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of the meeting. The comments will be
provided to the ARC members for
consideration. Individuals who wish to
join the ARC must RSVP via this link
https://consumer-financial-protectionbureau.forms.fm/fall-2019-academicresearch-committee-meetings by noon,
October 24, 2019. Members of the public
must RSVP by the due date.
III. Availability
The Council’s agenda will be made
available to the public on Thursday,
October 24, 2019, via
consumerfinance.gov. Individuals
should express in their RSVP if they
require a paper copy of the agenda.
A recording and transcript of this
meeting will be available after the
meeting on the Bureau’s website
consumerfinance.gov.

[FR Doc. 2019–21374 Filed 10–7–19; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P

BUREAU OF CONSUMER FINANCIAL
PROTECTION
Credit Union Advisory Council Meeting
Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection.

AGENCY:

Notice of public meeting.

Under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA), this notice sets
forth the announcement of a public
meeting of the Credit Union Advisory
Council (CUAC or Council) of the
Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection (Bureau). The notice also
describes the functions of the Council.

SUMMARY:

The meeting date is Wednesday,
October 23, 2019, from approximately
12:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. eastern daylight
time and Thursday, October 24, 2019,
from approximately 10:00 a.m. to 3:15
p.m.

DATES:

The meeting location is the
Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection, 1700 G Street NW,
Washington, DC 20552.

ADDRESSES:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kim

George, Outreach and Engagement
Associate, Consumer Advisory Board
and Councils Office, External Affairs, at
202–435–7884, CFPB_
[email protected]. If
you require this document in an
alternative electronic format, please
contact [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Section 2 of the CUAC Charter
provides that pursuant to the executive
and administrative powers conferred on
the Bureau by section 1012 of the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer
Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), the
Director established the Credit Union
Advisory Council under agency
authority.
Section 3 of the CUAC Charter states:
‘‘The purpose of the Advisory Council
is to advise the Bureau in the exercise
of its functions under the Federal
consumer financial laws as they pertain
to community banks with total assets of
$10 billion or less.’’
II. Agenda

Dated: September 25, 2019.
Kirsten Sutton,
Chief of Staff, Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection.

ACTION:

I. Background

The Council will discuss broad policy
matters related to the Bureau’s Unified
Regulatory Agenda and general scope of
authority.
Persons who need a reasonable
accommodation to participate should
contact [email protected],
202–435–9EEO, 1–855–233–0362, or
202–435–9742 (TTY) at least ten
business days prior to the meeting or
event to request assistance. The request
must identify the date, time, location,
and title of the meeting or event, the
nature of the assistance requested, and
contact information for the requester.
The Bureau will strive to provide, but
cannot guarantee that accommodation
will be provided for late requests.
Written comments will be accepted
from interested members of the public
and should be sent to CFPB_
[email protected], a
minimum of seven (7) days in advance
of the meeting. The comments will be
provided to the CUAC members for
consideration. Individuals who wish to
join the CUAC must RSVP via this link
https://consumer-financial-protectionbureau.forms.fm/fall-2019-advisorycommittee-meetings by noon, October
22, 2019. Members of the public must
RSVP by the due date.
III. Availability
The Council’s agenda will be made
available to the public on Tuesday,
October 22, 2019, via
consumerfinance.gov. Individuals
should express in their RSVP if they
require a paper copy of the agenda.
A recording and summary of this
meeting will be available after the
meeting on the Bureau’s website
consumerfinance.gov.

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Dated: September 25, 2019.
Kirsten Sutton,
Chief of Staff, Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection.
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BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P

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

Collection of Information; Proposed
Extension of Approval; Comment
Request—Publicly Available Consumer
Product Safety Information Database
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) requests comments on a
proposed extension of approval of a
collection of information for the
Publicly Available Consumer Product
Safety Information Database. The CPSC
will consider all comments received in
response to this notice before requesting
an extension of approval of this
collection of information from the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB).
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by December 9, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2010–
0041, 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.
CPSC does not accept comments
submitted by electronic mail (email),
except through www.regulations.gov.
CPSC 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 (for paper, disk,
or CD–ROM submissions) to: Division of
the Secretariat, 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 proposed
rulemaking. All comments received may
be posted without change, including
any personal identifiers, contact
information, or other personal
information provided, to: http://
SUMMARY:

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www.regulations.gov. Do not submit
electronically any confidential business
information, trade secret information, or
other sensitive or protected information
that you do not want to be available to
the public. If you wish to provide such
information, please submit it 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–2010–0041, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the
prompts. A copy of the supporting
statement will be made available under
Supporting and Related Materials.
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 212 of the Consumer Product
Safety Improvement Act of 2008
(CPSIA) added section 6A to the
Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA),
which requires the CPSC to establish
and maintain a publicly available,
searchable database (Database) on the
safety of consumer products and other
products or substances regulated by the
CPSC. Among other things, section 6A
of the CPSA requires the CPSC to collect
reports of harm from the public for
potential publication in the publicly
available Database, and to collect and
publish comments from manufacturers
about reports of harm.
The CPSC announced that a proposed
collection of information in conjunction
with the Database, called the Publicly
Available Consumer Product Safety
Information Database, had been
submitted to OMB for review and
clearance under 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520 in
a proposed rule published on May 24,
2010 (75 FR 29156). The CPSC issued a
final rule on the Database on December
9, 2010 (75 FR 76832). The final rule
interprets various statutory
requirements in section 6A of the CPSA
pertaining to the information to be
included in the Database; and the final
rule also establishes provisions
regarding submitting reports of harm;

providing notice of reports of harm to
manufacturers; publishing reports of
harm and manufacturer comments in
the Database; and dealing with
confidential and materially inaccurate
information.
OMB approved the collection of
information for the Database under
control number 3041–0146. OMB’s most
recent extension of approval on January
31, 2017, will expire on January 31,
2020. Accordingly, the CPSC now
proposes to request an extension of
approval of this collection of
information.
B. Information Collected Through the
Database
The primary purpose of this
information collection is to populate the
publicly searchable Database of
consumer product safety information
mandated by section 6A of the CPSA.
The Database information collection has
four components: reports of harm,
manufacturer comments, branding
information, and the Small Batch
Manufacturer Registry (SBMR).
Reports of Harm: Reports of harm
communicate information regarding an
injury, illness, or death, or any risk (as
determined by CPSC) of injury, illness,
or death, relating to the use of a
consumer product. Reports can be
submitted to the CPSC by consumers;
local, state, or federal government
agencies; health care professionals;
child service providers; public safety
entities; and others. Reports may be
submitted in one of three ways: via the
CPSC website (www.SaferProducts.gov),
by telephone via a CPSC call center, or
by email, fax, or mail using the incident
report form (available for download or
printing via the CPSC website). Reports
may also originate as a free-form letter
or email. Submitters must consent to
including their report of harm in the
publicly searchable Database.
Manufacturer Comments: A
manufacturer or private labeler may
submit a comment related to a report of
harm after the CPSC transmits the report
to the manufacturer or private labeler
identified in the report. Manufacturer
comments may be submitted through
the business portal, by email, mail, or
fax. The business portal is a feature of
the Database that allows manufacturers
who register on the business portal to

receive reports of harm and comment on
such reports through the business
portal. Use of the business portal
expedites the receipt of reports of harm
and business response times.
A manufacturer may request that the
CPSC designate information in a report
of harm as confidential. Such a request
may be made using the business portal,
by email, by mail, or by fax.
Additionally, any person or entity
reviewing a report of harm or
manufacturer comment, either before or
after publication in the Database, may
request that the report or comment, or
portions of the report or comment, be
excluded from the Database because it
contains materially inaccurate
information. Such a request may be
made by manufacturers using the
business portal, by email, mail or fax,
and may be submitted by anyone else by
email, mail, or fax.
Branding Information: Using the
business portal, registered businesses
may voluntarily submit branding
information to assist CPSC in correctly
and timely routing reports of harm
involving their products to them. Brand
names may be licensed to another entity
for use in labeling consumer products
manufactured by that entity. CPSC’s
understanding of licensing
arrangements for consumer products
ensures that the correct manufacturer is
timely notified regarding a report of
harm.
Small Batch Manufacturers Registry:
The business portal also contains the
SBMR, which is the online mechanism
by which ‘‘small batch manufacturers’’
(as defined in the CPSA) can identify
themselves to obtain relief from certain
third party testing requirements for
children’s products. To register as a
small batch manufacturer, a business
must attest that the company’s income
level, and the number of units of the
covered product manufactured for
which relief is sought, both fall within
the statutory limits to receive relief from
third party testing.
C. Estimated Burden
1. Estimated Annual Burden for
Respondents
We estimate the burden of this
collection of information as follows:

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TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN FOR REPORTS OF HARM
Number of
respondents

Collection type
Reports of Harm—submitted through website ....................
Reports of Harm—submitted by phone ...............................
Reports of Harm—submitted by mail, email, fax .................

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frequency 1

5,646
1,397
349

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1.02
43.88

Total annual
responses
6,023
1,418
15,314

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10
20

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TABLE 1—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN FOR REPORTS OF HARM—Continued
Number of
respondents

Collection type
Total ..............................................................................

Response
frequency 1

7,392

Total annual
responses

........................

Minutes per
response

22,755

Total burden,
in hours 2

........................

6,546

TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN FOR MANUFACTURER SUBMISSIONS
Number of
respondents

Collection type
Manufacturer Comments—submitted through website .......
Manufacturer Comments—submitted by mail, email, fax ....
Requests to Treat Information as Confidential—submitted
through website ................................................................
Requests to Treat Information as Confidential—submitted
by mail, email, fax ............................................................
Requests to Treat Information as Materially Inaccurate—
submitted through website ...............................................
Requests to Treat Information as Materially Inaccurate—
submitted by mail, email, fax ...........................................
Voluntary Brand Identification ..............................................
Small Batch Manufacturer Identification ..............................
Total ..............................................................................

Based on the data set forth in Tables
1 and 2 above, the annual reporting cost
is estimated to be $691,884. This
estimate is based on the sum of two
estimated total figures for reports of
harm and manufacturer submissions.
The estimated number of respondents
and responses are based on the actual
responses received in FY 2018. We
assume that the number of responses
and respondents will be similar in
future years.
Reports of Harm: Table 1 sets forth
the data used to estimate the burden
associated with submitting reports of
harm. We had previously estimated the
time associated with the electronic and
telephone submission of reports of harm
at 12 and 10 minutes, respectively; and
because we have had no indication that
these estimates are not appropriate or
accurate, we used those figures for
present purposes as well. We estimate
that the time associated with a paper or
PDF form would be 20 minutes, on
average.
To estimate the costs for submitting
reports of harm, we multiplied the
estimated total burden hours associated

Response
frequency 1

Total annual
responses

Minutes per
response

Total burden,
in hours 2

2,311
182

1.06
1.90

2,461
346

117
147

4,799
848

2

1.00

2

42

1

0

n/a

0

72

0

141

1.19

168

165

462

25
932
2,292

1.12
1.37
1

28
1,281
2,292

195
10
10

91
214
382

5,885

........................

6,578

........................

6,797

with reports of harm (1,205 hours + 236
hours + 5,105 hours = 6,546 hours) by
an estimated total compensation for all
workers in private industry of $34.05
per hour,3 which results in an estimated
cost of $222,891 (6,546 hours × $34.05
per hour = $222,891).
Manufacturer Submissions: Table 2
sets forth the data used to estimate the
burden associated with manufacturers’
submissions to the Database. We
observed that a large percentage of the
general comments come from a few
businesses, and we assumed that the
experience of a business that submits
many comments each year would be
different from one that submits only a
few. Accordingly, we divided all
responding businesses into three groups
based on the number of general
comments submitted in FY 2018, and
then we selected several businesses to
contact from each group. The first group
contacted consisted of businesses that
submitted 50 or more comments in FY
2018, accounting for 31 percent of all
general comments received. The second
group contacted included businesses
that submitted 6 to 49 comments,

accounting for 39 percent of all general
comments received. The last group
contacted included businesses that
submitted no more than 5 comments,
accounting for 30 percent of all general
comments received. We asked each
company how long it typically takes to
research, compose, and enter a comment
or a claim of materially inaccurate
information.
To estimate the burden associated
with submitting a general comment
regarding a report of harm through the
business portal, we averaged the burden
provided by each company within each
group, and then we calculated a
weighted average from the three groups,
weighting each group by the proportion
of comments received from that group.
We found that the average time to
submit a general comment regarding a
report of harm is 117 minutes, based on
the data in Table 3 (((15 minutes + 45
minutes + 30 minutes + 15 minutes)/4
companies)*.31 + ((105 minutes + 45
minutes + 150 minutes + 15 minutes)/
4 companies)*.39 + ((240 minutes + 60
minutes + 480 minutes)/3
companies)*.30 = 117 minutes).

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Group

Company

Group 1 ..............................................................
(> = 50 comments) ............................................

1 Frequency of responses is calculated by dividing
the number of responses by the number of
respondents.
2 Numbers have been rounded.

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Company
Company
Company
Company

A
B
C
D

General Comments

.......................................................
.......................................................
......................................................
......................................................

3 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Table 9 of the Employer Costs for
Employee Compensation (ECEC), Private Industry,
goods-producing and service-providing industries,

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15
45
30
15

minutes.
minutes.
minutes.
minutes.

by occupational group, Dec 2018 (data extracted on
8/2/2019 from: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/
ecec.t09.htm.

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Group

Company

Group 2 ..............................................................
(6–49 comments) ...............................................

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Group 3 ..............................................................
(> = 5 comments) ..............................................

Registered businesses generally
submit comments through our website.
Unregistered businesses submit
comments by mail, email, or fax. We
estimate that submitting comments via
mail, email, or fax takes a little longer
because often, we must ask businesses
to amend their submissions to include
the required certifications. Thus, we
estimated that, on average, comments
submitted by mail, email, or fax take 30
minutes longer than comments
submitted through our website (117
minutes + 30 minutes = 147 minutes).
The submission of a claim of
materially inaccurate information is a
relatively rare event for all respondents,
so we averaged all responses together.
Eight of the businesses contacted had
submitted claims of materially
inaccurate information. We found that
the average time to submit a claim that
a report of harm contains a material
inaccuracy is 165 minutes ((30 minutes
+ 90 minutes + 45 minutes + 90 minutes
+ 60 minutes + 660 minutes + 45
minutes + 300 minutes)/8 companies =
165 minutes).
Registered businesses generally
submit claims through the business
portal. Unregistered businesses submit
claims by mail, email, or fax. We
estimate that submitting claims via mail,
email, or fax takes a little longer because
often, we must ask businesses to amend
their submission to include the required
certifications. Thus, we estimated that,
on average, claims submitted by mail,
email, or fax take 30 minutes longer
than those submitted through our
website (165 minutes + 30 minutes =
195 minutes).
The submission of a claim of
confidential information is a relatively
rare event for all respondents, so we
averaged all responses together. Five of
the businesses contacted had submitted
claims of confidential information. We
found that the average time to submit a
claim that a report of harm contains
confidential information is 42 minutes
((45 minutes + 15 minutes + 60 minutes
+ 30 minutes + 60 minutes)/5
companies = 42 minutes).
Registered businesses generally
submit confidential information claims

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Company
Company
Company
Company
Company
Company
Company

A
B
C
D
A
B
C

General Comments

.......................................................
.......................................................
......................................................
......................................................
.......................................................
.......................................................
......................................................

through the business portal.
Unregistered businesses submit
confidential information claims by mail,
email, or fax. We estimate that
submitting claims by mail, email, or fax
takes a little longer because often, we
must ask businesses to amend their
submission to include the required
certifications. Thus, we estimate that a
confidential information claim
submitted by mail, email, or fax would
take 30 minutes longer than those
submitted through our website (42
minutes + 30 minutes = 72 minutes).
For voluntary brand identification, we
estimate that a response would take 10
minutes, on average. Most responses
consist only of the brand name and a
product description. In many cases, a
business will submit multiple entries in
a brief period of time, and we can see
from the date and time stamps on these
records that an entry often takes less
than 2 minutes. CPSC staff enters the
same data in a similar form, based on
our own research, and that experience
was also factored into our estimate.
For small batch manufacturer
identification, we estimate that a
response would take 10 minutes, on
average. The form consists of three
check boxes and the information should
be readily accessible to the respondent.
The responses summarized in Table 2
are generally submitted by
manufacturers. To avoid
underestimating the cost associated
with the collection of this data, we
assigned the higher hourly wage
associated with a manager or
professional in goods-producing
industries to these tasks. To estimate the
cost of manufacturer submissions, we
multiplied the estimated total burden
hours in Table 2 (6,797 hours), by an
estimated total compensation for a
manager or professional in goodsproducing industries of $69.00 per
hour,4 which results in an estimated
4 U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Table 9 of the Employer Costs for
Employee Compensation (ECEC), Private Industry,
goods-producing and service-providing industries,
by occupational group, December 2018 (data
extracted on 09/13/2019 from: http://www.bls.gov/
news.release/ecec.t09.htm.

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105 minutes.
45 minutes.
150 minutes.
15 minutes.
240 minutes.
60 minutes.
480 minutes.

cost of $468,993 (6,797 hours × $69.00
per hour = $468,993).
Therefore, the total estimated annual
cost to respondents is $691,884
($222,891 burden for reports of harm +
$468,993 burden for manufacturer
submissions = $691,884).
2. Estimated Annual Burden on
Government
We estimate the annualized cost to
the CPSC to be $982,166. This figure is
based on the costs for four categories of
work for the Database: Reports of Harm,
Materially Inaccurate Information
Claims, Manufacturer Comments, and
Small Batch Identification. Each
category is described below. No
government cost is associated with
voluntary brand identification because
this information is entered directly into
the Database by the manufacturer with
no processing required by the
government. The information assists the
government in directing reports of harm
to the correct manufacturer. We did not
attempt to calculate separately the
government cost for claims of
confidential information because the
number of claims is so small. The time
to process these claims is included with
claims of materially inaccurate
information.
Reports of Harm: The Reports of Harm
category includes many different tasks.
Some costs related to this category are
from two data entry contracts. Tasks
related to these contracts include
clerical coding of the report, such as
identifying the type of consumer
product reported and the appropriate
associated hazard, as well as performing
quality control on the data in the report.
Contractor A spends an estimated 5,267
hours per year performing these tasks.
With an hourly rate of $38.10 for
contractor services, the annual cost to
the government of contract A is
$200,673. Contractor B spends an
estimated 2,029 hours per year
performing these tasks. With an hourly
rate of $41.33 for contractor services, the
annual cost to the government of
contract B is $83,859.
The Reports of Harm category also
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reports when necessary, processing that
consent when received, determining
whether a product is out of CPSC’s
jurisdiction, and confirming that
pictures and attachments do not have
any personally identifiable information.
The Reports of Harm category also

entails notifying manufacturers when
one of their products is reported,
completing a risk of harm determination
form for every report eligible for
publication, referring some reports to a
Subject Matter Expert (SME) within the
CPSC for a determination on whether

the reports meet the requirement of
having a risk of harm, and determining
whether a report meets all the statutory
and regulatory requirements for
publication. Detailed costs are:

TABLE 4—ESTIMATED COSTS FOR REPORTS OF HARM TASK
Number of
hours (annual)

Total
compensation
per hour

Contract A ....................................................................................................................................
Contract B ....................................................................................................................................
7 ...................................................................................................................................................
9 ...................................................................................................................................................
12 .................................................................................................................................................
13 .................................................................................................................................................
14 .................................................................................................................................................

5,267
2,029
200
300
5,528
428
1,068

$38.10
41.33
37.37
45.72
66.31
78.84
93.18

$200,673
83,859
7,474
13,716
366,562
33,744
99,516

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

14,820

........................

825,544

Grade level

Materially Inaccurate Information
(MII) Claims: The MII claims category
includes reviewing and responding to

claims, participating in meetings where
the claims are discussed, and
completing a risk of harm determination

Total annual
cost

on reports when a company alleges that
a report does not describe a risk of
harm.

TABLE 5—ESTIMATED COSTS FOR MII CLAIMS TASK
Number of
hours (annual)

Total
compensation
per hour

12 .................................................................................................................................................
13 .................................................................................................................................................
14 .................................................................................................................................................
15 .................................................................................................................................................
SES ..............................................................................................................................................

275
167
323
50
50

$66.31
78.84
93.18
109.60
131.52

$18,235
13,166
30,097
5,480
6,576

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

865

........................

73,554.00

Grade level

Total annual
cost

Manufacturer Comments: The
Comments category includes reviewing
and accepting or rejecting comments.

TABLE 6—ESTIMATED COSTS FOR MANUFACTURER COMMENTS TASK
Number of
hours (annual)

Total
compensation
per hour

12 .................................................................................................................................................
13 .................................................................................................................................................

62
109

$66.31
78.84

$4,111
8,594

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

171

........................

12,705

Grade level

Small Batch Manufacturer
Identification: The Small Batch
Manufacturer Identification category

includes time spent posting the list of
small batch registrations, as well as
answering companies’ questions on

Total annual
cost

registering as a Small Batch
Manufacturer and the implications of
small batch registration.

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TABLE 7—ESTIMATED COSTS FOR SMALL BATCH TASK
Grade level

Number of
hours (annual)

Total
compensation
per hour

642

$109.60

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TABLE 7—ESTIMATED COSTS FOR SMALL BATCH TASK—Continued
Grade level

Number of
hours (annual)

Total
compensation
per hour

642

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

We estimate the annualized cost to
the CPSC of $954,531, by adding the
four categories of work related to the
Database summarized in Tables 4
through 7 (Reports of Harm ($825,544)
+ MII Claims ($73,554) + Manufacturer
Comments ($12,705) + Small Batch
Identification ($70,363) = $982,166).
This information collection renewal
request is based on an estimated 13,343
burden hours per year for the Database,
which represents an increase of 983
hours since this collection of
information was last approved by OMB
in 2017. The increase in burden is due
primarily to the increase in the number
of incoming reports of harm, and the
increase in the number of claims based
on those reports. Comments have also
increased significantly, but shifted to
the more efficient, online submission. A
slight increase in small batch
manufacturer activity occurred, as well,
which has been rising steadily for years.
D. Request for Comments

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The CPSC solicits written comments
from all interested persons about the
proposed collection of information. The
CPSC specifically solicits information
relevant to the following topics:
• Whether the collection of
information described above is
necessary for the proper performance of
the CPSC’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.
• Whether the burden imposed by the
collection of information could be
minimized by using automated,
electronic, or other technological
collection techniques, or other forms of
information technology.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0102]

Collection of Information; Proposed
Extension of Approval; Comment
Request—Follow-Up Activities for
Product-Related 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)
requests comments on a proposed
extension of approval for an information
collection to obtain data on consumer
product-related injuries, and follow-up
activities for product-related injuries.
The Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) previously approved the
collection of information under OMB
Control No. 3041–0029. CPSC will
consider all comments received in
response to this notice before requesting
an extension of approval of this
collection of information from OMB.
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by December 9, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2009–
0102, 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 CPSC does not accept comments
submitted by electronic mail (email),
except through www.regulations.gov.
The CPSC 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: Division of the
Secretariat, 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
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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–2009–0102, into
the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the
prompts. A copy of the supporting
statement, ‘‘PRI ICR 2019 60-day’’ will
be made available under Supporting and
Related Materials.
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 through 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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