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for this proceeding indicates that the
Registrant filed pleadings in that matter
and provided an address at which the
State served him with its final order. Yet
the Government made no attempt to
serve the Order to Show Cause on him
at that address.
Because the Government clearly has
information available to it regarding the
whereabouts of Registrant and yet made
no attempt to serve him at that address,
I conclude that it has not complied with
its obligation under the Due Process
Clause ‘‘to provide ‘notice reasonably
calculated, under all the circumstances,
to apprise interested parties of the
pendency of the action and afford them
an opportunity to present their
objections.’ ’’ Jones, 547 U.S. at 223
(quoting Mullane, 339 U.S. at 314).
Accordingly, the Government’s request
for a final order revoking Registrant’s
registration is denied and the Order to
Show Cause is dismissed without
prejudice.
It is so ordered.
Dated: December 23, 2011.
Michele M. Leonhart,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2012–1491 Filed 1–24–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2012–0002]

Asbestos in Construction Standard;
Extension of the Office of Management
and Budget’s (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork)
Requirements
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:

OSHA solicits public
comments concerning its proposal to
extend OMB’s approval of the
information collection requirements
contained in the Asbestos in
Construction Standard (29 CFR
1926.1101). The standard protects
workers from adverse health effects
from occupational exposure to asbestos,
including lung cancer, mesothelioma,
asbestosis (an emphysema-like
condition) and gastrointestinal cancer.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
March 26, 2012.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
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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 a
copy of your comments and attachments
to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2012–0002, U.S. Department of
Labor, Occupational Safety and Health
Administration, 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
docket number (OSHA–2012–0002) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). 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 from the Web site. All
submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
You may contact Theda Kenney at the
address below to obtain a copy of the
ICR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Theda Kenney, 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:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork
and respondent (i.e., employer) burden,
conducts a preclearance consultation
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opportunity to comment on proposed
and continuing information collection
requirements in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(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 (the 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 standard protects workers from
adverse health effects from occupational
exposure to asbestos, including lung
cancer, mesothelioma, asbestosis (an
emphysema-like condition) and
gastrointestinal cancer.
The standard requires employers to
train workers about hazards to asbestos,
to monitor worker exposure, to provide
medical surveillance, and maintain
accurate records of worker exposure to
asbestos. These records will be used by
employers, workers and the Government
to ensure that workers are not harmed
by exposure to asbestos in the
workplace.
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 to protect workers,
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
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
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
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collection requirements contained in the
Asbestos in Construction Standard (29
CFR 1926.1101). The Agency is
requesting a burden hour adjustment
from 4,957,804 to 4,929,794 hours, an
adjustment decrease of 28,010 hours.
Based upon review of data, the number
of employers affected by the Standard
decreased from 1.27 to 1.24 million.
The Agency will summarize the
comments submitted in response to this
notice and will include this summary in
the request to OMB.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Asbestos in Construction
Standard (29 CFR 1926.1101).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0134.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit; Federal Government; State, Local,
or Tribal Government.
Number of Respondents: 249,534.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Responses: 48,469,358
Average Time per Response: Time per
response ranges from 5 minutes (.08
hour) to maintain records to 1.67 hours
to complete a medical examination.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
4,929,794 hours.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $28,816,390.
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 the
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2012–0002).
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
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–
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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 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, Ph.D., 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. 4–2010 (75 FR
55355).
Signed at Washington, DC, on January 20,
2012.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2012–1547 Filed 1–24–12; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Applications Received
Under the Antarctic Conservation Act
of 1978
National Science Foundation.
Notice of Permit Applications
Received under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

The National Science
Foundation (NSF) is required to publish
a notice of permit applications received
to conduct activities regulated under the
Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978,
Public Law 95–541. NSF has published
regulations under the Antarctic
Conservation Act at Title 45 Part 670 of
the Code of Federal Regulations. This is
the required notice of permit
applications received.
DATES: Interested parties are invited to
submit written data, comments, or
views with respect to this permit
application by February 24, 2012. This
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application may be inspected by
interested parties at the Permit Office,
address below.
Comments should be
addressed to Permit Office, Room 755,
Office of Polar Programs, National
Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Polly A. Penhale at the above address or
(703) 292–7420.
The
National Science Foundation, as
directed by the Antarctic Conservation
Act of 1978 (Pub. L.95–541), as
amended by the Antarctic Science,
Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996,
has developed regulations for the
establishment of a permit system for
various activities in Antarctica and
designation of certain animals and
certain geographic areas a requiring
special protection. The regulations
establish such a permit system to
designate Antarctic Specially Protected
Areas.
The applications received are as
follows:
1. Applicant:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Charles D. Amsler, Jr., Department of
Biology, University of Alabama,
Birmingham, AL 35294–1170.
Permit Application: 2012–012.
Activity for Which Permit Is Requested
Take and Import into the U.S.A. The
applicant plans to take from the Palmer
Station area approximately 20 brown
marine algae, 30 green marine algae, 10
red marine algae, and 10 diatom marine
algae to sublimate cultures of
filamentous Antarctic macroalgae and
diatoms previously isolated in culture
but require additional strains,
particularly of filamentous green algal
endophytes for future study. The
applicant will use these samples to
understand the interactions of epiphytic
and endophytic algae (both filamentous
macroalgae and diatoms) with larger
macroalgae and with mesoherbivores
such as amphipods. The cultures will be
maintained at the home university.
Location: Palmer Station, Anvers
Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
Dates: April 1, 2012 to July 31, 2013.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
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