[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 248 (Friday, December 27, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71478-71480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27949]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

[Docket No. OSHA-2010-0022]


Student Data Form; Extension of the Office of Management and 
Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) 
Requirements

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

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public comments concerning the proposal to 
extend the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the 
information collection requirements contained in the Student Data Form.

DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by 
February 25, 2020.

ADDRESSES: Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments 
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for submitting 
comments.

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    Facsimile: If your comments, including attachments, are not longer 
than 10 pages you may fax them to the OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693-
1648.
    Mail, hand delivery, express mail, messenger, or courier service: 
When using this method, you must submit a copy of your comments and 
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket Number OSHA-2010-0022, 
U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3653, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, 
Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries (hand, express mail, messenger, and 
courier service) are accepted during the Docket Office's normal 
business hours, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., ET.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and the 
OSHA docket number (OSHA-2010-0022) for this Information Collection 
Request (ICR). All comments, including any personal information you 
provide, such as social security number and date of birth, are placed 
in the public docket without change, and may be made available online 
at http://www.regulations.gov. For further information on submitting 
comments see the ``Public Participation'' heading in the section of 
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
    Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the 
docket, go to http://www.regulations.gov or the OSHA Docket Office at 
the above address. All documents in the docket (including this Federal 
Register notice) are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index; 
however, some information (e.g., copyrighted material) is not publicly 
available to read or download from the website. All submissions, 
including copyrighted material, are available for inspection and 
copying at the OSHA Docket Office. You may also contact Theda Kenney at 
the below phone number to obtain a copy of the ICR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theda Kenney or Seleda Perryman, 
Directorate of Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor; 
telephone (202) 693-2222.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Department of Labor, as part of the 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 collection of 
information requirements in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA) (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 clearly understood, and OSHA's 
estimate of the information collection burden is accurate. The 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) (29 U.S.C. 651 et 
seq.) authorizes information collection by employers as necessary or 
appropriate for enforcement of the OSH Act or for developing 
information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational 
injuries, illnesses, and accidents (29 U.S.C. 657). The OSH Act also 
requires that OSHA obtain such information with minimum burden upon 
employers, especially those operating small businesses, and to reduce 
to the maximum extent feasible unnecessary duplication of efforts in 
obtaining information (29 U.S.C. 657).
    The OSH Act authorizes the OSHA to conduct education and training 
courses (29 U.S.C. 670). These courses must educate an adequate number 
of qualified personnel to fulfill the purposes of the OSH Act, provide 
them with short-term training, inform them of the importance and proper 
use of safety and health equipment, and train employers and workers to 
recognize, avoid, and prevent unsafe and unhealthful working 
conditions.
    Under Section 21 of the OSH Act, the OSHA Training Institute (the 
Institute) provides basic, intermediate, and advanced training and 
education in occupational safety and health for state compliance 
officers, agency professionals and technical support personnel, 
employers, workers, organizations representing workers and employers, 
educators who develop curricula and teach occupational safety and 
health courses, and representatives of professional safety and health 
groups. The Institute provides courses on occupational safety and 
health at the national training facility in Arlington Heights, 
Illinois.
    Students attending Institute courses complete the one-page Student 
Data Form (OSHA Form 182) on the first day of class. The form provides 
information under five major categories titled ``Course Information,'' 
``Personal Data,'' ``Employer Data,'' ``Emergency Contacts,'' and 
``Student Groups.'' The OSHA Directorate of Training and Education (the 
Directorate) compiles, for each fiscal year, the following information 
from the ``Course Information'' and ``Student Groups'' categories: 
total student attendance at the Institute; the number of students 
attending each training course offered by the Institute; and the types 
of students attending these courses (for example, students from federal 
or state occupational safety and health agencies). The Directorate uses 
this information to demonstrate, in an accurate and timely manner, that 
the agency is providing the training and worker education mandated by 
Section 21 of the OSH Act. OSHA also uses this information to evaluate 
training output, and to make decisions regarding program/course 
revisions, budget support, and tuition costs.
    The agency uses the information collected under the ``Course 
Information,'' ``Personal Data,'' and ``Employer Data'' to identify 
private sector students so that it can collect tuition costs from them 
or their employers as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701 (``Fees and Charges 
for Government Services and Things of Value''); Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A-25 (``User Charges''); and 29 CFR part 1949 
(``Directorate of Training and Education, Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration''). The information in the ``Personal Data'' and 
``Emergency Contacts'' categories permits OSHA to contact students who 
are residing in local hotels/motels if an emergency arises at their 
home or place of employment, and to alert supervisors/alternate 
contacts of a trainee's injury or illness.

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 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.

III. Proposed Actions

    The agency is requesting an adjustment decrease of 67 burden hours 
(from 400 hours to 333 hours) as a result of the decreasing number of 
students attending the Institute from 5,000 to 4,000 students. The 
agency will summarize the comments submitted in response to this 
notice, and will include this summary in the request for approval to 
OMB.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.

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    Title: Student Data Form (OSHA Form 182).
    OMB Control Number: 1218-0172.
    Affected Public: Individuals; business or other for-profit 
organizations; Federal government; State, Local, or Tribal governments.
    Number of Respondents: 4,000.
    Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
    Total Responses: 4,000.
    Average Time per Response: 5 minutes (5/60 hour).
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 333 hours.
    Estimated Cost (Operation and Maintenance): $0.

IV. Public Participation--Submission of Comments on This Notice and 
Internet Access to Comments and Submissions

    You may submit comments in response to this document as follows: 
(1) Electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal; (2) by facsimile (fax); or (3) by hard copy. All 
comments, attachments, and other material must identify the agency name 
and the OSHA docket number (OSHA-2010-0022) for this ICR. You may 
supplement electronic submissions by uploading document files 
electronically. If you wish to mail additional materials in reference 
to an electronic or a facsimile submission, you must submit them to the 
OSHA Docket Office (see the section of this notice titled ADDRESSES). 
The additional materials must clearly identify your electronic comments 
by your name, date, and the docket number so the agency can attach them 
to your comments.
    Because of security procedures, the use of regular mail may cause a 
significant delay in the receipt of comments. For information about 
security procedures concerning the delivery of materials by hand, 
express delivery, messenger or courier service, please contact the OSHA 
Docket Office at (202) 693-2350, (TTY (877) 889-5627).
    Comments and submissions are posted without change at http://www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about 
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and 
dates of birth. Although all submissions are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index, some information (e.g., copyrighted 
material) is not publicly available to read or download from this 
website. All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available 
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on 
using the http://www.regulations.gov website to submit comments and 
access the docket is available at the website's ``User Tips'' link. 
Contact the OSHA Docket Office for information about materials not 
available from the website, and for assistance in using the internet to 
locate docket submissions.
    Electronic copies of this Federal Register document are available 
at http://www.regulations.gov. This document, as well as news releases 
and other relevant information, are available at OSHA's web page at 
http://www.osha.gov.

V. Authority and Signature

    Loren Sweatt, Principal Deputy 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 et seq.) and Secretary of Labor's Order No. 1-2012 
(77 FR 3912).

    Signed at Washington, DC, on December 19, 2019.
Loren Sweatt,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety 
and Health.
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