Notice2025-11551
Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard; Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
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Published
June 24, 2025
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Labor DepartmentOccupational Safety and Health Administration
Abstract
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 Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26830-26831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-11551]
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
[Docket No. OSHA-2012-0039]
Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard;
Extension of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Approval of
Information Collection (Paperwork) Requirements
AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: 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 Process Safety
Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard.
DATES: Comments must be submitted (postmarked, sent, or received) by
August 25, 2025.
ADDRESSES:
Electronically: You may submit comments and attachments
electronically at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, 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 <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Documents in the docket are
listed in the <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> 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) 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-2012-0039) 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Belinda Cannon, 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 reduce employees' risk of death or serious
injury by ensuring that employment has been tested and is in safe
operating condition.
The collection of information in the standard is necessary for
implementation of the requirements of the standard. The information is
used by employers to ensure that processes using highly hazardous
chemicals with the potential of a catastrophic release are operated as
safely as possible. The employer must thoroughly consider all
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facets of a process, as well as the involvement of employees in that
process. Employers analyze processes so that they can identify,
evaluate and control problems that could lead to a major release, fire,
or explosion. The major information collection requirements in this
standard include: consulting with workers and their representatives on
and providing them access to process hazard analyses and the
development of other elements of the standard; developing a written
action plan for implementation of employee participation in process
hazard analyses and other elements of the standard; completing a
compilation of written process safety information; performing a process
hazard analysis; documenting actions taken to resolve process hazard
analysis team findings and recommendations; updating, revalidating, and
retaining the process hazard analysis; developing and implementing
written operating procedures accessible to workers; reviewing operating
procedures as often as necessary and certifying the procedures
annually; developing and implementing written operating procedures
accessible to workers; reviewing, operating procedures as often as
necessary and certifying the procedures annually; developing and
implementing safe work practices; preparing training records; informing
contract employers of known hazards and applicable provisions of the
emergency action plan; maintaining a contract worker injury and illness
log; establishing written procedures to maintain the integrity of and
documenting inspections and tests of process equipment; providing
information on permits issued for hot work operations; establishing and
implementing written procedures to manage changes; preparing reports at
the conclusion of incident investigations, documenting resolutions and
corrective measures, and reviewing the reports with affected personnel;
establishing and implementing an emergency action plan; developing a
compliance audit report and certifying compliance; and disclosing
information necessary to comply with the standard to persons
responsible for complying process safety information.
II. Special Issues for Comment
OSHA has a particular interest in comments on the following issues:
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> 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;
<bullet> The quality, utility, and clarity of the information
collected; and
<bullet> 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 Process Safety Management of
Highly Hazardous Chemicals Standard. The agency is requesting an
adjustment decrease in burden going from 2,325,294 hours to 2,269,066
hours, a difference of 56,228 hours. The decrease is due to a reduction
in the number of establishments in the RMP database as of March 2025
going from 11,641 to 11,329 establishments.
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: Process Safety Management of Highly Hazardous Chemicals
Standard (29 CFR 1910.119).
OMB Control Number: 1218-0200.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profits.
Number of Respondents: 11,329.
Number of Responses: 1,026,883.
Frequency of Responses: On occasion.
Average Time per Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Burden Hours: 2,269,066.
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 <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>, 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 (OSHA-2012-0039). You may supplement electronic
submission by uploading document files electronically.
Comments and submissions are posted without change at <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a>. Therefore, OSHA cautions commenters about
submitting personal information such as social security numbers and
dates of birth. Although all submissions are listed in the <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> index, some information (e.g., copyrighted
material) is not publicly available to read or download from this
website. All submission, including copyrighted material, are available
for inspection and copying at the OSHA Docket Office. Information on
using the <a href="https://www.regulations.gov">https://www.regulations.gov</a> 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.
V. Authority and Signature
Amanda Wood Laihow, Acting 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).
Signed at Washington, DC, on June 16, 2025.
Amanda Laihow,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2025-11551 Filed 6-23-25; 8:45 am]
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