83 FR 54617 - Proposed Extension of Existing Collection; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 210 (October 30, 2018)
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 210 (October 30, 2018)
| Page Range | 54617-54618 | |
| FR Document | 2018-23674 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 30, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 54617-54618] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-23674] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Office of Workers' Compensation Programs 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 pre-clearance 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). 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 (OWCP) is soliciting comments concerning the proposed collection: Waiver of Service by Registered or Certified Mail for Employers and/or Insurance Carriers (LS-801) and Waiver of Service by Registered or Certified Mail for Claimants and Authorized Representatives (LS-802). A copy of the proposed information collection request can be obtained by contacting the office listed below in the address section of this Notice. DATES: Written comments must be submitted to the office listed in the addresses section below on or before December 31, 2018. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by mail, delivery service, or by hand to Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Room S-3323, Washington, DC 20210; by fax (202) 354-9647; or email to ferguson.yoon@dol.gov. Please use only one method of transmission for comments (mail/delivery, fax or email). Please note that comments submitted after the comment period will not be considered. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) administers the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA). The Act provides benefits to workers' injured in maritime employment on the navigable waters of the United States or in an adjoining area customarily used by an [[Page 54618]] employer in loading, unloading, repairing, or building a vessel. In addition, several acts extend the Longshore Act's coverage to certain other employees. The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (LHWCA), at 33 U.S.C. 919(e), requires that any order rejecting or making an LHWCA award (a compensation order) be filed in the appropriate district director's office of the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), and that copies be sent by registered or certified mail to the claimant and the employer. The implementing regulations at 20 CFR 702.349(b) allow parties and their representatives to waive certified mail service and consent to electronic service instead. The compensation order notifies Employers/Carriers that payment of LHWCA compensation is due within 10 days of filing. If compensation is not paid within that time frame, an additional 20% in compensation must be paid [see LHWCA Sec. 914(f)]. The information collected will be used by OWCP to more efficiently serve compensation orders by email instead of by registered or certified mail. Form LS-801 will be completed by the employer/insurance carrier and/or an authorized representative and forwarded to the District Director indicating waiver of service by registered or certified mail and designation of receipt by email instead. The LS-802 will be completed by the claimants and/or an authorized representative and forwarded to the District Director indicating waiver of service by registered or certified mail and designation of receipt by email instead. This information collection is currently approved for use through February 28, 2019. 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 extension of approval of this information collection in order to carry out its responsibility to meet the statutory requirements to provide compensation or death benefits under the Act to workers and survivors covered by the Act. Agency: Office of Workers' Compensation Programs. Type of Review: Extension. Title: Request for Electronic Service of Orders--Waiver of Certified Mail Requirements. OMB Number: 1240-0053. Agency Number: LS-801 and LS-802. Affected Public: Claimants, employers, large insurance companies, and representatives. Total Respondents: 9,240. Total Annual Responses: 9,240. Estimated Total Burden Hours: 770. Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes. Frequency: On occasion. Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): $0. Total Burden Cost (operating/maintenance): $0. 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: October 25, 2018. Yoon Ferguson, Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, US Department of Labor. [FR Doc. 2018-23674 Filed 10-29-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4510-CF-P
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www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/hazcom_ www.regulations.gov (Docket No. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
international.html#meeting-notice. PHMSA–2018–0024; Notice No. 2018–
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: At 11), and on the PHMSA website at: Office of Workers’ Compensation
the Department of Transportation, https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/ Programs
please contact Mr. Steven Webb or Mr. international-program/international-
Proposed Extension of Existing
Aaron Wiener, Office of Hazardous program-overview.
Collection; Comment Request
Materials Safety, Department of The primary purpose of PHMSA’s
Transportation, Washington, DC 20590, meeting is to prepare for the 54th
telephone: (202) 366–8553. ACTION: Notice.
session of the UNSCE TDG. This session
At the Department of Labor, please SUMMARY: The Department of Labor, as
represents the third meeting scheduled
contact Ms. Maureen Ruskin, OSHA part of its continuing effort to reduce
for the 2017–2018 biennium. UNSCOE
Directorate of Standards and Guidance, paperwork and respondent burden,
Department of Labor, Washington DC will consider proposals for the 21st
Revised Edition of the United Nations conducts a pre-clearance consultation
20210, telephone: (202) 693–1950, program to provide the general public
email: ruskin.maureen@dol.gov. Recommendations on the Transport of
Dangerous Goods (Model Regulations), and Federal agencies with an
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: opportunity to comment on proposed
The OSHA Meeting: OSHA is hosting which may be implemented into
relevant domestic, regional, and and/or continuing collections of
an open informal public meeting of the information in accordance with the
U.S. Interagency GHS Coordinating international regulations from January 1,
paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
Group to provide interested groups and 2021. Copies of working documents,
(PRA95). This program helps to ensure
individuals with an update on GHS- informal documents, and the meeting
that requested data can be provided in
related issues and an opportunity to agenda may be obtained from the United the desired format, reporting burden
express their views orally and in writing Nations (UN) Transport Division’s (time and financial resources) is
for consideration in developing U.S. website at https://www.unece.org/trans/ minimized, collection instruments are
Government positions for the upcoming main/dgdb/dgsubc3/c32018.html. clearly understood, and the impact of
UNSCEGHS meeting. During this meeting, PHMSA is also collection requirements on respondents
General topics on the agenda include: soliciting input relative to preparing for can be properly assessed. Currently, the
• Review of Working Papers. the 54th session of the UNSCE TDG as Office of Workers’ Compensation
• Correspondence Group updates. well as potential new work items which (OWCP) is soliciting comments
• Regulatory Cooperation Council may be considered for inclusion in its concerning the proposed collection:
(RCC) update. Waiver of Service by Registered or
international agenda. Following the
Information on the work of the Certified Mail for Employers and/or
54th session of the UNSCE TDG, a copy
UNSCEGHS including meeting agendas, Insurance Carriers (LS–801) and Waiver
reports, and documents from previous of the Sub-Committee’s report will be
available at the UN Transport Division’s of Service by Registered or Certified
sessions can be found on the United Mail for Claimants and Authorized
Nations Economic Commission for website at http://www.unece.org/trans/
main/dgdb/dgsubc3/c3rep.html. Representatives (LS–802). A copy of the
Europe (UNECE) Transport Division proposed information collection request
website located at the following web Additional information regarding the can be obtained by contacting the office
address: http://www.unece.org/trans/ UNSCE TDG and related matters can be listed below in the address section of
danger/publi/ghs/ghs_welcome_e.html. found on PHMSA’s website at https:// this Notice.
The UNSCEGHS bases its decisions www.phmsa.dot.gov/international- DATES: Written comments must be
on Working papers. The Working Papers program/international-program- submitted to the office listed in the
for the 36th session of the UNSCEGHS overview. addresses section below on or before
are located at: https://www.unece.org/
Authority and Signature: This December 31, 2018.
trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc3/c32018.html.
Informal Papers submitted to the document was prepared under the ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
UNSCEGHS provide information for the direction of Loren Sweatt, Deputy by mail, delivery service, or by hand to
Sub-Committee and are used either as a Assistant Secretary of Labor for Ms. Yoon Ferguson, U.S. Department of
mechanism to provide information to Occupational Safety and Health, U.S. Labor, 200 Constitution Ave. NW, Room
the Sub-Committee or as the basis for Department of Labor, pursuant to S–3323, Washington, DC 20210; by fax
future Working Papers. Informal Papers sections 4, 6, and 8 of the Occupational (202) 354–9647; or email to
for the 36th session of the UNSCEGHS Safety and Health Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. ferguson.yoon@dol.gov. Please use only
are located at: https://www.unece.org/ 653, 655, 657), and Secretary’s Order 1– one method of transmission for
trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc4/c4inf35.html. 2012 (77 FR 3912), (Jan. 25, 2012). comments (mail/delivery, fax or email).
In addition to participating at the Please note that comments submitted
Signed at Washington, DC, on October 24, after the comment period will not be
public meeting, interested parties may 2018.
submit comments on the Working and considered.
Loren Sweatt,
Informal Papers for the 36th session of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
the UNSCEGHS to the docket Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
established for International/Globally Occupational Safety and Health. I. Background
Harmonized System (GHS) efforts at [FR Doc. 2018–23647 Filed 10–29–18; 8:45 am] The Office of Workers’ Compensation
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http://www.regulations.gov, Docket No. BILLING CODE 4510–26–P Programs (OWCP) administers the
OSHA–2016–0005. Longshore and Harbor Workers’
The PHMSA Meeting: The Federal Compensation Act (LHWCA). The Act
Register notice and additional detailed provides benefits to workers’ injured in
information relating to PHMSA’s public maritime employment on the navigable
meeting will be available upon waters of the United States or in an
publication at: http:// adjoining area customarily used by an
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employer in loading, unloading, electronic, mechanical, or other meeting times and dates. All meetings
repairing, or building a vessel. In technological collection techniques or are Eastern time and ending times are
addition, several acts extend the other forms of information technology, approximate.
Longshore Act’s coverage to certain e.g., permitting electronic submissions ADDRESSES: National Endowment for the
other employees. of responses. Arts, Constitution Center, 400 7th St.
The Longshore and Harbor Workers’
III. Current Actions SW, Washington, DC 20506.
Compensation Act (LHWCA), at 33
U.S.C. 919(e), requires that any order The Department of Labor seeks the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
rejecting or making an LHWCA award (a extension of approval of this Further information with reference to
compensation order) be filed in the information collection in order to carry these meetings can be obtained from Ms.
appropriate district director’s office of out its responsibility to meet the Sherry Hale, Office of Guidelines &
the Office of Workers’ Compensation statutory requirements to provide Panel Operations, National Endowment
Programs (OWCP), and that copies be compensation or death benefits under for the Arts, Washington, DC 20506;
sent by registered or certified mail to the the Act to workers and survivors hales@arts.gov, or call 202/682–5696.
claimant and the employer. The covered by the Act. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
implementing regulations at 20 CFR Agency: Office of Workers’ closed portions of meetings are for the
702.349(b) allow parties and their Compensation Programs. purpose of Panel review, discussion,
representatives to waive certified mail Type of Review: Extension. evaluation, and recommendations on
service and consent to electronic service Title: Request for Electronic Service of financial assistance under the National
instead. The compensation order Orders—Waiver of Certified Mail Foundation on the Arts and the
notifies Employers/Carriers that Requirements. Humanities Act of 1965, as amended,
payment of LHWCA compensation is OMB Number: 1240–0053. including information given in
due within 10 days of filing. If Agency Number: LS–801 and LS–802. confidence to the agency. In accordance
Affected Public: Claimants, with the determination of the Chairman
compensation is not paid within that
employers, large insurance companies, of July 5, 2016, these sessions will be
time frame, an additional 20% in
and representatives. closed to the public pursuant to
compensation must be paid [see Total Respondents: 9,240.
LHWCA § 914(f)]. subsection (c)(6) of section 552b of title
Total Annual Responses: 9,240.
The information collected will be Estimated Total Burden Hours: 770. 5, United States Code.
used by OWCP to more efficiently serve Estimated Time per Response: 5 The upcoming meetings are:
compensation orders by email instead of minutes. Visual Arts (review of applications):
by registered or certified mail. Form LS– Frequency: On occasion. This meeting will be closed.
801 will be completed by the employer/ Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): Date and time: November 29, 2018;
insurance carrier and/or an authorized $0. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
representative and forwarded to the Total Burden Cost (operating/ Visual Arts (review of applications):
District Director indicating waiver of maintenance): $0. This meeting will be closed.
service by registered or certified mail Comments submitted in response to Date and time: November 29, 2018;
and designation of receipt by email this notice will be summarized and/or 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
instead. The LS–802 will be completed included in the request for Office of Visual Arts (review of applications):
by the claimants and/or an authorized Management and Budget approval of the This meeting will be closed.
representative and forwarded to the information collection request; they will Date and time: November 30, 2018;
District Director indicating waiver of also become a matter of public record. 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
service by registered or certified mail Dated: October 25, 2018.
Visual Arts (review of applications):
and designation of receipt by email This meeting will be closed.
Yoon Ferguson,
instead. This information collection is Date and time: November 30, 2018;
Agency Clearance Officer, Office of Workers’ 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
currently approved for use through Compensation Programs, US Department of
February 28, 2019. Labor.
Museums (review of applications): This
meeting will be closed.
II. Review Focus [FR Doc. 2018–23674 Filed 10–29–18; 8:45 am]
Date and time: December 4, 2018;
BILLING CODE 4510–CF–P
The Department of Labor is 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
particularly interested in comments Museums (review of applications): This
which: meeting will be closed.
* Evaluate whether the proposed NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE Date and time: December 4, 2018;
collection of information is necessary ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
for the proper performance of the Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
functions of the agency, including National Endowment for the Arts (review of applications): This
whether the information will have Arts Advisory Panel Meetings meeting will be closed.
practical utility; Date and time: December 4, 2018;
* Evaluate the accuracy of the AGENCY: National Endowment for the 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
agency’s estimate of the burden of the Arts. Museums (review of applications): This
proposed collection of information, ACTION: Notice of meetings. meeting will be closed.
including the validity of the Date and time: December 5, 2018;
SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal
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methodology and assumptions used; 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
* Enhance the quality, utility and Advisory Committee Act, as amended, Museums (review of applications): This
clarity of the information to be notice is hereby given that 28 meetings meeting will be closed.
collected; and of the Arts Advisory Panel to the Date and time: December 5, 2018;
* Minimize the burden of the National Council on the Arts will be 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
collection of information on those who held by teleconference. Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
are to respond, including through the DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY (review of applications): This
use of appropriate automated, INFORMATION section for individual meeting will be closed.
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