Proposed Extension of Approval of Information Collection; Comment Request: Recordkeeping Requirements Under the Safety Standard for Infant Walkers, 23544-23545 [2013-09226]
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0066]
Proposed Extension of Approval of
Information Collection; Comment
Request: Recordkeeping
Requirements Under the Safety
Standard for Infant Walkers
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the
following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
To ensure timely processing of
comments, the Commission is no longer
accepting comments submitted by
electronic mail (email), except through
www.regulations.gov.
Written Submissions
Submit written submissions in the
following way:
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 820, 4330 East West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814;
telephone (301) 504–7923.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
docket number for this notice. All
comments received may be posted
without change, including any personal
identifiers, contact information, or other
personal information provided, to
https://www.regulations.gov. Do not
submit confidential business
information, trade secret information, or
other sensitive or protected information
electronically. Such information should
be submitted in writing.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov.
For
further information contact: Robert H.
Squibb, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504–7815, or
by email to: rsquibb@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the Consumer Product
Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) requests comments on a
proposed 3-year extension of approval
of information collection for the
recordkeeping requirements in the
safety standard for infant walkers, 16
CFR part 1216. The Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
previously approved the collection of
information under control number
3041–0141. OMB’s most recent
extension of approval will expire on
July 31, 2013. The Commission will
consider all comments received in
response to this notice before requesting
an extension of approval of this
collection of information from OMB.
SUMMARY:
The Office of the Secretary must
receive comments not later than June
18, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2009–
0066, by any of the following methods:
DATES:
A. Background
Section 104(B) of the Consumer
Product Safety Improvement Act of
2008 (CPSIA), requires the CPSC to
promulgate consumer product safety
standards for durable infant or toddler
products. On June 21, 2010, in
compliance with the CPSIA, the
Commission published in the Federal
Register a safety standard for infant
walkers that incorporated by reference
the voluntary standard for infant
walkers issued by ASTM International,
ASTM F977–07, with some
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modifications to further reduce the risk
of injury associated with infant walkers.
The rule became effective on December
21, 2010.
B. Estimated Burden
Sections 8.1and 9.1 of the voluntary
standard ASTM F977–07, which is now
a mandatory standard, contain
requirements for marking, labeling, and
instructional literature that are
disclosure requirements, thus falling
within the definition of ‘‘collections of
information.’’ 5 CFR 1320.3(c). Section
8.1 of ASTM F977–07 requires:
• The name and the place of business
(city, state, and mailing address,
including zip code) and/or telephone
number of the manufacturer, importer
distributor, or seller; and
• A code mark or other means that
identifies the date (month and year, as
a minimum) of manufacture.
Section 9.1 of ASTM F977–07
requires infant walkers to be provided
with easy to read instructions regarding
assembly, maintenance, cleaning, and
use.
There are 16 known firms supplying
infant walkers to the U.S. market. All 16
firms are assumed to already use labels
on both their products and their
packaging, but they might need to make
some modifications to their existing
labels. The estimated time required to
make these modifications is about 1
hour per model. Each of these firms
supplies an average of four different
models of infant walkers; therefore, the
estimated burden hours associated with
labels is 1 hour × 16 firms × 4 models
per firm = 64 annual hours.
Section 9.1 of ASTM F977–07
requires instructions to be supplied
with the product. This is a practice that
is usual and customary with infant
walkers. These are products that
generally require some installation and
maintenance instructions, and any
products sold without such information
would not be able to successfully
compete with products that provide this
information. Therefore, because the
CPSC is unaware of infant walkers that:
(a) generally require some installation,
but (b) lack any instructions to the user
about such installation, there are no
burden hours associated with the
instruction requirement in section 9.1
because any burden associated with
supplying instructions with infant
walkers would be ‘‘usual and
customary’’ and not within the
definition of ‘‘burden’’ under OMB’s
regulations.
CPSC staff estimates that hourly
compensation for the time required to
create and update labels is $27.12 (U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘‘Employer
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Costs for Employee Compensation,’’
December 2012, Table 9, total
compensation for all sales and office
workers in goods-producing private
industries: https://www.bls.gov/ncs/).
Therefore, the estimated annual cost
associated with the proposed
requirements is $1,736 ($27.12 per hour
× 64 hours = $1,736).
C. Request for Comments
The Commission solicits written
comments from all interested persons
about the proposed collection of
information. The Commission
specifically solicits information relevant
to the following topics:
• Whether the collection of
information described above is
necessary for the proper performance of
the Commission’s functions, including
whether the information would have
practical utility;
• Whether the estimated burden of
the proposed collection of information
is accurate;
• Whether the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected
could be enhanced; and
• Whether the burden imposed by the
collection of information could be
minimized by use of automated,
electronic or other technological
collection techniques, or other forms of
information technology.
Dated: April 16, 2013.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0088]
Proposed Extension of Approval of
Information Collection; Comment
Request: Third Party Conformity
Assessment Body Registration Form
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the Consumer Product
Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) requests comments on a
proposed 3-year extension of approval
of information collection regarding a
form used to evaluate whether third
party conformity assessment bodies
meet the requirements to test for
compliance to specified children’s
product safety rules. Third party
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conformity assessment bodies found to
meet the requirements are listed on the
CPSC Web site. The Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
previously approved the collection of
information under control number
3041–0143. OMB’s most recent
extension of approval will expire on
July 31, 2013. The Commission will
consider all comments received in
response to this notice before requesting
an extension of approval of this
collection of information from OMB.
DATES: The Office of the Secretary must
receive comments not later than June
18, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2009–
0088, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the
following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
To ensure timely processing of
comments, the Commission is no longer
accepting comments submitted by
electronic mail (email), except through
www.regulations.gov.
Written Submissions
Submit written submissions in the
following way:
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 820, 4330 East West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814;
telephone (301) 504–7923.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name and
docket number for this notice. All
comments received may be posted
without change, including any personal
identifiers, contact information, or other
personal information provided, to
https://www.regulations.gov. Do not
submit confidential business
information, trade secret information, or
other sensitive or protected information
electronically. Such information should
be submitted in writing.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov.
For
further information contact: Robert H.
Squibb, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504–7815, or
by email to: rsquibb@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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A. Background
The Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA)
requires third party testing be
conducted by a third party conformity
assessment body for any children’s
product, that is subject to a children’s
product safety rule, before importing for
consumption or warehousing or
distributing in commerce. The CPSIA
allows accreditation of third party
conformity assessment bodies to be
conducted either by the Commission or
by an independent accreditation
organization designated by the
Commission, and requires that the
Commission maintain on its Web site an
up-to-date list of entities that have been
accredited to assess conformity with
children’s product safety rules. With the
exception of firewalled third party
conformity assessment bodies, the
Commission has chosen to accept the
accreditation of third party conformity
assessment bodies that meet
accreditation requirements of an
independent accreditation organization.
In order to assess a third party
conformity assessment body’s
qualifications for acceptance by CPSC,
information related to location,
accreditation, and ownership must be
collected from third party conformity
assessment bodies. The CPSC uses an
online collection form, CPSC Form 223,
to gather information from third party
conformity assessment bodies
voluntarily seeking acceptance by CPSC.
The information collected relates to
location, accreditation, and ownership.
The Commission staff uses this
information to assess:
• A third party conformity
assessment body’s status as either an
independent third party conformity
assessment body, a government-owned
or government-controlled conformity
assessment body, or a firewalled
conformity assessment body;
• Qualifications for acceptance by
CPSC to test for compliance to specified
children’s product safety rules; and
• Eligibility for acceptance on the
CPSC Web site.
The Commission recently published a
final rule (16 CFR part 1112) regarding
the requirements for third party
conformity assessment bodies in the
Federal Register on March 12, 2013,
which will become effective on June 10,
2013. Once 16 CFR part 1112 is in effect
it will require the collection of
information in CPSC Form 223:
• Upon initial application by the
third party conformity assessment body
for acceptance by CPSC;
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC-2009-0066]
Proposed Extension of Approval of Information Collection; Comment
Request: Recordkeeping Requirements Under the Safety Standard for
Infant Walkers
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.
chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) requests comments on a proposed 3-year extension of
approval of information collection for the recordkeeping requirements
in the safety standard for infant walkers, 16 CFR part 1216. The Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) previously approved the collection of
information under control number 3041-0141. OMB's most recent extension
of approval will expire on July 31, 2013. The Commission will consider
all comments received in response to this notice before requesting an
extension of approval of this collection of information from OMB.
DATES: The Office of the Secretary must receive comments not later than
June 18, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2009-
0066, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
To ensure timely processing of comments, the Commission is no
longer accepting comments submitted by electronic mail (email), except
through www.regulations.gov.
Written Submissions
Submit written submissions in the following way:
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 820, 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name
and docket number for this notice. All comments received may be posted
without change, including any personal identifiers, contact
information, or other personal information provided, to https://www.regulations.gov. Do not submit confidential business information,
trade secret information, or other sensitive or protected information
electronically. Such information should be submitted in writing.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information contact:
Robert H. Squibb, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504-7815, or by email to:
rsquibb@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
Section 104(B) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of
2008 (CPSIA), requires the CPSC to promulgate consumer product safety
standards for durable infant or toddler products. On June 21, 2010, in
compliance with the CPSIA, the Commission published in the Federal
Register a safety standard for infant walkers that incorporated by
reference the voluntary standard for infant walkers issued by ASTM
International, ASTM F977-07, with some modifications to further reduce
the risk of injury associated with infant walkers. The rule became
effective on December 21, 2010.
B. Estimated Burden
Sections 8.1and 9.1 of the voluntary standard ASTM F977-07, which
is now a mandatory standard, contain requirements for marking,
labeling, and instructional literature that are disclosure
requirements, thus falling within the definition of ``collections of
information.'' 5 CFR 1320.3(c). Section 8.1 of ASTM F977-07 requires:
The name and the place of business (city, state, and
mailing address, including zip code) and/or telephone number of the
manufacturer, importer distributor, or seller; and
A code mark or other means that identifies the date (month
and year, as a minimum) of manufacture.
Section 9.1 of ASTM F977-07 requires infant walkers to be provided
with easy to read instructions regarding assembly, maintenance,
cleaning, and use.
There are 16 known firms supplying infant walkers to the U.S.
market. All 16 firms are assumed to already use labels on both their
products and their packaging, but they might need to make some
modifications to their existing labels. The estimated time required to
make these modifications is about 1 hour per model. Each of these firms
supplies an average of four different models of infant walkers;
therefore, the estimated burden hours associated with labels is 1 hour
x 16 firms x 4 models per firm = 64 annual hours.
Section 9.1 of ASTM F977-07 requires instructions to be supplied
with the product. This is a practice that is usual and customary with
infant walkers. These are products that generally require some
installation and maintenance instructions, and any products sold
without such information would not be able to successfully compete with
products that provide this information. Therefore, because the CPSC is
unaware of infant walkers that: (a) generally require some
installation, but (b) lack any instructions to the user about such
installation, there are no burden hours associated with the instruction
requirement in section 9.1 because any burden associated with supplying
instructions with infant walkers would be ``usual and customary'' and
not within the definition of ``burden'' under OMB's regulations.
CPSC staff estimates that hourly compensation for the time required
to create and update labels is $27.12 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
``Employer
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Costs for Employee Compensation,'' December 2012, Table 9, total
compensation for all sales and office workers in goods-producing
private industries: https://www.bls.gov/ncs/). Therefore, the estimated
annual cost associated with the proposed requirements is $1,736 ($27.12
per hour x 64 hours = $1,736).
C. Request for Comments
The Commission solicits written comments from all interested
persons about the proposed collection of information. The Commission
specifically solicits information relevant to the following topics:
Whether the collection of information described above is
necessary for the proper performance of the Commission's functions,
including whether the information would have practical utility;
Whether the estimated burden of the proposed collection of
information is accurate;
Whether the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected could be enhanced; and
Whether the burden imposed by the collection of
information could be minimized by use of automated, electronic or other
technological collection techniques, or other forms of information
technology.
Dated: April 16, 2013.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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