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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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Total annual
cost
70,363

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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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 can come from face-to-face
interviews with persons who were
injured or who witnessed the incident,
as well as via 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 All
Injury 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
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OMB previously approved the
collection of information concerning
product-related injuries under control
number 3041–0029. OMB’s most recent
extension of approval will expire on
January 31, 2020. The CPSC now
proposes to request an extension of
approval of this collection of
information.
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)
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
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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
hours.
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.govnew.releaseecec.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
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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
investigations conducted by other
federal agencies.
D. Request for Comments
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; 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.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Air Force
Withdrawal of the Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement for the Modification of the
Condor 1 and Condor 2 Military
Operations Areas Used By the 104th
Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air
National Guard
Department of the Air Force,

DoD.
ACTION:

Withdrawal of Notice of Intent.

The Air National Guard
(ANG) and Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) are notifying
interested parties of the decision to
withdraw the Notice of Intent to prepare
an environmental impact statement for
the Modification of the Condor Military
Operation Areas used by the 104th
Fighter Wing of the Massachusetts Air
National Guard.

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Adriane S. Paris,
Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison
Officer.
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ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION
Proposed Information Collection—
2020 Election Administration and
Voting Survey; Comment Request
U.S. Election Assistance
Commission (EAC).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

In compliance the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the EAC
announces an information collection
and seeks public comment on the
provisions thereof. The EAC intends to
submit this proposed information
collection (2020 Election
Administration and Voting Survey, or
EAVS) to the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget for approval.
The 2020 EAVS asks election officials
questions concerning voting and
election administration, including the
following topics: Voter registration;
overseas and military voting; voting by
mail; early in-person voting; polling
operations; provisional voting; voter
participation; election technology;
election policy; and other related issues.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before December 6,
2019.
Comments: Public comments are
invited on: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
SUMMARY:

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AGENCY:

For
questions regarding this notice please
contact: Mr Ramon Ortiz, NGB/A4AM,
Program Manager-Technical Lead, Air
National Guard Readiness Center, 3501
Fetchet Avenue, Andrews AFB, MD
20762–9157, telephone: (240) 612–7042;
or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
original NOI was published on June 17,
2009 and corrected on June 25, 2009 (74
FR 30284), and followed an in-depth
Environmental Assessment process
initiated in 2008. The ANG decision to
withdraw the NOI was based on the
determination that due to mission
evolution, the proposed action is no
longer needed.
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clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) 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.
Comments on the proposed
information collection should be
submitted electronically via https://
www.regulations.gov (docket ID: EAC–
2019–0001). Written comments on the
proposed information collection can
also be sent to the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission, 1335 East West
Highway, Suite 4300, Silver Spring, MD
20910, Attn: EAVS.
Obtaining a Copy of the Survey: To
obtain a free copy of the draft survey
instrument: (1) Download a copy at
https://www.regulations.gov (docket ID:
EAC–2019–0001); or (2) write to the
EAC (including your address and phone
number) at U.S. Election Assistance
Commission, 1335 East West Highway,
Suite 4300 Silver Spring, MD 20910,
Attn: EAVS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Nichelle Williams at 301–563–3919, or
email [email protected]; U.S.
Election Assistance Commission, 1335
East West Highway, Suite 4300, Silver
Spring, MD 20910
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title and OMB Number: 2020 Election
Administration and Voting Survey;
OMB Number Pending.
Needs and Uses
The EAC issues the EAVS to meet its
obligations under the Help America
Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) to serve as
national clearinghouse and resource for
the compilation of information with
respect to the administration of Federal
elections; to fulfill both the EAC and the
Department of Defense Federal Voting
Assistance Program’s (FVAP) data
collection requirements under the
Uniformed and Overseas Citizens
Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA); and
meet its National Voter Registration Act
(NVRA) mandate to collect information
from states concerning the impact of
that statute on the administration of
Federal elections. In addition, under the
NVRA, the EAC is responsible for
collecting information and reporting,
biennially, to Congress on the impact of
that statute. The information the states
are required to submit to the EAC for
purposes of the NVRA report are found
under Title 11 of the Code of Federal
Regulations. States that respond to
questions in this survey concerning
voter registration-related matters will
meet their NVRA reporting
requirements under 52 U.S.C. 20508 and
EAC regulations. Finally, UOCAVA

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