[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 16, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 16CFR1021.6]

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                     TITLE 16--COMMERCIAL PRACTICES
 
             CHAPTER II--CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
 
PART 1021--ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW--Table of Contents
 
                          Subpart B--Procedures
 
Sec.  1021.6  Responsible official.


    (a) The Executive Director of the CPSC shall have the responsibility 
to ensure that the Commission's policies and procedures set forth in 
this part are carried out. He or she shall have the following specific 
powers and duties:
    (1) To ensure that CPSC environmental review is conducted in 
accordance with the NEPA regulations as well as this part 1021.
    (2) To evaluate the significance of effects of a CPSC action on the 
environment and to determine whether a finding of no significant impact 
or an EIS should be prepared.
    (3) To determine when a categorical exclusion requires environmental 
review because of exceptional circumstances indicating that the 
otherwise excluded action may produce an environmental effect.
    (4) To instruct CPSC staff to prepare supplements to either draft or 
final EIS's where there is new environmental information or when CPSC 
makes changes in a proposed action that are important to environmental 
issues.
    (5) To ensure that environmental documents are before the Commission 
at all stages of review of proposed action.
    (6) To make provisions for soliciting public comment on the 
anticipated effects on the environment of proposed CPSC actions and 
their reasonable alternatives at any stage of the environmental review 
process, whenever he or she decides that such comment will be helpful. 
The Executive Director, for example, shall have the power to require 
that provision for soliciting such comments, written or oral, be 
included in any announcement of a public hearing on proposed rulemaking 
or on the merits of a petition for rulemaking.
    (7) To call upon all resources and expertise available to CPSC to 
ensure that environmental review is accomplished through an 
interdisciplinary effort.
    (8) To delegate any of his or her powers and duties, other than 
paragraphs (a) (2) and (3) of this section, to any officer or employee 
of the CPSC.