The children's sleepwear standards
require manufacturers and importers of children's sleepwear
garments and fabrics to perform periodic testing of representative
samples to assure that the items meet the performance requirements
of the standards. Manufacturers and Importers are required to
establish and maintain records of the testing required by the
standard for a period of three years.
US Code:
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USC 1193 Name of Law: Flammable Fabrics Act
The change in burden estimate
comes from two sources. The first comes from updating our
methodology to anchor the number of domestic children’s apparel
manufactures to the proportion of children (15.8%) in the U.S.
population. In 2019 we estimated domestic manufactures to be 981
(6,212 x 0.158) which may be more precise and more consistently
updated than the 2015 estimated range of 550-1050 domestic
manufactures. The second source comes from a reduction in the
number of nightwear importers from 4,500 to 3,037 according to
USITC data. The net result is a reduction of 45,960 hours (a
reduction of 69 manufactures and a reduction of 1463 importers,
multiplied by 30 response hours per firm).
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