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f. Notify all affected employees of this
permanent variance by the same means
required to inform them of its
application for a variance.
2. OSHA must approve the transfer of
the permanent variance to a successor
company.
Authority and Signature
David Michaels, Ph.D., MPH,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health, 200
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,
DC 20210, authorized the preparation of
this notice. Accordingly, the Agency is
issuing this notice pursuant to Section
29 U.S.C. 655(6)(d), Secretary of Labor’s
Order No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912, Jan. 25,
2012), and 29 CFR 1905.11.
Signed at Washington, DC, on March 7,
2016.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0040]

The Standard on 4,4′Methylenedianiline 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
specified in the Standard on 4,4′Methylenedianiline for General Industry
(29 CFR 1910.1050).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
10, 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.

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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–2012–0040, 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–2012–0040) 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

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(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 information collection
requirements specified in the 4,4′Methylenedianiline Standard for
General Industry (the ‘‘MDA Standard’’)
(29 CFR 1910.1050) protect workers
from the adverse health effects that may
result from their exposure to MDA,
including cancer, liver and skin disease.
The major paperwork requirements
specify that employers must perform
initial, periodic, and additional
exposure monitoring; notify each
worker in writing of their results as soon
as possible but no longer than 5 days
after receiving exposure monitoring
results; and routinely inspect the hands,
face, and forearms of each worker
potentially exposed to MDA for signs of
dermal exposure to MDA. Employers
must also: Establish a written
compliance program; institute a
respiratory protection program in
accordance with 29 CFR 1910.134
(OSHA’s Respiratory Protection
standard); and develop a written
emergency plan for any construction
operation that could have an MDA
emergency (i.e., an unexpected and
potentially hazardous release of MDA).
Employers must label any material or
products containing MDA, including
containers used to store MDAcontaminated protective clothing and
equipment. They also must inform
personnel who launder MDAcontaminated clothing of the
requirement to prevent release of MDA,
while personnel who launder or clean
MDA-contaminated protective clothing
or equipment must receive information
about the potentially harmful effects of
MDA. In addition, employers are to post
warning signs at entrances or access
ways to regulated areas, as well as train
workers exposed to MDA at the time of
their initial assignment, and at least
annually thereafter.
Other paperwork provisions of the
MDA standard require employers to

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provide workers with medical
examinations, including initial,
periodic, emergency and follow-up
examinations. As part of the medical
surveillance program, employers must
ensure that the examining physician
receives specific written information,
and that they obtain from the physician
a written opinion regarding the worker’s
medical results and exposure
limitations.
The MDA standard also specifies that
employers are to establish and maintain
exposure monitoring and medical
surveillance records for each worker
who is subject to these respective
requirements, make any required record
available to OSHA compliance officers
and the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) for examination and copying,
and provide exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records to workers
and their designated representatives.
Finally, employers who cease to do
business within the period specified for
retaining exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records, and who
have no successor employer, must
notify NIOSH at least 90 days before
disposing of the records and transmit
the records to NIOSH if so requested.

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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
The Agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease in burden hours
from 370 hours to 335 hours. The
decrease is the result of a slight decrease
in the number of impacted secondaryuse plants and a reduction in workers
receiving initial medical examinations,
receiving exposure monitoring training,
and requesting access to records. There
is an overall adjustment decrease in
capital costs of $3,802 (from $27,982 to
$24,180) resulting from a decrease in the
cost to analyze a sample of airborne
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the cost of a medical exam increased
from $187 to $207.
The Agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in
the request to OMB to extend the
approval of the information collection
requirements contained in the MDA
Standard.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: 4,4′-Methylenedianiline
Standard for General Industry (29 CFR
1910.1050).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0184.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Not-for-profit organizations;
Federal Government; State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Total Responses: 574.
Frequency: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from 5 minutes (.08 hour) for employers
to provide information to the physician
to 1.5 hours to review and maintain a
compliance plan.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 335.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $24,180.

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 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.

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 (Docket
No. OSHA–2012–0040) for the ICR. 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

Signed at Washington, DC, on March 7,
2016.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.

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V. Authority and Signature
David Michaels, Ph.D., MP, 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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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0020]

Additional Requirements for Special
Dipping and Coating Operations (Dip
Tanks); Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of the Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirement
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 (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirement
specified in its Standard on Dipping and
Coating Operations (Dip Tanks) (29 CFR
1910.126(g)(4)).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
10, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may
submit comments and attachments
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