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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 205 / Wednesday, October 27, 2021 / Proposed Rules that an extension of 14 days is sufficient for this preliminary stage. Therefore, DOE is extending the comment period until November 15, 2021.
Signing Authority This document of the Department of Energy was signed on October 19, 2021, by Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on October 20, 2021.
Treena V. Garrett, Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S.
Department of Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 CFR Parts 1910, 1915, 1917, 1918, 1926, and 1928
Docket No. OSHA20210009
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Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA, Labor.
ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking ANPRM.
AGENCY:

OSHA is initiating rulemaking to protect indoor and outdoor workers from hazardous heat and is interested in obtaining additional information about the extent and nature of hazardous heat in the workplace and the nature and effectiveness of interventions and controls used to prevent heat-related injury and illness.
This ANPRM provides an overview of the problem of heat stress in the workplace and of measures that have been taken to prevent it. This ANPRM
also seeks information on issues that
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OSHA can consider in developing the standard, including the scope of the standard and the types of controls that might be required.
DATES: Submit comments on or before December 27, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments and attachments, identified by Docket No. OSHA20210009, electronically at www.regulations.gov, which is the Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions online for making electronic submissions.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agencys name and the docket number for this ANPRM Docket No. OSHA20210009. When submitting comments or recommendations on the issues that are raised in this ANPRM, commenters should explain their rationale and, if possible, provide data and information to support their comments or recommendations. Wherever possible, please indicate the title of the person providing the information and the type and number of employees at your worksite.
All comments, including any personal information you provide, will be placed in the public docket without change and will be publicly available online at www.regulations.gov. Therefore, OSHA
cautions commenters about submitting information they do not want to be made available to the public or submitting materials that contain personal information either about themselves or others such as Social Security Numbers and birthdates.
Docket: To read or download comments or other material in the docket, go to Docket No. OSHA2021
0009 at www.regulations.gov. All comments and submissions are listed in the www.regulations.gov index;
however, some information e.g., copyrighted material is not publicly available to read or download through that website. All submissions, including copyrighted material, are available for inspection at the OSHA Docket Office.
Documents submitted to the docket by OSHA or stakeholders are assigned document identification numbers Document ID for easy identification and retrieval. The full Document ID is the docket number plus a unique fourdigit code. OSHA is identifying supporting information in this ANPRM
by author name and publication year, when appropriate. This information can be used to search for a supporting document in the docket at www.regulations.gov. Contact the OSHA
Docket Office at 2026932350 TTY
number: 8778895627 for assistance in locating docket submissions.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Press Inquiries: Contact Frank Meilinger, Director, Office of Communications, U.S. Department of Labor; telephone 202 6931999; email meilinger.francis2@dol.gov.
General and technical information:
Contact Andrew Levinson, Acting Director, Directorate of Standards and Guidance, U.S. Department of Labor;
telephone 202 6931950.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This ANPRM on Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings follows this outline:
Table of Contents I. Background A. Occupational Illnesses, Injuries, and Fatalities Due to Hazardous Heat B. Under Reporting of Occupational Illnesses, Injuries, and Fatalities Due to Hazardous Heat C. Scope 1. Industries, Occupations, and Job Tasks 2. Structure of Work and Work Arrangements 3. Business Size D. Geographic Region E. Inequality in Exposures and Outcomes F. Climate Change II. Existing Heat Illness Prevention Efforts A. OSHA Efforts 1. OSHAs Heat Illness Prevention Campaign and Other Guidance Efforts 2. Stakeholder EngagementNACOSH
Work Group 3. General Duty Clause 4. Other Enforcement Efforts 5. Applicable OSHA Standards B. Petitions for Rulemaking C. NIOSH Criteria Documents D. History and Requirements of State Standards E. Other Standards F. Employer Efforts III. Key Issues in Occupational Heat-Related Illness A. Determinants of Occupational Heat Exposure 1. Heat Exposure 2. Contributions to Heat Stress in the Workplace B. Strategies To Reduce Occupational HeatRelated Injury and Illness 1. Heat Injury and Illness Prevention Programs 2. Engineering Controls, Administrative Controls, and Personal Protective Equipment 3. Acclimatization 4. Monitoring 5. Planning and Responding to HeatRelated Illness Emergencies 6. Worker Training and Engagement IV. Costs, Economic Impacts, and Benefits A. Overview B. Impacts on Small Entities V. References
I. Background Heat is the leading cause of death among all weather-related phenomena NWS, September 8, 2021a; NWS,
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