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including whether the information has
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
• Suggest methods to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
• Address 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, to minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond).
The public may examine publicly
available documents, including the
public comment version of the
supporting statement, at MSHA, Office
of Standards, Regulations, and
Variances, 1100 Wilson Boulevard
Room 2350, Arlington, VA 22209–3939.
OMB clearance requests are available on
MSHA’s Web site at http://
www.msha.gov under ‘‘Rules & Regs’’ on
the right side of the screen by selecting
Information Collections Requests,
Paperwork Reduction Act Supporting
Statements. The public comment
version of the supporting statement will
be available on MSHA’s Web site for 60
days after the publication date of this
notice. Comments submitted in writing
or in electronic form will be made
available for public inspection. Because
comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information,
MSHA cautions the commenter against
including any information in the
submission that should not be publicly
disclosed. Questions about the
information collection requirements
may be directed to the person listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this notice.

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III. Current Actions
The information obtained from mine
operators is used by MSHA during
inspections to determine compliance
with the requirements concerning the
training and retraining of miners
engaged in shell dredging or employed
at sand, gravel, surface stone, surface
clay, colloidal phosphate, or surface
limestone mines. MSHA has updated
the data with respect to the number of
respondents and responses, as well as
the total burden hours and burden costs
supporting this information collection
extension request.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Mine Safety and Health
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Title: Part 46—Training, Training
Plans, and Records.
OMB Number: 1219–0131.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Cite/Reference/Form/etc: 30 CFR Part
46.
Total Respondents: 10,577.
Frequency: Various.
Total Responses: 1,025,161.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
137,570 hours.
Estimated Total Burden Cost:
$315,641.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Patricia W. Silvey,
Certifying Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Proposed Extension of Existing
Information Collection; Mine Mapping
and Records of Opening, Closing, and
Reopening of Mines (Formerly, Record
of Mine Closures, Opening &
Reopening of Mines)
Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to assure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
The Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
extension of an existing information
collection request (ICR), OMB Control
Number 1219–0073 (OMB 1219–0073),
which was titled ‘‘Record of Mine
Closures, Opening and Reopening of

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Mines’’ when last approved on March
31, 2009. OMB 1219–0073 has been
renamed ‘‘Mine Mapping and Records
of Opening, Closing, and Reopening of
Mines’’ to acknowledge the ICR’s
burden for mine mapping as primary; it
being significantly greater than records
for closure, opening, and reopening of
mines. This information collection
covers paperwork requirements in the
following provisions: 30 CFR 75.372,
75.373, 75.1200, 75.1200–1, 75.1201,
75.1202, 75.1202–1, 75.1203, 75.1204,
75.1204–1, and 75.1721; as well as 30
CFR 77.1200, 77.1201, and 77.1202.
OMB last approved this information
collection request (ICR) on March 31,
2009.
Submit comments on or before
May 21, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning the
information collection requirements of
this notice must be clearly identified
with ‘‘OMB 1219–0073’’ and sent to
both the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) and MSHA. Comments to
MSHA may be sent by any of the
methods listed below.
• Federal E-Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Facsimile: 202–693–9441, include
‘‘OMB 1219–0073’’ in the subject line of
the message.
• Regular Mail or Hand Delivery:
MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 1100
Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350,
Arlington, VA 22209–3939.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: MSHA,
Office of Standards, Regulations, and
Variances, 1100 Wilson Boulevard,
Room 2350, Arlington, VA 22209–3939.
For hand delivery, sign in at the
receptionist’s desk on the 21st floor.
Comments to OMB may be sent by
mail addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, 725 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attn: Desk Officer for MSHA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg
Moxness, Chief, Economic Analysis
Division, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, at
moxness.greg@dol.gov (email); 202–
693–9440 (voice); or 202–693–9441
(facsimile).
DATES:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background
MSHA’s information collection
request, OMB 1219–0073, addresses
fourteen standards as follows:

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30 CFR citations

Title

Part 75
§ 75.372 ...........................................
§ 75.373 ...........................................
§ 75.1200 .........................................
§ 75.1200–1 .....................................
§ 75.1201 .........................................
§ 75.1202 .........................................
§ 75.1202–1 .....................................
§ 75.1203 .........................................
§ 75.1204 .........................................
§ 75.1204–1 .....................................
§ 75.1721 .........................................

Underground Coal Mines
Mine ventilation map.
Reopening mines.
Mine map.
Additional information on mine map.
Certification.
Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.
Temporary notations, revisions, and supplements.
Availability of mine map.
Mine closure; filing of map with Secretary.
Places to give notice and file maps.
Opening of new underground coal mines, or reopening and reactivating of abandoned or deactivated coal
mines, notification by the operator; requirements.

Part 77
§ 77.1200 .........................................
§ 77.1201 .........................................
§ 77.1202 .........................................

Surface Coal Mines and Surface Work Areas of Underground Coal Mines
Mine map.
Certification of mine maps.
Availability of mine map.

Mine maps are schematic depictions
of critical mine infrastructure, such as
water, power, transportation,
ventilation, and communication
systems. Using accurate, up-to-date
maps during a disaster, mine emergency
personnel can locate where miners may
have taken refuge and identify sites of
explosion or inundation potential; they
can know where stationary equipment
was placed, where ground was secured,
and where they can best begin a rescue
operation. During a disaster, maps can
be crucial to the safety of the emergency
personnel who must enter a mine to
begin a search for survivors. Coal mine
operators routinely use maps to create
safe and effective development plans for
their mines.
Mine maps may describe the current
status of a long-standing operation or
provide crucial information years after a
mine with extensive workings was
closed, but is being reopened.
Title 30 CFR 75.1200 requires each
underground coal mine operator to have
an accurate and up-to-date map of such
mine drawn to scale and stored in a
fireproof repository in an area on the
surface of the mine chosen by the mine
operator to minimize the danger of
destruction by fire or other hazards.
Sections 75.1200–1, 75.1201, 75.1202,
75.1202–1, and 75.1203 specify the
information which must be shown on
the map. The maps must be certified by
a registered engineer or surveyor; kept
continuously up-to-date by temporary
notations and revised and
supplemented to include the temporary
notations at intervals not more than 6
months; and made available for
inspection by a representative of the
Secretary, State coal mine inspectors,
miners and their representatives,
operators of adjacent coal mines, and
persons owning, leasing, or residing on
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adjacent to such mines. These maps are
essential to the planning and safe
operation of the mine. In addition, these
maps provide a graphic presentation of
the locations of working sections and
the locations of fixed surface and
underground mine facilities and
equipment, escapeway routes, coal
haulage and man and materials haulage
entries and other information essential
to mine rescue or mine fire fighting
activities in the event of mine fire,
explosion or inundations of gas or
water. The information is essential to
the safe operation of adjacent mines and
mines approaching the worked out areas
of active or abandoned mines. Section
75.372 requires underground mine
operators to submit three copies of an
up-to-date mine map to the District
Manager at intervals not exceeding 12
months during the operating life of the
mine.
Title 30 CFR 75.1204 and 75.1204–1
require that whenever an underground
coal mine operator permanently closes
or abandons a coal mine, or temporarily
closes a coal mine for a period of more
than 90 days, the operator shall file with
MSHA a copy of the mine map revised
and supplemented to the date of
closure. Maps are retained in a
repository and are made available to
mine operators of adjacent properties.
The maps are necessary to provide an
accurate record of underground areas
that have been mined to help prevent
active mine operators from mining into
abandoned areas that may contain water
or harmful gases.
Title 30 CFR 77.1200, 77.1201 and
77.1202 require surface coal mine
operators to maintain an accurate and
up-to-date map of the mine and
specifies the information to be shown
on the map, the acceptable range of map
scales, that the map be certified by a
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map be available for inspection by the
Secretary or his authorized
representative. These maps are essential
for the safe operation of the mine and
provide essential information to
operators of adjacent surface and
underground mines. Properly prepared
and effectively utilized surface mine
maps can prevent outbursts of water
impounded in underground mine
workings and/or inundations of
underground mines by surface
impounded water or water and or gases
impounded in surface auger mining
worked out areas.
Title 30 CFR 75.373 and 75.1721
require that after a mine is abandoned
or declared inactive and before it is
reopened, mine operations shall not
begin until MSHA has been notified and
has completed an inspection. Section
75.1721 specifies that once the mine
operator notifies the MSHA District
Manager on the intent to reopen a mine
all preliminary plans must be submitted
in writing prior to development of the
coalbed unless or until all preliminary
plans are approved.
II. Desired Focus of Comments
MSHA is particularly interested in
comments that:
• Evaluate whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of MSHA’s functions,
including whether the information has
practical utility;
• Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
• Suggest methods to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
• Address the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information

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public comment version of the
supporting statement, at MSHA, Office
of Standards, Regulations, and
Variances, 1100 Wilson Boulevard,
Room 2350, Arlington, VA 22209–3939.
OMB clearance requests are available at
MSHA’s Web site at http://
www.msha.gov under ‘‘Rules & Regs’’ on
the right side of the screen by selecting
Information Collections Requests,
Paperwork Reduction Act Supporting
Statements. The public comment
version of the supporting statement will
be available on MSHA’s Web site for 60
days after the publication date of this
notice. The document will be available
on MSHA’s home page site for 60 days
after the signature date of this notice.
Comments submitted in writing or in
electronic form will be made available
for public inspection. Because
comments will not be edited to remove
any identifying or contact information,
MSHA cautions the commenter against
including any information in the
submission that should not be publicly
disclosed. Questions about the
information collection requirements
may be directed to the person listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this notice.

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III. Current Actions
The information obtained from mine
operators is used by MSHA during
inspections to determine compliance
with safety standards concerning mine
maps. MSHA has updated the data in
respect to the number of respondents
and responses, as well as the total
burden hours and burden costs
supporting this information collection
extension request.
Type of Review: Extension.
Agency: Mine Safety and Health
Administration.
Title: Mine Mapping and Records of
Opening, Closing, and Reopening of
Mines.
OMB Number: 1219–0073.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit.
Cite/Reference/Form/etc: 30 CFR Part
75 and Part 77.
Total Respondents: 1,876.
Frequency: Annual, at least every six
months, and as mines are developed.
Total Number of Responses: 804.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
16,476.
Estimated Total Burden Cost:
$21,474,889.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
information collection request; they will
also become a matter of public record.

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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Patricia W. Silvey,
Certifying Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Proposed Extension of Existing
Information Collection; Occupational
Noise Exposure

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Comments to OMB may be sent by
mail addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, New
Executive Office Building, 725 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attn: Desk Officer for MSHA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg
Moxness, Chief, Economic Analysis
Division, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, at
moxness.greg@dol.gov (email); 202–
693–9440 (voice); or 202–693–9441
(facsimile).

Mine Safety and Health
Administration, Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.

I. Background

The Department of Labor, as
part of its continuing effort to reduce
paperwork and respondent burden,
conducts a pre-clearance consultation
program to provide the general public
and Federal agencies with an
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing collections of
information in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. This
program helps to assure that requested
data can be provided in the desired
format, reporting burden (time and
financial resources) is minimized,
collection instruments are clearly
understood, and the impact of collection
requirements on respondents can be
properly assessed.
The Mine Safety and Health
Administration (MSHA) is soliciting
comments concerning the proposed
extension of an existing information
collection, OMB Control Number 1219–
0120, Occupational Noise Exposure.
OMB last approved this information
collection request (ICR) on March 10,
2009.
DATES: All comments must be
postmarked or received by midnight
Eastern Daylight Time on May 21, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be
identified with ‘‘OMB Control Number
1219–0120’’ and sent to both the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) and
MSHA. Comments to MSHA may be
sent by any of the methods listed below.
• Federal E-Rulemaking Portal:
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Facsimile: 202–693–9441, include
‘‘OMB 1219–0120’’ in the subject line of
the message.
• Regular Mail or Hand Delivery:
MSHA, Office of Standards,
Regulations, and Variances, 1100
Wilson Boulevard, Room 2350,
Arlington, VA 22209–3939. If hand
delivery, sign in at the receptionist’s
desk on the 21st floor.

This information collection was
originally titled ‘‘Noise exposure
assessment; audiometric testing,
evaluation, and records and training in
all mines.’’ OMB 1219–0120 has been
renamed ‘‘Occupational Noise
Exposure’’ to more clearly focus the title
and purpose of the information
collection on its central concern for the
prevention of hearing loss resulting
from occupational noise exposure.
Noise is a harmful physical agent and
one of the most pervasive health
hazards in mining. Repeated exposure
to high levels of sound over time causes
occupational noise-induced hearing loss
(NIHL), a serious, often profound
physical impairment in mining, with
far-reaching psychological and social
effects. NIHL can be distinguished from
aging and other factors that can
contribute to hearing loss and it can be
prevented. According to the National
Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), NIHL is among the
‘‘top ten’’ leading occupational illnesses
and injuries.
For many years, NIHL was regarded as
an inevitable consequence of working in
a mine. Mining, an intensely
mechanized industry, relies on drills,
crushers, compressors, conveyors,
trucks, loaders, and other heavy-duty
equipment for the excavation, haulage,
and processing of material. This
equipment creates high sound levels,
exposing machine operators as well as
employees working nearby. The Mine
Safety and Health Administration
(MSHA), the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, the military, and
other organizations around the world
have established and enforced standards
to reduce the loss of hearing. Quieter
equipment, isolation of workers from
noise sources, and limiting the time
workers are exposed to noise are among
the many well-accepted methods that
will prevent the costly incidence of
NIHL.

AGENCY:

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