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3:30 p.m. Possible Addition of
Certification/Licensure Questions to
the Current Population Survey.
4:00 p.m. Approximate conclusion.
The meeting is open to the public.
Any questions concerning the meeting
should be directed to Lisa Fieldhouse,
Bureau of Labor Statistics Technical
Advisory Committee, on 202–691–5025.
Individuals who require special
accommodations should contact Ms.
Fieldhouse at least two days prior to the
meeting date.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 19th day of
May, 2014.
Kimberley D. Hill,
Chief, Division of Management Systems,
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0009]

Fire Brigades Standard; 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 OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Fire Brigades Standard
(29 CFR 1910.156).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by July
22, 2014.
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–2011–0009, U.S.
Department of Labor, Occupational
Safety and Health Administration,
Room N–2625, 200 Constitution Avenue
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(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 the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0009) 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–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 accord 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
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regarding the causes and prevention of
occupational injuries, illnesses, and
accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act
also requires OSHA to 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).
OSHA does not mandate that
employers establish fire brigades;
however, if they do so, they must
comply with the provisions of the Fire
Brigades Standard. The provisions of
the Standard, including the paperwork
requirements, apply to fire brigades,
industrial fire departments, and private
or contract fire departments, but not to
airport crash rescue units or forest
firefighting operations. Paragraphs
(b)(1), (b)(2), and (c)(4) contain the
paperwork requirements of the
Standard.
Under paragraph (b)(1) of the
Standard, employers must develop and
maintain an organizational statement
that establishes the: existence of a fire
brigade; the basic organizational
structure of the brigade; type, amount,
and frequency of training provided to
brigade members; expected number of
members in the brigade; and functions
that the brigade is to perform. This
paragraph also specifies that the
organizational statement must be
available for review by workers, their
designated representatives, and OSHA
compliance officers. The organizational
statement describes the functions
performed by the brigade members and,
thereby, determines the level of training
and type of personal protective
equipment (PPE) necessary for these
members to perform their assigned
functions safely. Making the statement
available to workers, their designated
representatives, and OSHA compliance
officers ensures that the elements of the
statement are consistent with the
functions performed by the brigade
members and the occupational hazards
they experience, and that employers are
providing training and PPE appropriate
to these functions and hazards.
To permit a worker with known heart
disease, epilepsy, or emphysema to
participate in fire brigade emergency
activities, paragraph (b)(2) of the
Standard requires employers to obtain a
physician’s certificate of the worker’s
fitness to do so. This provision provides
employers with a direct and efficient
means of ascertaining whether or not
they can safely expose workers with
these medical conditions to the hazards
of firefighting operations.
Paragraph (c)(4) of the Standard
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brigade members regarding special
hazards such as the storage and use of
flammable liquids and gases, toxic
chemicals, radioactive sources, and
water-reactive substances that may be
present during fires and other
emergencies, as well as about any
changes in these special hazards. It also
requires that employers develop written
procedures describing the actions that
brigade members are to take when
special hazards are present, and to make
these procedures available in the
education and training program and for
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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
decrease of the previous estimate of
6,292 burden hours to 2,510 burden
hours, a total decrease of 3,782 hours.
The adjustment is primarily due to a
decrease in the estimated number of
manufacturing facilities with 100 or
more workers.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Fire Brigades Standards (29 CFR
1910.156).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0075.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 23,247.
Total Responses: 3,487.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from five minutes (.08 hour) to obtain a
physician’s certificate to 2 hours to
develop or revise an organizational
plan.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,510.
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
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(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–2011–0009).
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,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from 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 from this 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).

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Signed at Washington, DC on May 20,
2014.
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–2013–0028]

Nationally Recognized Testing
Laboratory Program; Stakeholder
Meeting
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

OSHA invites interested
parties to attend an informal stakeholder
meeting concerning the Nationally
Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL)
Program. The meeting will focus on the
following NRTL Program topics: use of
the private sector to increase the
efficiency of the NRTL Program;
certification marks; factory inspections;
field inspections; fees; and, at OSHA’s
discretion and as time permits, other
topics raised by participants or OSHA
staff. OSHA plans to use the information
gathered at this meeting to explore
potential updates to NRTL Program
policies and regulations.
DATES: The stakeholder meeting will be
held on October 22, 2014, from 9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m., e.t., in Washington,
DC. Attendees should arrive at least 30
minutes early to allow time for security
access. Security-access information is
available at http://www.dol.gov/dol/
aboutdol/visit.htm.
The deadline to register to attend the
meeting as a presenter, participant, or
an observer is July 22, 2014. If space
remains after this deadline, OSHA may
accept additional presenters,
participants, and observers until the
meeting is full. Those who submit their
registrations after July 22, 2014, may not
receive confirmation of their attendance
from OSHA. The deadline to submit
written comments, information, and
documents in response to the meeting
topics found in Appendix A of this
notice, to submit suggestions for
additional topics for the meeting, or to
request an extension of time to make a
submission is July 22, 2014. All
submissions must bear a postmark or
provide other evidence of the
submission date.
ADDRESSES:
SUMMARY:

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