[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 109 (Thursday, June 6, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39050-39051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-14215]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. ICR-1218-0230(2002)]


Vehicle-Mounted Elevating and Rotating Work Platforms (Aerial 
Lifts) 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 for aerial lifts by its 
Vehicle-Mounted Elevating and Rotating Work Platforms Standard (29 CFR 
1910.67). The paperwork provision of the Vehicle-Mounted Elevating and 
Rotating Work Platforms Standard specifies requirements for maintaining 
and disclosing the manufacturers' certification records for modified 
aerial lifts. The purpose of the requirement is to reduce employees' 
risk of death or serious injury by ensuring that aerial lifts are 
inspected and/or tested after modification to ensure they are in safe 
operating condition.

DATES: Submit written comments on or before August 5, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to the Docket Office, Docket No. 
ICR-1218-0230(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 
Aerial Lifts 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

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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 in correct.
    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 aerial lifts are in safe operating condition.
    Manufacturer's Certification of Modificaitons (paragraph (b)(2)). 
The standard requires that when aerial lifts are ``field modified'' for 
uses other than those intended by the manufacturer, the manufacturer or 
other equivalent entity, such as a nationally recognized testing 
laboratory, must certify in writing that the modification is in 
conformity with all applicable provisions of ANSI A92.2-1969 and the 
OSHA standard and that the modified aerial lift is at least as safe as 
the equipment was before modification. Employers are to maintain the 
certification record and make it available to OSHA compliance officers. 
This record provides assurance to employers, employees, and compliance 
officers that the modified aerial life was inspected and/or tested 
after the modification and that the aerial lift is safe to use, thereby 
preventing failure while employees are being elevated. The 
certification record also provides 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 requirement specified by the 
Aerial Lifts Standard (29 CFR 1910.67). 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 the 
information-collection requirement.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently-approved information-
collection requirement.
    Title: Aerial Lifts Standard (29 CFR 1910.67).
    OMB Number: 1218-0230.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; not-for-profit 
institutions; Federal government; State, local, or tribal governments.
    Number off Respondents: 900.
    Frequency of Recordkeeping: On occasion.
    Average Time per Response: 3 minutes (.05 hour).
    Total Annual Hours Requested: 45.
    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 June 3, 2002.
John L. Henshaw,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.
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