivery, express
delivery, and messenger or courier
service. For additional information on
submitting comments and requests to
speak, see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section below.
Docket: To read or download
submissions, go to http://
www.regulations.gov. All documents in
the docket are listed in the http://
www.regulations.gov index. Although
listed in the index, some documents
(e.g., copyrighted material) are not
publicly available to read or download
through http://www.regulations.gov. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office
at the address above.

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For
general information: Diane Brayden,
Director, OSHA, Office of Federal
Agency Programs, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N–3622, 200 Constitution
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210;
telephone (202) 693–2122; fax (202)
693–1685; e-mail [email protected]. For
special accommodations for the
FACOSH meeting: Veneta Chatmon,
OSHA, Office of Communications,
Room N–3647, U.S. Department of
Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)
693–1999.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FACOSH
will meet Thursday, March 1, 2007, in
Washington, DC. All FACOSH meetings
are open to the public.
FACOSH is authorized by section 19
of the Occupational Safety and Health
Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 668),
5 U.S.C. 7902, and Executive Order
12196 to advise the Secretary of Labor
on all matters relating to the
occupational safety and health of
Federal employees (Ex. 2). This includes
providing advice on how to reduce and
keep to a minimum the number of
injuries and illnesses in the Federal
workforce and how to encourage the
establishment and maintenance of
effective occupational safety and health
programs in each Federal Department
and Agency (Ex. 3).
The tentative agenda for the FACOSH
meeting includes:
• Safety, Health and Return-toEmployment (SHARE) Initiative,
• Recordkeeping,
• Training,
• Field Federal Safety and Health
Councils, and
• Facility Safety and Health Design.
FACOSH meetings are transcribed
and detailed minutes of the meetings are
prepared. Meeting transcripts and
minutes are included in the official
record of FACOSH meetings.
Interested parties may submit a
request to make an oral presentation to
FACOSH by one of the methods listed
in the ADDRESSES section above. The
request must state the amount of time
requested to speak, the interest
represented (e.g., business or
organization name), if any, and a brief
outline of the presentation. Requests to
address FACOSH may be granted as
time permits and at the discretion of the
FACOSH chair.
Interested parties also may submit
comments, including data and other
information, using any of the methods
listed in the ADDRESSES section above.
OSHA will provide all submissions to
FACOSH members.
Individuals who need special
accommodations and wish to attend the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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