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including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and
(d) Minimize the burden of the
collection on those who are to respond,
including through the use of appropriate
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
All comments submitted in response
to this notice are a matter of public
record. The USPTO will include or
summarize each comment in the request
to OMB to approve this information
collection. Before including an address,
phone number, email address, or other
personal identifying information (PII) in
a comment, be aware that the entire
comment—including PII—may be made
publicly available at any time. While
you may ask in your comment to
withhold PII from public view, the
USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be
able to do so.
Kimberly Hardy,
Information Collections Officer, Office of the
Chief Administrative Officer, United States
Patent and Trademark Office.
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[Docket No. CPSC–2021–0020]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Collection;
Comment Request; Hazard Warning
Communication Survey
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC) 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 proposed survey
to assess how hazard warnings are
communicated to consumers. The
Commission will consider all comments
received in response to this notice
before submitting this collection of
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Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval.
Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by September 24, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified by Docket No. CPSC–2021–
0020, by any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Submit
electronic comments to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
CPSC does not accept comments
submitted by electronic mail (email),
except through https://
www.regulations.gov and as described
below. CPSC encourages you to submit
electronic comments by using the
Federal eRulemaking Portal.
Mail/hand delivery/courier Written
Submissions: Submit comments by
mail/hand delivery/courier to: Division
of the Secretariat, Consumer Product
Safety Commission, 4330 East-West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814;
telephone: (301) 504–7479.
Alternatively, as a temporary option
during the COVID–19 pandemic, you
may email such submissions to: [email protected].
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number for this notice. CPSC may post
all comments received without change,
including any personal identifiers,
contact information, or other personal
information provided, to: https://
www.regulations.gov. Do not submit
electronically: 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 submit such
information, please submit it according
to the instructions for mail/hand
delivery/courier written submissions.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to: https://
www.regulations.gov, insert Docket No.
CPSC–2021–0020 into the ‘‘Search’’ box,
and follow the prompts. A copy of the
proposed survey is available at: http://
www.regulations.gov under Docket No.
CPSC–2021–0020, Supporting and
Related Material.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product
Safety Commission, 4330 East-West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301)
504–7991, or by email to: cgillham@
cpsc.gov.
DATES:

Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal
agencies must obtain approval from
OMB for each collection of information

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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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 proposed 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, CPSC is
publishing notice of the proposed
collection of information set forth in
this document.
A. Hazard Warning Communication
Survey
CPSC 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
CPSC may conduct research, studies,
and investigations on the safety of
consumer products, and develop
product safety test methods and testing
devices.
CPSC proposes to conduct an online
survey to gather data on consumer risk
perception and response to hazard
communications from 5,000
respondents. The study population will
be comprised of individuals age 18 and
over from across the United States. In
this proposed survey, CPSC seeks
information about consumer product
use, including, but not limited to, the
following topics:
• Consumers’ beliefs, experiences,
and tendencies regarding product safety;
• whether consumers pay attention to
instructions that come with products;
• whether consumers read safety
information and labels;
• to what extent consumers comply
with safety messages;
• how product type influences
consumers’ attitude and behavior;
• what information resources
consumers rely on before buying a
product;
• how product safety ranks among
other factors consumers consider;
• reasons consumers comply or do
not comply with the safety messages;
and
• how consumers respond if they
encounter a safety recall of the product
they own.
CPSC has contracted with Carahsoft/
Qualtrics, to develop and execute this
project for CPSC. Information obtained
through this survey is not intended to be
considered nationally representative.

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The panel provider will monitor
respondents, and if a particular
demographic is trending highly, the
panel provider will slow down the
sample for that segment and will focus
on obtaining responses from others to
ensure recruitment for U.S. censusmatched survey participants from the
Midwest, Northeast, South, and West
regions. The panel provider will also
monitor respondents to ensure that
underserved populations are
represented in the sample and that
insights are collected from a diverse
population.
CPSC intends to use the study
findings to develop a better
understanding of the mechanisms and
types of safety messages that consumers
receive, how they respond, and what
affects their response. Specifically,
responses to the items in this survey
will provide CPSC staff with
information on whether consumers read
and comply with various types of safety
information that comes with products
they use; the causes of consumer
noncompliance with product safety
information; whether consumers share
product safety information with other
users of their products; what sources of
information they rely on to decide if a
product is safe to use; whether safety is
a priority in their purchasing decisions;
how they responded to safety notices
and recalls in the past; reasons for
noncompliance with safety notices and
recalls; and if and how the product type
affects their risk perception and
behaviors. Findings from this survey
will provide CPSC with information on
ways to increase consumer
understanding of, and adherence to,
safety messaging and help CPSC
develop more effective messaging that
will convey critical information about
product hazards.

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B. Burden Hours
We estimate the number of
respondents to the survey to be 5,000.
The online survey for the proposed
study will take approximately 15
minutes (0.25 hours) to complete. We
estimate the total annual burden hours
for respondents to be 1,250 hours. The
monetized hourly cost is $38.60, as
defined by total compensation for all
civilian workers, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation, as of December 2020.
Accordingly, we estimate the total cost
burden to be $48,250 (1,250 hours ×
$38.60). The total cost to the federal
government for the contract to design
and conduct the proposed survey is
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C. Request for Comments
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
of automated collection techniques,
when appropriate, and other forms of
information technology.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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Public Availability of Consumer
Product Safety Commission FY 2019
Service Contract Inventory, FY 2018
Service Contract Inventory Analysis,
and Plan for FY 2019 Inventory
Analysis
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC), in accordance with
section 743(c) of Division C of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010,
is announcing the availability of CPSC’s
service contract inventory for fiscal year
(FY) 2019, CPSC’s FY 2018 service
contract inventory analysis, and the
plan for analyzing CPSC’s FY 2019
service contract inventory. The FY 2019
inventory provides information on
service contract actions that exceeded
$25,000 that CPSC made in FY 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eddie Ahmad, Procurement Analyst,
Division of Procurement Services,
Division of Procurement Services, U.S.
Consumer Product Safety Commission,
4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD
20814. Telephone: 301–504–7884;
email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
December 16, 2009, the Consolidated
Appropriations Act, 2010 (Consolidated
Appropriations Act), Public Law 111–
117, became law. Section 743(a) of the
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Consolidated Appropriations Act, titled,
‘‘Service Contract Inventory
Requirement,’’ requires agencies to
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), an annual inventory of
service contracts awarded or extended
through the exercise of an option on or
after April 1, 2010, and describes the
contents of the inventory. The contents
of the inventory must include:
(A) A description of the services
purchased by the executive agency and
the role the services played in achieving
agency objectives, regardless of whether
such a purchase was made through a
contract or task order;
(B) The organizational component of
the executive agency administering the
contract, and the organizational
component of the agency whose
requirements are being met through
contractor performance of the service;
(C) The total dollar amount obligated
for services under the contract and the
funding source for the contract;
(D) The total dollar amount invoiced
for services under the contract;
(E) The contract type and date of
award;
(F) The name of the contractor and
place of performance;
(G) The number and work location of
contractor and subcontractor employees,
expressed as full-time equivalents for
direct labor, compensated under the
contract;
(H) Whether the contract is a personal
services contract; and
(I) Whether the contract was awarded
on a noncompetitive basis, regardless of
date of award.
Section 743(a)(3)(A) through (I) of the
Consolidated Appropriations Act.
Section 743(c) of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act requires agencies to
‘‘publish in the Federal Register a
notice that the inventory is available to
the public.’’
Consequently, through this notice, we
are announcing that the CPSC’s service
contract inventory for FY 2019 is
available to the public. The inventory
provides information on service contract
actions of more than $25,000 that the
CPSC made in FY 2019. The
information is organized by function to
show how contracted resources are
distributed throughout the CPSC. OMB
posted a consolidated government-wide
Service Contract Inventory for FY 2019
at https://www.acquisition.gov/servicecontract-inventory. You can access the
CPSC’s inventories by limiting the
‘‘Contracting Agency Name’’ field on
each spreadsheet to ‘‘Consumer Product
Safety Commission.’’
Additionally, CPSC’s Division of
Procurement Services has posted

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