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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 45 / Friday, March 6, 2020 / Notices
Dated: February 21, 2020.
Eugene Scalia,
Secretary of Labor.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
[OMB Control No. 1219–0003]

Proposed Extension of Information
Collection; Radiation Sampling and
Exposure Records
Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
collections of information in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. This program helps to ensure that
requested data can be provided in the
desired format, reporting burden (time
and financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed. Currently, the Mine
Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA) is soliciting comments on the
information collection for Radiation
Sampling and Exposure Records.
DATES: All comments must be received
on or before May 5, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment
as follows. Please note that late,
untimely filed comments will not be
considered.
Electronic Submissions: Submit
electronic comments in the following
way:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
for docket number MSHA–2020–0006.
Comments submitted electronically,
including attachments, to https://
www.regulations.gov will be posted to
the docket, with no changes. Because
your comment will be made public, you
are responsible for ensuring that your
comment does not include any
confidential information that you or a
third party may not wish to be posted,
such as your or anyone else’s Social
Security number or confidential
business information.
• If you want to submit a comment
with confidential information that you
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do not wish to be made available to the
public, submit the comment as a
written/paper submission.
Written/Paper Submissions: Submit
written/paper submissions in the
following way:
• Mail/Hand Delivery: Mail or visit
DOL–MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th
Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington,
VA 22202–5452.
• MSHA will post your comment as
well as any attachments, except for
information submitted and marked as
confidential, in the docket at https://
www.regulations.gov.
Sheila McConnell, Director, Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances,
MSHA, at
[email protected]
(email); (202) 693–9440 (voice); or (202)
693–9441 (facsimile).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 103(h) of the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine
Act), 30 U.S.C. 813(h), authorizes
MSHA to collect information necessary
to carry out its duty in protecting the
safety and health of miners. Further,
section 101(a) of the Mine Act, 30 U.S.C.
811, authorizes the Secretary of Labor to
develop, promulgate, and revise as may
be appropriate, improved mandatory
health or safety standards for the
protection of life and prevention of
injuries in coal and metal and nonmetal
mines.
Under the authority of Section 103 of
the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act
of 1977, MSHA is required to issue
regulations requiring operators to
maintain accurate records of employee
exposures to potentially toxic materials
or harmful physical agents which are
required to be monitored or measured
under any applicable mandatory health
or safety standard promulgated under
this Act.
Airborne radon and radon daughters
exist in every uranium mine and in
several other underground mining
commodities. Radon is radioactive gas.
It diffuses into the underground mine
atmosphere through the rock and the
ground water. Radon decays in a series
of steps into other radioactive elements,
which are solids, called radon
daughters. Radon and radon daughters
are invisible and odorless. Decay of
radon and its daughters results in
emissions of alpha energy.
Medical doctors and scientists have
associated high radon daughter
exposures with lung cancer. The health
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contaminated with radon daughters
which are in turn deposited in the
lungs. The lung tissues are sensitive to
alpha radioactivity.
The amounts of airborne radon
daughters to which most miners can be
exposed with no adverse effects have
been established and are expressed as
working levels (WL). The current MSHA
standard is a maximum personal
exposure of 4 working level months per
year.
Excess lung cancer in uranium
miners, just as coal workers’
pneumoconiosis, silicosis, and other
debilitating occupational diseases, has
been recognized for many years. Thus,
an adequate base of accurate exposure
level data is essential to control miners’
exposures and permit an evaluation of
the effectiveness of existing regulations.
The standard at 30 CFR 57.5037
established the procedures to be used by
the mine operator in sampling mine air
for the presence and concentrations of
radon daughters. Operators are required
to conduct weekly sampling where
concentrations of radon daughters
exceed 0.3 WL. Sampling is required biweekly where uranium mines have
readings of 0.1 WL to 0.3 WL and every
3 months in non-uranium underground
mines where the readings are 0.1 WL to
0.3 WL. Mine operators are required to
keep records of all mandatory
samplings. Records must include the
sample date, location, and results, and
must be retained at the mine site or
nearest mine office for at least 2 years.
The standard at 30 CFR 57.5040
requires mine operators to calculate and
record individual exposures to radon
daughters on MSHA Form 4000–9
‘‘Record of Individual Exposure to
Radon Daughters.’’ The calculations are
based on the results of the weekly
sampling required by 30 CFR 57.5037.
Records must be maintained by the
operator and submitted to MSHA
annually.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
MSHA is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed information
collection related to Radiation Sampling
and Exposure Records. MSHA is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Agency, including whether the
information has practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;

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• Suggest methods to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
• 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 submission of
responses.
Background documents related to this
information collection request are
available at https://regulations.gov and
in DOL–MSHA located at 201 12th
Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington,
VA 22202–5452. Questions about the
information collection requirements
may be directed to the person listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION section of
this notice from the previous collection
of information.

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III. Current Actions
This information collection request
concerns provisions for Radiation
Sampling and Exposure Records. MSHA
has updated the data with respect to the
number of respondents, responses,
burden hours, and burden costs
supporting this information collection
request from the previous information
collection request.
Type of Review: Extension, without
change, of a currently approved
collection.
Agency: Mine Safety and Health
Administration.
OMB Number: 1219–0003.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 4.
Frequency: On occasion.
Number of Responses: 404.
Annual Burden Hours: 402 hours.
Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper
Cost: $20.
MSHA Form: MSHA Form 4000–9,
Record of Individual Exposure to Radon
Daughters.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget approval of the proposed
information collection request; they will
become a matter of public record and
will be available at https://
www.reginfo.gov.
Sheila McConnell,
Certifying Officer.
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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND
BUDGET
Request for Comments on Updated
Guidance for Completing the
Transition to the Next Generation
Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol
Version 6 (IPv6)
Office of Management and
Budget.
ACTION: Notice of public comment
period.
AGENCY:

The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) is seeking public
comment on a draft memorandum titled,
Completing the Transition to Internet
Protocol Version 6.
DATES: The public comment period on
the draft memorandum begins on the
day it is published in the Federal
Register and ends 30 days after date of
publication in the Federal Register. The
draft memorandum is available at:
https://www.cio.gov/assets/resources/
internet-protocol-version6-draft.pdf.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties should
provide comments via electronic mail to
the following inbox: OFCIO@
omb.eop.gov. The Office of Management
and Budget is located at 725 17th Street
NW, Washington, DC 20503. No
physical copies will be accepted.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Bales, OMB, at 202.395.9915 or
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) is
proposing updated guidance to Federal
agencies on completing the transition to
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6). In
August 2005, OMB issued M–05–22,
Transition Planning for Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), requiring
agencies to enable IPv6 on their
backbone networks by June 30, 2008.
This policy outlined deployment and
acquisition requirements. In September
2010, OMB issued a memo titled
‘‘Transition to IPv6’’, requiring Federal
agencies to operationally deploy native
IPv6 for public internet servers and
internal applications that communicate
with public servers. The intent of the
newly proposed policy articulated in
the draft memorandum is to
communicate the requirements for
completing the operational deployment
of IPv6 across all Federal information
systems and services, and help agencies
overcome barriers that prevent them
from migrating to IPv6-only systems.
In the last 5 years, IPv6 momentum in
industry has dramatically increased,
with large IPv6 commercial
deployments in many business sectors
now driven by reducing cost, decreasing
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complexity, improving security and
eliminating barriers to innovation in
networked information systems. Mobile
networks, data centers and leading-edge
enterprise networks, for example, have
been evolving to IPv6-only networks. It
is essential for the Federal government
to expand and enhance its strategic
commitment to the transition to IPv6 in
order to keep pace with and capitalize
on industry trends. The draft
memorandum was prepared by the
Office of Management and Budget, in
collaboration with the Federal Chief
Information Officers Council and
Federal Chief Information Security
Officers Council, and supports the
Administration’s goals for modernizing
Federal Information Technology.
Privacy/FOIA Notice: Comments
submitted in response to this notice may
be publically available and are subject
to disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act. For this reason, please
do not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such sensitive personal information or
proprietary information, or any other
information that you would not want
publically disclosed.
Suzette Kent,
Federal Chief Information Officer, Office of
the Federal Chief Information Officer, Office
of Management Budget.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice (20–025)]

Term and Condition Notification of
Harassment Form
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of information collection.
AGENCY:

The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections.
DATES: Comments are due by May 5,
2020.
SUMMARY:

All comments should be
addressed to Claire Little, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration,
300 E Street SW, Washington, DC
20546–0001 or call 202–358–2375.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
ADDRESSES:

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