Federal Register 60 Day Notice

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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2018–0002]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; CPSC Playground
Surfaces Survey
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC or Commission) is
announcing an opportunity for public
comment on a new proposed collection
of information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
for each proposed collection of
information and to allow 60 days for
public comment in response to the
notice. This notice solicits comments on
a survey that will assess children’s
potential exposure to playground
surfaces, including recycled tire
material.

SUMMARY:

Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by April 6, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2018–
0002, 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 in the following way: 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

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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: http://
www.regulations.gov, and insert the
docket number, CPSC–2018–0002, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the
prompts. A copy of the draft survey is
available at http://www.regulations.gov
under Docket No. CPSC–2018–0002,
Supporting and Related Material.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charu Krishnan, Consumer Product
Safety Commission, 4330 East-West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301)
504–7221, or by email to: CKrishnan@
cpsc.gov.
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 surveys.
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. Accordingly, the CPSC is
publishing notice of the proposed
collection of information set forth in
this document.
A. Playground Surfaces Survey
The Commission is authorized under
section 5(a) of the Consumer Product
Safety Act (CPSA), 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), to
conduct studies and investigations
relating to the causes and prevention of
deaths, accidents, injuries, illnesses,
other health impairments, and economic
losses associated with consumer
products. Section 5(b) of the CPSA, 15
U.S.C. 2054(b), further provides that the
Commission may conduct research,
studies, and investigations on the safety
of consumer products or test consumer
products and develop product safety
test methods and testing devices.
The use of recycled tire material or
‘‘tire crumb’’ rubber is commonplace for
many athletic fields, as well as
children’s playgrounds. Playground
surfaces derived from recycled tires are
a popular option due to their low
maintenance, variety of colors and
designs, and ability to reduce the
impacts from falls. The CPSC has
received numerous inquiries from
consumers and stakeholders regarding
the safety of playground surfaces
derived from recycled tires. In February
2016, the CPSC, the Environmental

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Protection Agency (EPA), and the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) launched the
interagency Federal Research Action
Plan on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on
Playing Fields and Playgrounds (Plan).
One of the Plan’s objectives is to
identify the potential hazardous
chemical exposure to children derived
from recycled tire material used
regularly on playgrounds throughout the
United States. The EPA and CDC will
evaluate the chemical hazards of
recycled tire materials on athletic
playing fields, and the CPSC will assess
the level of risk and the extent to which
children may be exposed to potential
hazard(s) related to recycled tires on
playgrounds.
As a first step, in 2016, the CPSC
conducted focus groups to gather data
from a small sample of parents,
childcare providers, and personnel
responsible for the inspection and
maintenance of playgrounds on their
experiences and observations of how
children interact with various types of
playground surfaces, including those
derived from recycled tires.1 Based on
information obtained from these focus
groups, the CPSC now proposes to
conduct a survey of a nationally
representative sample of parents or
guardians of children (age 0 to 5) who
visit playgrounds to gain a better
understanding of potential exposures of
playground surfaces on children, based
on children’s play behaviors on
playgrounds. Exposure may include
skin contact, ingestion, and potential
contact through open wounds. With the
data received from EPA and CDC
regarding potential chemical hazards in
recycled tires, and the information from
the survey, CPSC staff plans to evaluate
the extent children may be exposed to
potential hazards related to tire crumb
rubber and the level of risk from that
exposure. This survey will help inform
CPSC staff’s analysis regarding
playground surfaces derived from
recycled tires. CPSC staff may also
design future studies based on the
information collected from the survey.
CPSC has contracted with the Fors
Marsh Group, LLC (FMG) to design the
survey. SSRS, LLC will program and
administer the final survey. Trained
interviewers will dial and conduct the
survey using a computer-assisted
telephone interview (CATI) system, in a
secure location, to which only
authorized personnel have access.
Participants will be recruited by recontacting respondents of the SSRS
Omnibus. The SSRS Omnibus is a
1 Approved by OMB under Control Number
3041–0136.

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national, weekly, dual-frame bilingual
RDD telephone survey designed to meet
standards of quality associated with
custom research studies. Each weekly
wave of the SSRS Omnibus consists of
1,000 interviews; 600 are obtained with
respondents on their cell phones, and
approximately 35 interviews are
completed in Spanish. The topic of the
surveys varies week to week.
Interviewers will conduct follow-up recontacts to target specific populations
on certain issues. We will use existing
data from this sample source to prescreen individuals in the target
population (parents of children who are
currently 0–5 years old). These targeted
households will be re-contacted to
administer the proposed survey.
Participants will be re-screened at the
beginning of the call to make sure that
they meet the target criteria and to
identify which subset of questions they
will be given for the survey.
Participation is voluntary and all
responses will be kept confidential.
B. Burden Hours
Each telephone interview will take
approximately 20 minutes to complete.
We estimate the number of respondents
to be 2,200. We estimate the total annual
burden hours for respondents to be 726
hours. The monetized hourly cost is
$35.28, as defined by the average total
hourly cost to employers for employee
compensation for employees across all
occupations as of June 2017, reported by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Accordingly, we estimate the total
annual cost burden to all respondents to
be $25,613. (726 hours × $35.28 =
$25,613.28.). The total cost to the
federal government for the contract to
design and conduct the survey issued to
FMG under contract number CPSC–D–
16–0002 is $243,593.

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C. Request for Comments
The CPSC invites comments on these
topics:
• Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of CPSC’s functions,
including whether the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of CPSC’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, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including through the use
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when appropriate, and other forms of
information technology.
Alberta E. Mills,
Acting Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2018–02223 Filed 2–2–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary

Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
Defense Manpower Data
Center, DoD.
ACTION: 60-Day information collection
notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Defense Manpower Data Center
announces a proposed public
information collection and seeks public
comment on the provisions thereof.
Comments are invited on: Whether the
proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
practical utility; the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways
to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the information collection on
respondents, including through the use
of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
DATES: Consideration will be given to all
comments received by April 6, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by docket number and title,
by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Department of Defense, Office
of the Chief Management Officer,
Directorate for Oversight and
Compliance, Regulatory and Advisory
Committee Division, 4800 Mark Center
Drive, Mailbox #24, Suite 08D09B,
Alexandria, VA 22350–1700.
Instructions: All submissions received
must include the agency name, docket
number and title for this Federal
Register document. The general policy
for comments and other submissions
from members of the public is to make
these submissions available for public
viewing on the internet at http://
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To
request more information on this
proposed information collection or to
obtain a copy of the proposal and
associated collection instruments,
please write to the Defense Manpower
Data Center (DMDC), DoD Center
Monterey Bay, DBIDS, ATTN: David
Schwab, Seaside, CA 93955, or call
DMDC, DBIDS, at 831–583–2500.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

[Docket ID: DOD–2018–OS–0003]

SUMMARY:

personal identifiers or contact
information.
Any associated form(s) for this
collection may be located within this
same electronic docket and downloaded
for review/testing. Follow the
instructions at http://
www.regulations.gov for submitting
comments. Please submit comments on
any given form identified by docket
number, form number, and title.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title; Associated Form; and OMB
Number: Defense Biometrics
Identification System; DBIDS
Registration Application; OMB Control
Number 0704–0455.
Needs and Uses: The information
collection requirement is necessary to
obtain and record the biographic &
biometric data connected with
positively identifying identity,
eligibility for access, and fitness within
DBIDS and shared with IMESA/IOLS.
The form data is used in the
determination of access at DBIDS sites
and affiliated systems through use of
IMESA/IolS.
Affected Public: The primary public
entity are individuals with secondary
entities being: The Federal Government,
Business or other for profits, Not-ForProfit Institutions, and State, Local or
Tribal Government seeking access to
Controlled Federal Government
locations.
Annual Burden Hours: 291,667.
Number of Respondents: 2,500,000.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 2,500,000.
Average Burden per Response: 7
minutes.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondents are those persons
requiring access to DOD Installations
who do not meet requirements to
possess a DOD identification card. Their
data is collected pursuant to DoD force
protection measures and base security
policy. Persons possessing a valid DOD
identification card have their data
automatically provided through system
to system interfaces and are not
considered burdened.

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