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requires these laboratories to maintain
worker exposures at or below the
permissible exposure limits specified
for the hazardous chemicals in 29 CFR
part 1910, subpart Z. The laboratories
do so by developing a written Chemical
Hygiene Plan (CHP) that describes the
following: standard operating
procedures for using hazardous
chemicals; hazard-control techniques;
equipment-reliability measures; worker
information and training programs;
conditions under which the employer
must approve operations, procedures,
and activities before implementation;
and medical consultations and
examinations. The CHP also designates
personnel responsible for implementing
the CHP and specifies the procedures to
be used to provide additional protection
to workers exposed to particularly
hazardous chemicals.
Other information collection
requirements of the Standard include:
documenting exposure monitoring
results; notifying workers in writing of
these results; presenting specified
information and training to workers;
establishing a medical surveillance
program for overexposed workers;
providing required information to the
physician; obtaining the physician’s
written opinion on using proper
respiratory equipment; and establishing,
maintaining, transferring, and disclosing
exposure monitoring and medical
records. These collection of information
requirements, including the CHP,
control worker overexposure to
hazardous laboratory chemicals, thereby
preventing serious illnesses and death
among workers exposed to such
chemicals.
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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information

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collection requirements contained in
Occupational Exposure to Hazardous
Chemicals in Laboratories. The agency
is requesting to decrease the current
burden hour estimate from 622,482 to
602,594 hours, a total decrease of 19,888
hours. Although there was an increase
in the worker and establishment
estimates, we discovered a calculation
error that created an overestimate of the
burden hours in the last request for
clearance. The error is corrected under
this request and therefore created a
decrease in the burden hours.
Additionally, the capital cost estimate
has decreased from $83,566,611 to
$42,357,006, a total decrease of
$41,209,605. This decrease is a result of
a decrease in the medical consultation
and medical examination price
estimates used for this analysis,
reflecting an updated method of
deriving these prices.
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: Occupational Exposure to
Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0131.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 125,636.
Number of Responses: 2,009,466.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
602,594.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $42,357,006.
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 OSHA–2011–0059. You may
supplement electronic 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.

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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
Scott C. Ketcham, 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.
Scott C. Ketcham,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2025–02642 Filed 2–13–25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0016]

Marine Terminals and Longshoring
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 Marine Terminals and
Longshoring Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by April
15, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
SUMMARY:

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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–2012–0016) 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, 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

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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 paragraph describes the
information collected under the
Standard, as well as how they use it.
The purpose of these requirements is to
reduce employee injuries and fatalities
associated with cargo lifting gear,
transfer of vehicular cargo, manual
cargo handling, and exposure to
hazardous atmospheres.
The information collection
requirements specified in the Marine
Terminals and Longshoring standard
contains a number of collections of
information which are used by
employers to ensure that employees are
properly informed about the safety and
health hazards associated with marine
terminals and longshoring operations.
OSHA uses the records developed in
response to the collection of information
requirements to find out if the employer
is complying adequately with the
provisions of the standard.
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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Marine Terminals and Longshoring
Standard. The agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease in burden from
55,030 to 50,421 hours, a difference of
4,609 hours. This adjustment is
attributed to a change in the number of
establishments engaged in longshoring
and port and harbor operations.
OSHA will summarize the comments
submitted in response to this notice and
will include this summary in the
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of the information collection
requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Marine Terminals and
Longshoring Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0196.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 1,096.
Number of Responses: 216,455.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
50,421.
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; 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–2012–0016).
You may supplement electronic
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
Scott C. Ketcham, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, directed the
preparation of this notice. The authority
for this notice is the Paperwork

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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.
Scott C. Ketcham,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2025–02640 Filed 2–13–25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0186]

Inorganic Arsenic 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 Inorganic Arsenic
Standard.

SUMMARY:

Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by April
15, 2025.
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–2011–0186) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments,
including any personal information, in
the public docket, which may be made

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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, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

inorganic arsenic exposure; develop,
update, ad maintain a housekeeping and
maintenance plan; monitor worker
health by providing medical
surveillance; post warning signs, and
apply labels to shipping and storage
containers of inorganic arsenic; develop
and maintain worker exposure
monitoring and medical records;
establish and implement written
compliance programs; and provide
workers with information about their
exposure and the health effects of
exposure to inorganic arsenic.

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 paragraph describes the
information collected under the
Standard, as well as how they use it.
The purpose of these requirements is to
protect workers from occupational
exposures to the infectious hazardous
agents posed by bloodborne pathogens.
The information collection
requirements specified in the Inorganic
Arsenic Standard provide protection for
workers from the adverse health effects
associated with exposure to inorganic
arsenic. The Standard requires
employers to: monitor workers’
exposure to inorganic arsenic, and
notify workers of exposure-monitoring
results; notify anyone who cleans
protective clothing or equipment of

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, and
transmission techniques.

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II. Special Issues for Comment

III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Inorganic Arsenic Standard. The agency
is requesting the burden to remains the
same of 10,430 hours. Also, the total
capital cost of $1,120,896 to remain the
same.
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: Inorganic Arsenic Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0104.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 494.
Number of Responses: 17,451.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
10,430.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $1,120,896.

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