[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16310-16311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8083]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

March 27, 2003.
    The Department of Labor (DOL) has submitted the following public 
information collection request (ICR) to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35). A copy of 
this ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by 
calling the Department of Labor. To obtain documentation, contact 
Darrin King on (202) 693-4129 or e-mail: [email protected].
    Comments should be sent to Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for OSHA, Office of Management and 
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503 ((202) 395-7316), within 30 
days from the date of this publication in the Federal Register.
    The OMB is particularly interested in comments which:
    [sbull] Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    [sbull] Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the 
burden of the proposed collection of information, including the 
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
    [sbull] Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    [sbull] Minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submission of responses.
    Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Title: Presence Sensing Device Initiation (PSDI).
    OMB Number: 1218-0143.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government; 
and State, Local, or Tribal Government.
    Frequency: On occasion, initially, and annually.
    Type of Response: Recordkeeping and Third party disclosure.
    Number of Respondents: 0.
    Number of Annual Responses: 0.
    Estimated Time Per Response: 0 minutes.
    Total Burden Hours: 1.
    Total Annualized Capital/Startup Costs: $0.
    Total Annual Costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing 
services): $0.
    Description: A number of paragraphs in OSHA's Standard on Presence 
Sensing Device Initiation (PSDI) (29 CFR 1910.217(h)) (the 
``Standard'') contain paperwork requirements that are necessary to 
validate employer and manufacturer certifications that their PSDI 
equipment and practices meet the requirements of the Standard.
    These requirements include: Certifying brake-monitor adjustments, 
alternatives to photoelectric Presence Sensing Devices (PSDs), safety-
system design and installation, and employee training; annual 
recertification of safety systems; establishing and maintaining the 
original certification and validation records, as well as the most 
recent recertification and revalidation records; affixing labels to 
test rods and to certified and recertified presses; and notifying an 
OSHA-recognized third-party validation organization when a safety 
system component fails, the employer modifies the safety system, or a 
point-of-operation injury occurs. In addition, Appendix A of Sec.  
1910.217 provides detailed information and procedures required to meet 
the certification/validation provisions, as well as the design 
requirements, contained in the Standard. Accordingly, Appendix A 
supplements and explains the certification/validation provisions of the 
PSDI Standard, and does not specify new or additional paperwork 
requirements for employers. Appendix C Sec.  1910.217 describes the 
requirements and procedures for obtaining OSHA recognition as a third-
party validation organization; therefore, the paperwork requirements 
specified by this appendix do not impose burden hours or cost directly 
on employers who use PSDs.
    By complying with these paperwork requirements, employers ensure 
that PSDI-equipped mechanical power presses are in safe working order, 
thereby preventing severe injury and death to press operators and other 
employees who work near this equipment. In addition, these records 
provide the most efficient means for an OSHA compliance officer to 
determine that an employer performed the requirements and that the 
equipment is safe.
    OSHA is proposing to extend OMB approval of the information-
collection requirements specified by the Standard even though the 
Agency can attribute no burden hours and cost to these requirements--to 
date, no such presses appear to be in use, either because employers 
selected other stroke-control devices for mechanical power presses, or 
because no third-party organization is available to validate employer 
and manufacturer certifications that their PSDI equipment and practices 
meet the requirements of the Standard. Therefore, the Standard does not 
currently affect any known employer; accordingly, the paperwork 
requirements currently result in no burden hours or cost to employers.
    On August 28, 2002, OSHA published a Federal Register notice (67 FR 
55181, Docket No. S225A) that initiated a Regulatory Flexibility Act 
review of the Presence Sensing Device Initiation (PSDI) requirements of 
the Mechanical Power Press Standard, pursuant to Section 610 of the 
Regulatory Flexibility Act and Section 5 of Executive Order 12866 on 
Regulatory Planning and Review.
    The purpose of this review is to determine, while protecting worker

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safety, whether there are ways to modify this standard to make 
implementation more practical, to reduce regulatory burden on small 
business and to improve its effectiveness.
    OSHA is proposing that OMB extend its approval of the information-
collection requirements specified by the Standard so that the Agency 
can enforce these requirements if employers begin using PSDI.

Ira L. Mills,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 03-8083 Filed 4-2-03; 8:45 am]
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