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Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2010–0047]

Bloodborne Pathogens 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 the proposal to
extend the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the
information collection requirements
specified in the Bloodborne Pathogens
Standard.

SUMMARY:

Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
December 2, 2024.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit
comments and attachments
electronically at https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the
instructions online for submitting
comments.
Docket: To read or download
comments or other material in the
docket, go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Documents in the
docket are listed in the https://
www.regulations.gov index; however,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download through the websites.
All submissions, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
through the OSHA Docket Office.
Contact the OSHA Docket Office at (202)
693–2350 (TTY (877) 889–5627) for
assistance in locating docket
submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and OSHA
docket number (OSHA–2010–0047) for
the Information Collection Request
(ICR). OSHA will place all comments,
including any personal information, in
the public docket, which may be made
available online. Therefore, OSHA
cautions interested parties about
submitting personal information such as
social security numbers and birthdates.
For further information on submitting
comments, see the ‘‘Public
Participation’’ heading in the section of
this notice titled SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION.

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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 information collection
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, the 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 effort in obtaining
information (29 U.S.C. 657).
The following paragraph describes the
information collected under the
Standard, as well as how they use it.
The purpose of these requirements is to
protect workers from occupational
exposures to the infectious hazardous
agents posed by bloodborne pathogens.
The information collection
requirements specified in the
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard require
employers to: develop and maintain an
exposure control plan; develop a
housekeeping schedule; provide
workers with Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)
vaccinations, post-exposure medical
evaluations and follow-up; maintain
medical and training records for
specified periods; and provide
employees and their authorized
representatives with access to these
records. Employers must also establish
and maintain a sharps injury log for the
recording of percutaneous injuries from
contaminated sharps.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in
comments on the following issues:
• Whether the proposed information
collection requirements are necessary

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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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. The
agency is requesting an adjustment
increase in burden from 5,727,929 to
7,870,142 hours, a difference of
2,142,213 hours. This increase is due to
an increase in the number of facilities
going from 701,563, to 793,728 and the
number of employees going from
8,425,607 to 16,975,449 affected by the
Standard. The operation and
maintenance cost increased from
$52,427,598 to $116,568,859.
OSHA 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 the information collection
requirements.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Title: Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0180.
Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 793,728.
Number of Responses: 43,856,212.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
7,870,142.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $116,568,859.
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 https://
www.regulations.gov, which is the
Federal eRulemaking Portal; or (2) by
facsimile (fax), if your comments,
including attachments, are not longer
than 10 pages you may fax them to the
OSHA Docket Office at (202) 693–1648.
All comments, attachments, and other
material must identify the agency name
and the OSHA docket number for the

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ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2010–0047).
You may supplement electronic
submission by uploading document files
electronically.
Comments and submissions are
posted without change at https://
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 https://www.regulations.gov index,
some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to
read or download from this website. All
submission, including copyrighted
material, are available for inspection
and copying at the OSHA Docket Office.
Information on using the https://
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 at
(202) 693–2350, (TTY (877) 889–5627)
for information about materials not
available from the website, and for
assistance in using the internet to locate
docket submissions.
V. Authority and Signature
James S. Frederick, 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. 8–2020 (85 FR 58393).
Signed at Washington, DC, on September
25, 2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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BILLING CODE 4510–26–P

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATION
[NARA–24–0021; NARA–2024–056]

Records Schedules; Availability and
Request for Comments
National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of
proposed records schedules; request for
comments.

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AGENCY:

The National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA)
publishes notice of certain Federal
agency requests for records disposition
authority (records schedules). We
publish notice in the Federal Register
and on regulations.gov for records

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schedules in which agencies propose to
dispose of records they no longer need
to conduct agency business. We invite
public comments on such records
schedules.
DATES: We must receive responses on
the schedules listed in this notice by
November 18, 2024.
ADDRESSES: To view a records schedule
in this notice, or submit a comment on
one, use the following address: https://
www.regulations.gov/docket/NARA-24xxxx/document. This is a direct link to
the schedules posted in the docket for
this notice on regulations.gov. You may
submit comments by the following
method:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. On the
website, enter either of the numbers
cited at the top of this notice into the
search field. This will bring you to the
docket for this notice, in which we have
posted the records schedules open for
comment. Each schedule has a
‘comment’ button so you can comment
on that specific schedule. For more
information on regulations.gov and on
submitting comments, see their FAQs at
https://www.regulations.gov/faq.
If you are unable to comment via
regulations.gov, you may email us at
request.schedule@nara.gov for
instructions on submitting your
comment. You must cite the control
number of the schedule you wish to
comment on. You can find the control
number for each schedule in
parentheses at the end of each
schedule’s entry in the list at the end of
this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kimberly Richardson, Strategy and
Performance Division, by email at
regulation_comments@nara.gov or at
301–837–2902. For information about
records schedules, contact Records
Management Operations by email at
request.schedule@nara.gov or by phone
at 301–837–1799.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Comment Procedures
We are publishing notice of records
schedules in which agencies propose to
dispose of records they no longer need
to conduct agency business. We invite
public comments on these records
schedules, as required by 44 U.S.C.
3303a(a), and list the schedules at the
end of this notice by agency and
subdivision requesting disposition
authority.
In addition, this notice lists the
organizational unit(s) accumulating the
records or states that the schedule has
agency-wide applicability. It also
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each schedule, which you will need if
you submit comments on that schedule.
We have uploaded the records
schedules and accompanying appraisal
memoranda to the regulations.gov
docket for this notice as ‘‘other’’
documents. Each records schedule
contains a full description of the records
at the file unit level as well as their
proposed disposition. The appraisal
memorandum for the schedule includes
information about the records.
We will post comments, including
any personal information and
attachments, to the public docket
unchanged. Because comments are
public, you are responsible for ensuring
that you do not include any confidential
or other information that you or a third
party may not wish to be publicly
posted. If you want to submit a
comment with confidential information
or cannot otherwise use the
regulations.gov portal, you may contact
request.schedule@nara.gov for
instructions on submitting your
comment.
We will consider all comments
submitted by the posted deadline and
consult as needed with the Federal
agency seeking the disposition
authority. After considering comments,
we may or may not make changes to the
proposed records schedule. The
schedule is then sent for final approval
by the Archivist of the United States.
After the schedule is approved, we will
post on regulations.gov a ‘‘Consolidated
Reply’’ summarizing the comments,
responding to them, and noting any
changes we made to the proposed
schedule. You may elect at
regulations.gov to receive updates on
the docket, including an alert when we
post the Consolidated Reply, whether or
not you submit a comment. If you have
a question, you can submit it as a
comment, and can also submit any
concerns or comments you would have
to a possible response to the question.
We will address these items in
consolidated replies along with any
other comments submitted on that
schedule.
We will post schedules on our
website in the Records Control Schedule
(RCS) Repository, at https://
www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/rcs,
after the Archivist approves them. The
RCS contains all schedules approved
since 1973.
Background
Each year, Federal agencies create
billions of records. To control this
accumulation, agency records managers
prepare schedules proposing retention
periods for records and submit these
schedules for NARA’s approval. Once

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