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Secretary of Labor’s Order No. 1–2012
(76 FR 3912), and 29 CFR part 1902.
Signed in Washington, DC, on September
21, 2017.
Loren Sweatt,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062]

Powered Industrial Trucks 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 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 Powered Industrial
Trucks Standard. The information
collection requirements address truck
design, construction and modification,
as well as certification of training and
evaluation for truck operators.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
November 27, 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
to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2011–0062, 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
Docket Office’s normal business hours,
10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and the OSHA
SUMMARY:

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docket number (OSHA–2011–0062) 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;
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
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).
Paragraph (a)(4) of the Powered
Industrial Trucks Standard requires
employers to obtain the manufacturer’s
written approval before modifying a
truck in a manner that affects its
capacity and safe operation; if the
manufacturer grants such approval, the
employer must revise capacity,
operation, and maintenance instruction
plates, tags, and decals accordingly. For
front-end attachments not installed by
the manufacturer, paragraph (a)(5)
mandates that employers provide a
marker on the trucks that identifies the
attachment, as well as the weight of
both the truck and the attachment when
the attachment is at maximum elevation
with a laterally centered load. Paragraph
(a)(6) specifies that employers must
ensure that the markers required by
paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(5) remain
affixed to the trucks and are legible.
Paragraphs (1)(4) and (1)(6) of the
Standard contain the paperwork
requirements necessary to certify the
evaluation and training provided to
powered industrial truck operators.
Accordingly, these paragraphs specify
the following requirements for
employers.
• Paragraph (1)(4)(iii)—Evaluate each
operator’s performance at least once
every three years.
• Paragraph (l)(6)—Certify that each
operator meets the training and
evaluation requirements specified by
paragraph (l). This certification must
include the operator’s name, the
training date, the evaluation date, and
the identity of the individual(s) who
performed the training and evaluation.
Requiring labels (markings) on
modified equipment notifies workers of
the conditions under which they can
safely operate powered industrial
trucks, thereby preventing such hazards
as fires and explosions caused by poorly
designed electrical systems, rollovers/
tipovers that result from exceeding a
truck’s stability characteristics, and
falling loads that occur when loads
exceed the lifting capacities of
attachments. Certification of worker
training and evaluation provides a
means of informing employers that their
workers received the training and
demonstrated the performance
necessary to operate a truck within its
capacity and control limitations. By
ensuring that workers operate only
trucks that are in proper working order,
and do so safely, employers prevent
possible severe injury or death of truck
operators and other workers who are in
the vicinity of the trucks. Finally, these
paperwork requirements are the most
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compliance officer to determine that an
employer properly notified workers
about the design and construction of,
and modifications made to, the trucks
they are operating, and that an employer
provided them with the required
training.
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 proposing to increase the
existing burden hour estimate of the
collection of information requirements
specified by the Standard. In this regard,
the Agency is proposing to increase the
current burden hour estimate from
888,244 hours to 911,764 hours, a total
increase of 23,520 hours. The
adjustment increase is due to updated
data indicating a growth in the number
of powered industrial trucks from
1,179,441 to 1,210,679 and the number
of operators from 1,769,162 to
1,816,018.
Upon further analysis, OSHA has
determined that these training
provisions are not considered to be
collections of information under the
PRA. In addition, the Agency was able
to gather data updating the number of
trucks and operators. 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: Powered Industrial Trucks (29
CFR 1910.178).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0242.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 1,210,679.
Number of Responses: 2,397,144.
Frequency of Reponses: On occasion;
annually; triennially.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
427,866.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $256,626.

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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
materials must identify the Agency
name and the OSHA docket number for
the ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062).
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 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
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

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et seq.) and Secretary of Labor’s Order
No. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912).
Signed at Washington, DC, on September
19, 2017.
Loren Sweatt,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
CORPORATION
[MCC FR 17–05]

Notice of Entering Into a Compact With
the Federal Democratic Republic of
Nepal
Millennium Challenge
Corporation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In accordance with Section
610(b)(2) of the Millennium Challenge
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7701–7718), as
amended, and the heading ‘‘Millennium
Challenge Corporation’’ of the
Department of State, Foreign
Operations, and Related Programs
Appropriations Act, 2017, the
Millennium Challenge Corporation
(MCC) is publishing a summary of the
Millennium Challenge Compact
between the United States of America,
acting through MCC, and the Republic
of Nepal. Representatives of MCC and
Nepal signed the compact on September
14, 2017. The complete text of the
compact has been posted at: https://
assets.mcc.gov/content/uploads/
compact-nepal.pdf.

SUMMARY:

Dated: September 25, 2017.
Jeanne M. Hauch,
Vice President and General Counsel,
Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Summary of the Nepal Compact
Overview of MCC Nepal Compact
MCC’s Board of Directors has
approved a five-year, $500 million
compact with Nepal aimed at reducing
poverty through economic growth. The
compact seeks to assist Nepal in
addressing two binding constraints to
economic growth: (i) Inadequate supply
of electricity; and (ii) high cost of
transportation. The compact will
address these binding constraints by
investing in two projects: The Electricity
Transmission Project and the Road
Maintenance Project.
Background and Context
Nepal’s economic growth, labor
productivity, and gross domestic
product per capita are among the lowest

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