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Commission amended the compliance
regime for Commodity Pool Operators,
which is part of a previously approved
information collection, through the
adoption of a compliance regime
applicable to Commodity Pool
Operators of Registered Investment
Companies, 78 FR 52308 (Aug. 22,
2013).
The disclosure, filing, and
recordkeeping requirements within part
4 of the Commission’s regulations were
established to assist customers, to
facilitate the Commission and the
National Futures Association (‘‘NFA’’)
in monitoring compliance with the part
4 rules, and to enable the Commission
to better monitor the market risks posed
by the Commission’s registrants. The
information collections are necessary to
enable the Commission and NFA to
accomplish the purposes of the
compliance regime set forth in part 4
enumerated above.
With respect to the collection of
information, the CFTC invites
comments on:
• Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Commission, including whether the
information will have a practical use;
• The accuracy of the Commission’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
• Ways to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including through the
use of appropriate automated electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology; e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
All comments must be submitted in
English, or if not, accompanied by an
English translation. Comments will be
posted as received to http://
www.cftc.gov. You should submit only
information that you wish to make
available publicly. If you wish the
Commission to consider information
that you believe is exempt from
disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act, a petition for
confidential treatment of the exempt
information may be submitted according
to the procedures established in § 145.9
of the Commission’s regulations.1
The Commission reserves the right,
but shall have no obligation, to review,
pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or
remove any or all of your submission
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from http://www.cftc.gov that it may
deem to be inappropriate for
publication, such as obscene language.
All submissions that have been redacted
or removed that contain comments on
the merits of the Information Collection
Request will be retained in the public
comment file and will be considered as
required under the Administrative
Procedure Act and other applicable
laws, and may be accessible under the
Freedom of Information Act.
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
be 4 hours 2 per response.
Respondents/Affected Entities:
Commodity Pool Operators, Commodity
Trading Advisors.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
48,046.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours on Respondents: 276,060 hours.3
Frequency of Collection: Periodically.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
Dated: June 24, 2016.
Robert N. Sidman,
Deputy Secretary of the Commission.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0088]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed 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 extension of approval of a
collection of information under the
requirements pertaining to a third party
conformity assessment body registration
form, approved previously under OMB
Control No. 3041–0143. The
Commission will consider all comments
received in response to this notice
before requesting an extension of this
collection of information from the Office
of Management and Budget (‘‘OMB’’).

SUMMARY:

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has been rounded down from 4.0348.
estimated total burden hours for the
collections have been rounded down slightly, based
on the estimated burden hour per response of
4.0348.
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Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by August 29, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2009–
0088, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit
electronic comments to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at: http://
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 by mail/hand delivery/
courier 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:
http://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
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, and insert the
docket number CPSC–2009–0088, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the
prompts.
DATES:

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.
CPSC
seeks to renew the following currently
approved collection of information:
Title: Third Party Conformity
Assessment Body Registration Form.
OMB Number: 3041–0143.
Type of Review: Renewal of
collection.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Affected Public: Third party
conformity assessment bodies seeking
acceptance of accreditation or
continuing accreditation.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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General Description of Collection
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.
Part 1112 requires the collection of
information in CPSC Form 223:
• Upon initial application by the
third party conformity assessment body
for acceptance by CPSC;
• Whenever there is a change to
accreditation or ownership information;
and
• At least every 2 years as part of a
regular audit process.
Burden Estimates
The CPSC estimates the burden of the
collection of information in CPSC Form
223 is as follows:

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN
Number of
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Activity

Frequency of
responses

Total annual
responses

Hours per
response

Total hours

Initial Registration ............................................................
Re-Registration ................................................................
Changes in Information ....................................................

40
243
2

1
1
1

40
243
2

1
1
0.25

40
243
0.5

Total ..........................................................................

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283.5

These estimates are based on the
following information:
• From March 23, 2015 to March 23,
2016, 39 new third party conformity
assessment bodies have registered with
the CPSC; 36 registered during the
previous 12 months. Therefore, we
estimate the number of third party
conformity assessment bodies who
would register initially each year for the
next three years would be 40.
• Under 16 CFR part 1112, third party
conformity assessment bodies are
required to resubmit CPSC Form 223
every two years. Because all third party
conformity assessment bodies have not
submitted their first CPSC Form 223s at
the same time, only about half would be
expected to resubmit a CPSC Form 223
in any one year. As of March 2016, 487
third party conformity assessment
bodies have registered with CPSC.
Approximately half (243) of these firms
would be required to re-register with
CPSC each year.
• Under 16 CFR part 1112, third party
conformity assessment bodies are
required to ensure that the information
submitted on CPSC Form 223 is current
and must submit a new CPSC Form 223
whenever the information changes.
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estimate that two third party conformity
assessment bodies will make revisions
per year to update their information. A
change in information is a change that
does not require review of laboratory
accreditation documents, such as scope
or test methods. Examples of revised
information include changes in the Web
site URL, name of the laboratory, and
name of point of contact.
The total burden, therefore, is 283.5
hours, which we will round up to 284
hours. We estimate that hourly
compensation for the time required for
recordkeeping is $32.82 per hour (U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘‘Employer
Costs for Employee Compensation,’’
Table 9, total compensation for sales,
office, and related workers in goodsproducing industries, December 2015:
http://www.bls.gov/ncs). The total cost
burden to the respondents is
approximately $9,321 ($32.82 × 284
hours = $9,321.88).
Request for Comments

• 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 27, 2016.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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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:

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