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Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0195]

Acrylonitrile Standard; 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 Acrylonitrile Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
December 9, 2024.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at https://
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 https://
www.regulations.gov. Documents in the
docket are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the websites.
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.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0195) 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.

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SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Seleda Perryman, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S.

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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 the requirements
specified in the Acrylonitrile (AN)
Standard (29 CFR 1910.1045) are to
provide worker protection from the
adverse health effects that may result
from their exposure to AN.
The major information collection
requirements of the AN Standard
include notifying workers of their AN
exposures, implementing a written
compliance program, providing
examining physicians with specific
information, ensuring that workers
receive a copy of their medical
examination results, maintaining
worker’s exposure monitoring and
medical records for specific periods,
and providing access to these records by
OSHA, the National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH), the affected workers, and
designated representatives.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary

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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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Acrylonitrile Standard. The agency is
requesting an adjustment decrease in
burden from 14,706 to 11,373 hours, a
difference of 3,333 hours. This decrease
in burden is due to a decrease in the
number of employees and the number of
establishments. Also, the agency is
requesting a decrease in cost from
$1,164,653 to $930,142, a difference of
$234,511.
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: Acrylonitrile Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0126.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 104.
Number of Responses: 25,937.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
11,373.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $930,142.
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 https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal; or (2) by
facsimile (fax), if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
All comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0195).
You may supplement electronic

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submission by uploading document files
electronically.
Comments and submissions are
posted without change at https://
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 https://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from this website. All
submission, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the https://
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 at
(202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–5627)
for information about materials not
available from the website, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, 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. 8–2020 (85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on October 1,
2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs
Advisory Board on Toxic Substances
and Worker Health
Office of Workers’
Compensation Programs, Labor.
ACTION: Announcement of meeting of
the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances
and Worker Health (Advisory Board) for
the Energy Employees Occupational
Illness Compensation Program Act
(EEOICPA).

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AGENCY:

The Advisory Board will meet
October 30, 2024, via teleconference,
from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time.
ADDRESSES: Submission of comments,
materials for the record, and requests for
special accommodations: You must
submit comments, materials, and
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requests for accommodations by October
23, 2024, identified by the Advisory
Board name and the meeting date of
October 30, 2024, by any of the
following methods:
• Electronically: Send to:
[email protected] (specify
in the email subject line, for example
‘‘Request to Speak: Advisory Board on
Toxic Substances and Worker Health’’).
• Mail, express delivery, hand
delivery, messenger, or courier service:
Submit one copy to the following
address: U.S. Department of Labor,
Office of Workers’ Compensation
Programs, Advisory Board on Toxic
Substances and Worker Health, Room
S–3522, 200 Constitution Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20210.
Instructions: Your submissions must
include the Agency name (OWCP), the
committee name (the Advisory Board),
and the meeting date (October 30). Due
to security-related procedures, receipt of
submissions by regular mail may
experience significant delays. For
additional information about
submissions, see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
OWCP will make available publicly,
without change, any comments,
including any personal information that
you provide. Therefore, OWCP cautions
interested parties against submitting
personal information such as Social
Security numbers and birthdates.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
press inquiries: Ms. Laura McGinnis,
Office of Public Affairs, U.S.
Department of Labor, Room S–1028, 200
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20210; telephone (202) 693–4672; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Advisory Board will meet via
teleconference on Wednesday, October
30, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Eastern time. The teleconference
number and other details for
participating remotely will be posted on
the Advisory Board’s website, http://
www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/
compliance/AdvisoryBoard.htm, 72
hours prior to the commencement of the
first meeting date. Advisory Board
meetings are open to the public.
The Advisory Board is mandated by
Section 3687 of EEOICPA. The Secretary
of Labor established the Board under
this authority and Executive Order
13699 (June 26, 2015). The purpose of
the Advisory Board is to advise the
Secretary with respect to: (1) the Site
Exposure Matrices (SEM) of the
Department of Labor; (2) medical
guidance for claims examiners for
claims with the EEOICPA program, with
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evidence of claimants; (3) evidentiary
requirements for claims under Part B of
EEOICPA related to lung disease; (4) the
work of industrial hygienists and staff
physicians and consulting physicians of
the Department of Labor and reports of
such hygienists and physicians to
ensure quality, objectivity, and
consistency; (5) the claims adjudication
process generally, including review of
procedure manual changes prior to
incorporation into the manual and
claims for medical benefits; and (6) such
other matters as the Secretary considers
appropriate. The Advisory Board
sunsets on December 19, 2029.
The Advisory Board operates in
accordance with the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. app. 2)
and its implementing regulations (41
CFR part 102–3).
Agenda: The tentative agenda for the
Advisory Board meeting includes:
• Review and follow-up on Advisory
Board’s previous recommendations,
data requests, and action items;
• Conduct Ethics, FACA, and
EEOICPA training sessions;
• Review responses to submitted
Board questions;
• Working group review;
• Claims review;
• Review of Board tasks, structure
and work agenda; and
• Consideration of any new issues.
OWCP transcribes and prepares
detailed minutes of Advisory Board
meetings. OWCP posts the transcripts
and minutes on the Advisory Board web
page, http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/
regs/compliance/AdvisoryBoard.htm,
along with written comments, speaker
presentations, and other materials
submitted to the Advisory Board or
presented at Advisory Board meetings.
Public Participation, Submissions and
Access to Public Record
Advisory Board meetings: All
Advisory Board meetings are open to
the public. Information on how to
participate in the meeting remotely will
be posted on the Advisory Board’s
website.
Submission of written comments for
the record: You may submit comments
using one of the methods listed in the
SUMMARY section. Your submission must
include the Agency name (OWCP) and
date for this Advisory Board meeting
(October 30, 2024). OWCP will post
your comments on the Advisory Board
website and provide your submissions
to Advisory Board members.
Because of security-related
procedures, receipt of submissions by
regular mail may experience significant
delays.

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