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annual burden hours for respondents to
be 187.50 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 $7,237.50 (187.50 hours ×
$38.60). The total cost to the federal
government for the contract to design
and conduct the proposed survey is
$152,712.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2021–24363 Filed 11–5–21; 8:45 am]
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2021–0020]

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

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) announces that the
Commission has submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for extension of approval for an
information collection on a proposed
survey to assess how hazard warnings
are communicated to consumers. On
July 26, 2021, the CPSC published a
notice in the Federal Register
announcing the agency’s intent to seek
approval of this collection of
information. The Commission received
no comments. Therefore, by publication
of this notice, the Commission
announces that CPSC has submitted to
the OMB a request for extension of
approval of this collection of
information, without change.
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by December 8, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to: www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. In addition, written
comments that are sent to OMB also

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should be submitted electronically at:
http://www.regulations.gov, under
Docket No. CPSC–2021–0020.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July
26, 2021, the Commission published
notice of the proposed collection on the
hazard warning communication survey.
86 FR 40018. The Commission did not
receive any comments. Accordingly, the
Commission announces that it has
submitted to the OMB a request for
approval of this collection, without
change.
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
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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.
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.
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

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government for the contract to design
and conduct the proposed survey is
$150,978.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2021–24358 Filed 11–5–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2021–IES–0154]

Request for Information on Rigorous
Research on Interventions That
Promote Postsecondary Success
Institute of Education Sciences,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
AGENCY:

The What Works
Clearinghouse, a program of the U.S.
Department of Education’s Institute of
Education Sciences, reviews existing
research on education policies,
programs, products, and practices to
provide educators and other key
stakeholders the information they need
to make evidence-based decisions.
Through this request for information
(RFI), the What Works Clearinghouse
seeks public input to help us find
rigorous research on education practices
designed to improve postsecondary
student success.
DATES: We must receive your comments
by December 8, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your response to
this RFI through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. We will not accept
submissions by postal mail, commercial
mail, hand delivery, fax, or email. To
ensure that we do not receive duplicate
copies, please submit your comments
only once. In addition, please include
the Docket ID at the top of your
comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
www.regulations.gov to submit your
comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
documents, submitting comments, and
viewing the docket, is available on the
site under the ‘‘FAQ’’ tab.
Privacy Note: The Department’s
policy for comments received from
members of the public is to make these
submissions available for public
viewing in their entirety on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore,
commenters should be careful to
include in their comments only
information that they wish to make
publicly available. We encourage, but

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do not require, that each respondent
include his or her name, title,
institution or affiliation, and the name,
title, mailing and email addresses, and
telephone number of a contact person
for his or her institution or affiliation, if
any.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Matthew Soldner, Commissioner,
National Center for Education
Evaluation and Regional Assistance &
Evaluation Officer, Institute of
Education Sciences, U.S Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW,
Room 4160, Potomac Center Plaza,
Washington, DC 20202–7240.
Telephone: (202) 245–8385. Email:
[email protected].
If you use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) or a text
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS), toll-free, at 1–800–877–
8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
A sizable number of students who
enter postsecondary education with the
intention of earning a certificate or
degree never achieve that goal. One out
of every five (18.5 percent) first-time
postsecondary students who entered
college in 2011–12 with the goal of
completing a bachelor’s degree had not
earned a credential of any type
(completion) and was no longer enrolled
(persistence) by spring 2017. Among
students who entered college in 2011–
12 and had intended to earn an
associate degree, the combined
persistence and completion rate was
even lower: nearly half (45.7 percent)
were no longer enrolled and had no
education credential to show for their
time, effort, and expense.1
There is unlikely to be a ‘‘one size fits
all’’ solution to significantly improving
postsecondary completion outcomes
among the Nation’s learners, given their
diversity and the diversity of
institutions they attend. Instead, a
variety of policies, programs, products,
and practices will be needed. What
should be common across all, however,
is that they should be evidence-based.
The What Works Clearinghouse
(WWC), a program of the U.S.
Department of Education’s Institute of
Education Sciences, reviews existing
education research to provide educators
and other key stakeholders information
they can use to make evidence-based
decisions. Specifically, the WWC
1 See Table 1.1–C in Web Tables—A 2017 Followup: Six-Year Persistence and Attainment at Any
Institution for 2011–12 First-Time Postsecondary
Students (NCES 2020–238). https://nces.ed.gov/
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reviews causal impact studies; that is,
research evaluating the efficacy of
interventions—policies, programs,
products, or practices—on outcomes of
interest.
Since 2012, the WWC has sought to
increase the number of causal impact
studies it has reviewed that are relevant
to postsecondary educators,
policymakers, and administrators. To
date, this includes more than 930
individual studies.2 In that same time,
the WWC has tripled the number of
systematic reviews it conducts of
specific branded and non-branded
interventions (Intervention Reports) 3
and expanded its portfolio of
postsecondary-focused Practice Guides,4
publications that present specific,
evidence-based recommendations for
educators to improve their practice.
Despite the growth in its
postsecondary-focused resources, the
Department believes there may be
existing causal impact research
specifically relevant to improving
postsecondary completion outcomes
among the Nation’s learners that the
WWC has not yet reviewed. As such, we
seek public comment to assist us in
identifying relevant research. We are
particularly interested in research that
focuses on policies, programs, products,
and practices that improve
postsecondary success and can be
implemented by postsecondary systems
and/or institutions, working either in
their own settings or in other settings
(e.g., high schools) in partnership with
other education stakeholders (e.g., local
or State educational agencies).
This is a request for information only.
This RFI is not a request for proposals
(RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP or
a notice inviting applications. This RFI
does not commit the Department to
contract for any supply or service
whatsoever. Further, we are not seeking
proposals and will not accept
unsolicited proposals. The Department
will not pay for any information or
administrative costs that you may incur
in responding to this RFI. The
documents and information submitted
in response to this RFI will not be
returned.
We will review every comment, and,
as described above, electronic
comments in response to this RFI will
be publicly available on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at
2 See https://go.usa.gov/xMsKy to see individual
studies reviewed by the WWC in the postsecondary
topic area.
3 See https://go.usa.gov/xMsKM to see WWC
Intervention Reports in the postsecondary topic
area.
4 See https://go.usa.gov/xMsKz to see WWC
Practice Guides in the postsecondary topic area.

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