Office of Management and Budget Control Numbers Under the Paperwork Reduction Act for Miscellaneous Construction Industry Rules

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

29 CFR Part 1926

Office of Management and Budget Control Numbers Under the

Paperwork Reduction Act for Miscellaneous Construction Industry Rules

AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Final rule; Office of Management and Budget approval of

information collection requirements.

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SUMMARY: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is

announcing that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has extended

the approval of a number of information collection requirements in OSHA

construction rules. OSHA sought approval under the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995 and is announcing the new expiration dates for these OMB

control numbers. These approvals are for provisions that require

posting; retention of records that verify certain tests or inspections

have been performed; retention or availability of plans at construction

sites; and other miscellaneous requirements.

EFFECTIVE DATE: These amendments are effective April 16, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Bielaski, Office of Regulatory

Analysis, Directorate of Policy, Occupational Safety and Health

Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, Room N-3627, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210, telephone (202) 693-1954.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(PRA) 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), collections of information must be

periodically approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In

1998, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

requested that OMB approve a number of information collection

requirements contained in OSHA's construction industry standards (29

CFR part 1926). These provisions require employers to:

--Post floor-load limits and crane-rating chart limitations;

--Retain records that verify certain tests or inspections required in

part 1926 have been performed.

--Retain or ensure the availability of plans at construction sites; and

other miscellaneous requirements.

The previous approvals of these information collection requirements

expired at various times during 1998. Last year, OSHA sought public

comment on the burden-hour and cost estimates of these requirements

through a series of Federal Register notices.

At the conclusion of the public comment period, the Agency

submitted requests for an extension of OMB's approval of these records.

In accordance with the PRA, OMB has renewed its approval for these

information collection requirements. Each requirement was renewed for 3

years, but OMB staggered the new expiration dates in 2001 over a period

of several months. The following table lists the subjects, Federal

Register notices, and the OMB control numbers for each of these

requirements:

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OMB control

Title and citation Federal Register date and page No. No. Approval expires

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Annual Inspection Record of Cranes or June 8, 1998, 63 FR 31232.................................... 1218-0113 June 30, 2001.

Derricks Used in Construction--Sec.

1926.550(a)(6).

Design of Cave-in Protection Systems-- July 10, 1998, 63 FR 37415................................... 1218-0137 July 31, 2001.

Sec. 1926.652 (b) and (c).

Concrete and Masonry Construction--Sec. June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33712................................... 1218-0095 July 31, 2001.

1926.703(a)(2).

Construction Posting Rqmnts.: Emergency July 14, 1998, 63 FR 37907................................... 1218-0093 Aug. 31, 2001.

Phone No.'s and Floor Load Limits--

Secs. 1926.50(f) and 1926.250(a)(2).

Constr'n. Crane Rating Chart Limitation June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33713................................... 1218-0115 Aug. 31, 2001.

Instructions & Hand Signal

Illustrations--Sec. 1926.550(a)(1),

(2), (4), and (16).

Construction Cranes and Derricks: Oxygen June 19, 1998, 62 FR 33715................................... 1218-0054 Aug. 31, 2001.

and Toxic Gas Tests--Sec.

1926.550(a)(11).

Crane- or Derrick-Suspended Personnel June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33715................................... 1218-0151 Aug. 31, 2001.

Platforms Used in Constr'n.--Sec.

1926.550(g)(4)(ii)(I).

Underground Construction--Sec. 1926.800 June 19, 1998, 63 FR 33714................................... 1218-0067 Oct. 31, 2001.

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Under 5 CFR 1320.5(b), an Agency may not conduct or sponsor a

collection of information unless: (1) The collection displays a valid

control number, and (2) the Agency informs persons who potentially may

respond to the collections of information that they are not required to

respond to the collection of information unless it displays a currently

valid OMB control number. Accordingly, now that OMB has extended the

approval on these collections, OSHA is publishing this document to

announce the new expiration dates for these OMB control numbers.

In addition, OSHA is amending Sec. 1926.5, the section in which

OSHA displays its approved collections under the PRA, to codify several

interrelated collections that were determined to be paperwork burdens

as a result of a more careful review and analysis of the information

collection requirements in the crane and derrick standard. The Agency

grouped these additional collections with a related collection that had

been previously identified.

List of Subjects

29 CFR Part 1926

Construction; Occupational safety and health; Reporting and

recordkeeping requirements.

Authority and Signature

This document was prepared under the direction of Charles N.

Jeffress, Assistant Secretary of Labor for

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Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor, 200

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20210.

Signed at Washington, DC this 13th day of April, 1999.

Charles N. Jeffress,

Assistant Secretary of Labor.

Accordingly, 29 CFR part 1926 is amended as set forth below.

PART 1926--[AMENDED]

1. The authority citation for subpart A of part 1926 is revised to

read as follows:

Authority: Section 107, Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards

Act (Construction Safety Act) (40 U.S.C. 333); secs. 4, 6, 8,

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 653, 655,

657); Secretary of Labor's Order 12-71 (36 FR 8754), 8-76 (41 FR

25059), 1-90 (55 FR 9033),), or 6-96 (62 FR 111), as applicable; 29

CFR part 1911.

2. In Sec. 1926.5, the table is amended by adding entries for

1926.550(a)(2), (4), and (16) in numerical order to read as follows:

Sec. 1926.5 OMB control numbers under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

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Sec. 1926.550(a)(2)...........................................1218-0115

Sec. 1926.550(a)(4)...........................................1218-0115

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Sec. 1926.550(a)(16)..........................................1218-0115

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[FR Doc. 99-9580 Filed 4-15-99; 8:45 am]

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