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Written comments must be received
on or before August 19, 2016.
(Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog 11.419;
Coastal Zone Management Program
Administration)
Dated: June 2, 2015.
John King,
Deputy Director, Office for Coastal
Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0102]
Collection of Information; Proposed
Extension of Approval; Comment
Request—Follow-Up Activities for
Product-Related Injuries
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (‘‘PRA’’) (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (‘‘CPSC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) requests comments on a
proposed extension of approval of a
collection of information from persons
who have been involved in, or have
witnessed incidents associated with,
consumer products. The Commission
will consider all comments received in
response to this notice before requesting
an extension of approval of this
collection of information from the Office
of Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’).
DATES: The Office of the Secretary must
receive comments not later than August
22, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2009–
0102, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit
electronic comments to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
The Commission does not accept
comments submitted by electronic mail
(email), except through
www.regulations.gov. The Commission
encourages you to submit electronic
comments by using the Federal
eRulemaking Portal, as described above.
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
that you do not want to be available to
the public. If furnished at all, such
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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, and insert the
docket number, CPSC–2009–0102, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the
prompts.
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
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
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.
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 as well as U.S.
childhood poisonings. NEISS data
comes from a statistically valid sample
from approximately 100 hospital
emergency departments. The NEISS
system has been in operation since
1971. NEISS emergency department
records are reviewed by hospital
employees or contractors (‘‘NEISS
respondents’’).
From these sources, 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. The CPSC
plans to begin conducting investigations
through internet-based questionnaires in
the next year to supplement telephone
interviews. On-site investigations are
usually made in cases where CPSC staff
need photographs of the incident site,
the product involved, or detailed
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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 the information
to support the development and
improvement of voluntary standards;
rulemaking proceedings; information
and education campaigns; compliance
and enforcement efforts and related
administrative and judicial proceedings.
Commission activities are, in many
cases, data driven, and incident data is
crucial in advancing the agency’s
mission. In addition, the CPSC also
collects information through NEISS for
other federal agencies through
Interagency Agreements including the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (‘‘CDC’’) and the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(‘‘NHTSA’’).
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 September 30,
2016. The Commission now proposes to
request an extension of approval of this
collection of information.
B. NEISS Estimated Burden
The NEISS system collects
information on consumer-product
related injuries from about 100 hospitals
in the U.S. Respondents to NEISS
include hospitals that directly report
information to NEISS and hospitals that
allow CPSC contractors to collect the
data on behalf of the agency. In FY
2015, there were 137 NEISS respondents
(total hospitals and CPSC contractors).
The NEISS respondents reviewed an
estimated 5.05 million emergency
department records and reported
739,673 total cases.
Collecting emergency department
records for review each day takes about
10 minutes. Each record takes about 30
seconds to review. Coding and reporting
records that involve consumer products
or other injuries takes about 2 minutes
per record. Coding and reporting
additional special study information
takes about 90 seconds per record.
Respondents also spend about 36 hours
per year in related activities (training,
evaluations, and communicating with
other hospital staff).
The total burden hours for all NEISS
respondents are estimated to be 81,210
for FY2015. The average burden hour
per respondent is 593 hours. However,
the total burden hour on each
respondent varies due to differences in
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size of the hospital (e.g., small rural
hospitals versus large metropolitan
hospitals). The smallest hospital
reported 202 cases with a burden of
about 111 hours, while the largest
hospital reported 60,405 cases with a
burden of about 4,222 hours.
The total costs to NEISS respondents
for FY2015 are estimated to be
$3,271,621 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 $23,880. The average cost
per burden hour is estimated to be
$40.29 per hour (including wages and
overhead). 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 $1,199 at a small rural hospital
and $281,953 at the largest metropolitan
hospital.
C. Other Burden Hours
In cases that require more information
regarding product-related incidents or
injuries, the CPSC staff conducted faceto-face interviews of approximately 220
persons each year. On average, an onsite interview takes about 4.5 hours. The
CPSC staff also conducts about 1760 indepth investigations by telephone. Each
in-depth telephone investigation
requires about 20 minutes. In addition,
the staff is planning to conduct about
200 internet-based questionnaires per
year that require about 20 minutes each.
The CPSC staff estimates 1,643 annual
burden hours on these respondents: 989
hours for face-to-face interviews; 587
hours for in-depth telephone interviews,
and 67 hours for internet-based
questionnaires. The burden required for
reporting is estimated at $32.82 an hour
(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
‘‘Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation,’’ March 2016, Table 9,
Total compensation for all sales and
office workers in goods-producing
industries: https://www.bls.gov/ncs). At
this valuation, the estimated annual cost
to the public is about $53,923.
This request for the approval of an
estimated 82,853 (81,210 NEISS and
1,643 other) burden hours per year is an
increase of 37,845 hours since this
collection of information was last
approved by OMB in 2013. The increase
in the burden hours is largely due to the
inclusion of information collected
through NEISS for other federal agencies
through Interagency Agreements
including CDC and NHTSA, which were
not otherwise accounted for by those
agencies. In order to account for all the
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burden hours associated with the NEISS
information collection, we have added
those hours to the collection of
information. The increase in burden
hours also includes the increase
associated with offering internet-based
questionnaires in addition to in-person
and telephone interviews.
This information collection request
excludes the burden associated with
other publicly available Consumer
Product Safety Information Databases,
such as internet complaints, Hotline,
and Medical Examiners and Coroners
Alert Project (‘‘MECAP’’) reports, which
are approved under OMB control
number 3041–0146. This information
collection request also excludes the
burden associated with follow-up
investigations conducted by other
federal agencies.
The annual cost to the government of
the collection of the NEISS information
is estimated to be about $4.9 million a
year. This estimate includes $3.3
million in compensation to NEISS
respondents described in section 12(a)
above. This estimate also includes
$1.603 million for about 150 CPSC
professional staff months each year. The
estimate of professional staff months
includes the time required to: Oversee
NEISS operations (e.g., administration,
training, quality control); prepare
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
month of professional staff time costs
the Commission about $10,683.83. This
is based on a GS–12 mid-level salaried
employee. The average yearly wage rate
for a mid-level salaried GS–12 employee
in the Washington, DC metropolitan
area (effective as of January 2016) is
$87,821 (GS–12, step 5). This represents
68.5 percent of total compensation (U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘‘Employer
Costs for Employee Compensation,’’
March 2016, Table 1, percentage of
wages and salaries for all civilian
management, professional, and related
employees: https://www.bls.gov/ncs/).
Adding an additional 31.5 percent for
benefits brings average yearly
compensation for a mid-level salaried
GS–12 employee to $128,206.
D. 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
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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: June 17, 2016.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC-2009-0102]
Collection of Information; Proposed Extension of Approval;
Comment Request--Follow-Up Activities for Product-Related Injuries
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (``PRA'')
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission
(``CPSC'' or ``Commission'') requests comments on a proposed extension
of approval of a collection of information from persons who have been
involved in, or have witnessed incidents associated with, consumer
products. The Commission will consider all comments received in
response to this notice before requesting an extension of approval of
this collection of information from the Office of Management and Budget
(``OMB'').
DATES: The Office of the Secretary must receive comments not later than
August 22, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2009-
0102, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit electronic comments to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at: https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments. The Commission does not accept
comments submitted by electronic mail (email), except through
www.regulations.gov. The Commission encourages you to submit electronic
comments by using the Federal eRulemaking Portal, as described above.
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
that you do not want to be available to the public. If furnished at
all, such
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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, and insert the
docket number, CPSC-2009-0102, into the ``Search'' box, and follow the
prompts.
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 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 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.
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 as
well as U.S. childhood poisonings. NEISS data comes from a
statistically valid sample from approximately 100 hospital emergency
departments. The NEISS system has been in operation since 1971. NEISS
emergency department records are reviewed by hospital employees or
contractors (``NEISS respondents'').
From these sources, 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. The CPSC plans to begin conducting investigations through
internet-based questionnaires in the next year to supplement telephone
interviews. On-site investigations are usually made in cases where CPSC
staff need 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 the information to support the development and
improvement of voluntary standards; rulemaking proceedings; information
and education campaigns; compliance and enforcement efforts and related
administrative and judicial proceedings. Commission activities are, in
many cases, data driven, and incident data is crucial in advancing the
agency's mission. In addition, the CPSC also collects information
through NEISS for other federal agencies through Interagency Agreements
including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (``CDC'') and
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (``NHTSA'').
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 September 30, 2016. The Commission
now proposes to request an extension of approval of this collection of
information.
B. NEISS Estimated Burden
The NEISS system collects information on consumer-product related
injuries from about 100 hospitals in the U.S. Respondents to NEISS
include hospitals that directly report information to NEISS and
hospitals that allow CPSC contractors to collect the data on behalf of
the agency. In FY 2015, there were 137 NEISS respondents (total
hospitals and CPSC contractors). The NEISS respondents reviewed an
estimated 5.05 million emergency department records and reported
739,673 total cases.
Collecting emergency department records for review each day takes
about 10 minutes. Each record takes about 30 seconds to review. Coding
and reporting records that involve consumer products or other injuries
takes about 2 minutes per record. Coding and reporting additional
special study information takes about 90 seconds per record.
Respondents also spend about 36 hours per year in related activities
(training, evaluations, and communicating with other hospital staff).
The total burden hours for all NEISS respondents are estimated to
be 81,210 for FY2015. The average burden hour per respondent is 593
hours. However, the total burden hour on each respondent varies due to
differences in size of the hospital (e.g., small rural hospitals versus
large metropolitan hospitals). The smallest hospital reported 202 cases
with a burden of about 111 hours, while the largest hospital reported
60,405 cases with a burden of about 4,222 hours.
The total costs to NEISS respondents for FY2015 are estimated to be
$3,271,621 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 $23,880. The average cost per burden hour is
estimated to be $40.29 per hour (including wages and overhead).
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 $1,199 at a small
rural hospital and $281,953 at the largest metropolitan hospital.
C. Other Burden Hours
In cases that require more information regarding product-related
incidents or injuries, the CPSC staff conducted face-to-face interviews
of approximately 220 persons each year. On average, an on-site
interview takes about 4.5 hours. The CPSC staff also conducts about
1760 in-depth investigations by telephone. Each in-depth telephone
investigation requires about 20 minutes. In addition, the staff is
planning to conduct about 200 internet-based questionnaires per year
that require about 20 minutes each. The CPSC staff estimates 1,643
annual burden hours on these respondents: 989 hours for face-to-face
interviews; 587 hours for in-depth telephone interviews, and 67 hours
for internet-based questionnaires. The burden required for reporting is
estimated at $32.82 an hour (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
``Employer Costs for Employee Compensation,'' March 2016, Table 9,
Total compensation for all sales and office workers in goods-producing
industries: https://www.bls.gov/ncs). At this valuation, the estimated
annual cost to the public is about $53,923.
This request for the approval of an estimated 82,853 (81,210 NEISS
and 1,643 other) burden hours per year is an increase of 37,845 hours
since this collection of information was last approved by OMB in 2013.
The increase in the burden hours is largely due to the inclusion of
information collected through NEISS for other federal agencies through
Interagency Agreements including CDC and NHTSA, which were not
otherwise accounted for by those agencies. In order to account for all
the
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burden hours associated with the NEISS information collection, we have
added those hours to the collection of information. The increase in
burden hours also includes the increase associated with offering
internet-based questionnaires in addition to in-person and telephone
interviews.
This information collection request excludes the burden associated
with other publicly available Consumer Product Safety Information
Databases, such as internet complaints, Hotline, and Medical Examiners
and Coroners Alert Project (``MECAP'') reports, which are approved
under OMB control number 3041-0146. This information collection request
also excludes the burden associated with follow-up investigations
conducted by other federal agencies.
The annual cost to the government of the collection of the NEISS
information is estimated to be about $4.9 million a year. This estimate
includes $3.3 million in compensation to NEISS respondents described in
section 12(a) above. This estimate also includes $1.603 million for
about 150 CPSC professional staff months each year. The estimate of
professional staff months includes the time required to: Oversee NEISS
operations (e.g., administration, training, quality control); prepare
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 month of professional staff time costs the
Commission about $10,683.83. This is based on a GS-12 mid-level
salaried employee. The average yearly wage rate for a mid-level
salaried GS-12 employee in the Washington, DC metropolitan area
(effective as of January 2016) is $87,821 (GS-12, step 5). This
represents 68.5 percent of total compensation (U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, ``Employer Costs for Employee Compensation,'' March 2016,
Table 1, percentage of wages and salaries for all civilian management,
professional, and related employees: https://www.bls.gov/ncs/). Adding
an additional 31.5 percent for benefits brings average yearly
compensation for a mid-level salaried GS-12 employee to $128,206.
D. 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: June 17, 2016.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 2016-14729 Filed 6-21-16; 8:45 am]
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