60 Day FRNotice (84 FR 61077 11-12-2019)

Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 218 / Tuesday, November 12, 2019 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0040]

The Standard on 4,4′Methylenedianiline for General
Industry; 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:

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 from the website. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may also contact Theda Kenney or
Seleda Perryman 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:

OSHA solicits public
comments concerning the proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Standard on 4,4′Methylenedianiline (MDA) for General
Industry.

I. Background

Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
January 13, 2020.
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–2012–0040, Occupational Safety
and Health Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room N–36535,
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–2012–0040) 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.

The Department of Labor, as part of
the 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)
(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
accidents (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 information (see 29 U.S.C.
657).
The information collection
requirements specified in the 4,4′Methylenedianiline Standard for
General Industry (the ‘‘MDA Standard’’)
(29 CFR 1910.1050) protect workers
from the adverse health effects that may
result from their exposure to MDA,
including cancer, liver, and skin
disease. The major paperwork

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requirements specify that employers
must perform initial, periodic, and
additional exposure monitoring; notify
each worker in writing of their results
as soon as possible but no longer than
five (5) days after receiving exposure
monitoring results; and routinely
inspect the hands, face, and forearms of
each worker potentially exposed to
MDA for signs of dermal exposure to
MDA. Employers must also: Establish a
written compliance program; institute a
respiratory protection program in
accordance with OSHA’s Respiratory
Protection Standard (29 CFR 1910.134);
and to develop a written emergency
plan for any construction operation that
could have an MDA emergency (i.e., an
unexpected and potentially hazardous
release of MDA).
Employers must label any material or
products containing MDA, including
containers used to store MDAcontaminated protective clothing and
equipment. They also must inform
personnel who launder MDAcontaminated clothing of the
requirement to prevent release of MDA,
while personnel who launder or clean
MDA-contaminated protective clothing
or equipment must receive information
about the potentially harmful effects of
MDA. In addition, employers are to post
warning signs at entrances or access
ways to regulated areas, as well as train
workers exposed to MDA at the time of
their initial assignment, and at least
annually thereafter.
Other paperwork provisions of the
MDA standard require employers to
provide workers with medical
examinations, including initial,
periodic, emergency and follow-up
examinations. As part of the medical
surveillance program, employers must
ensure that the examining physician
receives specific written information,
and that they obtain from the physician
a written opinion regarding the worker’s
medical results and exposure
limitations.
The MDA standard also specifies that
employers are to establish and maintain
exposure monitoring and medical
surveillance records for each worker
who is subject to these respective
requirements, make any required record
available to OSHA compliance officers
and the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) for examination and copying,
and provide exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records to workers
and their designated representatives.
Finally, employers who cease to do
business within the period specified for
retaining exposure monitoring and
medical surveillance records, and who
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notify NIOSH at least 90 days before
disposing of the records and transmit
the records to NIOSH if so requested.
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 an adjustment
decrease from 334 to 319 hours (a
decrease of 15 hours). In the previous
ICR, OSHA erroneously requested OMB
approval of 334 hours rather than 317
hours. The additional 2 hours (to 319
hours) is due to the way OSHA is now
doing its calculations. There is no
change in cost under Item 13.
The agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in
the request to OMB to extend the
approval of the information collection
requirements contained in the MDA
Standard.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: 4,4′-Methylenedianiline
Standard for General Industry (29 CFR
1910.1050).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0184.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Not-for-profit organizations;
Federal Government; State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 10.
Total Responses: 574.
Frequency: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Various.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 319.
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
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comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number (Docket
No. OSHA–2012–0040) 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 the
agency can attach them to your
comments.
Due to 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 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, Principal 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).

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: (19–079)]

NASA Planetary Science Advisory
Committee; Meeting
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
amended, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA)
announces a meeting of the Planetary
Science Advisory Committee. This
Committee reports to the Director,
Planetary Science Division, Science
Mission Directorate, NASA
Headquarters. The meeting will be held
for the purpose of soliciting, from the
scientific community and other persons,
scientific and technical information
relevant to program planning.
DATES: Friday, December 6, 2019, 1:00
p.m.–5:30 p.m., Eastern Time.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
KarShelia Henderson, Science Mission
Directorate, NASA Headquarters,
Washington, DC 20546, (202) 358–2355,
fax (202) 358–2779, or khenderson@
nasa.gov.
SUMMARY:

The
meeting will be available telephonically
and by WebEx. You must use a touchtone phone to participate in this
meeting. Any interested person may dial
the USA toll free conference call
number 1–800–779–9966 or toll number
1–517–645–6359, passcode 5255996, to
participate in this meeting by telephone.
The WebEx link is https://
nasaenterprise.webex.com/, the meeting
number is 906 287 000 and the
password is PAC@Dec6.
The agenda for the meeting includes
the following topics:
—Planetary Science Division Update
—Reports from Specific Research &
Analysis Programs
The agenda will be posted on the
Planetary Advisory Committee web
page: https://science.nasa.gov/
researchers/nac/science-advisorycommittees/pac.
It is imperative that the meeting be
held on this date to accommodate the
scheduling priorities of the key
participants.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Signed at Washington, DC, on November 5,
2019.
Loren Sweatt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Occupational Safety and Health.

Patricia Rausch,
Advisory Committee Management Officer,
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.

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