[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 73 (Friday, April 16, 1999)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 18809-18810]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9580]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Part 1926


Office of Management and Budget Control Numbers Under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act for Miscellaneous Construction Industry Rules

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Final rule; Office of Management and Budget approval of 
information collection requirements.

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SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is 
announcing that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has extended 
the approval of a number of information collection requirements in OSHA 
construction rules. OSHA sought approval under the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995 and is announcing the new expiration dates for these OMB 
control numbers. These approvals are for provisions that require 
posting; retention of records that verify certain tests or inspections 
have been performed; retention or availability of plans at construction 
sites; and other miscellaneous requirements.

EFFECTIVE DATE: These amendments are effective April 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Bielaski, Office of Regulatory 
Analysis, Directorate of Policy, Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3627, 200 Constitution 
Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 693-1954.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(PRA) 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), collections of information must be 
periodically approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In 
1998, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 
requested that OMB approve a number of information collection 
requirements contained in OSHA's construction industry standards (29 
CFR part 1926). These provisions require employers to:

--Post floor-load limits and crane-rating chart limitations;
--Retain records that verify certain tests or inspections required in 
part 1926 have been performed.
--Retain or ensure the availability of plans at construction sites; and 
other miscellaneous requirements.

    The previous approvals of these information collection requirements 
expired at various times during 1998. Last year, OSHA sought public 
comment on the burden-hour and cost estimates of these requirements 
through a series of Federal Register notices.
    At the conclusion of the public comment period, the Agency 
submitted requests for an extension of OMB's approval of these records. 
In accordance with the PRA, OMB has renewed its approval for these 
information collection requirements. Each requirement was renewed for 3 
years, but OMB staggered the new expiration dates in 2001 over a period 
of several months. The following table lists the subjects, Federal 
Register notices, and the OMB control numbers for each of these 
requirements:

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                                                                                                           OMB control
           Title and citation                           Federal Register date and page No.                     No.               Approval expires
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Annual Inspection Record of Cranes or     June 8, 1998, 63 FR 31232....................................       1218-0113  June 30, 2001.
 Derricks Used in Construction--Sec.
 1926.550(a)(6).
Design of Cave-in Protection Systems--    July 10, 1998, 63 FR 37415...................................       1218-0137  July 31, 2001.
 Sec.  1926.652 (b) and (c).
Concrete and Masonry Construction--Sec.   June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33712...................................       1218-0095  July 31, 2001.
 1926.703(a)(2).
Construction Posting Rqmnts.: Emergency   July 14, 1998, 63 FR 37907...................................       1218-0093  Aug. 31, 2001.
 Phone No.'s and Floor Load Limits--
 Secs.  1926.50(f) and 1926.250(a)(2).
Constr'n. Crane Rating Chart Limitation   June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33713...................................       1218-0115  Aug. 31, 2001.
 Instructions & Hand Signal
 Illustrations--Sec.  1926.550(a)(1),
 (2), (4), and (16).
Construction Cranes and Derricks: Oxygen  June 19, 1998, 62 FR 33715...................................       1218-0054  Aug. 31, 2001.
 and Toxic Gas Tests--Sec.
 1926.550(a)(11).
Crane- or Derrick-Suspended Personnel     June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33715...................................       1218-0151  Aug. 31, 2001.
 Platforms Used in Constr'n.--Sec.
 1926.550(g)(4)(ii)(I).
Underground Construction--Sec.  1926.800  June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33714...................................       1218-0067  Oct. 31, 2001.
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    Under 5 CFR 1320.5(b), an Agency may not conduct or sponsor a 
collection of information unless: (1) The collection displays a valid 
control number, and (2) the Agency informs persons who potentially may 
respond to the collections of information that they are not required to 
respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently 
valid OMB control number. Accordingly, now that OMB has extended the 
approval on these collections, OSHA is publishing this document to 
announce the new expiration dates for these OMB control numbers.
    In addition, OSHA is amending Sec. 1926.5, the section in which 
OSHA displays its approved collections under the PRA, to codify several 
interrelated collections that were determined to be paperwork burdens 
as a result of a more careful review and analysis of the information 
collection requirements in the crane and derrick standard. The Agency 
grouped these additional collections with a related collection that had 
been previously identified.

List of Subjects

    29 CFR Part 1926

    Construction; Occupational safety and health; Reporting and 
recordkeeping requirements.

Authority and Signature

    This document was prepared under the direction of Charles N. 
Jeffress, Assistant Secretary of Labor for

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Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 
Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210.

    Signed at Washington, DC this 13th day of April, 1999.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.

    Accordingly, 29 CFR part 1926 is amended as set forth below.

PART 1926--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for subpart A of part 1926 is revised to 
read as follows:

    Authority: Section 107, Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards 
Act (Construction Safety Act) (40 U.S.C. 333); secs. 4, 6, 8, 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 653, 655, 
657); Secretary of Labor's Order 12-71 (36 FR 8754), 8-76 (41 FR 
25059), 1-90 (55 FR 9033),), or 6-96 (62 FR 111), as applicable; 29 
CFR part 1911.
    2. In Sec. 1926.5, the table is amended by adding entries for 
1926.550(a)(2), (4), and (16) in numerical order to read as follows:


Sec. 1926.5   OMB control numbers under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

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Sec. 1926.550(a)(2)...........................................1218-0115
Sec. 1926.550(a)(4)...........................................1218-0115
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Sec. 1926.550(a)(16)..........................................1218-0115
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