81_FR_17558 81 FR 17498 - Proposed Extension of Information Collection; Emergency Mine Evacuation

81 FR 17498 - Proposed Extension of Information Collection; Emergency Mine Evacuation

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Mine Safety and Health Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 60 (March 29, 2016)

Page Range17498-17499
FR Document2016-07007

The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies with an opportunity to comment on proposed collections of information in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). This program helps to assure 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 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) is soliciting comments on the information collection for Emergency Mine Evacuation.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 60 (Tuesday, March 29, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 60 (Tuesday, March 29, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17498-17499]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-07007]


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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Mine Safety and Health Administration

[OMB Control No. 1219-0141]


Proposed Extension of Information Collection; Emergency Mine 
Evacuation

AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as part of its continuing effort to 
reduce paperwork and respondent burden, conducts a pre-clearance 
consultation program to provide the general public and Federal agencies 
with an opportunity to comment on proposed collections of information 
in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(2)(A). This program helps to assure 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 Mine Safety and Health Administration 
(MSHA) is soliciting comments on the information collection for 
Emergency Mine Evacuation.

DATES: All comments must be received on or before May 31, 2016.

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning the information collection requirements 
of this notice may be sent by any of the methods listed below.
     Federal E-Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments for docket 
number MSHA-2016-0003.
     Regular Mail: Send comments to USDOL-MSHA, Office of 
Standards, Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th Street South, Suite 
4E401, Arlington, VA 22202-5452.
     Hand Delivery: USDOL-Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, 201 12th Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington, VA 
22202-5452. Sign in at the receptionist's desk on the 4th floor via the 
East elevator.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sheila McConnell, Acting Director, 
Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, at 
[email protected] (email); 202-693-9440 (voice); or 
202-693-9441 (facsimile).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) requires each 
operator of an underground coal mine to submit a Mine Emergency 
Evacuation and Firefighting Program of Instruction to the District 
Manager for approval. Upon approval by the MSHA District Manager, the 
operator uses the approved program of instruction to implement programs 
for training miners in responding appropriately to mine emergencies. 
MSHA uses the plans to ensure that the operator's program will provide 
the required training and drills to all miners. MSHA requires the 
operator to certify the training and drill for each miner at the 
completion of each quarterly drill, annual expectations training, or 
other training, and that a copy be provided to the miner upon request. 
These certifications are used by MSHA, operators, and miners as 
evidence that the required training has been completed. MSHA requires 
that escapeway maps show the SCSR storage locations. Accurate and up-
to-date maps are essential to the engineering plans and safe operation 
of mines and to the health and safety of the miners. MSHA and other 
emergency evacuation personnel will use the notations on the maps 
should a rescue or recovery operation be necessary. Miners use the 
escapeway maps in training and during mine evacuations. Escapeway maps 
are required to be posted or readily accessible for all miners in each 
working section, areas where mechanized mining equipment is being 
installed or removed, at surface locations where miners congregate and 
in each refuge alternative. MSHA requires that persons that test Self-
Contained, Self-Rescuers (SCSRs) certify that the tests were done and 
record all corrective actions. MSHA inspectors use these records to 
determine compliance with the standards. It includes requirements for 
compiling, maintaining, and reporting an inventory of all SCSRs at the 
mine, and for reporting defects, performance problems, or malfunctions 
with SCSRs. This will assure that MSHA can investigate SCSR problems, 
if necessary, notify other users of these problems before accidents 
occur and require

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manufacturers to address potential problems with these critical 
devices.

II. Desired Focus of Comments

    MSHA is soliciting comments concerning the proposed information 
collection related to Emergency Mine Evacuation. MSHA is particularly 
interested in comments that:
     Evaluate whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, 
including whether the information has practical utility;
     Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA's estimate of the burden of 
the collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
     Suggest methods to 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 submission of responses.
    The information collection request will be available on http://www.regulations.gov. MSHA cautions the commenter against providing any 
information in the submission that should not be publicly disclosed. 
Full comments, including personal information provided, will be made 
available on www.regulations.gov and www.reginfo.gov.
    The public may also examine publicly available documents at USDOL-
Mine Safety and Health Administration, 201 12th South, Suite 4E401, 
Arlington, VA 22202-5452. Sign in at the receptionist's desk on the 4th 
floor via the East elevator.
    Questions about the information collection requirements may be 
directed to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION section of 
this notice.

III. Current Actions

    This request for collection of information contains provisions for 
Emergency Mine Evacuation. MSHA has updated the data with respect to 
the number of respondents, responses, burden hours, and burden costs 
supporting this information collection request.
    Type of Review: Extension, without change, of a currently approved 
collection.
    Agency: Mine Safety and Health Administration.
    OMB Number: 1219-0141.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.
    Number of Respondents: 240.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Number of Responses: 1,150,400.
    Annual Burden Hours: 479,282 hours.
    Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper Cost: $52,960.
    MSHA Forms: MSHA Form 2000-222, Self Contained Self Rescuer (SCSR) 
Inventory and Report.
    Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized 
and 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.

Sheila McConnell,
Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-07007 Filed 3-28-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4510-43-P

17498 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 60 / Tuesday, March 29, 2016 / Notices OMB Number: 1220–0109. Affected Public: Individuals or households. Average time Estimated total Total Total Form Frequency per response burden respondents responses (minutes) (hours) NLSY79 Round 27 Main Survey .......................... 7,100 Biennially ...................... 7,100 70 8,283 Round 27 Validation Interviews ............................ 10 Biennially ...................... 10 6 1 Young Adult Survey (Ages 12 to 13) ................... 45 Biennially ...................... 45 50 38 Young Adult Survey (Ages 14 to 18) ................... 400 Biennially ...................... 400 66 440 Young Adult Survey (Ages 19 to 22) ................... 760 Biennially ...................... 760 60 760 Young Adult Survey, Grant component (Age 23 2,020 Biennially ...................... 2,020 55 1,852 to 28), interview. Young Adult Survey, Grant component (Age 29 2,220 Biennially ...................... 2,220 70 2,590 and older), interview. Totals 1 ........................................................... 12,545 ....................................... 12,555 ........................ 13,964 1 Thetotal number of 12,545 respondents across all the survey instruments is a mutually exclusive count that does not include th e 10 reinter- view respondents, who were previously counted among the main and young adult survey respondents. Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): requirements on respondents can be responding appropriately to mine $0. properly assessed. Currently, the Mine emergencies. MSHA uses the plans to Total Burden Cost (operating/ Safety and Health Administration ensure that the operator’s program will maintenance): $0. (MSHA) is soliciting comments on the provide the required training and drills Comments submitted in response to information collection for Emergency to all miners. MSHA requires the this notice will be summarized and/or Mine Evacuation. operator to certify the training and drill included in the request for Office of DATES: All comments must be received for each miner at the completion of each Management and Budget approval of the on or before May 31, 2016. quarterly drill, annual expectations information collection request; they also ADDRESSES: Comments concerning the training, or other training, and that a will become a matter of public record. information collection requirements of copy be provided to the miner upon Signed at Washington, DC, this 24th day of this notice may be sent by any of the request. These certifications are used by March 2016. methods listed below. MSHA, operators, and miners as Kimberly D. Hill, • Federal E-Rulemaking Portal: evidence that the required training has Chief, Division of Management Systems, http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the been completed. MSHA requires that Bureau of Labor Statistics. on-line instructions for submitting escapeway maps show the SCSR storage [FR Doc. 2016–07033 Filed 3–28–16; 8:45 am] comments for docket number MSHA– locations. Accurate and up-to-date maps 2016–0003. are essential to the engineering plans BILLING CODE 4510–24–P • Regular Mail: Send comments to and safe operation of mines and to the USDOL–MSHA, Office of Standards, health and safety of the miners. MSHA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Regulations, and Variances, 201 12th and other emergency evacuation Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington, personnel will use the notations on the Mine Safety and Health Administration VA 22202–5452. maps should a rescue or recovery • Hand Delivery: USDOL-Mine Safety [OMB Control No. 1219–0141] and Health Administration, 201 12th operation be necessary. Miners use the Street South, Suite 4E401, Arlington, escapeway maps in training and during Proposed Extension of Information VA 22202–5452. Sign in at the mine evacuations. Escapeway maps are Collection; Emergency Mine receptionist’s desk on the 4th floor via required to be posted or readily Evacuation the East elevator. accessible for all miners in each working section, areas where AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sheila McConnell, Acting Director, mechanized mining equipment is being Administration, Labor. installed or removed, at surface ACTION: Request for public comments. Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, at locations where miners congregate and SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as MSHA.information.collections@dol.gov in each refuge alternative. MSHA part of its continuing effort to reduce (email); 202–693–9440 (voice); or 202– requires that persons that test Self- paperwork and respondent burden, 693–9441 (facsimile). Contained, Self-Rescuers (SCSRs) certify that the tests were done and record all conducts a pre-clearance consultation SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: program to provide the general public corrective actions. MSHA inspectors use and Federal agencies with an I. Background these records to determine compliance opportunity to comment on proposed The Mine Safety and Health with the standards. It includes collections of information in accordance Administration (MSHA) requires each requirements for compiling, maintaining, and reporting an inventory mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES with the Paperwork Reduction Act of operator of an underground coal mine to 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). This submit a Mine Emergency Evacuation of all SCSRs at the mine, and for program helps to assure that requested and Firefighting Program of Instruction reporting defects, performance data can be provided in the desired to the District Manager for approval. problems, or malfunctions with SCSRs. format, reporting burden (time and Upon approval by the MSHA District This will assure that MSHA can financial resources) is minimized, Manager, the operator uses the approved investigate SCSR problems, if necessary, collection instruments are clearly program of instruction to implement notify other users of these problems understood, and the impact of collection programs for training miners in before accidents occur and require VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:43 Mar 28, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 60 / Tuesday, March 29, 2016 / Notices 17499 manufacturers to address potential Number of Respondents: 240. hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a problems with these critical devices. Frequency: On occasion. year (including federal holidays). Number of Responses: 1,150,400. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments II. Desired Focus of Comments Annual Burden Hours: 479,282 hours. regarding (a) whether the collection of MSHA is soliciting comments Annual Respondent or Recordkeeper information is necessary for the proper concerning the proposed information Cost: $52,960. performance of the functions of the collection related to Emergency Mine MSHA Forms: MSHA Form 2000–222, agency, including whether the Evacuation. MSHA is particularly Self Contained Self Rescuer (SCSR) information will have practical utility; interested in comments that: Inventory and Report. (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate • Evaluate whether the collection of Comments submitted in response to of burden including the validity of the information is necessary for the proper this notice will be summarized and methodology and assumptions used; (c) performance of the functions of the included in the request for Office of ways to enhance the quality, utility and agency, including whether the Management and Budget approval of the clarity of the information to be information has practical utility; information collection request; they will collected; (d) ways to minimize the • Evaluate the accuracy of MSHA’s also become a matter of public record. burden of the collection of information estimate of the burden of the collection on those who are to respond, including Sheila McConnell, of information, including the validity of through the use of appropriate the methodology and assumptions used; Certifying Officer. automated, electronic, mechanical, or • Suggest methods to enhance the [FR Doc. 2016–07007 Filed 3–28–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510–43–P other technological collection quality, utility, and clarity of the techniques or other forms of information information to be collected; and technology. Comments regarding these • Minimize the burden of the information collections are best assured collection of information on those who NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION of having their full effect if received are to respond, including through the Agency Information Collection within 30 days of this notification. use of appropriate automated, Activities: Comment Request Copies of the submission(s) may be electronic, mechanical, or other obtained by calling 703–292–7556. technological collection techniques or AGENCY: National Science Foundation. NSF may not conduct or sponsor a other forms of information technology, ACTION: Notice; submission for OMB collection of information unless the e.g., permitting electronic submission of review; comment request. collection of information displays a responses. The information collection request currently valid OMB control number SUMMARY: The National Science and the agency informs potential will be available on http:// Foundation (NSF) has submitted the www.regulations.gov. MSHA cautions persons who are to respond to the following information collection collection of information that such the commenter against providing any requirement to OMB for review and information in the submission that persons are not required to respond to clearance under the Paperwork the collection of information unless it should not be publicly disclosed. Full Reduction Act of 1995. This is the comments, including personal displays a currently valid OMB control second notice for public comment; the number. information provided, will be made first was published in the Federal available on www.regulations.gov and Under OMB regulations, the agency Register at 81 FR 972, and no comments may continue to conduct or sponsor the www.reginfo.gov. were received. NSF is forwarding the The public may also examine publicly collection of information while this proposed renewal submission to the submission is pending at OMB. available documents at USDOL-Mine Office of Management and Budget Safety and Health Administration, 201 Title of Collection: Antarctic (OMB) for clearance simultaneously emergency response plan and 12th South, Suite 4E401, Arlington, VA with the publication of this second 22202–5452. Sign in at the receptionist’s environmental protection information. notice. The full submission may be OMB Approval Number: 3145–0180. desk on the 4th floor via the East found at: http://www.reginfo.gov/public/ elevator. Abstract: NSF, pursuant to the do/PRAMain. Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (16 Questions about the information ADDRESSES: Submit written comments U.S.C. 2401 et seq.) (‘‘ACA’’) regulates collection requirements may be directed to Office of Information and Regulatory certain non-governmental activities in to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER Affairs of OMB, Attention: Desk Officer Antarctica. The ACA was amended in INFORMATION section of this notice. for National Science Foundation, 725 1996 by the Antarctic Science, Tourism, III. Current Actions 17th Street NW. Room 10235, and Conservation Act. On September 7, This request for collection of Washington, DC 20503, and to Suzanne 2001, NSF published a final rule in the information contains provisions for Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, Federal Register (66 FR 46739) Emergency Mine Evacuation. MSHA has National Science Foundation, 4201 implementing certain of these statutory updated the data with respect to the Wilson Boulevard, Room 1265, amendments. The rule requires non- number of respondents, responses, Arlington, VA 22230, or by email to governmental Antarctic expeditions burden hours, and burden costs splimpto@nsf.gov. using non-U.S. flagged vessels to ensure supporting this information collection FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Call that the vessel owner has an emergency request. or write, Suzanne Plimpton, Reports response plan. The rule also requires mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Type of Review: Extension, without Clearance Officer, National Science persons organizing a non-governmental change, of a currently approved Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, expedition to provide expedition collection. Room 1265, Arlington, VA 22230, or by members with information on their Agency: Mine Safety and Health email to splimpto@nsf.gov. Individuals environmental protection obligations Administration. who use a telecommunications device under the Antarctic Conservation Act. OMB Number: 1219–0141. for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Expected Respondents. Respondents Affected Public: Business or other for- Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– may include non-profit organizations profit. 800–877–8339, which is accessible 24 and small and large businesses. The VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:43 Mar 28, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00075 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29MRN1.SGM 29MRN1


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CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionRequest for public comments.
DatesAll comments must be received on or before May 31, 2016.
ContactSheila McConnell, Acting Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, at [email protected] (email); 202-693-9440 (voice); or 202-693-9441 (facsimile).
FR Citation81 FR 17498 
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