[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 2, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9844-9845]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-4548]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Office of the Secretary


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

February 24, 2004.
    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 
each ICR, with applicable supporting documentation, may be obtained by 
contacting the Department of Labor (DOL). To obtain documentation, 
contact Ira Mills on 202-693-4122 (this is not a toll-free number) or 
e-mail: [email protected].
    Comments should be sent to Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk Officer for DOL, Office of Management and 
Budget, Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, 202-395-7316 (this is not a 
toll-free number), 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 form of information technology, e.g., permitting 
electronic submission of responses.
    Agency: Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection
    Title: Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records; (29 CFR 
1910.1020).
    OMB Number: 1218-0065.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit; Federal Government; 
and State, local or Tribal government.
    Number of Respondents: 717,268.
    Number of Annual Responses: 4,577,613.
    Estimated Time Per Response: Varies from 5 minutes (.08 hour) to 10 
minutes (.17 hour).
    Total Burden Hours: 561,308 hours.
    Total Annualized capital/startup costs: $0.
    Total Annual Costs (operating/maintaining systems or purchasing 
services): $0.
    Description: Under the authority granted by the OSH Act, OSHA 
published a health regulation governing access to employee exposure-
monitoring data and medical records. This regulation does not require 
employers to collect any information or to establish any new systems of 
records. Rather, it

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requires that employers provide employees, their designated 
representatives, and OSHA with access to employee exposure-monitoring 
and medical records, and any analysis resulting from these records, 
whether or not the records are mandated by specific occupational safety 
and health standards. In this regard, the regulation specifies 
requirements for record access, record retention, employee information, 
trade-secret management, and record transfer. Accordingly, the Agency 
attributes the burden hours and costs associated with exposure 
monitoring and measurement, medical surveillance, and the 
otheractivities required to generate the data governed by the 
regulation to the health standards that specify these activities; 
therefore, OSHA did not include these burden hours and costs in this 
ICR.
    Access to exposure and medical information enables employees and 
their designated representatives to become directly involved in 
identifying and controlling occupational health hazards, as well as 
managing and preventing occupationally-related health impairment and 
disease.

Ira L. Mills,
Departmental Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 04-4548 Filed 3-1-04; 8:45 am]
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