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unobligated balance for the DW
program, ETA subtracts the total DW
obligations amount from the state’s total
PY 2015 DW allotment (Note: for this
process, ETA adds DW allotted funds
transferred to the Navajo Nation back to
Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah local
DW authorized amounts).
2. Excluding state administrative
costs: Section 683.135 of the regulations
provides that the recapture calculations
exclude the reserve for state
administration which is part of the DW
statewide activities. States do not report
data on state administrative amounts
authorized and obligated on the ETA
9130 financial reports. In the
preliminary calculation, to determine
states potentially liable for recapture,
ETA estimates the DW portion of the
state administrative amount authorized
by calculating the five percent
maximum amount for state DW
administrative costs using the DW state
allotment amounts (excluding any
recapture/reallotment that occurred).
ETA treats 100 percent of the state’s
estimated amount authorized for
administration as obligated, although
the estimate of state administration
obligations is limited by reported
statewide activities obligations overall.
3. Follow-up with states potentially
liable for recapture: ETA requests that
those states potentially liable for
recapture provide additional data on
state administrative amounts which are
not regularly reported on the PY 2015
and FY 2016 statewide activities
reports. The additional information
requested includes the amount of
statewide activities funds the state
authorized and obligated for state
administration as of June 30, 2016. If a
state provides actual state DW
administrative costs, authorized and
obligated, in the comments section of
revised ETA 9130 reports, this data
replaces the estimates. Based on the
requested actual data submitted by
potentially liable states on revised
reports, ETA reduces the DW total
allotment for these states by the amount
states indicate they authorized for state
administrative costs. Likewise, ETA
reduces the DW total obligations for
these states by the portion actually
obligated for state administration.
4. Recapture calculation: States
(including those adjusted by actual state
administrative data) with unobligated
balances exceeding 20 percent of the
total PY 2015 DW allotment amount
(including PY 2015 ‘‘base’’ funds and
FY 2016 ‘‘advance’’ funds) will have
their PY 2016 DW funding (from the FY
2017 ‘‘advance’’ portion) reduced
(recaptured) by the amount of the
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5. Reallotment calculation: Finally,
states with unobligated balances which
do not exceed 20 percent (eligible states)
will receive a share of the total
recaptured amount (based on their share
of the total PY 2015 (including their PY
2015 ‘‘base’’ and FY 2016 ‘‘advance’’
amount DW allotments) in their PY
2016 DW funding (in the FY 2017
‘‘advance’’ portion).
Signed at Washington, DC, this March 15,
2017.
Byron Zuidema,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for the
Employment and Training Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017–06779 Filed 4–4–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2017–0005]

Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and
General Industry and Electrical
Protective Equipment Standards for
Construction and General Industry;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Collections of Information
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 collections of
information specified in its standards on
the Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution for
Construction and General Industry and
Electrical Protective Equipment
Standards for Construction and General
Industry.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by June
5, 2017.
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
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to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2017–0005, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N–3653,
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, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.,
e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2017–0005) 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 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 collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (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

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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 Electrical Protective Equipment
Standard (29 CFR 1926.97 and 29 CFR
1910.137) and the Electric Power
Generation, Transmission, and
Distribution Standard (29 CFR 1926 and
29 CFR 1910.269) specify several
collections of information. The
following describes the collections of
information contained in the standards
and addresses who will use the
information.
Electrical Protective Equipment
Standard (§§ 1926.97 and 1910.137)

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Testing Certification
(§§ 1926.97(c)(2)(xii) and
1910.137(c)(2)(xii))
Employers must certify that the
electrical protective equipment used by
their workers have passed the tests
specified in paragraphs (c)(2)(vii)(D),
(c)(2)(viii), (c)(2)(ix), and (c)(2)(xi) of the
standards. The certification must
identify the equipment that passed the
tests and the dates of the tests. The two
standards require testing: Periodically
(generally, every 6 months for rubber
insulating gloves and every 12 months
for most other types of rubber insulating
equipment); after any repairs; and before
the equipment is returned to service
after any inspection finds certain
defects. In addition, the employer must
test rubber insulating gloves before
reuse after employees use them without
protector gloves and must certify that
testing. These performance-based
standards ensure that employers
maintain the most recent test records for
equipment that passes the required tests
without specifying precisely how the
employer must maintain those records.
Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standard (§§ 1926.950 and 1910.269)
Host Employer Responsibilities
(§§ 1926.950(c)(1) and 1910.269(a)(3)(i))
Before work begins, the host employer
must inform the contract employers of:
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employer’s installation listed;
conditions listed in paragraphs of this
section that are known to the host
employer; information about the design
and operation of the host employer’s
installation that the contract employer
needs to make the assessments required
by this section; and any other
information about the design and
operation of the host employer’s
installation that is known by the host
employer, that the contract employer
requests, and that is related to the
protection of the contract employer’s
employees.
Contract Employer Responsibilities
(§§ 1926.950(c)(2) and 1910.269(a)(3)(ii))
Contract employers must ensure that
each of its employees is instructed in
the hazardous conditions relevant to the
employee’s work that the contract
employer is aware of as a result of
information communicated to the
contract employer by the host employer;
before work begins, the contract
employer must advise the host employer
of any unique hazardous conditions
presented by the contract employer’s
work; and the contract employer must
advise the host employer of any
unanticipated hazardous conditions
found during the contract employer’s
work that the host employer did not
mention. The contract employer shall
provide this information to the host
employer within two working days after
discovering the hazardous condition.
Job Briefing (§§ 1926.952(a)(1) and
1910.269(c)(1)(i))
In assigning an employee or a group
of employees to perform a job, the
employer must provide the employee in
charge of the job with all available
information that relates to the
determination of existing characteristics
and conditions required by
(§§ 1926.950(d) and1910.269(a)(4)).
Engineering Analyses To Determine
Maximum Anticipated Per-Unit
Transient Overvoltage
(§§ 1926.960(c)(1)(ii) and
1910.269(l)(3)(ii))
The employer must determine the
maximum anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage, phase-to-ground, through
an engineering analysis or assume a
maximum anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage, phase-to-ground, in
accordance with the tables listed. When
the employer uses portable protective
gaps to control the maximum transient
overvoltage, the value of the maximum
anticipated per-unit transient
overvoltage, phase-to-ground, must
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of the gap and the statistical withstand
voltage corresponding to the electrical
component of the minimum approach
distance. The employer must make
available upon request to employees
and to the Assistant Secretary or
designee for examination and copying;
any engineering analysis conducted to
determine maximum anticipated perunit transient overvoltage.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed collections of
information 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
collections of information, 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 collections of
information contained in the Standards
on Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution for
Construction and General Industry (29
CFR part 1926, subpart V and 29 CFR
1910.269) and the Electrical Protective
Equipment Standards for Construction
and General Industry (29 CFR 1926.97
and 29 CFR 1910.137). The Agency is
proposing to decrease the burden hours
in the currently approved information
collection request from 452,091 hours to
365,094 hours (a total decrease of 86,997
hours). The decrease is a result of a
determination that the estimated
number of establishments affected has
declined. Also, the decrease is due to
the removal of burden hours associated
with OSHA requests to access records
from employers. Usually, OSHA
requests access to records during an
inspection. Information collected by the
Agency during the investigation is not
subject to the PRA under 5 CFR
1320.4(a)(2). Therefore, OSHA takes no
burden or cost for OSHA requests to
access records in this Supporting
Statement. 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 information
collection.

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Title: Electric Power Generation,
Transmission, and Distribution
Standards for Construction and General
Industry and Electrical Protective
Equipment for Construction and
General.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0253.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 19,746.
Total Responses: 952,348.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion;
semi-annually; annually.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
365,094.
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–2017–0005).
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 that 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.
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 through this Web site.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.

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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
Dorothy Dougherty, Deputy 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 March 28,
2017.
Dorothy Dougherty,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2017–06767 Filed 4–4–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2009–0035]

The Ethylene Oxide (EtO) Standard
(Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Collections of Information
(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 Ethylene Oxide
Standard (EtO).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by June
5, 2017.
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
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using this method, you must submit
your comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, (Docket No.
OSHA–2009–0035), Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N–3653,
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, 10:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m., e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2009–0035) 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 also 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 accord with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
(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

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