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Deputy Director, Business Operations (Pricing
and Information Management).
[FR Doc. 2019–27470 Filed 12–19–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0102]

Collection of Information; Submission
for OMB Review; Comment Request—
Follow-Up Activities for ProductRelated Injuries Including NEISS
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
announces that the CPSC has submitted
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), a request for extension of
approval of a collection of information
previously approved under OMB
Control No. 3041–0029, on consumer
product-related injury data, and followup activities for product-related injuries.
On October 8, 2019, CPSC published a
notice in the Federal Register
announcing the agency’s intent to seek
this extension. CPSC made available a
copy of the supporting statement, ‘‘PRI

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ICR 2019 60-day,’’ under Supporting
and Related Materials in Docket No.
CPSC–2009–0102. CPSC received no
comments in response to that notice. By
publication of this notice, the
Commission announces that CPSC has
submitted to the OMB a request for
extension of approval of that collection
of information, without change.
DATES: Written comments on this
request for extension of approval of
information collection requirements
should be submitted by January 21,
2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments about
this request by email: OIRA_
[email protected] or fax: 202–
395–6881. Comments by mail should be
sent to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for the CPSC, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235,
725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503. In addition, written comments
that are sent to OMB also should be
submitted electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, under Docket No.
CPSC–2009–0102.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information or a copy of the
supporting statement contact: Bretford
Griffin, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East-West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504–7037, or
by email to: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
Section 5(a) of the Consumer Product
Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), requires
the CPSC to collect information related
to the causes and prevention of death,
injury, and illness associated with
consumer products. That section also
requires the CPSC to conduct
continuing studies and investigations of
deaths, injuries, diseases, other health
impairments, and economic losses
resulting from accidents involving
consumer products.
The CPSC obtains information about
product-related deaths, injuries, and
illnesses from a variety of sources,
including newspapers, death
certificates, consumer complaints, and
medical facilities. In addition, the CPSC
receives information via its internet
website through forms reporting on
product-related injuries or incidents.
The CPSC also operates the National
Electronic Injury Surveillance System
(NEISS), which provides timely data on
consumer product-related injuries
treated in hospital emergency
departments in the United States. The
CPSC also uses the NEISS system to
collect information on childhood
poisonings, in accordance with the

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Poison Prevention Packaging Act of
1970.
From these sources, CPSC staff selects
cases of interest for further
investigation, by contacting persons
who witnessed or were injured in
incidents involving consumer products.
These investigations are conducted onsite (face-to-face), by telephone, or by
the internet. On-site investigations are
usually made in cases where CPSC staff
needs photographs of the incident site,
the product involved, or detailed
information about the incident. This
information also can come from contact
with state and local officials, including
police, coroners, and fire investigators,
and others with knowledge of the
incident.
Through interagency agreements, the
CPSC also uses the NEISS system to
collect information on injuries for the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) under the NEISS AllInjury Program (NEISS–AIP). The
NEISS–AIP is a sub-sample of
approximately two-thirds of the full
NEISS sample. In addition to the
standard data variables collected on all
NEISS injuries, the NEISS–AIP collects
additional variables on several studies
for CDC (Adverse Drug Events, Assaults,
Self-Inflicted Violence, and WorkRelated Injuries) and one study on noncrash motor vehicle-related injuries for
the National Highway and
Transportation Safety Administration
(NHTSA). Additional special study
variables are collected for CDC in the
full NEISS sample for firearm-related
injuries.
The current NEISS probability sample
was drawn and recruited in 1995–1996
and implemented in 1997. Since then,
several of the selected hospitals have
stopped participating for reasons such
as closures and mergers with other
hospitals, and were replaced with other
purposively-selected hospitals. While
hospital weights are adjusted to account
for changes in the population of
hospitals over time, the current sample
of hospitals participating in NEISS is
being reviewed to assess their
representativeness. The selection
process may be revised in future years
in order to strengthen the quality and
representativeness of the estimates
generated by the NEISS–AIP. CPSC has
entered into a contract with Westat to
perform an independent statistical
assessment of the NEISS and NEISS–
AIP samples under CPSC contract
61320619F0134 with a period of
performance of September 27, 2019,
through September 26, 2020.

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B. NEISS Estimated Burden
The NEISS system collects
information on consumer productrelated incidents and other injuries from
a statistical sample of 96 hospitals in the
United States. Respondents to NEISS
include hospitals that directly report
information to NEISS, and hospitals that
allow access to a CPSC contractor, who
collects the data. Collecting emergency
department records for review,
correcting error messages, among other
tasks, takes about 36 minutes per day.
Each record takes about 30 seconds to
review. Coding and reporting records
that involve consumer products or other
injuries takes about 2 minutes per
record. Coding and reporting additional
special study information (Adverse Drug
Effects) takes about 2 minutes and 90
seconds per record for other special
studies. Respondents also spend about
36 hours per year in related activities
(training, evaluations, and
communicating with other hospital
staff).
In 2018, there were 130 NEISS
respondents (total hospitals and CPSC
contractors). These NEISS respondents
reviewed an estimated 5.53 million
emergency department records and
reported 727,544 total cases (363,221
consumer product-related injuries for
CPSC, and 364,323 other injuries for the
NEISS–AIP). The table below lists the
number of reported cases, and the
number of reported cases with
additional special study information.
Total NEISS Cases Reported
Consumer Product-Related
Injuries ...............................
CDC NEISS–AIP ..................

727,544
363,221
364,323

Special Studies Reported (subset of above)

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Child Poisoning (CPSC) .......
Adverse Drug Events (CDC)
Assaults (CDC) .....................
Firearm-Related Injuries
(CDC) ................................
Self-Inflicted Violence (CDC)
Work-Related Injuries (CDC)
Motor Vehicle Non-Crash Injuries (NHTSA) ..................

4,734
36,858
32,990
6,159
9,106
38,132
12,813

The total burden hours for all NEISS
respondents are estimated to be 100,781
for 2018. The average burden hour per
respondent is 775 hours. However, the
total burden hour on each respondent
varies due to differences in size of the
hospital (e.g., small rural hospitals
versus large metropolitan hospitals).
The smallest hospital reported 82 cases
with a burden of about 258 hours, while
the largest hospital reported 47,801
cases with a burden of about 4,125
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The total cost to NEISS respondents
for 2018 was approximately $3,391,000.
NEISS respondents enter into contracts
with CPSC and are compensated for
these costs. The average cost per
respondent is estimated to be about
$26,000. The average cost per burden
hour is estimated to be $33.65 per hour
(including wages and overhead).
However, the actual cost to each
respondent varies, due to the type of
respondent (hospital versus CPSC
contractor), size of hospital, and
regional differences in wages and
overhead. Therefore, the actual annual
cost for any given respondent may vary
between $3,048 at a small rural hospital,
and $329,690 at the largest metropolitan
hospital.
C. Other Burden Hours
In cases that require more information
regarding product-related incidents or
injuries, CPSC staff conducts face-toface interviews with approximately 375
persons each year. On average, an onsite interview takes about 4.5 hours.
CPSC staff also conducts about 175 indepth investigations (IDIs) by telephone
annually. Each telephone IDI requires
about 20 minutes. CPSC staff is
planning to conduct about 50 internetbased questionnaires per year, which
require about 20 minutes each. The
CPSC estimates 1,763 annual burden
hours on these respondents: 1,688 hours
for face-to-face interviews; 58 hours for
in-depth telephone interviews, and 17
hours for internet-based questionnaires.
CPSC staff estimates the value of the
time required for reporting at $36.77 an
hour (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
‘‘Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation,’’ March 2019: https://
www.bls.gov>new.release>
ecec.toc.htm). At this valuation, the
estimated annual cost to the public is
about $64,826.
The total burden hours for the
information collection is 102,544
(100,781 NEISS and 1,763 other), which
is an increase of 21,334 hours. The
increase in burden is due primarily to
the increase in the number of emergency
department charts being reviewed and
coded since this collection of
information was last approved by OMB
in 2017.
This information collection request
excludes the burden associated with
other publicly available Consumer
Product Safety Information Databases,
such as internet complaints, Hotline,
and Medical Examiners and Coroners
Alert Project (MECAP) reports, which
are approved under OMB control
number 3041–0146. This information
collection request also excludes the
burden associated with follow-up

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investigations conducted by other
federal agencies.
Abioye Mosheim,
Acting Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2019–27509 Filed 12–19–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6355–01–P

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2010–0041]

Collection of Information; Submission
for OMB Review; Comment Request—
Publicly Available Consumer Product
Safety Information Database
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

Notice.

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) announces that the CPSC has
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for
extension of approval of a collection of
information for the Publicly Available
Consumer Product Safety Information
Database, previously under OMB
Control No. 3041–0146. On October 8,
2019, the CPSC published a notice in
the Federal Register announcing the
agency’s intent to seek this extension.
CPSC made a copy of the supporting
statement available under Supporting
and Related Materials under Docket No.
CPSC–2010–0041. CPSC received no
comments in response to that notice. By
publication of this notice, the
Commission announces that CPSC has
submitted to the OMB a request for
extension of approval of that collection
of information, without change.

SUMMARY:

Written comments on this
request for extension of approval of
information collection requirements
should be submitted by January 21,
2020.

DATES:

Submit comments about
this request by email: OIRA_
[email protected] or fax: 202–
395–6881. Comments by mail should be
sent to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for the CPSC, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235,
725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503. In addition, written comments
that are sent to OMB, also should be
submitted electronically at: http://
www.regulations.gov, under Docket No.
CPSC–2010–0041.

ADDRESSES:

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