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identifiable information about the
individual being monitored
William J. Sabol,
Acting Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics
and National Institute of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0125]

On-site Consultation Programs;
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
contained in the Standard addressing
On-site Consultation Programs (29 CFR
part 1908).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
March 27, 2015.
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–2011–0125, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, 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 the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0125) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). All comments, including any

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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 Patrick Showalter
at the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patrick Showalter, Director, Office of
Small Business Assistance, Directorate
of Cooperative and State Programs,
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
N–3660, 200 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)
693–2220.
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 process 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
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
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unnecessary duplication of efforts in
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
Section 7(c)(1) of the OSH Act
authorizes the Secretary of Labor to,
‘‘with the consent of any State or
political subdivision thereof, accept and
use the services, facilities, and
personnel of any agency of such State or
subdivision with reimbursement.’’
Section 21(c) of the OSH Act authorizes
the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) to,
‘‘consult with and advise employers and
employees . . . as to effective means of
preventing occupational illnesses and
injuries.’’
Additionally, Section 21(d) of the
OSH Act instructs the Secretary to
‘‘establish and support cooperative
agreements with the States under which
employers subject to the Act may
consult with State personnel with
respect to the application of
occupational safety and health
requirements under the Act or under
State plans approved under section 18
of the Act.’’ This gives the Secretary
authority to enter into agreements with
the States to provide on-site
consultation services, and establish
rules under which employers may
qualify for an inspection exemption. To
satisfy the intent of these and other
sections of the OSH Act, OSHA codified
the terms that govern cooperative
agreements between OSHA and State
governments whereby State agencies
provide on-site consultation services to
private employers to assist them in
complying with the requirements of the
OSH Act. The terms were codified as
the Consultation Program regulations
(29 CFR part 1908).
The On-site Consultation Program
regulations specify services to be
provided, and practices and procedures
to be followed by the State On-site
Consultation Programs. Information
collection requirements set forth in the
On-site Consultation Program
regulations are in two categories: State
Responsibilities and Employer
Responsibilities. Eight regulatory
provisions require information
collection activities by the State. The
Federal government provides 90 percent
of the funds for on-site consultation
services delivered by the States, which
result in the information collection.
Four requirements apply to employers
and specify conditions for receiving the
free consultation services.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary
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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 extension of
its current approval of the information
collection requirements for this
Standard. The Agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease in the current
burden hours from 222,924 hours to
201,853 hours, a total decrease of 21,071
hours. While better burden hour and
costs estimates for the Safety and Health
Achievement Recognition Program
(SHARP) documentation increased the
burden hours, this was offset by a
decrease in the number of consultation
visits.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: On-site Consultation Programs
(29 CFR part 1908).
OMB Number: 1218–0110.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 24,700.
Frequency: Initial, annual, quarterly,
periodic.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from 3 minutes for an employer or plant
manager to sign a Safety and Health
Achievement Recognition Program
application to 32 hours for an On-site
Consultation Program manager to
submit an agreement once per year.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
201,853.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
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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–2011–0125).
You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document
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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 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 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 January 21,
2015.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.

463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Committee on Equal
Opportunities in Science and
Engineering (CEOSE) Advisory
Committee Meeting (#1173)
Dates/Time: February 25, 2015
1:00PM–5:00 p.m. February 26, 2015
8:30a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Place: National Science Foundation
(NSF), 4201 Wilson Boulevard,
Arlington, VA 22230
To help facilitate your entry into the
building, please contact Vickie Fung
([email protected]) on or prior to February
23, 2015.
Type of Meeting: Open
Contact Person: Dr. Bernice
Anderson, Senior Advisor and CEOSE
Executive Secretary, Office of
International and Integrative Activities
(IIA), National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
22230. Telephone Numbers: 703–292–
8040 [email protected]
Minutes: Meeting minutes and other
information may be obtained from the
CEOSE Executive Secretary at the above
address or the Web site at http://
www.nsf.gov/od/iia/activities/ceose/
index.jsp
Purpose of Meeting: To study data,
programs, policies, and other
information pertinent to the National
Science Foundation and to provide
advice and recommendations
concerning broadening participation in
science and engineering.
Agenda: Opening Statement by the
CEOSE Chair NSF Executive Liaison
Report Discussions:
D Leadership Panel Discussion:
FY2015 Broadening Participation Efforts
D NSF Broadening Participation
Framework for Action
D Partnering to Further the
Diversification of the STEM Workforce
D Accessibility and Careers in STEM
D Gender Dimension in Research
Content and Process
D Reports of CEOSE Liaisons to NSF
Advisory Committees
D 2013–2014 CEOSE Biennial Report
to Congress
D Updates from the Federal Liaisons

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Dated: January 21, 2015.
Suzanne Plimpton,
Acting Committee Management Officer.

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