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decades prior to the OSHA
recordkeeping changes in 2002,
incidence rates for cases with days away
from work decreased significantly,
while incidence rates for cases with
only restricted work activity increased
significantly. Since the BLS presently
collects case and demographic data only
for cases with days away from work,
data are not obtained about a growing
class of injury and illness cases. If the
test(s) prove successful, the BLS will
explore implementing this practice for
additional States beginning with survey
year 2011. The BLS regards the
collection of these cases with only job
transfer or restriction as significant in its
coverage of the American workforce.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is
particularly interested in comments
that:
• 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.
• 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.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.

• 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 submissions
of responses.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Agency: Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Title: Survey of Occupational Injuries
and Illnesses.
OMB Number: 1220–0045.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
for-profits; Not-for-profit institutions;
Farms; State, Local or Tribal
Governments.

Average
time per
response
(in hours)

Estimated
total
burden
(in hours)

Form

Total respondents

Frequency

Total responses

BLS 9300 .........................
Pre-notification Package ..

240,000 ...........................
182,000 out of 240,000 ..

Annually ..........................
Annually ..........................

240,000 ...........................
182,000 out of 240,000 ..

.44
1.35

105,000
245,266

Totals ........................

240,000 ...........................

.........................................

240,000 ...........................

........................

350,266

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):
$0.
Total Burden Cost (operating/
maintenance): $0.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they also
will become a matter of public record.
Signed at Washington, DC, this 12th day of
April 2010.
Tod Sirois,
Acting Chief, Division of Management
Systems, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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III. Desired Focus of Comments

Crawler, Locomotive, and Truck
Cranes Standard; 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 comment.
SUMMARY: OSHA solicits public
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extend OMB approval of the
information collection requirements
contained in its Crawler, Locomotive,
and Truck Cranes Standard (29 CFR
1910.180).
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by June
15, 2010.
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.
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
three copies of your comments and
attachments to the OSHA Docket Office,
OSHA Docket No.OSHA–2010–0015,
U.S. Department of Labor, Room N–
2625, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210. Deliveries
(hand, express mail, messenger, and
courier service) are accepted during the
Department of Labor’s and Docket
Office’s normal business hours, 8:15
a.m. to 4:45 p.m., e.t.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and OSHA
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Collection Request (ICR) (OSHA Docket
No. OSHA–2010–0015). All comments,
including any personal information you
provide, 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
address above. 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 through the Web site.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You also may contact Theda Kenney at
the address below to obtain a copy of
the ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theda Kenney or Todd Owen,
Directorate of Standards and Guidance,
OSHA, U.S. Department of Labor, Room
N–3609, 200 Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20210; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., employer) burden,
conducts a pre-clearance 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 minimized,
collection instruments are
understandable, and OSHA’s estimate of
the information collection burden is
correct. The Occupational Safety and
Health Act of 1970 (the OSH Act)
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 Standard specifies several
paperwork requirements. The following
sections describe who uses the
information collected under each
requirement, as well as how they use it.
The purpose of each of these
requirements is to prevent workers from
using unsafe cranes and ropes, thereby
reducing their risk of death or serious
injury caused by a crane or rope failure
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(A) Inspection of and Certification
Records of Cranes (§ 1910.180(d)(4) and
(d)(6))
Paragraph 1910.180(d) specifies that
employers must prepare a written
record to certify that the monthly
inspection of critical items in use on
cranes (such as brakes, crane hooks, and
ropes) has been performed. The
certification record must include the
inspection date, the signature of the
person who conducted the inspection,
and the serial number (or other
identifier) of the inspected crane.
Employers must keep the certificate
readily available. The certification
record provides employers, workers,
and OSHA compliance officers with
assurance that critical items on cranes
have been inspected, and that the
equipment is in good operating
condition so that the crane and rope
will not fail during material handling.
These records also enable OSHA to
determine that an employer is
complying with the Standard.
(B) Rated Load Tests (§ 1910.180(e)(2))
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rating tests showing test procedures and
confirming the adequacy of repairs or
alterations, and to make readily
available any rerating test reports. These
reports inform the employer, workers,
and OSHA compliance officers of a
crane’s lifting limitations, and provide
information to crane operators to
prevent them from exceeding these
limits and, thereby causing crane
failure.
(C) Inspection of and Certification
Records for Ropes (§ 1910.180(g)(1) and
(g)(2)(ii))
Paragraph (g)(1) requires employers to
thoroughly inspect any rope in use at
least once a month. The authorized
person conducting the inspection must
observe any deterioration resulting in
appreciable loss of original strength and
determine whether or not the condition
is hazardous. Before reusing a rope that
has not been used for at least a month
because the crane housing the rope is
shut down or in storage, paragraph
(g)(2)(ii) specifies that employers must
have an appointed or authorized person
inspect the rope for all types of
deterioration. Employers must prepare a
certification record for the inspections
required by paragraphs (g)(1) and
(g)(2)(ii). These certification records
must include the inspection date, the
signature of the person conducting the
inspection, and the identifier for the
inspected rope; paragraph (g)(1) states
that employers must keep the
certificates ‘‘on file where readily
available,’’ while paragraph (g)(2)(ii)
requires that certificates ‘‘be * * * kept
readily available.’’ The certification
records assure employers, workers, and
OSHA that the inspected ropes are in
good condition.
(D) Disclosure of Crane and Rope
Inspection Certification Records
The disclosure of certification records
provide the most efficient means for
OSHA 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
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• 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 is requesting that OMB extend
its approval of the collection of
information requirements contained in
the Crawler, Locomotive, and Truck
Cranes Standard (29 CFR 1910.180). The
Agency is requesting a decrease in the
burden hours of the paperwork
requirements contained in the Standard
from 174,062 burden hours to 30,452
hours, a total decrease of 143,610
burden hours. The decrease is a result
of new data which indicates that there
are fewer cranes used in general
industry than estimated in the previous
ICR. The Agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice, and will include this summary
in the request to OMB to extend the
approval of these information collection
requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Crawler, Locomotive, and Truck
Cranes (29 CFR 1910.180).
OMB Number: 1218–0221.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits; Federal Government; State,
Local, or Tribal government.
Number of Respondents: 3,499.
Frequency of Recordkeeping: On
occasion; Monthly, Semi-annually.
Average Time per Response: Varies
from 5 minutes (.08 hour) to disclose
certification records to 1 hour to
conduct rated load tests.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
30,452.
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 for this
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2010–0015).
You may supplement electronic
submissions by uploading document
files electronically. If you wish to mail
additional materials in reference to an
electronic or facsimile submission, you
must submit them to the OSHA Docket
Office (see the section of this notice
titled ADDRESSES). The additional
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electronic comments by your full name,
date, and 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 date 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 through this Web site.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the http://
www.regulations.gov Web site to submit
comments and access the docket is
available at the Web site’s ‘‘User Tips’’
link. Contact the OSHA Docket Office
for information about materials not
available through the Web site, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
David Michaels, PhD, MPH, 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. 5–2007 (72 FR 31160).
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
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MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION
BOARD
The Merit Systems Protection Board
(MSPB) Is Providing Notice of the
Opportunity To File Amicus Briefs in
the Matter of Hyginus U. Aguzie v.
Office of Personnel Management,
MSPB Docket Number DC–0731–09–
0261–R–1
AGENCY:

Merit Systems Protection

Board.
ACTION:

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SUMMARY: Aguzie and several other
cases pending before the Board present
the following legal issue: When the
Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
directs an agency to separate a tenured
employee for suitability reasons, must
the Board consider a subsequent appeal
under 5 CFR part 731 as contemplated
therein, or should the Board instead
consider the appeal under 5 U.S.C.
Chapter 75, given that the scope of a
Chapter 75 appeal is broader than a part
731 appeal and that OPM generally
lacks authority to issue regulations
limiting statutory rights?
Interested parties may submit amicus
briefs or other comments on this issue
no later than May 24, 2010. Amicus
briefs must be filed with the Clerk of the
Board. Briefs shall not exceed 15 pages
in length. The text shall be doublespaced, except for quotations and
footnotes, and the briefs shall be on
81⁄2 by 11 inch paper with one inch
margins on all four sides.
DATES: All briefs submitted in response
to this notice shall be filed with the
Clerk of the Board on or before May 24,
2010.
ADDRESSES: All briefs shall be captioned
‘‘Hyginus U. Aguzie v. Office of
Personnel Management’’ and entitled
‘‘Amicus Brief.’’ Only one copy of the
brief need be submitted. Briefs must be
filed with the Office of the Clerk of the
Board, Merit Systems Protection Board,
1615 M Street, NW., Washington, DC
20419.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Matthew Shannon, Deputy Clerk of the
Board, (202) 653–7200.

Arlington, VA 22230, (703) 292–5331,
jcolby@nsf.gov.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice
with respect to the Foundation’s science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics
(STEM) education and human resources
programming.

Dated: April 12, 2010.
Melissa Jurgens,
Deputy Clerk of the Board (Acting).

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

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In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463, as amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Advisory Committee for Education
and Human Resources (#1119).
Date/Time:
May 5, 2010; 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
May 6, 2010; 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Place: Hilton Arlington, Gallery Rooms,
2nd Floor, 950 North Stafford Street,
Arlington, VA 22203.
Type of Meeting: Open.
Contact Person: James Colby, National
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Agenda
May 5, 2010
I. Acting Assistant Director’s Remarks: The
Next Challenge: Leveraging What We Know to
Make a Difference in STEM Education.
II. Overview of New Program Planning:
Comprehensive Broadening Participation—
Undergraduate Science, Technology,
Engineering & Mathematics (STEM).
III. Discussion of Graduate Education/
Career Development Programs.
IV. Collaborations with the Department of
Education.
V. Acceptance of Committee of Visitor
Reports for:
• National STEM Distributed Learning
program.
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics Talent Expansion Program
(STEP).
May 6, 2010
I. Discussion: Overview of Draft NSF
Strategic Plan FY2010–FY2015; Vision/
Mission for Education and Human Resources
(EHR) Directorate;
II. Visit From the Office of the NSF
Director.
III. Future Issues for Consideration.
Dated: April 13, 2010.
Susanne Bolton,
Committee Management Officer.
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Proposal Review Panel for Chemistry;
Notice of Meeting
In accordance with the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–
463 as amended), the National Science
Foundation announces the following
meeting:
Name: Site visit of the Center for Chemical
Innovation (CCI) at The California Institute of
Technology by NSF Division of Chemistry
(1191).
Dates & Times: May 9, 2010; 8 p.m.–9 p.m.,
May 10, 2010; 8 a.m.–9 p.m., May 11, 2010;
8 a.m.–1 p.m.
Place: Department of Chemistry, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Type of Meeting: Part-open.
Contact Person: Dr. William Brittain,
Program Director, Chemistry Centers
Program, Division of Materials Research,
Room 1055, National Science Foundation,
4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA
22230, Telephone (703) 292–5039.
Purpose of Meeting: To provide advice and
recommendations concerning Phase II award.

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