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difference in average monthly seal
counts since 1993 and harbor seals
continue to use the haulout site as a
nursery. There is also no data
demonstrating stampedes occur at the
Jenner haulout, thus the potential for
injury, serious injury or mortality to
pups from this action is unlikely.
Finally, the fact that harbor seals pups
are precocious at birth and form strong
bonds with mom immediately after birth
further supports the finding that mom/
pup bonds will not be jeopardized due
to Agency activities. Monitoring data
suggest that previous breaching events
have not been the cause of pup
abandonment. For these reasons, and
the mitigation measures set forth in the
IHA, NMFS has determined that no
Level A harassment (injury), serious
injury or mortality will occur due to
Agency activities.
NMFS compared the Agency’s
previously documented action of
breaching the sandbar during one day
events intermittently since 1995 to the
possible impacts from limited 2–days
events. As described above, under the
IHA, the Agency would be required to
maintain a one-week recovery period
between management events, something
that had not been implemented before.
Although the management event may
last 2 days instead of one, NMFS has
determined that because seals reoccupy
the beach soon after equipment leaves
the beach, seals show short- and longterm resilience to chronic disturbance
(e.g., daily exposure to non-Agency
related human disturbance, the case of
the northern elephant seal occupation),
and the mitigation and monitoring
measures set forth in the IHA, the shortterm Level B harassment caused by the
Agency’s water level management
activities will have a negligible impact
on harbor seals. California sea lions and
northern elephant seals are only
occasionally sighted at the haulout, are
usually solitary, and do not use the
haulout for significant behaviors (e.g.,
mating); therefore, the short-term Level
B harassment caused by the Agency’s
water level management activities will
also have a negligible impact on these
species.
Based on the analysis contained
herein on the likely effects of the
specified activity on marine mammals
and their habitat, and taking into
consideration the implementation of the
mitigation and monitoring measures,
NMFS finds that the Agency’s water
level management events will result in
the incidental take of small numbers of
marine mammals, by Level B
harassment only, and that the total
taking will have a negligible impact on
the affected species or stocks. There are
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no relevant subsistence uses of marine
mammals implicated by this action;
therefore, no impacts to subsistence use
will occur.
Endangered Species Act
No ESA-listed marine mammals are
known to be present within the action
area; therefore, ESA consultation is not
required to issue an MMPA
authorization for the proposed action.
However, as described above and in the
proposed IHA notice, the purpose of the
modified outlet channel design during
the lagoon management period is an
RPA in NMFS’ BiOp on the Agency’s
Estuary Management Activities for ESAlisted salmonids.
National Environmental Policy Act
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), as implemented by
the regulations published by the
Council on Environmental Quality (40
CFR parts 1500–1508), and NOAA
Administrative Order 216–6, NMFS has
prepared an Environmental Assessment
(EA) to consider the direct, indirect and
cumulative effects to pinnipeds and
other applicable environmental
resources resulting from issuance of a
one-year IHA and the potential issuance
of additional authorization for
incidental harassment for the ongoing
project. NMFS’ EA is separate from but
relies upon and incorporates the Corps’
2005 EA prepared for permitting the
Agency’s breaching activities.
Determination
Based on the description of the
specified activity, review of monitoring
data, and the required mitigation and
monitoring measures described herein,
NMFS has determined that the Agency’s
artificial breaching activities will have a
negligible impact on affected pinniped
species or stocks and will not have an
adverse impact on their habitat.
Subsistence use of marine mammals in
California does not occur; therefore use
of marine mammals for subsistence will
not be affected.
As such, NMFS has issued the Agency
a one-year IHA. The issuance of this
IHA is contingent upon adherence to the
previously mentioned mitigation,
monitoring, and reporting requirements.
Dated: March 30, 2010.
James H. Lecky,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for Office of
Management and Budget Review;
Comment Request; Follow-Up
Activities for Product-Related Injuries
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) is announcing that
a proposed collection of information has
been submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Fax written comments on the
collection of information by May 6,
2010.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on
the information collection are received,
OMB recommends that written
comments be faxed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
OMB, Attn: CPSC Desk Officer, FAX:
202–395–6974, or e-mailed to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Written
comments should be captioned
‘‘Product-Related Injuries.’’ All
comments should be identified with the
OMB control number 3041–0029. In
addition, written comments should also
be submitted by mail/hand delivery/
courier (for paper, disk, or CD–ROM
submissions), preferably in five copies,
to: Office of the Secretary, Consumer
Product Safety Commission, Room 502,
4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD
20814; telephone (301) 504–7923.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Linda L. Glatz, Division of Policy and
Planning, Office of Information
Technology, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 504–7671.
lglatz@cpsc.gov.
In
compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, the
CPSC has submitted the following
proposed collection of information to
OMB for review and clearance. Followup Activities for Product-Related
Injuries (OMB Control Number 3041–
0029—Extension).
Section 5(a) of the Consumer Product
Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), requires
the Commission to collect information
related to the causes and prevention of
death, injury, and illness associated
with consumer products. That section
also requires the Commission to
conduct continuing studies and
investigations of deaths, injuries,
diseases, other health impairments, and
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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economic losses resulting from
accidents involving consumer products.
The Commission obtains information
about product-related deaths, injuries,
and illnesses from a variety of sources,
including newspapers, death
certificates, consumer complaints, and
medical facilities. In addition, the
Commission receives information
through its internet Web site through
forms reporting on product-related
injuries or incidents.
From these sources, the Commission
staff selects cases of interest for further
investigation by face-to-face or
telephone interviews with persons who
witnessed or were injured in incidents
involving consumer products. On-site
investigations are usually made in cases
where the Commission staff needs
photographs of the incident site, the
product involved, or detailed
information about the incident. This
information can come from face-to-face
interviews with persons who were
injured or who witnessed the incident,
as well as contact with state and local
officials, including police, coroners and
fire investigators, and others with
knowledge of the incident.
The Commission uses this
information to support development
and improvement of voluntary
standards, rulemaking proceedings,
information and education campaigns,
and administrative and judicial
proceedings for enforcement of the
statutes, standards, and regulations
administered by the Commission. These
safety efforts are vitally important to
help make consumer products safer and
to remove unsafe products from the
channels of distribution and from
consumers’ homes.
The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approved the collection of
information concerning product-related
injuries under control number 3041–
0029. OMB’s most recent extension of
approval will expire on April 30, 2010.
The Commission has submitted its
request for an extension of approval of
this collection of information to OMB.
The Commission also operates a
surveillance system known as the
National Electronic Injury Surveillance
System (NEISS) that provides timely
data on consumer product-related
injuries treated in a statistically valid
sample from approximately 100 hospital
emergency departments, as well as
childhood poisonings in the United
States. The NEISS system has been in
operation since 1971. The Commission
previously has not included NEISS
reports under the product-related
injuries collection of information
because the information obtained from
hospital databases are obtained directly
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through CPSC employees and/or CPSC
contractors, and does not involve the
solicitation of any information from any
individuals. The CPSC employee or
contractor collects emergency
department records for review which
are then coded. The PRA exempts facts
or opinions obtained through direct
observation by an employee or agent of
the sponsoring agency. 5 CFR
1320.3(h)(3). However, because in
addition to the reports themselves,
further information may need to be
obtained which may result in telephone
and/or face-to-face communications
with individuals, the proposed
collection of information under the
follow-up activities for product-related
injuries now includes the burden hours
per year for the NEISS system in
addition to the other follow-up activities
conducted by the Commission.
In the Federal Register of December 1,
2009 (74 FR 62753), the CPSC published
a 60-day notice requesting public
comment on the proposed collection of
information. No comments were
received.
Burden Estimates: The NEISS system
collects information on consumerproduct related injuries from
approximately 100 hospitals in the
United States. Respondents to NEISS
include hospitals that directly report
information to NEISS, and hospitals that
allow access to a CPSC contractor who
collects the data. In FY2008, there were
157 NEISS respondents (total hospitals
and CPSC contractors). These NEISS
respondents reviewed an estimated 3.4
million emergency department records
and reported 371,507 consumer
product-related injuries and 5,030
childhood poisoning-related injuries.
Based on FY2008 data, the total burden
hours to respondents are estimated to be
41,497 hours. The average burden hour
per hospital is 415 hours. However, the
total burden hour on each hospital
varies by the size (small or large) and
location (rural or metropolitan) of the
hospital. The smallest hospital reported
less than 200 cases with a burden of
approximately 100 hours, while the
largest hospital reported over 16,000
cases with a burden of about 1,300
hours.
The total costs to NEISS respondents
based on FY2008 data are estimated to
be $1.5 million per year. NEISS
respondents enter into contracts with
CPSC and are compensated for these
costs. The average cost per respondent
is estimated to be about $15,000. The
average cost per burden hour is
estimated to be $36 per hour (including
wages and overhead) (Bureau of Labor
Statistics, June 2009, Total
Compensation Civilian workers,
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Hospitals). However, the actual cost to
each respondent varies due to the type
of respondent (hospital versus CPSC
contractor), size of hospital, and
regional differences in wages and
overhead. Therefore, the actual annual
cost for any given respondent may vary
between $2,600 at a small rural hospital
and $75,000 at a large metropolitan
hospital which are compensated by the
CPSC.
The Commission staff also obtains
information about incidents involving
consumer products from approximately
17,415 persons annually. The staff
conducts face-to-face interviews at
incident sites with approximately 915
persons each year. On average, an onsite interview takes approximately 5
hours. The staff will also conduct
approximately 3,500 in-depth
investigations by telephone. Each indepth telephone investigation requires
approximately 20 minutes.
Additionally, the Commission’s hotline
staff interviews approximately 4,000
persons each year about incidents
involving selected consumer products.
These interviews take an average of 10
minutes each. Each year, the
Commission also receives information
from about 9,000 persons who complete
forms requesting information about
product-related incidents or injuries.
These forms appear on the
Commission’s internet Web site, https://
www.cpsc.gov, and are printed in the
Consumer Product Safety Review and
other Commission publications. The
staff estimates that completion of a form
takes about 12 minutes.
The Commission staff estimates that
this collection of information imposes a
total annual burden of 7,724 hours on
all respondents: 4,118 hours for face-toface interviews; 1,155 hours for in-depth
telephone interviews; 661 hours for
responses to Hotline interviews; and
1,790 hours for completion of written
forms.
The Commission staff estimates the
value of the time of respondents to this
collection of information at $29.31 per
hour (Bureau of Labor Statistics, June
2009, Total Compensation, All workers).
At this valuation, the estimated annual
cost to the public of this information
collection will be approximately
$226,390.
The annual cost to the federal
government for this collection of
information is estimated to be
approximately $6.4 million per year.
This estimate includes $1.5 million in
compensation to NEISS respondents.
The estimate also includes
approximately $4.9 million for 354
professional staff months to oversee
NEISS operation, prepare
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questionnaires, interviewer guidelines,
and other instruments and instructions
used to collect the information, conduct
face-to-face and telephone interviews;
and evaluate responses obtained from
interviews and completed forms. Each
staff month is estimated to cost the
Commission approximately $13,859.
This is based on an average wage rate of
$55.97 (the equivalent of a GS–14 Step
5 employee) with an addition 30 percent
added for benefits (Bureau of Labor
Statistics, June 2009, percentage total
benefits for all civilian management,
professional, and related employees).
Dated: March 31, 2010.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for
the ‘‘Flood Control, Mississippi River &
Tributaries, St. Johns Bayou and New
Madrid Floodway, Missouri, First
Phase’’ (SJNM) Project
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AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
DEIS.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers is announcing its intent to
prepare a Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) for the Mississippi
River and Tributaries, St. Johns Bayou
and New Madrid Floodway, MO Project.
The DEIS is being prepared to address
and evaluate the environmental,
economic and social impacts of
alternative plans to provide flood
control and develop and discuss
locations and methodologies of
potential compensatory mitigation. This
DEIS will address previous project
history, independent external peer
reviews, State/Federal agency concerns
and will formulate alternatives that
manage flood risks in the project area.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Gregg Williams, telephone (901) 544–
3852, CEMVM–PB–E, 167 North Main
Street B–202, Memphis, TN 38103–
1894, e-mail—
Gregg.W.Williams@usace.army.mil.
The St.
Johns Bayou Basin and New Madrid
Floodway are located in the Bootheel
region of southeast Missouri and
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include all or portions of the New
Madrid, Scott and Mississippi Counties.
The basin and floodway are adjacent to
the Mississippi River, extending from
the vicinity of Commerce, Missouri to
New Madrid, Missouri. The basin and
floodway are subject to both backwater
and interior headwater flooding.
Congress authorized the Mississippi
River and Tributaries (MR&T) Project to
construct the mainline Mississippi River
levees. The Birds Point-New Madrid
Floodway was part of the 1928 Flood
Control Act. A levee closure and outlet
structure at New Madrid, Missouri were
authorized in the Flood Control Act of
1954 (Pub. L. 780–83) but not
constructed. The St. Johns Bayou Basin
levee closure, with drainage structure,
was authorized in the Flood Control Act
of 1946, and subsequently constructed.
An EIS for the MR&T and Channel
Improvement was filed with the Council
on Environmental Quality in July 1976,
which addressed the New Madrid
Floodway levee closure. The St. Johns
Bayou/New Madrid Floodway Project
Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (SEIS) was filed with
the EPA in July 1982. The current
project was authorized for construction
by the Water Resources Development
Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99–662), section
401(a). The authorized project is based
on the Report of the Chief of Engineers,
dated January 4, 1983, which is part of
the Phase I General Design
Memorandum (GDM) documents
prepared in response to section 101(a) of
the Water Resources Development Act
of 1976 (Pub. L. 94–587). A Revised
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (RSEIS) was filed in June
2002. The Revised Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement 2
(RSEIS2) was prepared to clarify the
record and address concerns related to
the calculation of compensatory
mitigation for mid-season fishery
impacts, hypoxia, cost-benefit analysis,
Swampbuster and the applicable
discount rate in the economics analysis.
The RSEIS2 was filed in March 2006.
The Corps has determined that a new
EIS is required to incorporate additional
scientific and engineering data; include
the results of intensive independent
external peer review of the previous
project document, plans and studies;
clarify project objectives and plans; and
address points raised in the course of
legal action.
1. Proposed Action: The authorized
project for the St. Johns Bayou and New
Madrid Floodway Project consists of
channel enlargement and improvement
in the St. Johns Bayou Basin along the
lower 4.5 miles of the St. Johns Bayou,
beginning at New Madrid, Missouri,
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then continuing 8.1 miles along the
Birds Point-New Madrid Setback Levee
Ditch and ending with 10.8 miles along
the St. James Ditch. The first item of
work, consisting of selective clearing
and snagging, has already been
completed along a 4.3-mile reach of the
Setback Levee Ditch beginning at the
confluence with the St. James Ditch.
The authorized project also includes a
1,000-cubic-foot-per-second (CFS)
pumping station for the St. Johns Bayou
Basin area, a 1,500-CFS pumping station
for the New Madrid Floodway area and
a 1,500-foot-closure levee at the
southern end of the New Madrid
Floodway. The channel enlargement
work and both pumping stations are
features of the St. Johns Bayou and New
Madrid Floodway Project and the levee
closure is a feature of the Mississippi
River Levee Project.
2. Alternatives: Alternatives to
manage flood risks in the project area
will be considered. Comparisons will be
made among the alternative plans,
including the ‘‘no action’’ alternative.
3. Scoping Process: An intensive
public involvement program has been
set up to (1) solicit input from
individuals and interested parties so
that problems, needs and opportunities
within the project area can be properly
identified and addressed and (2)
provide status updates to concerned
organizations and the public. Significant
issues being analyzed include potential
project impacts (negative and positive)
to fisheries, water quality, wetlands,
waterfowl, shorebirds, endangered
species and cultural resources.
Meetings with the local sponsor,
public coordination meetings,
interagency environmental meetings
and public project briefings/
presentations will be conducted
throughout this process. This notice is
being circulated to Federal, State and
local environmental resource and
regulatory agencies; Indian Tribes; nongovernmental organizations; and the
general public. This notice of intent
(NOI) will serve as a request for scoping
input. All interested parties are
encouraged to participate in the scoping
process. A public scoping meeting will
be held on May 11, 2010, at 7 p.m. in
the East Prairie Church of God, 322 N.
Washington St., East Prairie, MO 63845.
It is anticipated that the DEIS will be
available for public review during
spring 2012. A public meeting will be
held during the review period to receive
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Follow-Up Activities
for Product-Related Injuries
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing
that a proposed collection of information has been submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance under
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by May 6,
2010.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are
received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: CPSC Desk Officer,
FAX: 202-395-6974, or e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. Written
comments should be captioned ``Product-Related Injuries.'' All comments
should be identified with the OMB control number 3041-0029. In
addition, written comments should also be submitted by mail/hand
delivery/courier (for paper, disk, or CD-ROM submissions), preferably
in five copies, to: Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, Room 502, 4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814;
telephone (301) 504-7923.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda L. Glatz, Division of Policy and
Planning, Office of Information Technology, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 504-7671.
lglatz@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, the CPSC
has submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB
for review and clearance. Follow-up Activities for Product-Related
Injuries (OMB Control Number 3041-0029--Extension).
Section 5(a) of the Consumer Product Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 2054(a),
requires the Commission to collect information related to the causes
and prevention of death, injury, and illness associated with consumer
products. That section also requires the Commission to conduct
continuing studies and investigations of deaths, injuries, diseases,
other health impairments, and
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economic losses resulting from accidents involving consumer products.
The Commission obtains information about product-related deaths,
injuries, and illnesses from a variety of sources, including
newspapers, death certificates, consumer complaints, and medical
facilities. In addition, the Commission receives information through
its internet Web site through forms reporting on product-related
injuries or incidents.
From these sources, the Commission staff selects cases of interest
for further investigation by face-to-face or telephone interviews with
persons who witnessed or were injured in incidents involving consumer
products. On-site investigations are usually made in cases where the
Commission staff needs photographs of the incident site, the product
involved, or detailed information about the incident. This information
can come from face-to-face interviews with persons who were injured or
who witnessed the incident, as well as contact with state and local
officials, including police, coroners and fire investigators, and
others with knowledge of the incident.
The Commission uses this information to support development and
improvement of voluntary standards, rulemaking proceedings, information
and education campaigns, and administrative and judicial proceedings
for enforcement of the statutes, standards, and regulations
administered by the Commission. These safety efforts are vitally
important to help make consumer products safer and to remove unsafe
products from the channels of distribution and from consumers' homes.
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the collection
of information concerning product-related injuries under control number
3041-0029. OMB's most recent extension of approval will expire on April
30, 2010. The Commission has submitted its request for an extension of
approval of this collection of information to OMB.
The Commission also operates a surveillance system known as the
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) that provides
timely data on consumer product-related injuries treated in a
statistically valid sample from approximately 100 hospital emergency
departments, as well as childhood poisonings in the United States. The
NEISS system has been in operation since 1971. The Commission
previously has not included NEISS reports under the product-related
injuries collection of information because the information obtained
from hospital databases are obtained directly through CPSC employees
and/or CPSC contractors, and does not involve the solicitation of any
information from any individuals. The CPSC employee or contractor
collects emergency department records for review which are then coded.
The PRA exempts facts or opinions obtained through direct observation
by an employee or agent of the sponsoring agency. 5 CFR 1320.3(h)(3).
However, because in addition to the reports themselves, further
information may need to be obtained which may result in telephone and/
or face-to-face communications with individuals, the proposed
collection of information under the follow-up activities for product-
related injuries now includes the burden hours per year for the NEISS
system in addition to the other follow-up activities conducted by the
Commission.
In the Federal Register of December 1, 2009 (74 FR 62753), the CPSC
published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed
collection of information. No comments were received.
Burden Estimates: The NEISS system collects information on
consumer-product related injuries from approximately 100 hospitals in
the United States. Respondents to NEISS include hospitals that directly
report information to NEISS, and hospitals that allow access to a CPSC
contractor who collects the data. In FY2008, there were 157 NEISS
respondents (total hospitals and CPSC contractors). These NEISS
respondents reviewed an estimated 3.4 million emergency department
records and reported 371,507 consumer product-related injuries and
5,030 childhood poisoning-related injuries. Based on FY2008 data, the
total burden hours to respondents are estimated to be 41,497 hours. The
average burden hour per hospital is 415 hours. However, the total
burden hour on each hospital varies by the size (small or large) and
location (rural or metropolitan) of the hospital. The smallest hospital
reported less than 200 cases with a burden of approximately 100 hours,
while the largest hospital reported over 16,000 cases with a burden of
about 1,300 hours.
The total costs to NEISS respondents based on FY2008 data are
estimated to be $1.5 million per year. NEISS respondents enter into
contracts with CPSC and are compensated for these costs. The average
cost per respondent is estimated to be about $15,000. The average cost
per burden hour is estimated to be $36 per hour (including wages and
overhead) (Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2009, Total Compensation
Civilian workers, Hospitals). However, the actual cost to each
respondent varies due to the type of respondent (hospital versus CPSC
contractor), size of hospital, and regional differences in wages and
overhead. Therefore, the actual annual cost for any given respondent
may vary between $2,600 at a small rural hospital and $75,000 at a
large metropolitan hospital which are compensated by the CPSC.
The Commission staff also obtains information about incidents
involving consumer products from approximately 17,415 persons annually.
The staff conducts face-to-face interviews at incident sites with
approximately 915 persons each year. On average, an on-site interview
takes approximately 5 hours. The staff will also conduct approximately
3,500 in-depth investigations by telephone. Each in-depth telephone
investigation requires approximately 20 minutes. Additionally, the
Commission's hotline staff interviews approximately 4,000 persons each
year about incidents involving selected consumer products. These
interviews take an average of 10 minutes each. Each year, the
Commission also receives information from about 9,000 persons who
complete forms requesting information about product-related incidents
or injuries. These forms appear on the Commission's internet Web site,
https://www.cpsc.gov, and are printed in the Consumer Product Safety
Review and other Commission publications. The staff estimates that
completion of a form takes about 12 minutes.
The Commission staff estimates that this collection of information
imposes a total annual burden of 7,724 hours on all respondents: 4,118
hours for face-to-face interviews; 1,155 hours for in-depth telephone
interviews; 661 hours for responses to Hotline interviews; and 1,790
hours for completion of written forms.
The Commission staff estimates the value of the time of respondents
to this collection of information at $29.31 per hour (Bureau of Labor
Statistics, June 2009, Total Compensation, All workers). At this
valuation, the estimated annual cost to the public of this information
collection will be approximately $226,390.
The annual cost to the federal government for this collection of
information is estimated to be approximately $6.4 million per year.
This estimate includes $1.5 million in compensation to NEISS
respondents. The estimate also includes approximately $4.9 million for
354 professional staff months to oversee NEISS operation, prepare
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questionnaires, interviewer guidelines, and other instruments and
instructions used to collect the information, conduct face-to-face and
telephone interviews; and evaluate responses obtained from interviews
and completed forms. Each staff month is estimated to cost the
Commission approximately $13,859. This is based on an average wage rate
of $55.97 (the equivalent of a GS-14 Step 5 employee) with an addition
30 percent added for benefits (Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2009,
percentage total benefits for all civilian management, professional,
and related employees).
Dated: March 31, 2010.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 2010-7670 Filed 4-5-10; 8:45 am]
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