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opportunity to revise existing draft work
products. This Notice announces a
public comment period to provide an
opportunity for submitting comments
for the revised work products.
Pursuant to section 10(a)(3) of the
FACA and 41 CFR 102–3.105(j) and
102–3.140, the public or interested
organizations may submit written
comments to the Commission in
response to the revised draft work
products. Work products are available
on the Commission’s Web site: http://
www.justice.gov/ncfs/work-products
and on www.regulations.gov.
Dated: January 21, 2016.
Andrew J. Bruck,
Designated Federal Official, National
Commission on Forensic Science.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0197]

Occupational Safety and Health State
Plans; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB’s)
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 request for an
extension of the OMB’s approval of the
collections of information associated
with its regulations and program
regarding State Plans for the
development and enforcement of state
occupational safety and health
standards (29 CFR parts 1902, 1953,
1954 and 1956).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
March 28, 2016.
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 these methods, you must submit
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attachments to the OSHA Docket Office,
Docket No. OSHA–2011–0197,
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–2011–0197) 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 above
address. 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 Douglas
Kalinowski at the address below to
obtain a copy of the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Douglas Kalinowski, Directorate of
Cooperative and State Programs,
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N–3700, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210;
telephone: (202) 693–1978; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., the State Plans)
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
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costs) is minimized, collection
instruments are understandable, and
OSHA’s estimate of the information
collection burden is accurate. Currently,
OSHA is soliciting comments
concerning the extension of the
information collection requirements
contained in the series of regulations
establishing requirements for the
submission, initial approval, continuing
approval, final approval, monitoring,
and evaluation of OSHA-approved State
Plans:
• 29 CFR part 1902, State Plans for
the Development and Enforcement of
State Standards;
• 29 CFR part 1953, Changes to State
Plans for the Development and
Enforcement of State Standards;
• 29 CFR part 1954, Procedures for
the Evaluation and Monitoring of
Approved State Plans; and
• 29 CFR part 1956, State Plans for
the Development and Enforcement of
State Standards Applicable to State and
Local Government Employees in States
Without Approved Private Employee
Plans.
Section 18 of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act (29 U.S.C. 667) offers an
opportunity to the states to assume
responsibility for the development and
enforcement of state standards through
the mechanism of an OSHA-approved
State Plan. Absent an approved plan,
states are precluded from enforcing
occupational safety and health
standards in the private sector with
respect to any issue for which Federal
OSHA has promulgated a standard.
Once approved and operational, the
state adopts standards and provides
most occupational safety and health
enforcement and compliance assistance
in the state under the authority of its
plan, instead of Federal OSHA. States
also must extend their jurisdiction to
cover state and local government
employees and may obtain approval of
State Plans limited in scope to these
workers. To obtain and maintain State
Plan approval, a state must submit
various documents to OSHA describing
its program structure and operation,
including any modifications thereto as
they occur, in accordance with the
identified regulations. OSHA funds 50
percent of the costs required to be
incurred by an approved State Plan,
with the state at least matching and
providing additional funding at its
discretion.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
D Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary
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Agency’s functions, including whether
the information is useful;
D 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;
D The quality, utility, and clarity of
the information collected; and
D Ways to minimize the burden on
participating states who must comply;
for example, by using automated or
other technological information
collection and transmission techniques.
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OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
its approval of the collection of
information requirements associated
with its State Plan regulations. The
Agency is requesting an adjustment
increase to adjust the number of burden
hours associated with the
developmental steps necessary for states
in the developmental process, including
Maine, Illinois and the Virgin Islands.
Maine received initial approval on
August 5, 2015 and has been moved to
the developmental category. As a result,
the total burden hours have increased
slightly from 11,369 to 11,519 burden
hours (an increase of 150 burden hours).
The Agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in
its request to OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Occupational Safety and Health
State Plans.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0247.
Affected Public: Designated state
government agencies that are seeking or
have submitted and obtained approval
for State Plans for the development and
enforcement of occupational safety and
health. standards.
Number of Respondents: 28.
Frequency of Response: On occasion;
quarterly; annually.
Total Responses: 1,309.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from 30 minutes (.5 hour) to respond to
an information inquiry to 80 hours to
document state annual performance
goals.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
11,519.
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:
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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–2011–0197).
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 OSHA 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 their
social security number 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,
2016.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Revision of OMB Circular No. A–119,
‘‘Federal Participation in the
Development and Use of Voluntary
Consensus Standards and in
Conformity Assessment Activities’’
Office of Management and
Budget, Executive Office of the
President.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:

The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) has revised Circular
A–119, ‘‘Federal Participation in the
Development and Use of Voluntary
Consensus Standards and in Conformity
Assessment Activities,’’ in light of
changes that have taken place in the
world of regulation, standards, and
conformity assessment since the
Circular was last revised in 1998. The
revised Circular is available at http://
www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_
infopoltech.

SUMMARY:

Effective upon publication as of
January 27, 2016, OMB is making
revised Circular A–119 available to the
public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jasmeet Seehra, Office of Management
and Budget, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, at CircularA-119@
omb.eop.gov.
DATES:

Public
Law 104–113, the ‘‘National Technology
Transfer and Advancement Act of
1995,’’ codified the existing policies in
A–119, ‘‘Federal Participation in the
Development and Use of Voluntary
Consensus Standards and in Conformity
Assessment Activities,’’ established
reporting requirements, and authorized
the National Institute of Standards and
Technology to coordinate conformity
assessment activities of the agencies. In
1998, OMB revised the Circular in order
to make the terminology of the Circular
consistent with the National Technology
Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995,
to issue guidance to the agencies on
making their reports to OMB, to direct
the Secretary of Commerce to issue
policy guidance for conformity
assessment, and to make changes for
clarity.
OMB has issued a revision of Circular
A–119 in light of changes that have
taken place in the world of regulation,
standards, and conformity assessment
since the Circular was last revised in
1998. The revised Circular is available
at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/
inforeg_infopoltech. OMB’s revisions
are meant to provide more detailed
guidance to agencies to take into

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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