80 FR 26955 - Division of Federal Employees' Compensation Proposed Extension of Existing Collection; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 90 (May 11, 2015)
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 90 (May 11, 2015)
| Page Range | 26955-26956 | |
| FR Document | 2015-11315 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 90 (Monday, May 11, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 26955-26956] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-11315] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Office of Workers' Compensation Programs Division of Federal Employees' Compensation Proposed Extension of Existing Collection; Comment Request ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a preclearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This program helps to ensure that requested data can be provided in the desired format, reporting burden (time and financial resources) is minimized, collection instruments are clearly understood, and the impact of collection requirements on respondents can be properly assessed. Currently, the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs is soliciting comments concerning its proposal to extend OMB approval of the information collection: Statement of Recovery (SOR) Forms (CA-1108 and CA-1122). A copy of the proposed information collection request can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the addresses section of this Notice. DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the addresses section below on or before July 10, 2015. ADDRESSES: Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW., Room S-3201, Washington, DC 20210, telephone/fax (202) 354-9647, Email ferguson.yoon@dol.gov. Please use only one method of transmission for comments (mail, fax, or Email). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background: A Federal employee who sustains a work-related injury is entitled to receive compensation under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA). If that injury is caused under circumstances that create a legal liability in a third party to pay damages, the FECA authorizes the Secretary of Labor to require the employee to assign his or her right of action to the United States or to prosecute the action in his or her own name. See 5 U.S.C. 8131. When the employee receives a payment for his or her damages, whether from a final court judgment on or a settlement of the action, section [[Page 26956]] 8132 of the FECA (5 U.S.C. 8132) provides that the employee ``shall refund to the United States that amount of compensation paid by the United States. . . .'' To enforce the United States' statutory right of reimbursement, the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) has promulgated regulations. The regulations require a FECA beneficiary to report these types of payments (20 CFR 10.710) and submit the detailed information necessary to calculate the amount of the refund and surplus, if any, according to the formula in the statute (20 CFR 10.707(e)). The information collected by Form CA-1108 and Form CA-1122 from the FECA beneficiary includes this information and is necessary to calculate the amount of the refund and surplus owed to the United States from the FECA beneficiary's settlement or judgment, as required in the statute and the regulations. This information collection is currently approved for use through August 31, 2015. II. Review Focus: The Department of Labor is particularly interested in comments which: * Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information will have practical utility; * evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; * enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and * minimize the burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submissions of responses. III. Current Actions: The Department of Labor seeks the approval for the extension of this currently approved information collection in order to exercise its responsibility to enforce the United States' right to this refund. The information collected with Form CA-1108 and Form CA-1122 is used by SOL personnel to determine the amount to be reimbursed to the United States out of the proceeds of an action asserted by an injured Federal employee against a liable third party for a compensable injury. Type of Review: Extension. Agency: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs. Title: Statement of Recovery Forms. OMB Number: 1240-0001. Agency Number: CA-1108 and CA-1122. Affected Public: Business or other for-profit, Individuals or households. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time to Form complete Frequency of Number of Number of Hours burden (minutes) response respondents responses ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CA-1108 Business Respondent.... 30 1 832 832 416 CA-1122 Individual Respondent.. 15 1 10 10 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Totals..................... NA NA 842 842 419 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Respondents: 842. Total Annual Responses: 842. Average Time per Response: 15-30 minutes. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 419. Frequency: As needed. Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0. Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $219. Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for Office of Management and Budget approval of the information collection request; they will also become a matter of public record. Dated: May 5, 2015. Yoon Ferguson, Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of Labor. [FR Doc. 2015-11315 Filed 5-8-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510-CH-P
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powered equipment and fuel from harmful levels of noise that can DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
transportation units; section 75.1912(i) result in hearing loss. However, the
Fire suppression systems for permanent Agency believes that extensive records Office of Workers’ Compensation
underground diesel fuel storage for this purpose are not needed. These Programs
facilities; sections 75.1914(f)(1), (f)(2), requirements are a performance-
(g)(5), (h)(1), and (h)(2) Maintenance of oriented approach to monitoring. Division of Federal Employees’
diesel-powered equipment; sections Records of miner hearing examinations Compensation Proposed Extension of
75.1915(b)(5), (c)(1), and (c)(2) Training enable mine operators and MSHA to Existing Collection; Comment Request
and qualification of persons working on ensure that the controls are effective in ACTION: Notice.
diesel-powered equipment. preventing NIHL for individual miners.
Type of Review: Extension, without Records of training are needed to SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
change, of a currently approved confirm that miners receive the part of its continuing effort to reduce
collection. information they need to become active paperwork and respondent burden,
Agency: Mine Safety and Health participants in hearing conservation conducts a preclearance consultation
Administration. efforts. program to provide the general public
OMB Number: 1219–0120. Type of Review: Extension, without and Federal agencies with an
Affected Public: Business or other for- change, of a currently approved opportunity to comment on proposed
profit. collection. and/or continuing collections of
Number of Respondents: 12,493. Agency: Mine Safety and Health information in accordance with the
Frequency: On occasion. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
Number of Responses: 179,186. Administration.
OMB Number: 1219–0131. (PRA95) [44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)]. This
Annual Burden Hours: 13,295 hours. program helps to ensure that requested
Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper Affected Public: Business or other for-
profit. data can be provided in the desired
Cost: $27,861.
Number of Respondents: 11,657. format, reporting burden (time and
Description. Noise is a harmful
Frequency: On occasion. financial resources) is minimized,
physical agent and one of the most
collection instruments are clearly
pervasive health hazards in mining. Number of Responses: 1,157,241.
understood, and the impact of collection
Repeated exposure to high levels of Annual Burden Hours: 155,240 hours.
requirements on respondents can be
sound over time causes occupational Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper properly assessed. Currently, the Office
noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), a Cost: $356,004. of Workers’ Compensation Programs is
serious, often profound physical Description. Training informs miners soliciting comments concerning its
impairment in mining, with far-reaching of safety and health hazards inherent in proposal to extend OMB approval of the
psychological and social effects. NIHL the workplace and enables them to information collection: Statement of
can be distinguished from aging and identify and avoid such hazards. Recovery (SOR) Forms (CA–1108 and
other factors that can contribute to Training becomes even more important CA–1122). A copy of the proposed
hearing loss and it can be prevented. in light of certain conditions that can information collection request can be
According to the National Institute for exist when production demands obtained by contacting the office listed
Occupational Safety and Health increase, such as: an influx of new and below in the addresses section of this
(NIOSH), NIHL is among the ‘‘top ten’’ less experienced miners and mine Notice.
leading occupational illnesses and operators; longer work hours to meet
injuries. production demands; and increased DATES: Written comments must be
For many years, NIHL was regarded as demand for contractors who may be less submitted to the office listed in the
an inevitable consequence of working in familiar with the dangers on mine addresses section below on or before
a mine. Mining, an intensely property. July 10, 2015.
mechanized industry, relies on drills, MSHA’s health and safety training ADDRESSES: Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S.
crushers, compressors, conveyors, requirements ensure that all miners Department of Labor, 200 Constitution
trucks, loaders, and other heavy-duty receive the required training, which Ave. NW., Room S–3201, Washington,
equipment for the excavation, haulage, would result in a decrease in accidents, DC 20210, telephone/fax (202) 354–
and processing of material. This injuries, and fatalities. The information 9647, Email ferguson.yoon@dol.gov.
equipment creates high sound levels, obtained from mine operators is used by Please use only one method of
exposing machine operators as well as MSHA during inspections to determine transmission for comments (mail, fax, or
miners working nearby. MSHA, compliance with the requirements Email).
Occupational Safety and Health concerning the training and retraining of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Administration, the military, and other miners engaged in shell dredging, or I. Background: A Federal employee
organizations around the world have employed at sand, gravel, surface stone, who sustains a work-related injury is
established and enforced standards to surface clay, colloidal phosphate, and entitled to receive compensation under
reduce the loss of hearing. Quieter surface limestone mines. the Federal Employees’ Compensation
equipment, isolation of workers from Comments submitted in response to Act (FECA). If that injury is caused
noise sources, and limiting the time this notice will be summarized and under circumstances that create a legal
workers are exposed to noise are among included in the request for Office of liability in a third party to pay damages,
the many well-accepted methods that Management and Budget approval of the the FECA authorizes the Secretary of
will prevent the costly incidence of information collection request; they will Labor to require the employee to assign
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NIHL. also become a matter of public record. his or her right of action to the United
Records of miner exposures to noise States or to prosecute the action in his
are necessary so that mine operators and Dated: May 5, 2015.
or her own name. See 5 U.S.C. 8131.
MSHA can evaluate the need for and Sheila McConnell, When the employee receives a
effectiveness of engineering controls, Certifying Officer. payment for his or her damages,
administrative controls, and personal [FR Doc. 2015–11293 Filed 5–8–15; 8:45 am] whether from a final court judgment on
protective equipment to protect miners BILLING CODE 4510–43–P or a settlement of the action, section
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8132 of the FECA (5 U.S.C. 8132) collection is currently approved for use e.g., permitting electronic submissions
provides that the employee ‘‘shall through August 31, 2015. of responses.
refund to the United States that amount II. Review Focus: The Department of III. Current Actions: The Department
of compensation paid by the United Labor is particularly interested in of Labor seeks the approval for the
States. . . .’’ To enforce the United comments which: extension of this currently approved
States’ statutory right of reimbursement, * Evaluate whether the proposed information collection in order to
the Office of Workers’ Compensation collection of information is necessary exercise its responsibility to enforce the
for the proper performance of the United States’ right to this refund. The
Programs (OWCP) has promulgated
functions of the agency, including information collected with Form CA–
regulations. The regulations require a
whether the information will have 1108 and Form CA–1122 is used by SOL
FECA beneficiary to report these types practical utility;
of payments (20 CFR 10.710) and submit personnel to determine the amount to be
* evaluate the accuracy of the reimbursed to the United States out of
the detailed information necessary to agency’s estimate of the burden of the
calculate the amount of the refund and the proceeds of an action asserted by an
proposed collection of information, injured Federal employee against a
surplus, if any, according to the formula including the validity of the liable third party for a compensable
in the statute (20 CFR 10.707(e)). methodology and assumptions used; injury.
The information collected by Form * enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be Type of Review: Extension.
CA–1108 and Form CA–1122 from the Agency: Office of Workers’
FECA beneficiary includes this collected; and
* minimize the burden of the Compensation Programs.
information and is necessary to Title: Statement of Recovery Forms.
collection of information on those who
calculate the amount of the refund and are to respond, including through the OMB Number: 1240–0001.
surplus owed to the United States from use of appropriate automated, Agency Number: CA–1108 and CA–
the FECA beneficiary’s settlement or electronic, mechanical, or other 1122.
judgment, as required in the statute and technological collection techniques or Affected Public: Business or other for-
the regulations. This information other forms of information technology, profit, Individuals or households.
Time to Frequency of Number of Number of
Form complete Hours burden
response respondents responses
(minutes)
CA–1108 Business Respondent .......................................... 30 1 832 832 416
CA–1122 Individual Respondent ......................................... 15 1 10 10 3
Totals ............................................................................ NA NA 842 842 419
Total Respondents: 842. NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING federal buildings and properties so as to
Total Annual Responses: 842. COMMISSION enhance their adjacent public realm. It
will also provide a framework for
Average Time per Response: 15–30 Public Comment on the Draft Federal federal actions related to enhancing the
minutes. Urban Design Element of the overall character of the District of
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 419. Comprehensive Plan for the National Columbia and the National Capital
Frequency: As needed. Capital: Federal Elements Region. All interested parties are invited
to submit written comment. The draft
Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): AGENCY: National Capital Planning Federal Urban Design Element will be
$0. Commission. available online at http://www.ncpc.gov/
Total Burden Cost (operating/ ACTION: Notice of 60-day public urbandesign not later than May 8, 2015.
maintenance): $219. comment period. Printed copies are available upon
Comments submitted in response to request from the contact person noted
SUMMARY: The National Capital Planning below.
this notice will be summarized and/or Commission (NCPC), the Planning
included in the request for Office of Commission for the Federal Government DATES: Dates and Time: The public
Management and Budget approval of the within the National Capital Region, comment period closes on July 10, 2015.
information collection request; they will intends to release for public comment a A public meeting to discuss the draft
also become a matter of public record. draft new Federal Urban Design Element revisions to the new Federal Urban
of the Comprehensive Plan for the Design Element will be held on Monday
Dated: May 5, 2015.
National Capital: Federal Elements. The June 1, 2015 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Yoon Ferguson, ADDRESSES: Mail written comments or
Comprehensive Plan for the National
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’ Capital: Federal Elements addresses hand deliver comments on the draft
Compensation Programs, U.S. Department of matters relating to Federal Properties revisions to Comprehensive Plan Public
Labor. Comment, National Capital Planning
and Federal Interests in the National
[FR Doc. 2015–11315 Filed 5–8–15; 8:45 am] Capital Region, and provides a decision- Commission, 401 9th Street NW., Suite
making framework for actions the NCPC 500, Washington, DC 20004. The public
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takes on specific plans and proposals meeting will be held at AIA|DC 421 7th
submitted by Federal government Street NW., Washington, DC 20004.
agencies for the NCPC review required FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
by law. The new Federal Urban Design Dereth Bush at (202) 482–7233 or
Element provides policies that will urbandesign@ncpc.gov.
guide the design and management of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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