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The Standard specifies a number of
paperwork requirements. The following
is a brief description of the collection of
information requirements contained in
the Formaldehyde Standard. The
Formaldehyde Standard requires
employers to conduct worker exposure
monitoring to determine workers’
exposure to Formaldehyde, notify
workers of their formaldehyde
exposures, provide medical surveillance
to workers, provide examining
physicians with specific information,
ensure that workers receive a copy of
their medical examination results,
maintain workers’ exposure 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 workers, and their authorized
representatives.

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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 collection of
information requirements contained in
the Standard on Formaldehyde (29 CFR
1910.1048). The Agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease of 191,541 hours
(from 519,076 hours to 327,535 hours).
The primary reasons for the reduction
are a decrease in the number of workers
requiring medical surveillance from
370,610 to 205,333 and a decrease in the
overall number of establishments from
112,638 to 103,511. The establishment
decrease resulted in fewer medical
examinations, training sessions, and
exposure measurements.
The Agency is also requesting a cost
decrease of $12,699,342 from
$55,325,688 to $42,626,346. The cost
decrease is primarily the result of
reducing the number of establishments,
which also resulted in a reduction in the
number of workers. Although the
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cost of medical examinations increased
from $130 to $180. Additionally, the
cost of monitoring samples has
increased from $42 to $45.
OSHA will summarize the comments
submitted in response to this notice,
and will include this summary in its
request to OMB to extend the approval
of the information collection
requirements contained in the
Formaldehyde Standard (29 CFR
1910.1048).
Type of Review: Extension of
currently approved collections.
Title: Formaldehyde Standard (29
CFR 1910.1048).
OMB Number: 1218–0145.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 103,511.
Total Responses: 1,186,422.
Frequency: On occasion.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
from 5 minutes (.08 hour) for employers
(clerical/secretarial staff) to maintain
records to 1 hour for an employee to
undergo a medical examination.
Total Burden Hours: 327,535.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $42,626,346.

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 publically 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 through 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.

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 e-Rulemaking Portal; (2) by
facsimile (FAX); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other
materials must identify the Agency
name and the OSHA docket number for
the ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2009–0041).
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
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

Signed at Washington, DC, on March 30,
2010.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.

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V. Authority and Signature
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 31160).

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0018]

Asbestos in General Industry;
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.
SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in its Standard on Asbestos in
General Industry (29 CFR 1910.1001).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by June
4, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may
submit comments and attachments
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, which is the

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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–2010–0018,
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 Docket
No. OSHA–2010–0018). 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 Jamaa N. Hill at
the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Todd Owen or Jamaa N. Hill, 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,
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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 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). 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).
The basic purpose of the information
collection requirements in the Standard
is to document that employers in
general industry are providing their
workers with protection from hazardous
asbestos exposure. Asbestos exposure
results in asbestosis, an emphysema-like
condition; lung cancer; mesothelioma;
and gastrointestinal cancer.
Several provisions of the Standard
specify paperwork requirements,
including:
Implementing an exposure monitoring
program that notifies workers of their
exposure monitoring results;
establishing a written compliance
program; and informing laundry
personnel of the requirement to prevent
release of airborne asbestos above the
time-weighted average and excursion
limit. Other provisions associated with
paperwork requirements include:
Maintaining records of information
obtained concerning the presence,
location, and quantity of asbestoscontaining materials (ACMs) and/or
presumed asbestos-containing materials
(PACMs) in a building/facility; notifying
housekeeping workers of the presence
and location of ACMs and PACMs in
areas they may contact during their
work; posting warning signs
demarcating regulated areas; posting
signs in mechanical rooms/areas that
workers may enter and that contain
ACMs and PACMs, informing them of
the identity and location of these
materials and work practices that
prevent disturbing the materials; and
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holding such products. Additional
provisions that contain paperwork
requirements include: Developing
specific information and training
programs for workers; using
information, data, and analyses to
demonstrate that PACMs do not contain
asbestos; providing medical surveillance
for workers potentially exposed to
ACMs and/or PACMs, including
administering a worker medical
questionnaire, providing information to
the examining physician, and providing
the physician’s written opinion to the
worker; maintaining exposure
monitoring records, objective data used
for exposure determinations, and
medical surveillance; making specified
records (e.g., exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records) available
to designated parties; and transferring
exposure monitoring and medical
surveillance records to the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH) on cessation of
business, if so requested by NIOSH.
These paperwork requirements permit
employers, workers and their designated
representatives, OSHA, and other
specified parties to determine the
effectiveness of an employer’s asbestoscontrol program. Accordingly, the
requirements ensure that workers
exposed to asbestos receive all of the
protection afforded by the Standard.
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 Asbestos in General
Industry (29 CFR 1910.1001). The
Agency is requesting to reduce the
burden hours associated with the
Standard from 23,849 to 11,933 for a
total reduction of 11,916 burden hours.
The primary reason for this reduction is
that the estimated number of affected

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facilities covered by this Standard has
been reduced.
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: Asbestos in General Industry (29
CFR 1910.1001).
OMB Number: 1218–0133.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 243.
Frequency: Annually; semi-annually.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from 5 minutes to maintain records to
1.5 hours for workers to receive training
or medical evaluations.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
11,933.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $862,347.
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 (OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2010–
0018). 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
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,

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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.
Electronic copies of this Federal
Register document are available at
http://www.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
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 31160).
Signed at Washington, DC, on March 30,
2010.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice (10–038)]

NASA Advisory Council; Aeronautics
Committee; Meeting
AGENCY: National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public
Law 92–463, as amended, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
announces a meeting of the Aeronautics
Committee of the NASA Advisory
Council. The meeting will be held for
the purpose of soliciting from the
aeronautics community and other
persons research and technical
information relevant to program
planning.
DATES: Friday, April 23, 2010, 8 a.m. to
1 p.m.; Eastern Daylight Time.
ADDRESSES: NASA Langley Research
Center, Building 1219, Room 225,

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Hampton, Virginia (Note that visitors
will need to go to the LaRC Badge &
Pass Office, which is to the right of the
main gate, to be granted access)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Susan L. Minor, Executive Secretary for
the Aeronautics Committee, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546,
(202) 358–0566, or
[email protected].

The
meeting will be open to the public up
to the capacity of the room. The agenda
for the meeting includes the following
topics:
• Langley Research Center Overview.
• Aeronautics Test Program overview
and strategic plan.
• Unmanned Aircraft Systems
research planning.
• Validation and Verification research
planning.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

It is imperative that these meetings be
held on this date to accommodate the
scheduling priorities of the key
participants. Attendees will be
requested to comply with NASA
security requirements, including the
presentation of a valid picture ID, before
receiving an access badge. Foreign
nationals attending this meeting will be
required to provide a copy of their
passport, visa, or green card in addition
to providing the following information
no less than 10 working days prior to
the meeting: Full name; gender; date/
place of birth; citizenship; visa/green
card information (number, type,
expiration date); passport information
(number, country, expiration date);
employer/affiliation information (name
of institution, address, country, phone);
and title/position of attendee. To
expedite admittance, attendees with
U.S. citizenship can provide identifying
information 3 working days in advance
by contacting Cheryl Cleghorn via email at [email protected] or by
telephone at (757) 864–2497. Persons
with disabilities who require assistance
should indicate this. Any person
interested in participating in the
meeting by Webex and telephone
should contact Ms. Susan L. Minor at
(202) 358–0566 for the Web link, tollfree number and passcode.
Dated: March 30, 2010.
P. Diane Rausch,
Advisory Committee Management Officer,
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
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