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Background documents related to this
information collection request are
available at https://regulations.gov and
at 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 CONTACT
section of this notice.
III. Current Actions
This information collection request
concerns provisions for Ventilation
Plans, Tests, and Examinations in
Underground Coal Mines. 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: 1219–0088.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 153.
Frequency: On occasion.
Number of Responses: 10,926.
Annual Burden Hours: 115,874 hours.
Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper
Cost: $26,004.
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.
Jessica Senk,
Certifying Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
[OMB Control No. 1219–0073]

Proposed Extension of Information
Collection; Mine Mapping and Records
of Opening, Closing, and Reopening of
Mines
Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.

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AGENCY:

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance request for

SUMMARY:

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comment 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 request 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 Mine
Mapping and Records of Opening,
Closing, and Reopening of Mines.
DATES: All comments must be received
on or before September 20, 2021.
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–2021–0021.
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 your comment includes
confidential information that you 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jessica Senk, Director, Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances,
MSHA, at
[email protected]
(email); (202) 693–9440 (voice); or (202)
693–9441 (facsimile).

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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
(Secretary) 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 or other mines.
The information collection addressed
by this notice is intended to protect
miners by ensuring that up-to-date,
accurate mine maps contain the
information needed to clarify the best
alternatives for action during an
emergency operation. Coal mine
operators routinely use maps to create
safe and effective development plans.
Mine maps are schematic depictions
of critical mine infrastructure, such as
water, power, transportation,
ventilation, and communication
systems. Using accurate, up-to-date
maps during a disaster, mine emergency
personnel can locate refuges for miners
and identify sites of explosion potential.
Emergency personnel use the maps to
know where stationary equipment was
placed, where ground was secured, and
where they can best begin a rescue
operation. During a disaster, maps can
be crucial to the safety of the emergency
personnel who must enter a mine to
begin a search for survivors.
Mine maps may describe the current
status of an operating mine or provide
crucial information about a closed mine
that is being reopened.
Title 30 CFR 75.1200 requires each
underground coal mine operator to have
an accurate and up-to-date map of such
mine drawn to scale and stored in a
fireproof repository in an area on the
surface of the mine chosen by the mine
operator to minimize the danger of
destruction by fire or other hazards.
Sections 75.1200–1, 75.1201, 75.1202,
75.1202–1, and 75.1203 specify the
information which must be shown on
the map. The maps must be certified by
a registered engineer or surveyor and be
kept up-to-date by temporary notations
and revised and supplemented to
include the temporary notations at
intervals of not more than 6 months.
Maps must be made available for
inspection by a representative of the
Secretary, State coal mine inspectors,
miners and their representatives,
operators of adjacent coal mines, and
persons owning, leasing, or residing on
surface areas of such mines or areas

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adjacent to such mines. Mine maps are
essential to the planning and safe
operation of the mine. In addition, these
maps provide a graphic presentation of
the locations of working sections and
the locations of fixed surface and
underground mine facilities and
equipment, escapeway routes, coal
haulage and man and materials haulage
entries and other information essential
to mine rescue or mine firefighting
activities in the event of mine fires,
explosions or inundations of gas or
water. The information is essential to
the safe operation of adjacent mines and
mines approaching the worked out areas
of active or abandoned mines. Section
75.372 requires underground mine
operators to submit three copies of an
up-to-date mine map to the District
Manager at intervals not exceeding 12
months during the operating life of the
mine.
Title 30 CFR 75.1204 and 75.1204–1
require that whenever an underground
coal mine operator permanently closes
or abandons a coal mine, or temporarily
closes a coal mine for a period of more
than 90 days, the operator must file with
MSHA a copy of the mine map revised
and supplemented to the date of
closure. Maps are retained in a
repository and are made available to
mine operators of adjacent properties.
The maps are necessary to provide an
accurate record of underground areas
that have been mined to help prevent
active mine operators from mining into
abandoned areas that may contain water
or harmful gases.
Title 30 CFR 77.1200, 77.1201, and
77.1202 require surface coal mine
operators to maintain an accurate and
up-to-date map of the mine and
specifies the information to be shown
on the map, the acceptable range of map
scales, that the map be certified by a
registered engineer or surveyor, and that
the map be available for inspection by
the Secretary or his authorized
representative. These maps are essential
for the safe operation of the mine and
provide essential information to
operators of adjacent surface and
underground mines. Properly prepared
and effectively utilized surface mine
maps can prevent outbursts of water
impounded in underground mine
workings and/or inundations of
underground mines by surface
impounded water or water and/or gases
impounded in surface auger mining
worked-out areas.
Title 30 CFR 75.373 and 75.1721
require that after a mine is abandoned
or declared inactive and before it is
reopened, mine operations must not
begin until MSHA has been notified and
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75.1721 specifies that once the mine
operator notifies the MSHA District
Manager of the intent to reopen a mine
all preliminary plans must be submitted
in writing and approved prior to
development of the coalbed.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
MSHA is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed information
collection related to Mine Mapping and
Records of Opening, Closing, and
Reopening of Mines. 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;
• 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
at 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.
III. Current Actions
This information collection request
concerns provisions for Mine Mapping
and Records of Opening, Closing, and
Reopening of Mines. 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: 1219–0073.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Respondents: 580.
Frequency: On occasion.
Number of Responses: 1,190.

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Annual Burden Hours: 6,274 hours.
Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper
Cost: $3,204,898.
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.
Jessica Senk,
Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021–15458 Filed 7–20–21; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE
ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES
National Endowment for the Arts
Subject 60-Day Notice for the ‘‘2021
Final Descriptive Report Update’’
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
National Endowment for the
Arts, National Foundation on the Arts
and the Humanities.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The National Endowment for
the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, conducts a
preclearance consultation program to
provide the general public and Federal
agencies with an opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing 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 NEA is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
information collection in final
descriptive reports. A copy of the
current information collection request
can be obtained by contacting the office
listed below in the address section of
this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
address section below within 60 days
from the date of this publication in the
Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Sunil
Iyengar, National Endowment for the
Arts, via email ([email protected]).
SUMMARY:

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