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Connecticut—Connecticut Department
of Labor, 200 Folly Brook Boulevard,
Wethersfield 06109.
Delaware—Delaware Department of
Labor, Division of Employment &
Training, 4425 North Market Street,
Wilmington 19802.
District of Columbia—Department of
Employment Services, 64 New York
Avenue NE., Suite 3000, Washington
20002.
Florida—Agency for Workforce
Innovation, 107 E. Madison Street,
Suite 212, Caldwell Building,
Tallahassee 32399–4120.
Georgia—Georgia Department of Labor,
148 Andrew Young International
Boulevard NE., Suite 600, Atlanta
30303.
Hawaii—Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations, 830 Punchbowl
St., Room 321, Honolulu 96813.
Idaho—Department of Labor, 317 W.
Main Street, Boise 83735.
Illinois—Department of Employment
Security, 33 S. State Street, Chicago
60602–2802.
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Development, 10 North Senate
Avenue, Room SE 302, Indianapolis
46204–2277.
Iowa—Iowa Workforce Development,
1000 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines
50319.
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Kentucky—Department of Workforce
Investment, 275 East Main Street,
Frankfort 40601.
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Box 94094, 1001 N. 23rd Street, Baton
Rouge 70804.
Maine—Department of Labor, 45
Commerce Drive, P.O. Box 259,
Augusta 04332–0259.
Maryland—Department of Labor,
Licensing and Regulation, 1100 N.
Eutaw Street, Room 616, Baltimore
21201.
Massachusetts—Division of
Unemployment Insurance, 19
Staniford Street, 3rd Floor, Boston
02114.
Michigan—Department of Labor &
Economic Growth, Ottowa Building—
4th Floor, 611 W. Ottawa Street,
Lansing 48909.
Minnesota—Department of Employment
& Economic Development, 332
Minnesota Street, Suite E 200, St. Paul
55101–1351.
Mississippi—Employment Security
Commission, 1235 Echelon Parkway,
Jackson 39213.
Missouri—Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations, P.O. Box 504,
421 East Dunklin, Jefferson City
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Montana—Department of Labor and
Industry, 1327 Lockey, P.O. Box 1728,
Helena 59624–1728.
Nebraska—Department of Labor, 550
South 16th Street, Lincoln 68509.
Nevada—Department of Employment,
Training and Rehabilitation, 500 E.
Third Street, Carson City 89713.
New Hampshire—Department of
Employment Security, 32 S. Main
Street, Concord 03301.
New Jersey—Department of Labor and
Workforce Development, P.O. Box
110, John Fitch Plaza, Trenton 08625–
0110.
New Mexico—Department of Labor, 401
Broadway, NE., P.O. Box 1928,
Albuquerque 87103.
New York—Department of Labor, State
Campus-Building 12, Albany 12240.
North Carolina—Employment Security
Commission, P.O. Box 25903, Raleigh
27611.
North Dakota—Job Service North
Dakota, 1000 E. Divide Ave., P.O. Box
5507, Bismarck 58506–5507.
Ohio—Department of Jobs and Family
Services, 30 E. Broad Street, 32nd
Floor, Columbus 43215.
Oklahoma—Employment Security
Commission, 2401 North Lincoln
Boulevard, Oklahoma City 73105.
Oregon—Oregon Employment
Department, 875 Union St., NE.,
Salem 97311.
Pennsylvania—Department of Labor &
Industry, 7th and Forster Streets, L&I
Building, 17th Floor, Harrisburg
17121.
Puerto Rico—Department of Labor and
Human Resources, 505 Munoz Rivera
Avenue, P.O. Box 364452, Hato Rey
00936–4452.
Rhode Island—Department of Labor &
Training, 1511 Pontiac Avenue,
Cranston 02920.
South Carolina—Employment Security
Commission, P.O. Box 995, Columbia
29202.
South Dakota—Department of Labor,
700 Governors Drive, Pierre 57501.
Tennessee—Department of Labor and
Workforce Development, 710 James
Robertson Parkway, 8th Floor—
Andrew Johnson Tower, Nashville
37243 .
Texas—Texas Workforce Commission,
101 East 15th Street, Room 618,
Austin 78778.
Utah—Department of Workforce
Services, 140 East 300 South, Salt
Lake City 84145–0249.
Vermont—Department of Labor, 5 Green
Mountain Drive, P.O. Box 488,
Montpelier 05601–0488.
Virginia—Virginia Employment
Commission, 703 East Main Street,
Richmond 23219.

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Washington—Employment Security
Department, P.O. Box 9046, Olympia
98507–9046.
West Virginia—Bureau of Employment
Programs, 112 California Ave.,
Charleston 25305.
Wisconsin—Department of Workforce
Development, 201 East Washington
Street, Room A400, Madison 53702.
Wyoming—Department of Employment,
1510 E. Pershing Boulevard, 2nd
Floor, Cheyenne 82002.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 1 day of
October 2007.
Emily Stover DeRocco,
Assistant Secretary, Employment & Training
Administration.
[FR Doc. E7–19707 Filed 10–4–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2007–0062]

Standard on Powered Platforms for
Building Maintenance; 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
comment concerning its proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in its Standard on Powered
Platforms for Building Maintenance (29
CFR 1910.66).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
December 4, 2007.
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
three copies of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office,
OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2007–0062,
U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration,
Room N–2625, 200 Constitution

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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. to 4:45 p.m.,
EST.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number for the ICR (OSHA–
2007–0062). 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 through 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:

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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 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
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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 (e)(9) of the Standard
requires that employers develop and
implement a written emergency action
plan for each type of powered platform
operation. The plan must explain the
emergency procedures that employees
are to follow if they encounter a
disruption of the power supply,
equipment failure, or other emergency.
Prior to operating a powered platform,
employers must notify employees how
they can inform themselves about alarm
systems and emergency escape routes,
and emergency procedures that pertain
to the building on which they will be
working. Employers are to review with
each employee those parts of the
emergency action plan that the
employee must know to ensure their
protection during an emergency; these
reviews must occur when the employee
receives an initial assignment involving
a powered platform operation and after
the employer revises the emergency
action plan.
According to paragraph (f)(5)(i)(C),
employers must affix a load rating plate
to a conspicuous location on each
suspended unit that states the unit’s
weight and its rated load capacity.
Paragraph (f)(5)(ii)(N) requires
employers to mount each emergency
electric operating device in a secured
compartment and label the device with
instructions for its use. After installing
a suspension wire rope, paragraphs
(f)(7)(vi) and (f)(7)(vii) mandate that
employers attach a corrosion-resistant
tag with specified information to one of
the wire rope fastenings if the rope is to
remain at one location. In addition,
paragraph (f)(7)(viii) requires employers
who resocket a wire rope to either stamp
specified information on the original tag
or put that information on a
supplemental tag and attach it to the
fastening.
Paragraphs (g)(2)(i) and (g)(2)(ii)
require that building owners, at least
annually, have a competent person:
Inspect the supporting structures of
their buildings; inspect and, if
necessary, test the components of the
powered platforms, including control
systems; inspect/test components
subject to wear (e.g., wire ropes,
bearings, gears, and governors); and
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Under paragraph (g)(2)(iii), building
owners must maintain and, on request,
disclose to OSHA a written certification
record of these inspections/tests; this
record must include the date of the
inspection/test, the signature of the
competent person who performed it,
and the number/identifier of the
building support structure and
equipment inspected/tested.
Paragraph (g)(3)(i) mandates that
building owners use a competent person
to inspect and, if necessary, test each
powered platform facility according to
the manufacturer’s recommendations
every 30 days, or prior to use if the work
cycle is less than 30 days. Under
paragraph (g)(3)(ii), building owners
must maintain and, on request, disclose
to the Agency a written certification
record of these inspections/tests; this
record is to include the date of the
inspection/test, the signature of the
competent person who performed it,
and the number/identifier of the
powered platform facility inspected/
tested.
According to paragraph (g)(5)(iii),
building owners must use a competent
person to thoroughly inspect suspension
wire ropes for a number of specified
conditions once a month, or before
placing the wire ropes into service if the
ropes are inactive for 30 days or longer.
Paragraph (g)(5)(v) requires building
owners to maintain and, on request,
disclose to OSHA a written certification
record of these monthly inspections;
this record must consist of the date of
the inspection, the signature of the
competent person who performed it,
and the number/identifier of the wire
rope inspected.
Paragraph (i)(1)(ii) requires that all
employees who operate working
platforms be trained in the following:
(A) Recognition of, and preventive
measures for, the safety hazards
associated with their individual work
tasks; (B) General recognition and
prevention of safety hazards associated
with the use of working platforms; (C)
Emergency action plan procedures
required in paragraph (e)(9) of this
section; (D) Work procedures required
in paragraph (i)(1)((iv) of this section;
(E) Personal fall arrest system
inspection, care, use and system
performance. Paragraph (1)(1)(iii)
requires that training of employees in
the operation and inspection of working
platforms be performed by a competent
person. Paragraph (i)(1)(iv) requires that
written work procedures for the
operation, safe use and inspection of
working platforms be provided for
employee training.
Upon completion of this training,
paragraph (i)(1)(v) specifies that

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employers must prepare a written
certification that includes the identity of
the employee trained, the signature of
the employer or the trainer, and the date
the employee completed the training. In
addition, the employer must maintain
an employee’s training certificate for the
duration of their employment and, on
request, make it available to OSHA.
Emergency action plans allow
employers and employees to anticipate,
and effectively respond to, emergencies
that may arise during powered platform
operations. Affixing load rating plates to
suspended units, instructions to
emergency electric operating devices,
and tags to wire rope fasteners prevent
workplace accidents by providing
information to employers and
employees regarding the conditions
under which they can safely operate
these system components. Requiring
building owners to establish and
maintain written certification of
inspections and testing conducted on
the supporting structures of buildings,
powered platform systems, and
suspension wire ropes provides
employers and employees with
assurance that they can operate safely
from the buildings using equipment that
is in safe operating condition.
The training requirements increase
employee safety by allowing them to
develop the skills and knowledge
necessary to effectively operate, use,
and inspect powered platforms,
recognize and prevent safety hazards
associated with platform operation,
respond appropriately under emergency
conditions, and maintain and use their
fall protection arrest system. Training
certification permits employers to
review the training provided to their
employees, thereby ensuring that the
employees received the necessary
training. In addition, the paperwork
requirements specified by the Standard
provide the most efficient means for an
OSHA compliance officer to determine
whether or not employers and building
owners are providing the required
notification, certification, and 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
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• 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 information
collection requirements contained in the
Standard on Powered Platforms for
Building Maintenance (29 CFR 1910.66).
The Agency is requesting to retain its
current burden hour total of 135,656
hours associated with this Standard.
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: Standard on Powered Platforms
for Building Maintenance (29 CFR
1910.66).
OMB Number: 1218–0121.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 900.
Frequency: On occasion; initially,
monthly, annually.
Average Time Per Response: Varies
from 2 minutes (.03 hour) to disclose
certification records to 10 hours to
inspect/test both a powered platform
facility and its suspension wire ropes,
and to prepare the certification record.
Total Burden Hours Requested:
135,656.
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 for the
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2007–0062).
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 the
Agency can attach them to your
comments.
Because of security procedures, the
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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://
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
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. 5–2007 (72 FR 31159).
Signed at Washington, DC, on October 2,
2007.
Edwin G. Foulke, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Equal Opportunities in
Science and Engineering (CEOSE);
Notice of Meeting—Correction
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation announced the meeting of
the Committee on Equal Opportunities
in Science and Engineering (1173) on
October 16 and 17, 2007 at the National
Science Foundation. This notice was
published on September 21, 2007, on
page 54080, FR Doc. E7–18597.
Below is the corrected agenda. It
contains the following changes:
• On October 16 the American
Community Survey has been removed

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