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1218-0209 199612-1218-001
Historical Active 199506-1218-043
DOL/OSHA
OSHA Data Collection System
Extension without change of a currently approved collection   No
Regular
Approved without change 02/04/1997
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA) 12/03/1996
Approved as amended by DOL's memoranda to OMB of 1/10/97, 1/16/97, 1/24/97, and 2/4/97. Approval through December 1997 will allow OSHA to continue its efforts to develop a comprehensive data set that is consistent with the scope of this effort as approved September 1995, and to complete the validation study activities on which approval continues to be conditioned. OSHA has developed a comprehensive validation study program to assess data quality, and initial results from this program suggest promising results. OSHA is to be commended for this program, and OMB looks forward to reviewing the final results -- including the analyses for site visits, BLS overlap, andexternal data comparisons -- prior to the next PRA review of the Data Initiative. Also, OSHA has agreed to the following conditions: 1) Survey respondents will include those groups identified in the Data Collection table provided to OMB on 2/4/97. OSHA will not expand collection for this cycle to firms in SIC 16 or firms with 50-59 workers, to remain consistent with the scope of the initial year of data collection. Expansion to other classes of respondents will be based on demonstration that the data collected under the existing approval are valid and reliable. 2) OSHA will proceed with mail-out to the respondents outlined above following OMB review of OSHA's assessment of data quality based on edit criteria, an important component in the validation study program. OSHA expects to submit this analysis on 2/11/97, and OMB will review the submission expeditiously. 3) All correspondence with respondents to the collection will be consistent with current law and regulation. 4) OSHA will accept faxed responses this year, and if feasible will accept automated responses through a pilot project using the internet. The next fielding of this collection will allow an option for fully automated responses over the internet. 5) OSHA will continue to evaluate the potential for biannual data collection in future submissions.
  Inventory as of this Action Requested Previously Approved
12/31/1997 12/31/1997 02/28/1997
80,000 0 80,000
28,450 0 28,000
0 0 0