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cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–ETA.
Title of Collection: DOL-Only
Performance Accountability,
Information, and Reporting System.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0521.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 22,687,331.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 46,167,618.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
11,735,522 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $9,491,287.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Michael Howell,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA)
Common Performance Reporting
Notice of availability; request
for comments.

ACTION:

The Department of Labor
(DOL) is submitting this Employment
and Training Administration (ETA)sponsored information collection
request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval in accordance with
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA). Public comments on the ICR are
invited.
DATES: The OMB will consider all
written comments that the agency
receives on or before February 5, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Howell by telephone at 202–
693–6782, or by email at DOL_PRA_
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
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Act requires states to report on
performance in core programs such as
the Wagner-Peyser Act programs, the
Adult, Dislocated Worker, and Youth
programs, Adult Education and Family
Literacy Act programs, and the
Vocational Rehabilitation Act programs.
This ICR contains the data to be
collected for the measure states are to
use to report on performance. For
additional substantive information
about this ICR, see the related notice
published in the Federal Register on
June 24, 2024 (89 FR 52511).
Comments are invited on: (1) whether
the collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
the agency’s estimates of the burden and
cost of the collection of information,
including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information collection; and
(4) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
This information collection is subject
to the PRA. A Federal agency generally
cannot conduct or sponsor a collection
of information, and the public is
generally not required to respond to an
information collection, unless the OMB
approves it and displays a currently
valid OMB Control Number. In addition,
notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, no person shall generally be subject
to penalty for failing to comply with a
collection of information that does not
display a valid OMB Control Number.
See 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and 1320.6.
DOL seeks PRA authorization for this
information collection for three (3)
years. OMB authorization for an ICR
cannot be for more than three (3) years
without renewal. The DOL notes that
information collection requirements
submitted to the OMB for existing ICRs
receive a month-to-month extension
while they undergo review.
Agency: DOL–ETA.
Title of Collection: Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act
(WIOA) Common Performance
Reporting.
OMB Control Number: 1205–0526.
Affected Public: State, Local, and
Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of
Respondents: 19,114,129.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 19,114,129.
Total Estimated Annual Time Burden:
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Total Estimated Annual Other Costs
Burden: $33,300,000.
(Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3507(a)(1)(D))
Michael Howell,
Senior Paperwork Reduction Act Analyst.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008]

Commercial Diving Operations
Standard; Extension of the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
Approval of Information Collection
(Paperwork) Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comment.
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 Commercial Diving
Operations Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
March 7, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments, including 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 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.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0008) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place comments,
including personal information, in the
public docket, which may be available
online. Therefore, OSHA cautions
interested parties about submitting
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personal information such as social
security number and date of birth.
For further information on submitting
comments, see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Seleda Perryman, 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, 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 incidents (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 information collection
requirements specified in the
Commercial Diving Operations (CDO)
Standard for general industry helps
protect workers from the adverse health
effects that may result from their
involvement in CDO, and provide
access to these records by OSHA, the
National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, the affected workers,
and designated representatives. The
major information collection
requirements of the CDO Standard
include the following elements of the
Standard.
§ 1910.401(b). Allows employers to
deviate from the requirements of the
Subpart to the extent necessary to
prevent or minimize a situation that is
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harm, or major environmental damage.
They must provide written notice to the
OSHA Area Director within 48 hours
and must describe the reason for and
extent of the deviation.
§§ 1910.410(a)(3) and (a)(4).
Employers must train all dive team
members in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation and first aid (i.e., the
American Red Cross standard course or
equivalent). Additionally, employers
must train dive team members exposed
to hyperbaric conditions, or who control
exposure of other workers to such
conditions, in diving-related physics
and physiology.
§§ 1910.420(a) and (b). Employers
must develop and maintain a safe
practices manual and make it available
to each dive team member at the dive
location. For each diving mode used at
the dive location, the manual must
contain: Safety procedures and
checklists for diving operations;
assignments and responsibilities of the
dive team members; equipment
procedures and checklists; and
emergency procedures for fire,
equipment failures, adverse
environmental conditions, and medical
illness and injury.
§ 1910.421(b). Employers are to keep
at the dive location a list of telephone
or call numbers for the following
emergency facilities and services: An
operational decompression chamber (if
such a chamber is not at the dive
location), accessible hospitals, available
physicians and means of emergency
transportation, and the nearest U.S.
Coast Guard Rescue Coordination
Center.
§ 1910.421(f). Requires employers to
brief dive team members on the divingrelated tasks they are to perform, safety
procedures for the diving mode used at
the dive location, any unusual hazards
or environmental conditions likely to
affect the safety of the diving operation,
and any modifications to operating
procedures necessitated by the specific
diving operation. Before assigning
diving-related tasks, employers must ask
each dive team member about their
current state of physical fitness and
inform the member about the procedure
for reporting physical problems or
adverse physiological effects during and
after the dive.
§ 1910.421(h). If the diving operation
occurs in an area capable of supporting
marine traffic and occurs from a surface
other than a vessel, employers are to
display a rigid replica of the
international code flag ‘‘A’’ that is at
least one meter in height so that it is
visible from any direction; the employer
must illuminate the flag during night
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§ 1910.422(e). Employers must
develop and maintain a depth-time
profile for each diver that includes, as
appropriate, any breathing gas changes
or decompression.
§§ 1910.423(b)(1)(ii) through (b)(2).
Requires the employer to: Instruct the
diver to report any physical symptoms
or adverse physiological effects,
including symptoms of decompression
sickness (DCS); advise the diver of the
location of a decompression chamber
that is ready for use; and alert the diver
to the potential hazards of flying after
diving. For any dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100
feet, or that uses mixed gas in the
breathing mixture, the employer must
also inform the diver to remain awake
and in the vicinity of the decompression
chamber that is at the dive location for
at least one hour after the dive or any
decompression or treatment associated
with the dive.
§ 1910.423(d). Employers are to record
and maintain the following information
for each diving operation: The names of
dive-team members; date, time, and
location; diving modes used; general
description of the tasks performed; an
estimate of the underwater and surface
conditions; and the maximum depth
and bottom time for each diver. In
addition, for each dive outside the nodecompression limits, deeper than 100
feet, or that uses mixed gas in the
breathing mixture, the employer must
record and maintain the following
information for each diver: Depth-time
and breathing gas profiles;
decompression table designation
(including any modifications); and
elapsed time since the last pressure
exposure if less than 24 hours or the
repetitive dive designation. If the dive
results in DCS symptoms, or the
employer suspects that a diver has DCS,
the employer must record and maintain
a description of the DCS symptoms
(including the depth and time of
symptom onset) and the results of
treatment.
§ 1910.423(e). Requires employers to
assess each DCS incident by:
Investigating and evaluating it based on
the recorded information, consideration
of the past performance of the
decompression table used, and the
diver’s individual susceptibility to DCS;
taking appropriate corrective action to
reduce the probability of a DCS
recurrence; and, within 45 days of the
DCS incident, preparing a written
evaluation of this assessment, including
any corrective action taken.
§§ 1910.430(a), (b)(4), (c)(1)(1)
through (c)(1)(iii), (c)(3)(i), (f)(3)(ii), and
(g)(2). Employers must record by means
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performed on equipment, including any
modifications, repairs, tests,
calibrations, or maintenance performed
on the equipment. This record is to
include a description of the work, the
name or initials of the individual who
performed the work, and the date they
completed the work.
Employers must test two specific
types of equipment, including,
respectively: The output of air
compressor systems used to supply
breathing air to divers for air purity
every six months by means of samples
taken at the connection to the
distribution system; and breathing-gas
hoses at least annually at one and onehalf times their working pressure.
Employers must mark each umbilical
(i.e., separate lines supplying air and
communications to a diver, as well as a
safety line, tied together in a bundle),
beginning at the diver’s end, in 10-foot
increments for 100 feet, then in 50-foot
increments thereafter. Employers must
also regularly inspect and maintain
mufflers located in intake and exhaust
lines on decompression chambers and
test depth gauges using dead-weight
testing or calibrate the gauges against a
master reference gauge; such testing or
calibration is to occur every six months
or if the employer finds a discrepancy
larger than two percent of the full scale
between any two equivalent gauges.
Employers must make a record of the
tests, calibrations, inspections, and
maintenance performed on the
equipment.
§§ 1910.440(a)(2) and (b). Employers
must record any diving-related injuries
or illnesses that result in a dive-team
member remaining in the hospital for at
least 24 hours. This record is to describe
the circumstances of the incident and
the extent of any injuries or illnesses.
Employers must make any record
required by the Subpart available, on
request, for inspection and copying to
an OSHA compliance officer or to a
representative of the National Institute
for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH). Employers are to provide
workers, their designated
representatives, and OSHA compliance
officers with exposure and medical
records generated under the Subpart in
accordance with § 1910.1020 (‘‘Access
to worker exposure and medical
records’’); these records include safe
practices manuals, depth-time profiles,
diving records, DCS incident
assessments, and hospitalization
records. Additionally, employers must
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Employers must retain these records
for the following periods: Safe practices
manuals, current document only; depthtime profiles, until completing the
diving record or the DCS incident
assessment; diving records, one year,
except five years if a DCS incident
occurred during the dive; DCS incident
assessments, five years; hospitalization
records, five years; and equipment
inspections and testing records, current
tag or log entry until the employer
removes the equipment from service.
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, 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
Commercial Diving Standard. The
agency is requesting an adjustment
decrease in the burden hours amount
from 170,806 hours to 135,450 hours, a
difference of 35,356 hours. This
adjustment decrease is due decrease in
the number of professional divers, going
from 3,460 to 2,900 divers, which
resulted in a corresponding decrease in
the number of affected facilities.
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
currently approved collection.
Title: Commercial Diving Operations
Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0069.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 930.
Number of Responses: 1,132,688.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
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Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $0.
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; (2) by
facsimile (fax) to the OSHA docket, if
your comments including attachments,
are not longer than 10 page, at (202)
693–1948. or (3) by hard copy. All
comments, attachments, and other
materials must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0008).
You may supplement electronic
submissions 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 date 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 through this website.
All submissions, 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 for
information about materials not
available through 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 December
20, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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