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incorporated into and maintained by the
longitudinal QCEW database. The MWR
collects a physical location address,
secondary name (trade name, division,
subsidiary, etc.), and reporting unit
description (store number, plant name
or number, etc.) for each worksite of
multi-establishment employers.
Employers with more than one
establishment reporting under the same
UI account number within a State are
requested to complete the MWR if the
sum of the employment in all of their
secondary establishments is 10 or
greater. The primary worksite is defined
as the establishment with the greatest
number of employees. Upon receipt of
the first MWR form, each employer is
requested to supply business location
identification information. Thereafter,
this reported information appears on the
MWR each quarter. The employer is
requested to verify the accuracy of this
business location identification
information and to provide only the
employment and wages for each
worksite for that quarter. By using a
standardized form, the reporting burden
on many large employers, especially
those engaged in multiple economic
activities at various locations across
numerous States, is reduced.
The function of the Report of Federal
Employment and Wages (RFEW) is to
collect employment and wages data for
Federal establishments covered under
the UCFE program. The MWR and
RFEW are essentially the same. The
MWR/RFEW forms are designed to
collect data for each establishment of a
multi-establishment employer.

No other standardized report is
available to collect current
establishment-level monthly
employment and wages data by SWAs
for statistical purposes each quarter
from the private sector nor State and
local governments. Also, no other
standardized report currently is
available to collect installation-level
Federal monthly employment and
wages data each quarter by SWAs for
statistical purposes. Completion of the
MWR is required by law in 31 States
and territories.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for an
extension of the Multiple Worksite
Report and the Report of Federal
Employment and Wages.
The BLS has taken steps to help
reduce employer reporting burden by
developing a standardized format for
employers to use to send these data to
the States in an electronic medium. The
BLS established an Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI) Collection Center to
improve and expedite the MWR
collection process. Employers who
complete the MWR for multi-location
businesses can submit employment and
wages information on any electronic
medium directly to the data collection
center, rather than separately to each
State agency. The data collection center
then distributes the appropriate data to
the respective States. In addition, the
BLS developed a web-based system,
MWRweb, to collect these data from
small to medium-size businesses. The
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BLS continues to see much greater
utilization of this reporting option.
III. Desired Focus of Comments
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility.
• Evaluate the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submissions
of responses.
Title: Multiple Worksite Report
(MWR) and the Report of Federal
Employment and Wages (RFEW).
OMB Number: 1220–0134.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit institutions, not-for-profit
institutions, and the Federal
Government.
Average
time per
response
(minutes)

Total
responses

Frequency

Total burden
(hours)

BLS 3020 (MWR/Federal) ...................................................
BLS 3021 (RFEW/Non-Federal) ..........................................

144,509
2,630

4
4

578,036
10,520

22.2
22.2

213,873
3,892

Totals: ...........................................................................

147,139

4

588,556

........................

217,765

Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Signed at Washington, DC, this 14th day of
March, 2019.
Mark Staniorski,
Division Chief, Division of Management
Systems Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Occupational Safety and Health State
Plans; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements

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Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0197]

Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.

AGENCY:
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OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its request to
extend OMB’s approval of information
collection regarding the State Plans
program and regulations for the
development and enforcement of state
occupational safety and health
standards.

SUMMARY:

Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
20, 2019.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
DATES:

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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–2011–0197, 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
OSHA 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–2011–0197) 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 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 through the website.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Douglas
Kalinowski at the below address to
obtain a copy of the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Suzanne Smith, Office of State
Programs, Directorate of Cooperative
and State Programs, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor; telephone: (202)
693–2217; email: smith.suzanne@
dol.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of a
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., the State plans)
burden, conducts a preclearance process
to provide the public with an

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opportunity to comment on proposed
and continuing information collection
requirements in accordance 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, the reporting burden
(time and costs) is minimal, the
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and OSHA’s estimate of the
information collection burden is
accurate. OSHA is soliciting comments
concerning the extension of the
information collection requirements
contained in the series of regulations
establishing requirements for the
submission, initial approval, continuing
approval, final approval, monitoring,
and evaluation of OSHA-approved State
Plans:
• 29 CFR part 1902, State Plans for
the Development and Enforcement of
State Standards;
• 29 CFR part 1953, Changes to State
Plans for the Development and
Enforcement of State Standards;
• 29 CFR part 1954, Procedures for
the Evaluation and Monitoring of
Approved State Plans; and
• 29 CFR part 1956, State Plans for
the Development and Enforcement of
State Standards Applicable to State and
Local Government Employees in States
Without Approved Private Employee
Plans.
Section 18 of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act (29 U.S.C. 667) offers an
opportunity to the states to assume
responsibility for the development and
enforcement of state standards through
the mechanism of an OSHA-approved
State Plan. Absent an approved plan,
states are precluded from enforcing
occupational safety and health
standards in the private sector with
respect to any issue for which Federal
OSHA has promulgated a standard.
Once approved and operational, the
state adopts standards and provides
most occupational safety and health
enforcement and compliance assistance
in the state under the authority of its
plan, instead of Federal OSHA. States
also must extend their jurisdiction to
cover state and local government
employees and may obtain approval of
State Plans limited in scope to these
workers. To obtain and maintain State
Plan approval, a state must submit
various documents to OSHA describing
program structure and operation,
including any modifications thereto as
they occur, in accordance with the
identified regulations. OSHA funds 50
percent of the costs required to be
incurred by an approved State Plan,
with the state at least matching and
providing additional funding at its
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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
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
approval of the collection of information
requirements associated with State Plan
regulations. The agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease related to the
number of burden hours associated with
the developmental steps necessary for
certain states in the developmental
process, including Maine, Illinois, and
Virgin Islands. As a result, the total
burden hours have decreased slightly
from 11,519 to 11,369 (a decrease of 150
burden hours). 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 collection.
Title: Occupational Safety and Health
Plans.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0247.
Affected Public: Designated state
government agencies that are seeking or
have submitted and obtained approval
for State Plans for the development and
enforcement of occupational safety and
health standards.
Number of Respondents: 28.
Frequency: On occasion; Quarterly;
Annually.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Estimated Number of Responses:
1,301.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
11,369.
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
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facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other
materials must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number (Docket
No. OSHA–2011–0197) 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
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 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 through the website, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate
docket submissions.
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Loren Sweatt, Acting 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 15,
2019.
Loren Sweatt,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008]

Standard on Commercial Diving
Operations; 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 the proposal to
extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
contained in the standard on
Commercial Diving Operations.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by May
20, 2019.
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–2011–0008, 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
OSHA 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–2011–0008) 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 through the website.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Theda Kenney at
(202) 693–2222 to obtain a copy of the
ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney or Seleda Perryman,
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 a
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 accordance 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, the reporting burden
(time and costs) is minimal, the
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and OSHA’s estimate of the
information collection burden is
accurate. The Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970 (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
incidents (see 29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH
Act also requires OSHA to obtain such
information with a 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 (see 29
U.S.C. 657).
The following provisions of the
Commercial Diving Operations
Standards (the ‘‘standards’’) contain
paperwork requirements:
§§ 1910.401(b); 1910.420(a) and (b);
1910.421(b) and (h); 1910.422(e);
1910.423(d) and (e); 1910.430(a), (b)(4),
(c)(1)(i) through (c)(1)(iii), (c)(3)(i),
(f)(3)(ii), and (g)(2); and 1910.440(a)(2)
and (b). These provisions require that
employers: Notify OSHA if they deviate
from the operational requirements of the
standards; develop and make available

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