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and publish in the Federal Register, the
schedule of maximum authorized
penalties. As calculated in accordance
with the amendments, the new amounts
are $110,000 for each violation, and
$16,025,000 for any related series of
violations.
The new amounts will become
effective on January 1, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dennis C. Kacoyanis, Attorney, Office of
the General Counsel, U.S. Consumer
Product Safety Commission, 4330 East
West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814;
telephone (301) 504–7587; email
dkacoyanis@cpsc.gov.
DATES:
The
Consumer Product Safety Improvement
Act of 1990 (Improvement Act), Public
Law 101–608, 104 Stat. 3110 (November
16, 1990), and the Consumer Product
Safety Improvement Act of 2008
(CPSIA), Public Law 110–314, 122 Stat.
3016 (August 14, 2008), amended the
Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA),
the Federal Hazardous Substances Act
(FHSA), and the Flammable Fabrics Act
(FFA). The Improvement Act added
civil penalty authority to the FHSA and
FFA, which previously contained only
criminal penalties. 15 U.S.C. 1264(c)
and 1194(e). The Improvement Act also
increased the maximum civil penalty
amounts applicable to civil penalties
under the CPSA and set the same
maximum amounts for the newly
created FHSA and FFA civil penalties.
15 U.S.C. 2069(a)(1), 1264(c)(1) and
1194(e)(1).
The Improvement Act directed the
Commission to adjust the maximum
civil penalty amounts periodically for
inflation:
(A) The maximum penalty amounts
authorized in paragraph (1) shall be
adjusted for inflation as provided in this
paragraph.
(B) Not later than December 1, 1994,
and December 1 of each fifth calendar
year thereafter, the Commission shall
prescribe and publish in the Federal
Register a schedule of maximum
authorized penalties that shall apply for
violations that occur after January 1 of
the year immediately following such
publication.
(C) The schedule of maximum
authorized penalties shall be prescribed
by increasing each of the amounts
referred to in paragraph (1) by the costof-living adjustment for the preceding 5
years. Any increase determined under
the preceding sentence shall be rounded
to—
(i) in the case of penalties greater than
$1,000 but less than or equal to $10,000,
the nearest multiple of $1,000;
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(ii) in the case of penalties greater
than $10,000 but less than or equal to
$100,000, the nearest multiple of
$5,000;
(iii) in the case of penalties greater
than $100,000 but less than or equal to
$200,000, the nearest multiple of
$10,000; and
(iv) in the case of penalties greater
than $200,000, the nearest multiple of
$25,000.
(D) For purposes of this subsection:
(i) The term ‘‘Consumer Price Index’’
means the Consumer Price Index for allurban consumers published by the
Department of Labor.
(ii) The term ‘‘cost-of-living
adjustment for the preceding five years’’
means the percentage by which—
(I) the Consumer Price Index for the
month of June of the calendar year
preceding the adjustment; exceeds
(II) the Consumer Price Index for the
month of June preceding the date on
which the maximum authorized penalty
was last adjusted. 15 U.S.C. 2069(a)(3),
1264(c)(6), and 1194(e)(5).
The CPSIA amended the CPSA,
FHSA, and FFA to increase the
maximum civil penalty amounts to
$100,000 for each violation, and
$15,000,000 for any related series of
violations. 15 U.S.C. 2069(a)(1),
1264(c)(1), and 1194(e)(1). The CPSIA
also revised the starting date from
December 1, 1994, and every fifth year
thereafter, to no later than December 1,
2011, and every fifth year thereafter, as
the date on which ‘‘the Commission
shall prescribe and publish in the
Federal Register a schedule of
maximum authorized penalties that
shall apply for violations that occur
after January 1 of the year immediately
following such publication.’’
The Commission’s Directorate for
Economics has calculated that the costof-living adjustment increases the
maximum civil penalty amounts to
$105,722 for each violation, and to
$16,016,580 for any related series of
violations. Rounding off these numbers
in accordance with the statutory
directions, the adjusted maximum
amounts are $110,000 for each violation,
and $16,025,000 for any related series of
violations. These new amounts will
apply to violations that occur after
January 1, 2017.
Dated: November 18, 2016.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
Conclusion of Consumer Product
Safety Commission International Trade
Data System Initial Test Concerning
the Electronic Filing of Targeting/
Enforcement Data
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission (Commission or
CPSC) in consultation with U.S.
Customs & Border Protection (CBP)
previously announced a test to assess
the electronic filing of certain data via
the Partner Government Agency (PGA)
Message Set to the CBP-authorized
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
system known as the Automated
Commercial Environment (ACE). Test
participants collaborated with CBP and
CPSC in examining the effectiveness of
the ‘‘single window’’ capability and
assessing the concept of a data registry
(the Product Registry), maintained by
CPSC. CBP and CPSC have determined
that the test, which the CPSC refers to
as the ‘‘eFiling Alpha Pilot,’’ was
successful, in that participating firms
were able to file CPSC’s PGA Message
Set data as part of an ACE entry, CPSC
was able to receive the PGA Message Set
data from CBP, and CPSC was able to
accept the data into CPSC’s system for
risk analysis. Accordingly, this
document announces that the initial
test, the eFiling Alpha Pilot, will
conclude on December 31, 2016.
DATES: The CPSC test will conclude on
December 31, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the test or
concerning this notice should be
submitted through electronic mail to:
efilingpilot@cpsc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding the test should be
directed to Jim Joholske, Deputy
Director, Office of Import Surveillance,
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission, (301) 504–7527,
efilingpilot@cpsc.gov. Questions sent by
electronic mail should contain the
subject heading ‘‘Question re PGA
Message Set Test.’’ For technical
questions regarding ACE or ABI
transmissions, or the PGA message set
data transmission, please contact your
assigned CBP client representative.
Interested parties without an assigned
client representative should submit an
email to Steven Zaccaro at
steven.j.zaccaro@cbp.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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I. Background
A. The Automated Commercial
Environment
ACE is an automated and electronic
system for commercial trade processing
that is intended to streamline business
processes, facilitate growth in trade,
ensure cargo security, and foster
participation in global commerce, while
ensuring compliance with U.S. laws and
regulations, and reducing costs for CBP
and all of its communities of interest.
The Automated Broker Interface (ABI) is
a software interface to ACE. Commercial
trade participants who want to file
entries in ACE use ABI to electronically
file required import data with CBP. ABI
transfers trade-submitted data into ACE.
CBP has developed ACE as the ‘‘single
window’’ for the trade community to
comply with the International Trade
Data System (ITDS) requirement
established by the SAFE Port Act of
2006. The PGA Message Set enables
additional trade-related data specified
by PGAs to be entered in one location.
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B. ITDS Goals and CBP’s Authority To
Conduct National Customs Automation
Program Tests
The ITDS is an electronic data
interchange system whose goals include
eliminating redundant information
requirements, efficiently regulating the
flow of commerce, and effectively
enforcing laws and regulations relating
to international trade by establishing a
single portal system, operated by CBP,
for the collection and distribution of
standard electronic import and export
data required by participating federal
agencies. All federal agencies that
require documentation for clearance or
licensing the importation of cargo are
required to participate in ITDS. The
Customs Modernization provisions in
the North American Free Trade
Agreement Implementation Act provide
the Commissioner of CBP with authority
to conduct limited test programs or
procedures designed to evaluate
planned components of the National
Customs Automation Program (NCAP),
which includes ACE.
C. Test Purpose and Goal
CPSC’s PGA Message Set test,
described in an August 21, 2015 Federal
Register Notice, was developed to
further ITDS and NCAP goals. 80 FR
50827 (Aug. 21, 2015) (August 2015 Test
Notice). Information and feedback from
the test will be used to evaluate
electronic filing capability and inform
the Commission in striving to improve
and streamline the import process going
forward. The goal of electronic filing of
targeting/enforcement data is to
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facilitate compliant trade as well as
sharpen CPSC’s focus on noncompliant
trade. CPSC intends to use targeting/
enforcement data to review consumer
product entry requirements and allow
for earlier risk-based admissibility
decisions by CPSC staff. Additionally,
because it is electronic, the PGA
Message Set could eliminate the
necessity for submission and
subsequent handling of paper
documents. Piloting electronic filing as
a means to transition away from paperbased filing is a priority initiative of the
PGAs to meet the stated ‘‘single
window’’ implementation timeline.
II. CPSC’s PGA Message Set Test
A. Description of the Test
CPSC focused this initial test on
electronic filing of five targeting/
enforcement data elements (CPSC data),
using the PGA Message Set. The test
evaluated participant’s ability to
electronically file targeting/enforcement
data for regulated finished consumer
products under CPSC’s jurisdiction and
three specified finished products
included on the Substantial Product
Hazard List established under section
15(j) of the CPSA, and CPSC’s ability to
accept targeting/enforcement data into
CPSC’s risk assessment methodology
program (the RAM).
Pilot participants had a choice
between two different methods to file
targeting/enforcement data for products
using the PGA Message Set. Participants
could either: (1) File the targeting/
enforcement data elements with each
product at the time of entry (Full PGA
Message Set), or (2) file only a reference
to targeting/enforcement data stored in
a Product Registry maintained by CPSC
(Product Registry and Reference PGA
Message Set). Participants primarily
chose to file data using the Product
Registry and Reference PGA Message
Set, although we anticipate that several
participants will file using the Full PGA
Message Set before the pilot concludes.
Through their broker, pilot participants
submitted targeting/enforcement data
through CPSC’s PGA Message Set as
part of an ACE entry, or ACE entry
summary if both entry and entry
summary were filed together.
Participants filed PGA Message Set data
with each applicable entry filed with
CBP. To file CPSC PGA Message Set
data through ACE, associated brokers
successfully implemented application
software updates.
Once filed in ACE, CBP made the
PGA Message Set data, along with entry
data, available to CPSC for validation.
CPSC was able to receive PGA Message
Set data from CBP, where applicable,
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match a reference number with
previously-filed targeting/enforcement
data in the Product Registry, and to
accept the enforcement/targeting data
elements into CPSC’s RAM. Moreover,
participants that chose to use the
Product Registry were able to file the
requisite targeting/enforcement data
into the Product Registry for specific
products, and were able to successfully
provide a reference number to this data
using the PGA Message Set during the
entry process, rather than entering all
such data elements each time the
product was imported.
B. Conclusion of the Test
As stated in the August 2015 Test
Notice, once operational, the test was
expected to run for approximately six
months or until concluded or extended
by the issuance of a Federal Register
notice announcing the extension or
conclusion of this test. This notice
announces that CPSC and CBP have
determined that ACE is capable of
accepting electronic targeting/
enforcement data, and electronic
Product Registry reference information,
through CPSC’s PGA Message Set. CPSC
is capable of receiving PGA Message Set
data, matching reference data to
previously-filed targeting/enforcement
data in the Product Registry, and
accepting targeting/enforcement data
and entry data into CPSC’s RAM
program for further risk evaluation.
CPSC also determined that participants
are able to enter the requisite targeting/
enforcement data elements for each
product into a Product Registry, receive
a reference number, and file such
reference number in CPSC’s PGA
Message Set each time the product is
referenced in an ACE entry. Having
found the eFiling Alpha Pilot to be
successful, CPSC and CBP are
concluding the test effective December
31, 2016.
Upon the date the test concludes,
trade members will no longer be
authorized to file CPSC data in ACE.
CBP will undertake efforts to reject or
prevent the filing of CPSC data in ACE.
III. Next Steps for CPSC’s PGA Message
Set Testing
After the conclusion of the test, CPSC
will provide a forum to consider what
CPSC staff and participants learned
from the eFiling Alpha Pilot and how
best to structure a more robust ‘‘beta’’
test of electronic filing. Based on the
review of the eFiling Alpha Pilot, CPSC
staff will provide options regarding a
‘‘beta’’ testing phase for Commission
consideration.
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Dated: November 17, 2016.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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period for timely objections, will be
treated as an objection and may be
considered as an alternative to the
proposed license.
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Officer.
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Notice of Intent To Grant a Partially
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AGENCY:
ACTION:
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grant the partially exclusive patent
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Adsorption, Absorption and Separation,’’
filed 11 January 2010, and issued 23 October
2012.
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AGENCY:
In accordance with 10 U.S.C.
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Academy (USAFA) Board of Visitors
(BoV) will hold a meeting on the Senate
Side, Capitol Visitor Center, Room 212–
10, Washington, DC on Thursday,
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curriculum, instruction, infrastructure,
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before the first day of the meeting which
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
Conclusion of Consumer Product Safety Commission International
Trade Data System Initial Test Concerning the Electronic Filing of
Targeting/Enforcement Data
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or
CPSC) in consultation with U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP)
previously announced a test to assess the electronic filing of certain
data via the Partner Government Agency (PGA) Message Set to the CBP-
authorized Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) system known as the
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE). Test participants collaborated
with CBP and CPSC in examining the effectiveness of the ``single
window'' capability and assessing the concept of a data registry (the
Product Registry), maintained by CPSC. CBP and CPSC have determined
that the test, which the CPSC refers to as the ``eFiling Alpha Pilot,''
was successful, in that participating firms were able to file CPSC's
PGA Message Set data as part of an ACE entry, CPSC was able to receive
the PGA Message Set data from CBP, and CPSC was able to accept the data
into CPSC's system for risk analysis. Accordingly, this document
announces that the initial test, the eFiling Alpha Pilot, will conclude
on December 31, 2016.
DATES: The CPSC test will conclude on December 31, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Comments on the test or concerning this notice should be
submitted through electronic mail to: efilingpilot@cpsc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions regarding the test should be
directed to Jim Joholske, Deputy Director, Office of Import
Surveillance, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, (301) 504-7527,
efilingpilot@cpsc.gov. Questions sent by electronic mail should contain
the subject heading ``Question re PGA Message Set Test.'' For technical
questions regarding ACE or ABI transmissions, or the PGA message set
data transmission, please contact your assigned CBP client
representative. Interested parties without an assigned client
representative should submit an email to Steven Zaccaro at
steven.j.zaccaro@cbp.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. Background
A. The Automated Commercial Environment
ACE is an automated and electronic system for commercial trade
processing that is intended to streamline business processes,
facilitate growth in trade, ensure cargo security, and foster
participation in global commerce, while ensuring compliance with U.S.
laws and regulations, and reducing costs for CBP and all of its
communities of interest. The Automated Broker Interface (ABI) is a
software interface to ACE. Commercial trade participants who want to
file entries in ACE use ABI to electronically file required import data
with CBP. ABI transfers trade-submitted data into ACE. CBP has
developed ACE as the ``single window'' for the trade community to
comply with the International Trade Data System (ITDS) requirement
established by the SAFE Port Act of 2006. The PGA Message Set enables
additional trade-related data specified by PGAs to be entered in one
location.
B. ITDS Goals and CBP's Authority To Conduct National Customs
Automation Program Tests
The ITDS is an electronic data interchange system whose goals
include eliminating redundant information requirements, efficiently
regulating the flow of commerce, and effectively enforcing laws and
regulations relating to international trade by establishing a single
portal system, operated by CBP, for the collection and distribution of
standard electronic import and export data required by participating
federal agencies. All federal agencies that require documentation for
clearance or licensing the importation of cargo are required to
participate in ITDS. The Customs Modernization provisions in the North
American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act provide the
Commissioner of CBP with authority to conduct limited test programs or
procedures designed to evaluate planned components of the National
Customs Automation Program (NCAP), which includes ACE.
C. Test Purpose and Goal
CPSC's PGA Message Set test, described in an August 21, 2015
Federal Register Notice, was developed to further ITDS and NCAP goals.
80 FR 50827 (Aug. 21, 2015) (August 2015 Test Notice). Information and
feedback from the test will be used to evaluate electronic filing
capability and inform the Commission in striving to improve and
streamline the import process going forward. The goal of electronic
filing of targeting/enforcement data is to facilitate compliant trade
as well as sharpen CPSC's focus on noncompliant trade. CPSC intends to
use targeting/enforcement data to review consumer product entry
requirements and allow for earlier risk-based admissibility decisions
by CPSC staff. Additionally, because it is electronic, the PGA Message
Set could eliminate the necessity for submission and subsequent
handling of paper documents. Piloting electronic filing as a means to
transition away from paper-based filing is a priority initiative of the
PGAs to meet the stated ``single window'' implementation timeline.
II. CPSC's PGA Message Set Test
A. Description of the Test
CPSC focused this initial test on electronic filing of five
targeting/enforcement data elements (CPSC data), using the PGA Message
Set. The test evaluated participant's ability to electronically file
targeting/enforcement data for regulated finished consumer products
under CPSC's jurisdiction and three specified finished products
included on the Substantial Product Hazard List established under
section 15(j) of the CPSA, and CPSC's ability to accept targeting/
enforcement data into CPSC's risk assessment methodology program (the
RAM).
Pilot participants had a choice between two different methods to
file targeting/enforcement data for products using the PGA Message Set.
Participants could either: (1) File the targeting/enforcement data
elements with each product at the time of entry (Full PGA Message Set),
or (2) file only a reference to targeting/enforcement data stored in a
Product Registry maintained by CPSC (Product Registry and Reference PGA
Message Set). Participants primarily chose to file data using the
Product Registry and Reference PGA Message Set, although we anticipate
that several participants will file using the Full PGA Message Set
before the pilot concludes. Through their broker, pilot participants
submitted targeting/enforcement data through CPSC's PGA Message Set as
part of an ACE entry, or ACE entry summary if both entry and entry
summary were filed together. Participants filed PGA Message Set data
with each applicable entry filed with CBP. To file CPSC PGA Message Set
data through ACE, associated brokers successfully implemented
application software updates.
Once filed in ACE, CBP made the PGA Message Set data, along with
entry data, available to CPSC for validation. CPSC was able to receive
PGA Message Set data from CBP, where applicable, match a reference
number with previously-filed targeting/enforcement data in the Product
Registry, and to accept the enforcement/targeting data elements into
CPSC's RAM. Moreover, participants that chose to use the Product
Registry were able to file the requisite targeting/enforcement data
into the Product Registry for specific products, and were able to
successfully provide a reference number to this data using the PGA
Message Set during the entry process, rather than entering all such
data elements each time the product was imported.
B. Conclusion of the Test
As stated in the August 2015 Test Notice, once operational, the
test was expected to run for approximately six months or until
concluded or extended by the issuance of a Federal Register notice
announcing the extension or conclusion of this test. This notice
announces that CPSC and CBP have determined that ACE is capable of
accepting electronic targeting/enforcement data, and electronic Product
Registry reference information, through CPSC's PGA Message Set. CPSC is
capable of receiving PGA Message Set data, matching reference data to
previously-filed targeting/enforcement data in the Product Registry,
and accepting targeting/enforcement data and entry data into CPSC's RAM
program for further risk evaluation. CPSC also determined that
participants are able to enter the requisite targeting/enforcement data
elements for each product into a Product Registry, receive a reference
number, and file such reference number in CPSC's PGA Message Set each
time the product is referenced in an ACE entry. Having found the
eFiling Alpha Pilot to be successful, CPSC and CBP are concluding the
test effective December 31, 2016.
Upon the date the test concludes, trade members will no longer be
authorized to file CPSC data in ACE. CBP will undertake efforts to
reject or prevent the filing of CPSC data in ACE.
III. Next Steps for CPSC's PGA Message Set Testing
After the conclusion of the test, CPSC will provide a forum to
consider what CPSC staff and participants learned from the eFiling
Alpha Pilot and how best to structure a more robust ``beta'' test of
electronic filing. Based on the review of the eFiling Alpha Pilot, CPSC
staff will provide options regarding a ``beta'' testing phase for
Commission consideration.
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Dated: November 17, 2016.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 2016-28172 Filed 11-22-16; 8:45 am]
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