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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0009]

Presence Sensing Device Initiation
(PSDI); Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.

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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
comment concerning its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in its Standard on Presence
Sensing Device Initiation (29 CFR
1910.217(h)).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
17, 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,
OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2010–0009,
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–
2010–0009). 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
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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 website.
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 (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
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).
Paragraph 1910.217(h) regulates the
use of presence sensing devices (‘‘PSDs’’)
used to initiate the operation of
mechanical power presses; a PSD (e.g.,
a photoelectric field or curtain)
automatically stops the stroke of a
mechanical power press when the
device detects an operator entering a
danger zone near the press. A
mechanical power press using Presence
Sensing Device Initiation (PSDI)
automatically starts (initiates) the stroke
when the device detects no operator
within the danger zone near the press.
The certification/validation of safety
systems for PSDI shall consider the
press, controls, safeguards, operator,
and environment as an integrated

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system which shall comply with 29 CFR
1910.217(a) through (h). Accordingly,
the Standard protects workers from
serious crush injuries, amputations, and
death.
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
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
Standard on Presence Sensing Device
Initiation (PSDI) (29 CFR 1910.217(h)).
The Agency is requesting to retain its
current burden hour estimate of 1 hour.
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 information
collection.
Title: Presence Sensing Device
Initiation (PSDI) (29 CFR 1910.217(h)).
OMB Number: 1218–0143.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 0.
Frequency of Responses: Initially,
Annually; On occasion.
Average Time per Response: 0.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1.
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–2010–0009).
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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
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 website.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the http://
www.regulations.gov website 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 website, and for
assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature

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David Michaels, PhD, MPH, 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 March 9,
2010.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Comment Request
AGENCY:

Bureau of Labor Statistics,

DOL.
ACTION: Notice of solicitation of
comments.
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) is responsible for developing and
implementing the collection of new data
on green jobs. The resulting information
will assist policymakers in planning
policy initiatives and understanding
their impact on the labor market, and
will facilitate the monitoring of labor
market developments related to
protecting the environment and
conserving natural resources. BLS
activities also will be useful to State
labor market information offices in their
efforts to meet the need for information
for State policymakers, businesses, and
job seekers.
BLS is currently soliciting comments
on the definition BLS will use in
measuring green jobs, the industry list,
or any other aspect of the information
provided in this Notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
ADDRESSES section of this notice on or
before April 30, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Richard
Clayton, Office of Industry Employment
Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Room 4840, 2 Massachusetts Avenue,
NE., Washington, DC 20212 or by e-mail
to: [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard Clayton, Office of Industry
Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, telephone number 202–691–
5185 (this is not a toll-free number), or
by e-mail to: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background
BLS is responsible for developing and
implementing the collection of new data
on green jobs. The goal is to develop
information on: (1) The number of and
trend over time in green jobs, (2) the
industrial, occupational, and geographic
distribution of the jobs, and (3) the
wages of the workers in these jobs.
The resulting information will assist
policymakers in planning policy
initiatives and understanding their
impact on the labor market, and will
facilitate the monitoring of labor market
developments related to protecting the
environment and conserving natural
resources. BLS activities also will be
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for information for State policymakers,
businesses, and job seekers.
There is no widely accepted standard
definition of ‘‘green jobs.’’ While this
topic is of interest across government,
academia, and the business community,
various studies define the term
differently. BLS reviewed a wide range
of studies, including several surveys
conducted by State Workforce Agencies
and work conducted internationally.
BLS also consulted with a variety of
stakeholders, including Federal
agencies, the State labor market
information offices, and industry
groups. The common thread through the
studies and discussions is that green
jobs are jobs related to preserving or
restoring the environment. Several
categories of green economic activity are
nearly universally cited: renewable
energy, energy efficiency, pollution
prevention and clean-up, and natural
resources conservation.
The studies reviewed showed that
neither of the standard classification
systems used in BLS data, the North
American Industry Classification
System (NAICS) and the Standard
Occupational Classification (SOC),
identifies a green or environmental
grouping of industries or occupations.
In response to the challenge of
defining green jobs, BLS has adopted
the approach of identifying
environmental economic activity and
counting the associated jobs. These jobs
will be found across a range of
industries and occupations.
BLS plans to use two approaches in
identifying environmental economic
activity and measuring associated jobs:
(1) The output approach, which
identifies establishments that produce
green goods and services and counts the
associated jobs, and (2) the process
approach, which identifies
establishments that use
environmentally-friendly production
processes and practices and counts the
associated jobs.
In the output approach, BLS is
concerned with jobs related to
producing a specific set of goods and
services, and is not concerned with the
environmental impact of the production
process. The output approach alone,
however, would not cover some
activities and associated jobs that
favorably impact the environment
although the product or service
produced is itself not ‘‘green.’’ The
process approach is intended to address
this aspect of green jobs. In the process
approach, BLS is concerned with
whether the production process has a
favorable impact on the environment,
but not with what good or service is
produced. The process approach is

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