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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 90 / Friday, May 9, 2014 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062]

Powered Industrial Trucks 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 the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Powered Industrial
Trucks Standard. The information
collection requirements address truck
design, construction and modification,
as well as certification of training and
evaluation for truck operators.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by July
8, 2014.
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 a
copy of your comments and attachments
to the OSHA Docket Office, Docket No.
OSHA–2011–0062, 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 the OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2011–0062) 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

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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 also 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:
I. Background
The Department of Labor, as part of its
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 information collection
requirements in accord 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 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).
Paragraph (a)(4) of the Powered
Industrial Trucks Standard requires
employers to obtain the manufacturer’s
written approval before modifying a
truck in a manner that affects its
capacity and safe operation; if the

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manufacturer grants such approval, the
employer must revise capacity,
operation, and maintenance instruction
plates, tags, and decals accordingly. For
front-end attachments not installed by
the manufacturer, paragraph (a)(5)
mandates that employers provide a
marker on the trucks that identifies the
attachment, as well as the weight of
both the truck and the attachment when
the attachment is at maximum elevation
with a laterally centered load. Paragraph
(a)(6) specifies that employers must
ensure that the markers required by
paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(5) remain
affixed to the trucks and are legible.
Paragraphs (1)(4) and (1)(6) of the
Standard contain the paperwork
requirements necessary to certify the
evaluation and training provided to
powered industrial truck operators.
Accordingly, these paragraphs specify
the following requirements for
employers.
• Paragraph (1)(4)(iii)—evaluate each
operator’s performance at least once
every three years.
• Paragraph (l)(6)—Certify that each
operator meets the training and
evaluation requirements specified by
paragraph (l). This certification must
include the operator’s name, the
training date, the evaluation date, and
the identity of the individual(s) who
performed the training and evaluation.
Requiring labels (markings) on modified
equipment notifies workers of the
conditions under which they can safely
operate powered industrial trucks,
thereby preventing such hazards as fires
and explosions caused by poorly
designed electrical systems, rollovers/
tipovers that result from exceeding a
truck’s stability characteristics, and
falling loads that occur when loads
exceed the lifting capacities of
attachments. Certification of worker
training and evaluation provides a
means of informing employers that their
workers received the training and
demonstrated the performance
necessary to operate a truck within its
capacity and control limitations. By
ensuring that workers operate only
trucks that are in proper working order,
and do so safely, employers prevent
possible severe injury or death of truck
operators and other workers who are in
the vicinity of the trucks. Finally, these
paperwork requirements are the most
efficient means for an OSHA
compliance officer to determine that an
employer properly notified workers
about the design and construction of,
and modifications made to, the trucks
they are operating, and that an employer
provided them with the required
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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
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 proposing to decrease the
existing burden hour estimate of the
collection of information requirements
specified by the Standard. In this regard,
the Agency is proposing to decrease the
current burden hour estimate from
888,244 hours to 393,702 hours, a total
decrease of 494,542 hours. The reason
for this reduction is the removal of
burden hours associated with the
requirement that employers provide
training to workers.
Upon further analysis, OSHA has
determined that these training provision
is not considered to be a collection of
information under PRA–95. In addition,
the Agency was able to gather data
updating the number of trucks and
operators. 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: Powered Industrial Trucks (29
CFR 1910.178).
OMB Control Number: 1218–0242.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 1,106,552.
Number of Responses: 2,206,464.
Frequency of Reponses: On occasion;
annually; triennially.
Average Time per Response: Ranges
from two minutes (.03 hour) to mark an
approved truck to 30 minutes (.50 hour)
to perform an evaluation.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
393,702.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $232,365.
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:

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(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
materials must identify the Agency
name and the OSHA docket number for
the ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2011–0062).
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 that 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 from 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 from 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. 1–2012 (77 FR 3912).

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Signed at Washington, DC, on May 5, 2014.
David Michaels,
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2014–10648 Filed 5–8–14; 8:45 am]
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice (14–040)]

NASA Advisory Council; Science
Committee; Earth Science
Subcommittee; Meeting
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public
Law 92–463, as amended, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) announces a meeting of the
Earth Science Subcommittee of the
NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This
Subcommittee reports to the Science
Committee of the NAC. The meeting
will be held for the purpose of
soliciting, from the scientific
community and other persons, scientific
and technical information relevant to
program planning.
DATES: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Thursday, May
29, 2014, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, Local
Time.
SUMMARY:

NASA Headquarters, Room
3H42 and 3J42, 300 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20546.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann
Delo, Science Mission Directorate,
NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC
20546, (202) 358–0750, fax (202) 358–
2779, or ann.b.delo@nasa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting will be open to the public up
to the capacity of the room. The meeting
will be available telephonically. Any
interested person may call the USA toll
free conference call number 800–988–
9663, passcode 8015, to participate in
this meeting by telephone. Please note,
the conference call number and
password is the same for both days of
this meeting, May 28 and May 29, 2014.
The agenda for the meeting includes
the following topics:
—Earth Science Division Update
—Sustained Land Imaging
—Climate Sensors
—Education and Public Outreach Policy
and Approach
—NASA Activities in Support of the
National Climate Assessments
—Arctic Science Coordination
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