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—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.
Abstract: Applicants seeking
remission of financial penalties by the
President will be asked to respond to
this collection. The principal purpose
for collecting this information is to
enable the Office of the Pardon Attorney
to process applicants’ requests for
remission of financial penalties. The
information is necessary to verify
applicants’ identities, conduct
investigation of the applicants’
backgrounds, criminal records, and
conduct since their conviction, and to

provide notice to the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices,
U.S. Probation Offices, and federal
courts in the event of grants of executive
clemency.
Overview of This Information
Collection
1. Type of Information Collection:
New collection.
2. The Title of the Form/Collection:
Application for Remission of Financial
Penalties.
3. The agency form number, if any,
and the applicable component of the
Department sponsoring the collection:
There is no agency form number for this
collection. The applicable component
within the Department of Justice is the
Office of the Pardon Attorney.
4. Affected public who will be asked
or required to respond, as well as the

obligation to respond: Affected Public:
Individuals or households. The
obligation to respond is voluntary.
5. An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: Available information suggests
that potentially 500 to 1,000 applicants
will complete petitions annually. We
estimate an average of 180 minutes for
each applicant to respond to the
collection.
6. An estimate of the total annual
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: Considering the above
projected figures, we estimate 1,500 to
3,000 hours of annual burden to the
public.
7. An estimate of the total annual cost
burden associated with the collection, if
applicable: $0.

TOTAL BURDEN HOURS
Activity

Number of
respondents

Time per response

Total annual
burden
(hours)

Application .............................

1,000

1/annually .............................

1,000

180 min .................................

3,000

Unduplicated Totals ........

1,000

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

1,000

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

3,000

If additional information is required
contact: Darwin Arceo, Department
Clearance Officer, United States
Department of Justice, Justice
Management Division, Policy and
Planning Staff, Two Constitution
Square, 145 N Street NE, 4W–218,
Washington, DC.
Dated: April 4, 2024.
Darwin Arceo,
Department Clearance Officer for PRA, U.S.
Department of Justice.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
[OMB Control No. 1219–0120]

Proposed Extension of Information
Collection; Occupational Noise
Exposure
Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
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Total annual
responses

Frequency

The Department of Labor
(DOL), 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

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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.
The Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) is soliciting
comments on the information collection
for Occupational Noise Exposure.
DATES: All comments must be received
on or before June 10, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning the
information collection requirements of
this notice may be sent by any of the
methods listed below. Please note that
late comments received after the
deadline will not be considered.
• Federal E-Rulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments for docket number MSHA–
2024–0001.
• Mail/Hand Delivery: DOL–MSHA,
Office of Standards, Regulations, and
Variances, 201 12th Street South, 4th
Floor West, Arlington, VA 22202–5452.
Before visiting MSHA in person, call
202–693–9455 to make an appointment,
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Labor’s COVID–19 policy. Special
health precautions may be required.
• MSHA will post all comments 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: S.
Aromie Noe, Director, Office of
Standards, Regulations, and Variances,
MSHA, at MSHA.information
[email protected] (email); (202) 693–
9440 (voice); or (202) 693–9441
(facsimile). These are not toll-free
numbers.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
Section 103(h) of the Federal Mine
Safety and Health Act of 1977, as
amended (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(a), 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, metal, and nonmetal
mines.
Noise is a harmful physical agent and
one of the most pervasive health

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hazards in mining. Repeated exposure
to high levels of sound over time causes
occupational noise-induced hearing loss
(NIHL). NIHL is a serious, often
profound physical impairment for
miners with far-reaching psychological
and social effects. Occupational hearing
loss is one of the most common workrelated illnesses in the United States.
NIHL can be distinguished from aging
and other factors that can contribute to
hearing loss and it can be prevented.
For many years, NIHL was regarded as
an inevitable consequence of working in
a mine. Mining, an intensely
mechanized industry, relies on drills,
crushers, compressors, conveyors,
trucks, loaders, and other heavy-duty
equipment for the excavation, haulage,
and processing of materials. These
machines create high sound levels,
exposing machine operators and miners
working nearby to occupational noise
that can contribute to hearing loss.
MSHA, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S.
military, and other organizations around
the world have established and enforced
standards to reduce the loss of hearing.
Quieter equipment, isolation of workers
from noise sources, and limiting the
time workers are exposed to noise are
among the many well-accepted methods
that will prevent costly incidences of
NIHL.
Under 30 CFR 62, Occupational Noise
Exposure, mandatory health standards
are set for surface and underground coal
and metal and nonmetal mines. This
information collection addresses records
of miners’ exposures to noise, hearing
conservation programs, hearing
examinations, and training to prevent
the occurrence and reduce the
progression of NIHL among miners.
Specifically, this information collection
covers the following activities: notifying
miners of noise exposure, developing
and distributing administrative controls
and procedures to reduce miners’
exposure, recording audiometric tests,
providing evaluators with audiometric
tests, providing miners with
audiometric test results and
interpretation, certifying initial noise
training and annual retraining,
certifying corrective retraining, and
providing miners with training records.
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II. Desired Focus of Comments
MSHA is soliciting comments
concerning the proposed information
collection related to Occupational Noise
Exposure. MSHA is particularly
interested in comments that:
• Evaluate whether the collection of
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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.
The information collection request
will be available on https://
www.regulations.gov. MSHA cautions
the commenter against providing any
information in the submission that
should not be publicly disclosed. Full
comments, including personal
information provided, will be made
available on https://
www.regulations.gov and https://
www.reginfo.gov.
The public may also examine publicly
available documents at DOL–MSHA,
Office of Standards, Regulations and
Variances, 201 12th Street South, 4th
Floor West, Arlington, VA 22202–5452.
Sign in at the receptionist’s desk on the
4th floor via the West elevator. Before
visiting MSHA in person, call 202–693–
9455 to make an appointment, in
keeping with the Department of Labor’s
COVID–19 policy. Special health
precautions may be required.
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 Occupational
Noise Exposure. 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: 1219–0120.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Number of Annual Respondents:
12,530.
Frequency: On occasion.
Number of Annual Responses:
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Annual Burden Hours: 14,273 hours.
Annual Burden Cost: $657,632.
Annual Other Burden Cost: $127,648.
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.
Song-ae Aromie Noe,
Certifying Officer, Mine Safety and Health
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of the Workers’ Compensation
Programs
[OMB Control No. 1240–0010]

Proposed Extension of an Existing
Collection; Request To Be Selected as
Payee (CM–910)
Division of Coal Mine Workers’
Compensation, Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, Department of
Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor
(DOL), as part of its continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
purden, conducts a pre-clearance
request for 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.
OWCP/DCMWC is soliciting comments
on the information collection request
(ICR) titled, ‘‘Request to be Selected as
Payee (CM–910)’’.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
written comments received by June 10,
2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comment
as follows. Please note that late,
untimely filed comments will not be
considered.
Written/Paper Submission: Submit
written/paper submissions the following
way:
• Mail/Hand Delivery: Mail or visit
DOL–OWCP/DCMWC, Office of
Workers’ Compensation Program,
SUMMARY:

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