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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2018–0006]

Information Collection Requirements
for OSHA’s Alliance Program;
Submission for 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
obtain OMB approval of the information
collection requirements specified by
OSHA’s Alliance Program.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
August 20, 2018.
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–2018–0006, 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
docket number (OSHA–2018–0006) 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

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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 website. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Christie Garner at
the number below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom
Mockler or Christie Garner, 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 (see 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 said information (29 U.S.C.
657).
OSHA created the Alliance Program
in 2002 as a structure for working with
groups that are committed to worker
safety and health. The program enables
OSHA to enter into a voluntary,
cooperative relationship at the national,
regional, or area office level with
industry, labor, and other groups to
improve workplace safety and health;
prevent workplace fatalities, injuries,
and illnesses; and reach employers and
workers that OSHA may not otherwise
reach through its traditional methods.

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These groups include trade or
professional organizations, businesses,
unions, consulates, faith- and
community-based organizations, and
educational institutions. OSHA and the
groups work together to share workplace
safety and health information with
workers and employers, encourage
participation in OSHA initiatives,
develop compliance assistance tools and
resources, and educate workers and
employers about their rights and
responsibilities. Alliance Program
participants do not receive exemptions
from OSHA inspections or any other
enforcement benefits.
OSHA collects information from
organizations that are signatories to an
Alliance agreement, known hereafter as
‘‘alliance participants.’’ Information is
collected from the participants through
meetings, informal conversations, and
data forms to develop Alliance
agreements, and to develop annual as
well as program-wide reports.
Alliance participants work with
OSHA to develop agreements with welldefined goals and specific objectives
and activities. Agreements commonly
identify specific hazard(s), operations,
or other areas of concern; the targeted
segment within the workforce; and the
planned activities to meet the
agreement’s overarching goals and
objectives. OSHA provides templates for
Alliance agreements OSHA uses the
information from the forms (national
Alliance) and collaborative data
gathering (Regional and Area Offices) to
compile annual reports for individual
Alliances and assess the effectiveness of
the individual Alliance in meeting
agreement goals and objectives. OSHA
uses aggregate data from all active
Alliances to assess the impact of the
program as a whole in meeting the
Agency’s strategic plan goals and
strategies related to outreach and
communication.
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
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technological information collection
and transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
This is an existing collection of
information in use without an OMB
number. The proposed ICR includes
collection of information requirements
for: (1) Alliance agreement
development, (2) the biannual Alliance
Data Reporting Form, and (3) annual
reports. The burden hours for the
information collection requirements
contained in the proposed ICR would
result in a total initial burden hour
estimate of 2,210 hours.
The Agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in
the request to OMB to approve these
information collection requirements,
and the associated templates and forms.
Type of Review: Existing collection in
use without an OMB control number.
Title: Information Collection
Requirements for OSHA’s Alliance
Program.
OMB Control Number: 1218—0NEW.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 250
Frequency: Once, On occasion, Semiannually, Annually.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Total Number of Responses: 690.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,210.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $0.

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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–2018–0006).
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
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
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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 website. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the http://
www.regulations.gov website to submit
comments and access the docket is
available at the website’s ‘‘User Tips’’
link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office
for information about materials not
available from the website, 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).
Signed at Washington, DC, on June 18,
2018.
Loren Sweatt,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE
CORPORATION
Privacy Act of 1974; New System of
Records
Millennium Challenge
Corporation (MCC).
ACTION: Notice of a new system of
records.
AGENCY:

MCC proposes to add a new
system of records to its inventory of
records systems subject to the Privacy
Act of 1974, as amended. This action
complies with the requirements of the
Privacy Act to publish in the Federal
Register notice of the existence and
character of records maintained by the
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operational since June 29, 2016 without
incident.
DATES: This action will be applicable
without further notice 30 days after date
of publication in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
the Millennium Challenge Corporation,
ATTN: Vincent T. Groh, Chief
Information Officer, Department of
Administration and Finance, 1099
Fourteenth Street NW, Suite 700,
Washington, DC, 20005–3550.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Miguel G. Adams, Chief Information
Security Officer and Deputy Privacy
Officer, Millennium Challenge
Corporation, [email protected], 202–
521–3574.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MCC is
giving notice of a system of records
pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5
U.S.C. 552a) for the MCC–Business
Relations System (MCC–BRS). MCC
utilizes MCC–BRS to provide automated
processing of business transactions
related MCC’s mission of reducing
global poverty through growth. MCC–
BRS utilizes the Salesforce Government
Cloud information system for collecting,
storing, and processing the information.
Various elements within MCC will
utilize MCC–BRS for their business
functions; they include the departments
of Congressional and Public Affairs
(CPA) Department, and the Department
of Compact Operations (DCO). Business
functions within DCO include the
Finance, Investment and Trade (FIT),
Environmental and Social Performance
(ESP), and the Office of Strategic
Partnerships (OSP).
Salesforce Government Cloud meets
the federal government’s objectives of
cloud computing to reduce procurement
and operating costs to the federal
government. In addition, Salesforce
Government Cloud meets the Federal
Information Processing Standards
Publication (FIPS)—200, Minimum
Security Requirements for Federal
Information and Information Systems as
an authorized Federal Risk and
Authorization Management Program
(FedRAMP) information system. MCC
utilizes MCC–BRS to achieve the
following business objectives: 1. To
create and maintain a system that
optimizes MCC’s ability to analyze,
manage, engage, and grow external
stakeholders; 2. To create and manage
business engagement opportunities that
promote MCC’s mission in an organized
and efficient manner; 3. To provide in
person or online event management and
communications campaigns for external
stakeholder engagement; and 4. To
provide the agency with the means to:
track and manage future financial

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