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Planning Staff, Two Constitution
Square, 145 N Street, NE., Suite 2E–508,
Washington, DC 20530.
Jerri Murray,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, United
States Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Request for Comments Under
Executive Order 12898
Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Policy, Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor
(DOL or Department) is committed to
Environmental Justice (EJ). President
Obama has renewed agencies’
environmental justice planning by
reinvigorating Executive Order 12898
(EO 12898), which tasked several
Federal agencies with making
environmental justice part of their
mission. The agencies were directed to
do so by identifying and addressing, as
appropriate, the disproportionately high
and adverse human health or
environmental effects of their programs,
policies, and activities on minority and
low-income populations. In August
2011, agencies listed in EO 12898
signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (EJ MOU), which, among
other things, commits agencies to
develop a final Environmental Justice
Strategy. The purpose of this notice is
to invite public comment on how the
Department of Labor can address
environmental justice through its
programs, policies, regulations or
reporting requirements.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before November 18, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
through http://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
All comments will be available for
public inspection at http://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: E.
Christi Cunningham, Associate
Assistant Secretary for Regulatory
Policy, U.S. Department of Labor, 200
Constitution Avenue, NW., Room S–
2312, Washington, DC 20210,
[email protected], (202) 693–
5959; (this is not a toll-free number).
Individuals with hearing impairments
may call 1–800–877–8339 (TTY/TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive
Order 12898 did not create a new legal
remedy. As an internal management tool
of the Executive Branch, the Order

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directs Federal agencies to put in place
procedures and take actions to make
achieving environmental justice part of
their basic mission. Former President
Clinton explained that Federal agencies
have the responsibility to promote
nondiscrimination in Federal programs
substantially affecting human health
and the environment. Accordingly,
agencies must implement actions to
identify and address disproportionately
high and adverse human health or
environmental effects of their programs,
policies, and activities on minority and
low-income populations and federallyrecognized Indian tribes. The
Department views Environmental
Justice from a workplace training, health
and safety perspective. The Department
is developing an Environmental Justice
Strategy that is in line with the mission
of the Department and Secretary Solis’
vision for the future: good jobs for
everyone. The vision of good jobs for
everyone includes ensuring that
workplaces are safe and healthy;
helping workers who are in low-wage
jobs or out of the labor market find a
path into middle-class jobs; and helping
middle-class families remain in the
middle-class. The Department’s
Environmental Justice Strategy focuses
on agencies directly involved with
worker training (the Employment
Training Administration (ETA)), and
health and safety issues (the
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) and the Mine
Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA)).
Request for Comments: As part of our
development of the DOL Environmental
Justice Strategy, we are soliciting public
comment. Your input is important to us.
Please provide responses that are
supported with specific examples and
data, where possible.
This request for public input will
inform development of the Department
of Labor’s draft Environmental Justice
Strategy. To facilitate receipt of the
information, the Department has created
an Internet portal specifically designed
to capture your input and suggestions,
http://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
The portal contains a series of questions
designed to gather information on how
DOL can best meet the requirements of
the Executive Order. The portal is open
to receive comments through November
18, 2011.
Questions for the Public: The
Department of Labor intends the
questions on the portal to represent a
starting point for discussion of the draft
Strategic Plan. The questions are meant
to initiate public dialogue, and are not
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be raised or addressed. The questions
were developed with the intent to probe
a range of areas.
When addressing these questions, the
Department of Labor requests that
commenters identify with specificity the
program, policy, regulation or reporting
requirement at issue, providing legal
citation(s) where available. The
Department also requests that
submitters provide, in as much detail as
possible, an explanation of why a
program, policy, regulation or reporting
requirement should be modified,
streamlined, expanded, or repealed as
well as specific suggestions of ways the
Department of Labor can better achieve
environmental justice. Whenever
possible, please provide empirical
evidence and data to support your
response.
The Department of Labor is issuing
this request solely to seek useful
information as it develops its plan.
While responses to this request do not
bind the Department of Labor to any
further actions related to the response,
all submissions will be made available
to the public on http://
dolenvironmentaljustice.ideascale.com/.
Authority: Executive Order 12898,
‘‘Federal Actions to Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and LowIncome Populations,’’ February 11, 1994. 59
FR 7629 (Feb. 16, 1994).
Dated: October 12, 2011.
William E. Spriggs,
Assistant Secretary for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0057]

Telecommunications; 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 comments.
AGENCY:

OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirement
contained in the Standard on
Telecommunications (29 CFR 1910.268).
The purpose of this requirement is to
ensure that workers have been trained
as required by the Standard to prevent
risk of death or serious injury.

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Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
December 27, 2011.
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
your comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2010–0057, 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–2010–
0057). 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.

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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 OSH
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).
Under the paperwork requirement
specified by paragraph (c) of the
Standard, an employer must certify that
his or her workers have been trained as
specified by the training provision of
the Standard. Specifically, employers
must prepare a certification record
which includes the identity of the
person trained, the signature of the
employer or the person who conducted
the training, and the date the training
was completed. The certification record
shall be prepared at the completion of
training and shall be maintained on file
for the duration of the employee’s
employment. The information collected
would be used by employers as well as
compliance officers to determine
whether employees have been trained
according to the requirements set forth
in 29 CFR 1910.268(c).
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
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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 requirement contained in the
Standard on Telecommunications (29
CFR 1910.268). In the existing ICR, the
Agency calculated burden hours and
cost for the training certification record
for all workers in the
telecommunications industry. The
burden hours have decreased based on
the number of telecommunication
workers installing and repairing lines
and equipment. Therefore, OSHA is
proposing to decrease the existing
burden hour estimate for the collection
of information requirement specified by
the Standard from 1,087 hours to 1,077
hours, a total difference of 10 hours. 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: Telecommunications (29 CFR
1910.268).
OMB Number: 1218–0225.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Not-for-profit organizations;
Federal Government; State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 659.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Two (2)
minutes for an establishment to disclose
training records and 2 minutes for the
training record to be generated.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 1,077.
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–2010–0057).
You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document
files electronically. If you wish to mail
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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 dates 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
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. 4–2010 (75 FR 55355).
Signed at Washington, DC, on October 20,
2011.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Modification Issued
Under the Antarctic Conservation Act
of 1978
AGENCY:

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Notice of permit modification
issued under the Antarctic Conservation
of 1978, Public Law 95–541.

ACTION:

The National Science
Foundation (NSF) is required to publish
notice of permit modifications issued
under the Antarctic Conservation Act of
1978. This is the required notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nadene G. Kennedy, Permit Office,
Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 755,
National Science Foundation, 4201
Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
September 19, 2011, the National
Science Foundation published a notice
in the Federal Register of a permit
application received. The permit was
issued on October 20, 2011 to:
Sam Feola Permit No. 2012–008.
SUMMARY:

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer.
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY
COMMISSION
[NRC–2011–0245]

Access Authorization Program for
Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.
ACTION: Regulatory guide; issuance.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is issuing a revision
to Regulatory Guide 5.66, ‘‘Access
Authorization Program for Nuclear
Power Plants.’’ This guide describes a
method that NRC staff considers
acceptable to implement the
requirements related to an access
authorization program.
ADDRESSES: You can access publicly
available documents related to this
regulatory guide using the following
methods:
• NRC’s Public Document Room
(PDR): The public may examine and
have copied, for a fee, publicly available
documents at the NRC’s PDR, O1–F21,
One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville
Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852.
• NRC’s Agencywide Documents
Access and Management System
(ADAMS): Publicly available documents
created or received at the NRC are
available online in the NRC Library at
http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/
adams.html. From this page, the public
can gain entry into ADAMS, which
provides text and image files of the
NRC’s public documents. If you do not
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have access to ADAMS or if there are
problems in accessing the documents
located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s
PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209,
301–415–4737, or by e-mail to
[email protected]. The regulatory
guide is available electronically under
ADAMS Accession Number
ML112060028. The regulatory analysis
may be found in ADAMS under
Accession Number ML112060032.
Regulatory guides are not
copyrighted, and NRC approval is not
required to reproduce them.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Richard Jervey, Regulatory Guide
Development Branch, Division of
Engineering, Office of Nuclear
Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington,
DC 20555–0001, telephone: 301–215–
7404; e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
The NRC is issuing a revision to an
existing guide in the NRC’s ‘‘Regulatory
Guide’’ series. This series was
developed to describe and make
available to the public information such
as methods that are acceptable to the
NRC staff for implementing specific
parts of the agency’s regulations,
techniques that the staff uses in
evaluating specific problems or
postulated accidents, and data that the
staff needs in its review of applications
for permits and licenses.
The NRC typically seeks public
comment on a draft version of a
regulatory guide by announcing its
availability for comment in the Federal
Register. However, the NRC may
directly issue a final regulatory guide
without a draft version or public
comment period if the changes to the
regulatory guide are non-substantive,
including changes to the Regulatory
Position section of the regulatory guide.
Issuance of regulatory guides using this
direct final process reduces processing
time and review costs. A regulatory
guide revised using this process is
called an Administratively Changed
Guide (ACG).
Revision 2 of RG 5.66 is being issued
directly as a final regulatory guide
because the changes between Revision 2
and Revision 1 are non-substantive.
Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.66 was written
to provide guidance to licensees for the
access authorization programs required
by Title 10 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (10 CFR), section 73.56,
‘‘Personnel Access Authorization
Requirements for Nuclear Power
Plants,’’ and 10 CFR part 26, ‘‘Fitness
for Duty Programs.’’ The RG was

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