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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Maureen Katz,
Assistant Section Chief, Environmental
Enforcement Section, Environment and
Natural Resources Division.
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[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0028]

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Office of the Secretary
Bureau of International Labor Affairs;
Labor Advisory Committee for Trade
Negotiations and Trade Policy
Meeting notice.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(Pub. L. 92–463, as amended), notice is
hereby given of a meeting of the Labor
Advisory Committee for Trade
Negotiation and Trade Policy.
Date, Time, Place: December 8, 2009;
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m.; U.S. Department
of Labor, Secretary’s Conference Room,
200 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC.
Purpose: The meeting will include a
review and discussion of current issues
which influence U.S. trade policy.
Potential U.S. negotiating objectives and
bargaining positions in current and
anticipated trade negotiations will be
discussed. Pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2155(f)
it has been determined that the meeting
will be concerned with matters the
disclosure of which would seriously
compromise the Government’s
negotiating objectives or bargaining
positions. Accordingly, the meeting will
be closed to the public.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gregory Schoepfle, Director, Office of
Trade and Labor Affairs; Phone: (202)
693–4887.

Signed at Washington, DC, the 17th day of
November 2009.
Sandra Polaski,
Deputy Undersecretary, Bureau of
International Labor Affairs.
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Personal Protective Equipment
Standard for General Industry;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of the
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ACTION:

Occupational Safety and Health
Administration

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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments
concerning its proposal to extend the
Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Standard for General Industry (29 CFR
part 1910, subpart I).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
January 22, 2010.
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,
Docket No. OSHA–2009–0028, 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 ICR (OSHA–
2009–0028). 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.

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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 Theda Kenney at the
address below to obtain a copy of the
Information Collection Request (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:
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
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)
(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).
Subpart I specifies several paperwork
requirements. The following describes
the information collection requirements
in subpart I and addresses who will use
the information.
Hazard Assessment and Verification
(§ 1910.132(d))
Paragraph (d)(1) requires employers to
perform a hazard assessment of the
workplace to determine if hazards are
present, or likely to be present, that
make the use of PPE necessary. Where
such hazards are present, employers
must communicate PPE selection
decisions to each affected worker
(paragraph (d)(1)(ii)).

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Paragraph (d)(2) requires employers to
certify in writing that they have
performed the hazard assessment. The
certification must include the date and
the person certifying that the hazard
assessment was conducted, and the
identification of the workplace
evaluated (area or location).
The hazard assessment assures that
potential workplace hazards
necessitating PPE use have been
identified and the PPE selected is
appropriate for those hazards and the
affected workers. The required
certification of the hazard assessment
verifies that the required hazard
assessment was conducted.

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Training and Verification (§ 1910.132(f))
Section 1910.132(f) requires that
employers provide training for each
worker who is required to wear PPE.
Paragraph (f)(3) requires that employers
also provide retraining when there is
reason to believe that any previously
trained worker does not have the
understanding and skill to use PPE
properly. Circumstances where such
retraining is required include changes in
the workplace that render prior training
obsolete, changes in the types of PPE
used, and inadequacies in the worker’s
knowledge or use of PPE that indicate
the worker had not retained the
requisite understanding and skill.
Paragraph (f)(4) requires that
employers certify that workers have
received and understood the PPE
training required in § 1910.132(f). The
training certification must include the
name of the worker(s) trained, the
date(s) of training, and the subject of the
certification (i.e., a statement identifying
the document as a certification of
training in the use of PPE).
The training certification verifies that
workers have received the necessary
training and know how to properly use
PPE. OSHA compliance officers may
require employers to disclose the
certification records during an Agency
inspection.
The standards on PPE protection for
the eyes and face (29 CFR 1910.133),
head (29 CFR 1910.135, feet (29 CFR
1910.136)), and hands (29 CFR
1910.138) do not contain any separate
information collection requirements.
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
Personal Protective Equipment Standard
for General Industry (29 CFR part 1910,
subpart I). OSHA is proposing to
decrease the burden hours in the
currently approved information
collection request from 3,953,759 to
3,552,171 (a total decrease of 401,588
hours). This decrease is due to the
reduction in the percentage of
establishments with 20 or more workers
affected by the 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: Personal Protective Equipment
(PPE) for General Industry (29 CFR part
1910, subpart I).
OMB Number: 1218–0205.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; State,
Local, or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 3,500,000.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from one minute (.02 hour) to maintain
a training certification record to 29
hours to perform a hazard assessment.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
3,552,171.
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–2009–0028).
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
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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
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://
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 18th day of
November 2009.
Jordan Barab,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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