[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 86 (Friday, May 3, 2002)]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. ICR-1218-0219(2002)]


Servicing Multi-Piece and Single Piece Rim Wheels Standard; 
Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's Approval of 
Information-Collection (Paperwork) Requirements

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

ACTION: Request for comment.

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SUMMARY: OSHA requests comment concerning its proposed extension of the 
information-collection requirements specified by its Servicing Multi-
Piece and Single Piece Rim Wheels Standard (29 CFR 1910.177). The 
paperwork provision in the Standard specifies a requirement for the 
manufacturer or a Registered Professional Engineer to certify that 
repaired restraining devices and barriers meet the strength 
requirements specified in the Standard. The purpose of the requirement 
is to reduce employees' risk of death or serious injury by ensuring 
that restraining devices and barriers used during the servicing of 
multi-piece rim wheels are capable of withstanding the forces that may 
be transmitted to them if separation occurs during rim servicing.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before July 2, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Docket Office, Docket No. 
ICR-1218-0219(2002), OSHA, 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 by 
facsimile to (202) 693-1648.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney, Directorate of Safety 
Standards Programs, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3609, 200 
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20210; telephone: (202) 693-
2222. A copy of the Agency's Information-Collection Request (ICR) 
supporting the need for the information collection specified by the 
Servicing of Multi-Piece and Single Piece Rim Wheels Standard is 
available for inspection and copying in the Docket Office, or by 
requesting a copy from Theda Kenney at (202) 693-2222, or Todd Owen at 
(202) 693-2444. For electronic copies of the ICR, contact OSHA on the 
Internet at http://www.osha.gov and select ``Information Collection 
Requests.''

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Department of Labor, as part of its 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-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 are understandable, and OSHA's 
estimate of the information-collection burden is correct.
    The Servicing of Multi-Piece and Single Piece Rim Wheels Standard 
(i.e., ``the Standard'') specifies one paperwork requirement. The 
following section describes who uses the information collected under 
the requirement, as well as how they use it. The purpose of the 
requirement is to reduce employees' risk of death or serious injury by 
ensuring that restraining devices used by them during the servicing of 
multi-piece and single piece rim wheels are in safe operating 
condition. Based on previous ICR approvals, OSHA has determined that 
the training requirements in paragraphs (c), (f), and (g) of the 
Standard are not collection of information requirements under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act.
    Certification of Repair (paragraph (d)(3)(iv)) This paragraph 
requires that when restraining devices and barriers are removed from 
service because they have been found to be defective, they shall not be 
returned to service until they are repaired and reinspected. If the 
repair is of a structural nature, the manufacturer or a Registered 
Professional Engineer must certify that the strength requirements 
specified in paragraph (d)(3)(i) of the standard have been met.
    The certification records are used to assure that equipment has 
been properly repaired. The certification records also provide the most 
efficient means for the compliance officers to determine that an 
employer is complying with 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, 
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-
collection and -transmission techniques.

III. Proposed Actions

    OSHA proposes to extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) 
approval of the collection-of-information requirements specified by the 
Servicing Multi-Piece and Single Piece Rim Wheels Standard (29 CFR 
1910.177). The Agency will summarize the comments submitted in response 
to this notice, and will include this summary in its request to OMB to 
extend the approval of these information-collection requirements.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently-approved information-
collection requirement.
    Title: Servicing Multi-Piece and Single Piece Rim Wheels (29 CFR 
1910.177).
    OMB Number: 1218-0219.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit 
institutions; Federal government, State, local, or tribal governments.
    Number of Respondents: 8.
    Frequency of Recordkeeping: On occasion.
    Average Time per Response: 5 minutes (.08 hour).
    Total Annual Hours Requested: 1 hour.
    Total Annual Costs (O&M): $0.

IV. Authority and Signature

    John L. Henshaw, 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. 3-2000 (65 FR 50017).

    Signed at Washington, DC on April 30, 2002.
John L. Henshaw,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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