[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11085-11086]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4865]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. ICR-1218-0184(2000)]


Methylenedianiline (MDA) Standard for General Industry (29 CFR 
1910.1050); Extension of the Office of Management of 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 Methylenedianiline 
Standard for General Industry (the ``MDA General Industry Standard'') 
(29 CFR 1910.1050).

Request for Comment

    The Agency has a particular interest 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 or other technological information-
collection and -transmission techniques.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before May 1, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Docket Office, Docket No. 
ICR-1218-0184(2000), Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 
U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-2625, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., 
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-3641, 200 Constitution Avenue, N.W., 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

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in the MDA General Industry Standard is available for inspection and 
copying in the Docket Office, or you may request a mailed copy by 
telephoning Todd R. Owen at (202) 693-2444. For electronic copies of 
the ICR on the MDA General Industry Standard, contact OSHA on the 
Internet a http://www.osha.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 burden (time and costs) 
is minimal, collection instruments clearly understood, and OSHA's 
estimate of the information burden is correct. The Occupational Safety 
and Health Act of the 1970 (the Act) 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 (29 U.S.C. 657).
    The information-collection requirements specified in the MDA 
General Industry Standard protect employees from the adverse health 
effects that may result from their exposure to MDA. The major 
information-collection requirements of the MDA General Industry 
Standard include notifying employees of their MDA exposures, 
implementing a written compliance program, providing examining 
physicians with specific information, ensuring that employees receive a 
copy of their medical-examination results, maintaining employees' 
exposure-monitoring and medical records for specific periods, and 
providing access to these records by OSHA, the National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health, the affected employees, and their 
authorized representatives.

II. Proposed Actions

    OSHA proposes to reduce the existing burden hour estimate, and to 
extend OMB's approval of, the collection-of-information (paperwork) 
requirements contained in the MDA General Industry Standard. The Agency 
is reducing its previous burden hour estimate of 722 hours, by 401 
hours, as a result of lowering the estimate of MDA establishments in 
the general industry section. 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 MDA General Industry Standard.
    Type of Review: Extension of currently approved information-
collection requirements.
    Title: MDA General Industry Standard (29 CFR 1910.1050).
    OMB Number: 1218-0184.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal government; 
state, local or tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 10.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Total Responses: 652.
    Average Time per Response: Varies from 5 minutes to provide 
information to the examining physician to 2 hours to update and review 
compliance plans.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 294.
    Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $13,787.

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

    Signed at Washington, DC on February 24, 2000.
Charles N. Jeffress,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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