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Number of Annual Responses:
1,910,978.
Annual Time Burden: 150,674 hours.
Annual Other Burden Costs: $69,865.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the
proposed information collection
request; they will become a matter of
public record and be available at https://
www.reginfo.gov.
Song-ae Aromie Noe,
Certifying Officer, Mine Safety and Health
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024–23373 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
[Docket No. OSHA–2021–0003]

COVID–19 Recordkeeping and
Reporting in Healthcare 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 COVID–19
Recordkeeping and Reporting in
Healthcare Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
(postmarked, sent, or received) by
December 9, 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)

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SUMMARY:

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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–2021–0003) 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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Seleda Perryman, Directorate of
Standards and Guidance, OSHA, U.S.
Department of Labor; telephone (202)
693–2222.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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 sections describe who
uses the information collected under
each requirement, as well as how they
use it. The purpose of these
requirements is to protect workers from
the grave danger posed by COVID–19 in
healthcare.

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The COVID–19 Recordkeeping and
Reporting in Healthcare Standard (29
CFR 1910.502; hereafter, ‘‘the
Standard’’) contains information
collection requirements that require
employers to: establish and maintain a
COVID–19 log of each instance
identified by the employer in which an
employee is COVID–19 positive,
regardless of whether the instance is
connected to exposure to COVID–19 at
work; make available upon employee
request, the individual COVID–19 log
entry for examination and copying to
that requested authorized employee and
to anyone having written consent of that
employee by the end of the day; report
to OSHA each work-related COVID–19
fatality within 8 hours of the employer
and each work-related COVID–19 inpatient hospitalization within 24 hours
of the employer learning about the inpatient hospitalization.
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, and
transmission techniques.
III. Proposed Actions
OSHA is requesting that OMB extend
the approval of the information
collection requirements contained in the
COVID–19 Recordkeeping and
Reporting in Healthcare Standard. The
agency is requesting an adjustment
decrease in burden from 23,715 to
23,714 hours, a difference of one hour.
This reduction is due to rounding up
the totals from decimals to whole
numbers.
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: COVID–19 Recordkeeping and
Reporting in Healthcare Standard.
OMB Control Number: 1218–0277.

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Affected Public: Business or other forprofits.
Number of Respondents: 748,814.
Number of Responses: 207,860.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours:
23,714.
Estimated Cost (Operation and
Maintenance): $0.
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
ICR (Docket No. OSHA–2021–0003).
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
submissions, 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.

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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).

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Signed at Washington, DC, on October 2,
2024.
James S. Frederick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
SPACE ADMINISTRATION
[Notice: 24–070]

Agency Information Collection: NASA
Communications Research
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
ACTION: Notice of new information
collection.
AGENCY:

NASA, as part of its
continuing effort to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, under the
Paperwork Reduction Act, invites the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on proposed and/or
continuing information collections.
DATES: Comments are due by November
8, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for this information
collection should be sent within 30 days
of publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review-Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function.
SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument(s) and instructions should
be directed to NASA PRA Clearance
Officer, Stayce Hoult, NASA
Headquarters, 300 E Street SW, JC0000,
Washington, DC 20546, phone 256–714–
8575, or email hq-ocio-pra-program@
mail.nasa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract
This information collection supports
NASA’s efforts to implement the
National Aeronautics and Space Act, as
amended, 51 U.S.C. 20112(a)(3) to better
understand and inform strategies to
improve the outcomes in how we
‘‘provide for the widest practicable and
appropriate dissemination of
information concerning its activities and
the results thereof.’’ Through this effort,
NASA seeks to collect information that
will help best understand the current
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American public, and how to apply
resources to most efficiently and
effectively fulfill that foundational
function of NASA. This data collection
is part of an effort to have an audienceoriented and data-driven approach to
assessing NASA’s performance against
this mandate in a manner that is
objective, standardized, and repeatable.
This information will be used by
NASA to measure the American public’s
knowledge of the agency, its activities,
the overall sector and the government’s
role in it, and how those factors vary
across demographics. This type of
research is standard in the commercial
communications industry. NASA will
use the information to adjust its
communication strategies and methods,
widen dissemination, better reach
demographics with low awareness or
misinformation, and tailor information
to specific appropriate audiences,
ensuring more effective and equitable
dissemination.
II. Methods of Collection
Web-based, email, and telephone.
III. Data
Title: NASA Communications
Research.
OMB Number: 2700–xxxx.
Type of review: New Information
Collection.
Affected Public: Individuals in the
U.S. Population.
Estimated Annual Number of
Activities: 1,500.
Estimated Number of Respondents
per Activity: 1.
Annual Responses: 1,500.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 375 hours.
IV. Request for Comments
Comments are invited on: (1) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of NASA, including
whether the information collected has
practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
NASA’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (4) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including automated
collection techniques or the use of other
forms of information technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection.

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