[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 2, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30783-30784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13087]
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC-2009-0064]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Safety Standard for Infant Bath Seats
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on the proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(the PRA), Federal agencies are required to publish notice in the
Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of information,
and to allow 60 days for public comment in response to the notice. This
notice solicits comments on the burden estimates for the marking and
instructional literature requirements in the Safety Standard for Infant
Bath Seats.
DATES: Submit written or electronic comments on the collection of
information by August 2, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2009-
0064, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions
Submit electronic comments in the following way:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://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 (e-mail) except
through http://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 502, 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 http://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 http://www.regulations.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Edwards, Project Manager,
Directorate for Engineering Sciences, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301)
504-7577; [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), Federal
agencies must obtain approval from the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for each collection of information they conduct or sponsor.
``Collection of information'' is defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR
1320.3(c) and includes agency requests or requirements that members of
the public submit reports, keep records, or provide
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information to a third party. Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires Federal agencies to provide a 60-day
notice in the Federal Register concerning each proposed collection of
information before submitting the collection to OMB for approval. To
comply with this requirement, the CPSC is publishing notice of the
proposed collection of information set forth in this document.
With respect to the following collection of information, the CPSC
invites comments on these topics: (1) Whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of CPSC's
functions, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of CPSC's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) ways
to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including through the use of automated collection techniques, when
appropriate, and other forms of information technology.
Title: Safety Standard for Infant Bath Seats--16 CFR 1215
Description: The rule would require each infant bath seat to comply
with ASTM F 1967-08a, Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant
Bath Seats.'' Sections 8 and 9 of ASTM F 1967-08a contain requirements
for marking and instructional literature.
We estimate the burden of this collection of information as
follows:
Table 1--Estimated Annual Reporting Burden
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Number of Frequency of Total annual Hours per Total burden
16 CFR section respondents responses responses response hours
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1215.2(a)....................... 2 1 2 0.5 1
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There are no capital costs or operating and maintenance costs
associated with this collection of information.
Our estimates are based on the following:
Proposed 16 CFR 1215.2(a) would require each infant bath seat to
comply with ASTM F 1967-08a. Sections 8 and 9 of ASTM F 1967-08a
contain requirements for marking and instructional literature that are
disclosure requirements, thus falling within the definition of
``collections of information'' at 5 CFR 1320.3(c).
Section 8.6.1 of ASTM F 1967-08a requires that the name and
``either the place of business (city, State, and mailing address,
including zip code) or telephone number, or both'' of the manufacturer,
distributor, or seller be clearly and legibly marked on ``each product
and its retail package.'' Section 8.6.2 of ASTM F 1967-08a requires
that ``a code mark or other means that identifies the date (month and
year as a minimum) of manufacture'' be clearly and legibly marked on
``each product and its retail package.'' In both cases, the information
must be placed on both the product and the retail package.
There are three known firms supplying bath seats to the United
States market. One of the three firms is known to already produce
labels that comply with sections 8.6.1 and 8.6.2 of the standard, so
there would be no additional burden on this firm. The remaining two
firms are assumed to already use labels on both their products and
their packaging, but might need to make some modifications to their
existing labels. The estimated time required to make these
modifications is about 30 minutes per model. Each of these firms
supplies an average of one model of infant bath seat, therefore, the
estimated burden hours associated with labels is 30 minutes x 2 firms x
1 model per firm = 60 minutes or 1 annual hour.
The Commission estimates that hourly compensation for the time
required to create and update labels is $27.78 (Bureau of Labor
Statistics, September 2009, all workers, goods-producing industries,
Sales and office, Table 9). Therefore, the estimated annual cost
associated with the Commission-recommended labeling requirements is
approximately $27.78.
Section 9.1 of ASTM F 1967-08a requires instructions to be supplied
with the product. Infant bath seats are products that generally require
some installation and maintenance, and products sold without such
information would not be able to successfully compete with products
supplying this information. Under OMB's regulations (5 CFR
1320.3(b)(2)), the time, effort, and financial resources necessary to
comply with a collection of information that would be incurred by
persons in the ``normal course of their activities'' are excluded from
a burden estimate where an agency demonstrates that the disclosure
activities needed to comply are ``usual and customary.'' Therefore,
because the CPSC is unaware of infant bath seats that: (a) Generally
require some installation, but (b) lack any instructions to the user
about such installation, we tentatively estimate that there are no
burden hours associated with the instruction requirement in section 9.1
of ASTM F 1967-08a because any burden associated with supplying
instructions with an infant bath seat would be ``usual and customary''
and not within the definition of ``burden'' under OMB's regulations.
Based on this analysis, the requirements of the bath seat rule
would impose a burden to industry of 1 hour at a cost of $27.78.
Dated: May 25, 2010.
Todd Stevenson,
Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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