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Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 216 / Wednesday, November 9, 2022 / Notices

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listed below in the Addresses section of
this notice.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted to the office listed in the
Addresses section of this notice on or
before January 9, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to Carol
Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, Division
of Management Systems, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Room G225, 2
Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington,
DC 20212. Written comments also may
be transmitted by email to BLS_PRA_
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carol Rowan, BLS Clearance Officer, at
202–691–7628 (this is not a toll free
number). (See ADDRESSES section.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The Occupational Employment and
Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey is a
Federal/State establishment survey of
wage and salary workers designed to
produce data on current detailed
occupational employment and wages for
each Metropolitan Statistical Area and
Metropolitan Division as well as by
detailed industry classification. OEWS
survey data assist in the development of
employment and training programs
established by the Perkins Vocational
Education Act and the Wagner-Peyser
Act.
The OEWS program operates a
periodic mail survey of a sample of nonfarm establishments conducted by all
fifty States, the District of Columbia,
Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. Over three-year periods, data on
occupational employment and wages
are collected by industry at the fourand five-digit North American Industry
Classification System (NAICS) levels.
The Department of Labor uses OES data
in the administration of the Foreign
Labor Certification process under the
Immigration Act of 1990.
II. Current Action
Office of Management and Budget
clearance is being sought for the OEWS
program. Occupational employment
data obtained by the OEWS survey are
used to develop information regarding
current and projected employment
needs and job opportunities. These data
assist in the development of State
vocational education plans. OEWS wage
data provide a significant source of
information to support a number of
different Federal, State, and local
efforts.
With the release of the May 2021
OEWS estimates in March 2022, the
OEWS program implemented a new
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(MB3). The MB3 methodology uses
modeling to predict the staffing pattern
and wages for every non-observed
establishment on the OEWS population
frame using observed OEWS survey
response data along with current data
from the Quarterly Census of
Employment and Wages program. This
differs from the older design-based
methodology that used weighting and
imputation to make the OEWS response
data represent the OEWS population
frame. Research and testing indicated
the accuracy and reliability of the MB3
estimates improved over the former
approach.
As part of an ongoing effort to reduce
respondent burden, OEWS has several
electronic submission options which are
available to respondents. Respondents
have the ability to submit data by email,
or fillable online forms. In many cases,
a respondent can submit existing
payroll records and would not need to
submit a survey form.
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 of Collection: Report on
Occupational Employment and Wages.
OMB Number: 1220–0042.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit, Not-for-profit institutions,
Federal Government, State, Local, or
Tribal Government.
Total Respondents: 255,965.
Frequency: Semi-annually.
Total Responses: 255,965.
Average Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
127,982.

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Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$00.00.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $00.00.
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.
Signed at Washington, DC, on November 2,
2022.
Eric Molina,
Acting Chief, Division of Management
Systems.
[FR Doc. 2022–24385 Filed 11–8–22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–24–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0037]

Standard for Welding, Cutting, and
Brazing; 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 the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Standard for Welding,
Cutting, and Brazing.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
January 9, 2023.
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.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to http://
www.regulations.gov. Documents in the
docket 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
through the OSHA Docket Office.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202)
693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–5627) for
assistance in locating docket
submissions.

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Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2010–0037) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments,
including any personal information, in
the public docket, which may be made
available online. Therefore, OSHA
cautions interested parties about
submitting personal information such as
social security numbers and birthdates.
For further information on submitting
comments, see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Seleda Perryman or Theda Kenney,
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
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, 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 OSH Act or for
developing information regarding the
causes and prevention of occupational
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (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 effort in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following sections describe who
uses the information collected under
each requirement, as well as how they
use it. The purpose of these
requirements is to reduce employees’
risk of death or serious injury by
ensuring that employment has been
tested and is in safe operating condition.
Section 1910.255(e) requires that a
periodic inspection of resistance
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qualified maintenance personnel, and
that a certification record be generated
and maintained. The certification shall
include the date of the inspection, the
signature of the person who performed
the inspection and the serial number, or
other identifier, for the equipment
inspected. The record shall be made
available to an OSHA inspector upon
request. The maintenance inspection
ensures that welding equipment is in
safe operating condition while the
maintenance record provides evidence
to workers and agency compliance
officers that employers performed the
required inspections.
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 to protect workers,
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
The agency requests an adjustment
decrease of 187 burden hours (from
5,806 burden hours to 5,619 burden
hours) associated with the collections of
information in the Welding, Cutting,
and Brazing Standard. This adjustment
decrease is a result of a decrease in the
number of welders, cutters, solders, and
brazers in general industry from 21,770
to 21,070 a difference of 700 welders,
cutter, solders, and brazers in the
previous package. The agency will
summarize any comments submitted in
response to this notice and will include
this summary in its request to OMB.
OSHA 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.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: The Standard for Welding,
Cutting, and Brazing (29 CFR part 1910,
subpart Q).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0207.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.

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