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Technology and Training, as authorized
by Title IV, Section 404 of Public Law
102–575, October 30, 1992. The specific
duties of the Board are to (1) provide
leadership, policy advice, and
professional oversight to the Center; (2)
advise the Secretary on priorities and
the allocation of grants among the
activities of the Center; and (3) submit
an annual report to the President and
the Congress.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kirk
Cordell, Executive Director, National
Center for Preservation Technology and
Training, National Park Service, 645
College Avenue, Natchitoches,
Louisiana 71457, (318) 356–7444.
Dated: June 3, 2009.
Ken Salazar,
Secretary of the Interior.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0015]

The Hexavalent Chromium Standard;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements

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AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments
concerning its proposal to extend OMB
approval of the information collection
requirements contained in the
Hexavalent Chromium (VI) (29 CFR
1910.1026) Standard, and on a potential
change to burden hour and cost
estimates to the Standard’s employee
exposure notification requirement in
response to a court remand.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
August 21, 2009.
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
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three copies of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office,
Docket No. OSHA–2009–0015, U.S.
Department of Labor, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration,
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. to 4:45 p.m.,
e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number for the Information
Collection Request (ICR) (OSHA–2009–
0015). 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 contact Jamaa Hill at the
address below to obtain a copy of the
ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jamaa N. 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
(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
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clearly understood, and OSHA’s
estimate of the information collection
burden is accurate. The Occupational
Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the 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).
OSHA published the final rule
governing occupational exposure to
hexavalent chromium on February 28,
2006. The information collection
requirements specified in the Chromium
(VI) standard protect employees from
the adverse health effects that may
result from occupational exposure to
hexavalent chromium. The major
information collection requirements in
the Standard include conducting
employee exposure monitoring,
notifying employees of their chromium
(VI) exposures, implementing medical
surveillance of employees, providing
examining physicians with specific
information, implementing a respiratory
protection program, demarcating
regulated areas, implementing employee
information and training programs,
notifying laundry personnel of
chromium (VI) hazards, and
maintaining employees’ exposure
monitoring and medical surveillance
records for specific periods.
A number of parties subsequently
challenged several provisions of the
final CR(VI) standards in the United
States Court of Appeals for the Third
Circuit (see Public Citizen and Edison
Electric Institute v. U.S. Department of
Labor, XX F.3d XXXX (3d Cir. 2009)). In
its decision, the court found that OSHA
failed to explain why the Cr(VI)
standards require employee notification
only of chromium exposures exceeding
the permissible exposure limit, noting
that prior health standards required
notification of all exposure monitoring
results. The court remanded the
standards, and ordered OSHA to
provide an explanation for not
including notification of all exposure
monitoring results, or to revise the
standards appropriately. OSHA
currently is considering how to respond
to the court’s remand order.
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
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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 information
collection requirements contained in the
Chromium (VI) Standard (29 CFR
1910.1026).
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: Hexavalent Chromium Standard
(29 CFR 1910.1026).
OMB Number: 1218–0252.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; State,
Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 78,126.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Time per
response ranges from 15 minutes (.25
hour) to notify employees of exposure
monitoring results to 20 hours to
conduct exposure monitoring.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
725,319 hours.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $47,751,607.

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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–2009–0015).
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.
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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
Jordan Barab, Acting 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 31160).
Signed at Washington, DC, this 17th day of
June 2009.
Jordan Barab,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0012]

National Advisory Committee on
Occupational Safety and Health
(NACOSH); Announcement of Meeting
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Announcement of meeting.
SUMMARY: The National Advisory
Committee on Occupational Safety and
Health (NACOSH) will meet July 15,
2009, in Washington, DC.

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DATES: NACOSH meeting: NACOSH will
meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday,
July 15, 2009.
Submission of comments, requests to
speak, and requests for special
accommodations: Comments, requests
to speak at the NACOSH meeting, and
requests for special accommodations for
the NACOSH meeting must be
submitted (postmarked, sent,
transmitted) by July 3, 2009.
ADDRESSES: NACOSH meeting:
NACOSH will meet in Room N–3437 A/
B/C, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20210.
Submission of comments and requests
to speak: You may submit comments
and requests to speak at the NACOSH
meeting, identified by docket number
for this Federal Register notice (Docket
No. OSHA–2009–0012), by any one 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, does not exceed
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) 693–2550
(TTY (877) 889–5627). Deliveries (hand,
express mail, messenger and courier
service) are accepted during the
Department of Labor’s and OSHA
Docket Office’s normal business hours,
8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Requests for special accommodations:
Submit requests for special
accommodations for the NACOSH
meeting by hard copy, telephone, or email to Ms. Veneta Chatmon, OSHA,
Office of Communications, Room
N3647, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20210; telephone (202) 693–1999; email [email protected].
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number for this Federal Register notice
(Docket No. OSHA–2009–0012).
Because of security-related procedures,
submission by regular mail may result
in significant delay in their receipt. In
addition, please contact the OSHA
Docket Office for information about
security procedures for making
submissions by hand delivery, express
delivery, and messenger or courier

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