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who is cited by the Attorney General,
upon the recommendation of the Medal
of Valor Review Board, for extraordinary
valor above and beyond the call of duty.
The Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor
is the highest national award given to a
public safety officer in recognition of
their bravery and altruistic acts of valor
to protect and save the lives of others.
Nomination(s) for this award is
voluntary. Nominations are received
through the Internet, or postal mail. The
Medal of Valor program is governed by
F1.R.802, the ‘‘Public Safety Officer
Medal of Valor Act of 2001.’’
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond/reply: It is estimated that it will
take the 225 applicants under the Medal
of Valor approximately 25 minutes to
complete the application/nomination
form.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: The total estimated annual
hour burden to complete the
application/nomination form is 93.75
hours.
If additional information is required
please contact Jerri Murray, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, 145 N Street NE., Room
3W–1407B, Washington, DC 20530.
Dated: November 1, 2012.
Jerri Murray,
Department Clearance Officer, PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
[FR Doc. 2012–27037 Filed 11–5–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0039]

The Standard on Process Safety
Management of Highly Hazardous
Chemicals; 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 requirements
specified in the Standard on Process
Safety Management of Highly
Hazardous Chemicals.

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Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
January 7, 2013.
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 a
copy of your comments and attachments
to the OSHA Docket Office, OSHA
Docket No. OSHA–2012–0039, 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 (OSHA–2012–0039) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). 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 from 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–3468, 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
(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 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).
The collections of information in the
Standard are necessary for
implementation of the requirements of
the Standard. The information is used
by employers to ensure that processes
using highly hazardous chemicals with
the potential of a catastrophic release
are operated as safely as possible. The
employer must thoroughly consider all
facets of a process, as well as the
involvement of employees in that
process. Employers analyze processes so
that they can identify, evaluate and
control problems that could lead to a
major release, fire, or explosion.
The major information collection
requirements in this Standard include:
Consulting with workers and their
representatives on and providing them
access to process hazard analyses and
the development of other elements of
the standard; developing a written
action plan for implementation of
employee participation in process
hazard analyses and other elements of
the standard; completing a compilation
of written process safety information;
performing a process hazard analysis;
documenting actions taken to resolve
process hazard analysis team findings
and recommendations; updating,
revalidating and retaining the process
hazard analysis; developing and
implementing written operating

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procedures and making these
procedures accessible to workers;
reviewing operating procedures as often
as necessary and certifying the
procedures annually; developing and
implementing safe work practices;
preparing training records; informing
contract employers of known hazards
and applicable provisions of the
emergency action plan; maintaining a
contract worker injury and illness log;
establishing written procedures to
maintain the integrity of and
documenting inspections and tests of
process equipment; providing
information on permits issued for hot
work operations; establishing and
implementing written procedures to
manage changes; preparing reports at
the conclusion of incident
investigations, documenting resolutions
and corrective measures, and reviewing
the reports with affected personnel;
establishing and implementing an
emergency action plan; developing a
compliance audit report and certifying
compliance; and disclosing information
necessary to comply with the Standard
to persons responsible for compiling
process safety information.

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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 an adjustment
increase in burden hours from 4,795,505
hours to 4,862,147 hours (a total
increase of 66,642 hours). Although the
number of estimated establishments and
employees covered by the Standard
decreased based on updated data, the
estimated number of new and existing
PSM processes increased, resulting in a
burden hour increase.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: The Standard on Process Safety
Management of Highly Hazardous
Chemicals (29 CFR 1910.119).
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Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; State,
Local or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 7,642.
Frequency of Response: On occasion;
Annually.
Total Responses: 745,316.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from three minutes to generate and
maintain training records to 2,454 hours
to establish and implement a
management-of-change program.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
4,862,147.
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–2012–0039).
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 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://
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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, Ph.D., 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. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on November 1,
2012.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0011]

Advisory Committee on Construction
Safety and Health (ACCSH)
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Announcement of ACCSH and
ACCSH Work Group meetings and
renewal of the ACCSH Charter.
AGENCY:

ACCSH will meet November
29–30, 2012, in Washington, DC. In
conjunction with the ACCSH meeting,
ACCSH Work Groups will meet
November 27–28, 2012. OSHA also
announces the renewal of the ACCSH
Charter for two years.
DATES: ACCSH meeting: ACCSH will
meet from 8 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Thursday,
November 29, 2012, and from 8 a.m. to
noon, Friday, November 30, 2012.
ACCSH Work Group meetings:
ACCSH Work Groups will meet Tuesday
and Wednesday, November 27–28,
2012. (For Work Group meeting times,
see the ‘‘Work Group’’ schedule in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this notice.)
Comments, requests to speak, speaker
presentations, and requests for special
accommodation: You must submit
(postmark, send, transmit) comments,
requests to address the ACCSH meeting,
speaker presentations (written or
electronic), and requests for special
accommodations for the ACCSH and
ACCSH Work Group meetings by
November 16, 2012.
SUMMARY:

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