[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 148 (Tuesday, August 3, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42150-42151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-19864]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. ICR-99-25]


Temporary Labor Camps Standard; Extension of the Office of 
Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection 
(Paperwork) Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA); Labor.

ACTION: Notice of an opportunity for public comment.

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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits comments concerning the extension of the 
information collection requirements contained in the Temporary Labor 
Camps Standard (29 CFR 1910.142).

REQUEST FOR COMMENT:
    The Agency is particularly interested in comments on the following 
issues:
     Whether the information collection requirements are 
necessary for the proper performance of the Agency's functions, 
including whether the information is useful;
     The accuracy of the Agency'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, electronic, mechanical, and other 
technological information and transmission collection techniques.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before October 4, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Docket Office, Docket No. 
ICR-99-25, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Room N-2625, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202) 693-2350. Commenters may transmit 
written comments of 10 pages or less in length by facsimile to (202) 
693-1648.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Todd R. Owen, 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) 693-2444. A copy of the Agency's Information 
Collection Request (ICR) supporting the need for the information 
collection requirements in the Temporary Labor Camps Standards is 
available for inspection and copying in the Docket Office, or mailed on 
request by telephoning Todd R. Owen or Barbara Bielaski (202) 693-2444. 
For electronic copies of the ICR on Temporary Labor Camps, contact OSHA 
on the Internet at http://www.osha-slc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce 
paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation 
program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an 
opportunity to comment on proposed and continuing information 
collection requirements in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA-95) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). This program ensures that 
information is in the desired format, reporting (time and costs) is 
minimal, collection instruments are clearly understood, and OSHA's 
estimate of the information collection burden is correct.

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    The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act) (29 U.S.C. 
657) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or 
appropriate for enforcement of the Act or for developing information 
regarding the causes and prevention of occupational injuries, 
illnesses, and accidents.

II. Proposed Actions

    OSHA proposes to extend the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval for the collections of information (paperwork) contained in 
the Temporary Labor Camps Standard (29 CFR 1910.142). The purpose of 
the Temporary Labor Camp Standard is to eliminate the incidence of 
communicable disease among Temporary Labor Camp residents. The standard 
requires camp superintendents to report immediately to the local health 
officer (1) The name the address of any individual in the camp known to 
have or suspected of having a communicable disease or suspected food 
poisoning, or (2) an unusual prevalence of any illness in which fever, 
diarrhea, sore throat, vomiting, or jaundice is a prominent symptom.
    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 contained in 
the Temporary Labor Camps Standard.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved information 
collection requirements.
    Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Title: Temporary Labor Camps.
    OMB Number: 1218-0096.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal government; 
state, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 7,161.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Average Time per Response: Five minutes per response.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 67 hours.

III. Authority and Signature

    Charles N. Jeffress, 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), Secretary of Labor's Order No. 6-96 (62 FR 111), and 29 
CFR part 1911.

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 27th day of July 1999.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 99-19864 Filed 8-2-99; 8:45 am]
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