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Frequency: On Occasion; Quarterly;
Annually; Immediately; Within 24
hours; Within 30 days.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Estimated Number of Responses:
293,075.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
51,936.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $7,388,465.

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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–2010–0030).
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 through 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 through the Web site, and for

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assistance in using the Internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
Loren Sweatt, 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 July 27,
2017.
Loren Sweatt,
Deputy 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–2011–0009]

Fire Brigades Standard; Extension of
the Office of Management and
Budget’s Approval of Information
Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

OSHA is soliciting public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Fire Brigades Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
October 10, 2017.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, 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
a copy of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office,
OSHA Docket No. OSHA–2011–0009,
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, U.S. Department of
Labor, Room N–3653, 200 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20210.
Deliveries (hand, express mail,
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messenger, and courier service) are
accepted during the Department of
Labor’s and Docket Office’s normal
business hours, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., ET.
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 materials 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, 202–693–2044,
[email protected]; Todd Owen,
202–693–1941, [email protected].
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 (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 OSHA to obtain such

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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. 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
requires employers to inform fire
brigade members of special hazards,
such as the storage and use of
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reactive substances that may be present
during fires and other emergencies, and
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
review by brigade members.
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 that OMB extend
its approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Fire Brigades Standard (29 CFR
1910.156). The agency is requesting an
increase in its current burden hours
from 2,510 hours to 2,693 hours, a total
increase of 183 hours. The adjustment is
primarily due to an increase in the
estimated number of manufacturing
facilities with 100 or more workers. The
agency will summarize the comments
submitted in response to this notice and
will include this summary in the
request to OMB.
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: 24,856.
Total Responses: 3,729.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Total Burden Hours: 2,693.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $0.
IV. Public Participation—Submission of
Comments on This Notice and Internet
Access to Comments and Submissions

www.regulations.gov, the Federal
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile
(fax); or (3) by hard copy. All comments,
attachments, and other materials must
identify the agency name and the OSHA
docket number for the ICR (Docket No.
OSHA–2011–0009). You may
supplement submissions by uploading
documents 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 and 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
Loren Sweatt, 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).

You may submit comments in
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Signed at Washington, DC, on July 31,
2017.
Loren Sweatt,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2017–16711 Filed 8–7–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0052]

Material Hoists, Personnel Hoists, and
Elevators 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 is soliciting public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Standard on Material
Hoists, Personnel Hoists, and Elevators.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
October 10, 2017.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, 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.
e methods, you must submit a copy of
your comments and attachments to the
OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2010–0052, 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 a.m.
to 3 p.m., E.T.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2010–0052) 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

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comments, see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other materials 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:
Todd Owen or Theda Kenney,
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 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 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).
Paragraph (a)(2) of the Material
Hoists, Personnel Hoists, and Elevators
Standard requires that the rated load
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instructions be posted on cars and
platforms. Paragraph (b)(1)(i) requires
that operating rules for material hoists
be established and posted at the
operator’s station of the hoist. These
rules shall include signal system and
allowable line speed for various loads.
Paragraph (c)(10) requires that cars be
provided with a capacity and data plate
secured in a conspicuous place on the
car or crosshead.
These posting requirements are used
by the operator and crew of the material
and personnel hoists to determine how
to use the specific machine and how
much it will be able to lift as assembled
in one or a number of particular
configurations. If not properly used, the
machine would be subject to failures,
endangering the workers in the
immediate vicinity.
Paragraph (c)(15) requires that a test
and inspection of all functions and
safety devices be made following the
assembly and erection of hoists. The test
and inspection are to be conducted
under the supervision of a competent
person. A similar inspection and test is
required following major alteration of an
existing installation. All hoists shall be
inspected and tested at three-month
intervals. A certification record (the
most recent) of the test and inspection
must be kept on file, including the date
the test and inspection was completed,
the identification of the equipment and
the signature of the person who
performed the test and inspection. This
certification ensures that the equipment
has been tested and is in safe operating
condition. The most recent certification
record will be disclosed to a
Compliance Safety and Health Officer
during an OSHA inspection.
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 that OMB extend
its approval of the information

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