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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).
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–2013–0004]

Personal Protective Equipment for
General Industry; 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
contained in the Personal Protective
Equipment Standard for General
Industry (29 CFR part 1910, subpart I).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by April
1, 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, Docket No.
OSHA–2013–0004, 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
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business hours, 8:15 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.,
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Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number for this Information
Collection Request (ICR) (OSHA–2013–
0004). 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 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.
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
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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 personal protective
equipment (PPE) necessary. Where such
hazards are present, employers must
communicate PPE selection decisions to
each affected employee (paragraph
(d)(1)(ii)).
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 that the PPE selected is
appropriate for those hazards and the
affected employees. The required
certification of the hazard assessment
verifies that the required hazard
assessment was conducted.
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
Personal Protective Equipment Standard
for General Industry (29 CFR part 1910,
subpart I). OSHA is proposing that the
burden hours in the currently approved
information collection remain the same.
There has been no change in the data for

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the number of firms and 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 Control 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:
1,696,991.
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–2013–0004).
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.
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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, 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).
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
2012 Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act
Annual Report
Office of Management and
Budget (OMB).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This report is being published
as required by the Statutory Pay-AsYou-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010, 2 U.S.C.
931 et seq. The Act requires that OMB
issue (1) an annual report as specified
in 2 U.S.C. 934(a) and (2) a
sequestration order, if necessary.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patrick Locke. 202–395–3672.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
report and additional information about
the PAYGO Act can be found at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
paygo_default.
SUMMARY:

Authority: 2 U.S.C. 934.
Courtney Timberlake,
Assistant Director for Budget.

This Report is being published
pursuant to section 5 of the Statutory
Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGO) Act of 2010,
Public Law 111–139, 124 Stat. 8, 2
U.S.C. 934, which requires that OMB
issue an annual PAYGO report,
including a sequestration order if

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necessary, no later than 14 working days
after the end of a congressional session.
This Report describes the budgetary
effects of all legislation enacted during
the second session of the 112th
Congress and presents the 5-year and
10-year PAYGO scorecards maintained
by OMB. Because neither the 5-year nor
10-year scorecard shows a debit for the
budget year, which for purposes of this
Report is fiscal year 2013,1 a
sequestration order under subsection
5(b) of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C 934(b),
is not necessary.
There was no legislation designated as
emergency legislation under section 4(g)
of the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 933(g)
enacted during the second session of the
112th Congress. In addition, the
scorecards include no current policy
adjustments made under section 4(c) of
the PAYGO Act, 2 U.S.C. 933(c), for
legislation enacted during the second
session of the 112th Congress. For these
reasons, the Report does not contain any
information about emergency legislation
or a description of any current policy
adjustments.
I. PAYGO Legislation with Budgetary
Effects
PAYGO legislation is authorizing
legislation that affects direct spending
or revenues; and appropriations
legislation that affects direct spending
in the years beyond the budget year or
affects revenues in any year.2 For a more
complete description of the Statutory
PAYGO Act, see the OMB Web site,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
paygo_description, and Chapter 14,
‘‘Budget Process,’’ of the Analytical
Perspectives volume of the 2013 Budget,
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/
BUDGET-2013-PER/pdf/BUDGET-2013PER.pdf.
The 5-year PAYGO scorecard shows
that PAYGO legislation enacted in the
second session of the 112th Congress
was estimated to have PAYGO
budgetary effects that decreased the
deficit by $839 million each year from
2013 through 2017.3 Balances carried
1 References to years on the PAYGO scorecards
are to fiscal years.
2 Provisions in appropriations acts that affect
direct spending in the years beyond the budget year
(also known as ‘‘outyears’’) or affect revenues in any
year are scorable for the purposes of the PAYGO
scorecards except if the provisions produce outlay
changes that net to zero over the current year,
budget year, and the four subsequent years. As
specified in section 3 of the Statutory PAYGO Act,
off-budget effects are not counted as budgetary
effects. Off-budget effects refer to effects on the
Social Security trust funds (Old-Age and Survivors
Insurance and Disability Insurance) and the Postal
Service.
3 As provided in section 4(d) of the PAYGO Act,
2 U.S.C. 933(d), budgetary effects on the PAYGO

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