OMB Reinstates CSB Incident Reporting ICR - 6-13-24

Yesterday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had reinstated the Chemical Safety Board’s information collection request (ICR) for the CSB’s Accidental Release Reporting. An earlier reinstatement notice had reinstated the collection at the earlier burden estimate levels. Yesterday’s action changed the approved ICR to the new levels requested by CSB.

Burden Estimate	Previous	New
Responses	201	100
Burden (hrs)	50	25
Cost	$1850	$925

CSB reported in their Supporting Document provided to OIRA that the change in the burden estimate was due to a review of recent historical records, not an actual prediction of a decrease in number of reportable incidents.

The current ICR approval will remain in force through June 30^th, 2027.