[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 204 (Friday, October 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 57128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27650]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration


Permit-Required Confined Spaces for General Industry; Agency 
Information Collection Activities; Announcement of Office of Management 
and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection Requirements

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Notice; Announcement of OMB approval of information collection 
requirement.

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SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is 
announcing that OMB approved the collections of information found in 
the standard on Permit-Required Confined Spaces for General Industry 
(29 CFR 1910.146) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA-95). 
This document announces the OMB approval number and expiration date.

DATES: October 22, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney, Directorate of Safety 
Standards Programs, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. 
Department of Labor, Room N-3605, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW, 
Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693-2222.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Federal Register of April 16, 1999 
(64 FR 18938), the Agency announced its intent to request approval from 
OMB for information collection requirements contained in the standard 
on Permit-Required Confined Spaces for General Industry (29 CFR 
1910.146). OSHA made this request in response to 5 CFR 1320.5(b), which 
states that the Agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not 
required to comply with, a collection of information requirement unless 
OMB approves the information collection requirement and assigns a 
control number to the approved requirement. In accordance with PRA-95 
(44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), OMB approved the information collection 
requirements and assigned OMB control number 1228-0203 to the approved 
requirements. The approval expires on August 31, 2002.

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) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 6-96 (62 FR 111).

    Signed at Washington, DC, this 15th day of October 1999.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
[FR Doc. 99-27650 Filed 10-21-99; 8:45 am]
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