Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) - FedReg E8-7259 - Proposed Information Collection Request

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19104 Federal Register/Vol. 73, No. 68/Tuesday, April 8, 2008/Notices solicitations. For a list of frequently education seeks to nurture the SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as asked questions on Solicitations for development, health, safety, and part of its continuing effort to reduce Cooperative Agreement Applications enhanced future employability of paperwork and respondent burden (based on last year’s solicitations, SGAs children around the world by conducts a preclearance consultation 07–10 and 07–11), please visit http:// withdrawing or preventing children program to provide the general public www.dol.gov/ilab/faq/faq0710.htm. from involvement in exploitive labor and Federal agencies with an Key Dates: The forthcoming and providing them with access to basic opportunity to comment on proposed solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement education, vocational training and other and/or containing collections of applications will be published on services. Eliminating exploitive child information in accordance with the http://www.grants.gov and USDOL/ labor depends, in part, on improving Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 access to, quality of, and relevance of ILAB’s Web site. A brief synopsis of the (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This educational and training opportunities program helps to ensure that requested for children under 18 years of age. applications (SGA) and Web site links to data can be provided in the desired Without improving such ...

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solicitations. For a list of frequentlyeducation seeks to nurture the SUMMARY :The Department of Labor, as asked questions on Solicitations for development, health, safety, and part of its continuing effort to reduce Cooperative Agreement Applications enhanced future employability ofpaperwork and respondent burden (based on last year’ conducts a preclearance consultation children around the world by s solicitations, SGAs 07–10 and 07–11), please visithttp:// withdrawing or preventing childrenprogram to provide the general public www.dol.gov/ilab/faq/faq0710.htm involvement in exploitive labor. from and Federal agencies with an Key Dates: and providing them with access to basic The forthcoming opportunity to comment on proposed solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement education, vocational training and other and/or containing collections of applications will be published on services. Eliminating exploitive childinformation in accordance with the http://www.grants.govand USDOL/ labor depends, in part, on improving Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 ILAB’ (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This access to, quality of, and relevance of s Web site. A brief synopsis of the solicitation(s) for cooperative agreement educational and training opportunities program helps to ensure that requested for children under 18 years of age. applications (SGA) and Web site links to data can be provided in the desired Without improving such opportunities, format, reporting burden (time and the fulltext SGAs will be published in children withdrawn from exploitive financial resources) is minimized, theFederal Register. The SGA will forms of labor may not have viable collection instruments are clearly remain open for at least 30 days from alternatives to child labor and may be understood, and the impact of collection the date of publication. All cooperative more likely to return to such work or agreement awards will be made on or requirements on respondents can be resort to other hazardous means of properly assessed. before September 30, 2008. subsistence. Submission Information:Applications DATES :Submit comments on or before International projects funded by in response to the forthcoming June 9, 2008. USDOL to combat exploitive child labor solicitation must be submitted via ADDRESSES :Send comments to U.S. seek to: http://www.grants.gov.Any application Department of Labor, Mine Safety and 1. Withdraw or prevent children from sent by mail or other delivery services, Health Administration, Debbie Ferraro, involvement in exploitive child labor email, telegram, or facsimile (Fax) will Management Services Division, 1100 through the provision of direct not be accepted. Wilson Boulevard, Room 2141, educational and training services; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : Ms. Arlington,VA 22209–3939. Commenters 2. Strengthen policies on child labor Lisa Harvey. Email address: are encouraged to send their comments and education, the capacity of national [e-mail] inquiries on a computer disk, or via Internet E institutions to combat child labor, and should make reference to the USDOL mail [e-mail]. Ms. formal and transitional education Combating Child Labor through Ferraro can be reached at (202) 693– systems that encourage working Education—Solicitations for 9821 (voice), or (202) 693–9801 children and those at risk of working to Cooperative Agreement Applications. (facsimile). attend school; Bidders’Meeting:USDOL intends to 3. Raise awareness of the importance FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : hold a bidders’meeting on April 24, of education for all children and Contact the employee listed in the 2008, in Washington, DC at the mobilize a wide array of actors to ADDRESSES section of this notice. Department of Labor from 1:30 p.m. to improve and expand education SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : 3:30 p.m. The purpose of this meeting infrastructures; I. Background is to provide potential applicants with 4. Support research and the collection the opportunity to ask questions of reliable data on child labor; and Section 101(a)(7) of the Mine Act concerning this Solicitation for 5. Ensure the longterm sustainability requires, in part, that mandatory Cooperative Agreement Applications of these efforts. standards‘‘prescribe the use of labels or process. To register for the meeting, When working to eradicate exploitive other appropriate forms of warning as please call or email Ms. Doris Senko child labor, USDOL strives to are necessary to insure that miners are (Phone: 202–693– complement existing efforts, to build on 4843; Email: apprised of all hazards to which they [e-mail]) by April 17, 2008. the achievements of and lessons learned are exposed, relevant symptoms and Please provide Ms. Senko with from these efforts, to expand impact and appropriate emergency treatment, and attendees’contact information, build synergies among actors, and to proper conditions and precautions for including name, organization, address, avoid duplication of resources and safe use or exposure’’. MSHA collected phone number, and email address. efforts. evidence from the National Institute for Background Information:Since 1995, Signed at Washington, DC this 1st day of Occupational Safety and Health’s USDOL has supported technical April, 2008. (NIOSH) Occupational Health Survey of cooperation programming to combat Lisa Harvey, Mining and other sources indicating exploitive child labor internationally Grant Officer. that there is chemical exposure through the promotion of educational [FR Doc. E8–7231 Filed 4–7–08; 8:45 am] occurring in every type of mine, opportunities for children in need. In although every miner may not be BILLING CODE 4510–28–P total, the U.S. Congress has exposed. We are concerned that miners appropriated to USDOL over U.S. $660 being exposed to chemicals may not million to support activities to combat DEPARTMENT OF LABOR know the hazards of those chemicals or exploitive child labor internationally. In the appropriate precautions to prevent turn, ILAB has signed cooperative Mine Safety and Health Administration injury or illness caused by exposure to agreements with various organizations a hazardous chemical. Proposed Information Collection to support international technical Request; Submitted for Public II. Desired Focus of Comments assistance projects to combat exploitive Comment and Recommendations; child labor in over 75 countries aroundCurrently, the Mine Safety and Health Hazard Communication the world.Administration (MSHA) is soliciting USDOL international programming tocomments concerning the proposed ACTION :Notice. combat exploitive child labor throughextension of the information collection

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requirement related to HazardType of Review:Extension. Informationand Regulatory Affairs of Communication (HazCom). MSHA is Agency:Mine Safety and Health OMB, Attention: Desk Officer for particularly interested in comments Administration. National Science Foundation, 725—17th that: Title:Hazard Communication. Street, NW. Room 10235, Washington, •Evaluate whether the proposed OMB Number:1219–0133. DC 20503, and to Suzanne H. Plimpton, collection of information is necessary Recordkeeping:3 years. Reports Clearance Officer, National Frequency:On Occasion. for the proper performance of MSHA’s Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Affected Public:Business or other for functions, including whether the Boulevard, Suite 295, Arlington, profit. information has practical utility; Virginia 22230 or send email to Total Respondents:22,381. •Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA’s [e-mail] regarding Total Responses:813,753. estimate of the burden of the proposed these information collections are best Estimated Total Burden Hours: collection of information, including the 177,668. assuredof having their full effect if validity of the methodology and Total Burden Cost (operating/received within 30 days of this assumptions used; maintaining): Copies of the submission(s) $13,199. notification. •Suggest methods to enhance the Comments submitted in response to quality, utility, and clarity of the may be obtained by calling 703–292– this notice will be summarized and/or information to be collected; and 7556. included in the request for Office of •Address the use of appropriate NSF may not conduct or sponsor a automated, electronic, mechanical, or Management and Budget approval of the collection of information unless the other technological collection information collection request; they will collection of information displays a techniques or other forms of information also become a matter of public record. currently valid OMB control number technology, (e.g., permitting electronic Dated at Arlington, Virginia, this 2nd day and the agency informs potential submissions of responses) to minimize of April, 2008. persons who are to respond to the the burden of the collection of David L. Meyer, collection of information that such information on those who are to Director, Office of Administration and persons are not required to respond to respond. Management. the collection of information unless it A copy of the proposed information [FR Doc. E8–7259 Filed 4–7–08; 8:45 am] displays a currently valid OMB control collection request can be obtained by BILLING CODE 4510–43–P contacting the employee listed in the number. ADDRESSES section of this notice or SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION : viewed on the Internet by accessing the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Title of Collection:National Science MSHA home page (http:// Foundation Applicant Survey. www.msha.gov/) and selecting‘‘Rules Agency Information Collection and Regs’’, and then selecting‘‘Fed Reg OMB Approval Number:3145–0096. Activities: Comment Request Docs.’’ Type of Request:Intent to seek AGENCY :National Science Foundation. III. Current Actionsapproval to extend an information ACTION :Submission for OMB Review; collection for three years. The HazCom standard involves third Comment Request. party information sharing. It requires Proposed Project:The current mine operators and/or contractors to SUMMARY :The National Science National Science Foundation Applicant assess the hazards of chemicals theyFoundation (NSF) has submitted the survey has been in use for several years. produce or use and provide informationfollowing information collection Data are collected from applicant pools to their miners concerning therequirement to OMB for review and to examine the racial/sexual/disability chemicals’hazards. The mine operatorsclearance under the Paperwork composition and to determine the and/or contractors must develop aReduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– source of information about NSF written hazard communication program13. The full submission may be found vacancies. that describes how they will informat:http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ Use of the Information:Analysis of miners of chemical hazards and safePRAMain.This is the second notice; the the applicant pools is necessary to handling procedures through minerfirst notice was published at 73 FR 4922 determine if NSF’s targeted recruitment training, labeling containers ofand no comments were received. efforts are reaching groups that are hazardous chemicals, and providingComments regarding (a) whether the underrepresented in the Agency’s miners access to material safety datacollection of information is necessary workforce and/or to defend the sheets (MSDSs). The purpose of thefor the proper performance of the Foundation’s practices in information sharing is to provide minersfunctions of the agency, including with the right to know the hazards andwhether the information will have discrimination cases. identities of the chemicals they are practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Burden on the Public:The Foundation exposed to while working, as well as theagency’s estimate of burden including estimates about 4,000 responses measures they can take to protectthe validity of the methodology and annually at 1 minute per response; this themselves from these hazards. Throughassumptions used; (c) ways to enhance computes to approximately 67 hours HazCom mine operators and/orthe quality, utility and clarity of the annually. contractors also have the necessaryinformation to be collected; and (d) Dated: April 3, 2008. information regarding the hazards ofways to minimize the burden of the chemicals present at their mines, so thatcollection of information on those who Suzanne H. Plimpton, work methods are improved orare to respond, including through the Reports Clearance Officer, National Science instituted to minimize exposure to theseuse of appropriate automated, Foundation. chemicals. HazCom provides minerselectronic, mechanical, or other [FR Doc. E8–7331 Filed 4–7–08; 8:45 am] with access to this information, so thattechnological collection techniques or BILLING CODE 7555–01–P they can take action to protectother forms of information technology themselves. shouldbe addressed to: Office of

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