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With respect to the following collection of information, the CPSC invites comments on these topics: (1) Whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of CPSC’s functions, including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of CPSC’s estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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.

On August 14, 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ( ‘‘ CPSIA’’ ) (Pub. L. 110–314) was enacted. Section 104 of the CPSIA (referred to as the ‘‘the Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act’’ ) (15 U.S.C. 2056a), requires the Commission to study and develop safety standards for infant and toddler products. Such durable infant and toddler products include, but are notlimited to: Full-size cribs and non fullsize cribs; toddler beds; high chairs, booster chairs, and hook-on chairs; bath seats; gates and other enclosures for confining a child; play yards; stationary activity centers; infant carriers; strollers; walkers; swings; and bassinets and cradles. The Commission is required to evaluate the currently existing voluntary standards for durable infant or toddler products and promulgate a mandatory standard substantially the same as, or more stringent than, the applicable voluntary standard.

In evaluating the current voluntary standards, the CPSC staff requires certain additional data to assess the potential future impacts of the CPSIA mandatory efforts on durable infant and toddler products. The draft Durable Nursery Products Exposure Survey ( ‘‘DNPES ’’ or ‘‘ survey’’ ) is a national probability sample of households with children five years old and under designed to determine the prevalence of durable infant and toddler product ownership in households, as well as the frequency and manner of use of such products. In particular, the survey will seek information regarding ownership characteristics, the life cycle of the products, and consumer behaviors and perceptions regarding such products. The survey will gather information on the characteristics and usage patterns of 24 categories of durable infant or toddler products and solicit information on accidents or injuries associated with those products. The information collected from the DNPES will help inform the Commission’s evaluation of consumer products and product use by providing insight and information into consumer perceptions and usage patterns. In addition to assisting the Commission’s rulemaking efforts, such information will also support ongoing voluntary standards activities in which the Commission participates, compliance and enforcement efforts as well as information and education campaigns. The data also will help identify consumer safety issues that need additional research. Understanding better how these products are used by consumers will help the Commission address potential hazards and assess the sufficiency of current voluntary standards.

Before the mail paper screener is sent out, a small group of respondents (37) from different backgrounds (including both English and Spanish speakers) will be asked to participate in cognitive testing (for the telephone survey) or usability testing (for the Web version of the survey) to provide extensive feedback regarding the clarity of specific questions. Results of the cognitive and usability testing will be used to revise the survey instruments, but will not be included in the survey results for the main data collection. Following the testing, a mail paper screener will be sent to 16,667 families to determine whether sampled respondents are eligible for full DNPES participation. Eligible respondents who have children aged 0–5 in their household will have Web and computer-assisted telephone interviewing ( ‘‘ CATI ’’ ) survey options for completing the full extended DNPES. The DNPES will include approximately 24 categories with questions about different infant or toddler products, but each respondent will be limited to a maximum of four categories. The CATI and Web programs will also ensure that each respondent’s questions are limited to the portions of the survey for which they have been selected.

We estimate the burden of this collection of information as follows. Each cognitive interview or usability test will take approximately one hour for an estimated total of 37 burden hours. The initial mail paper screener for the main data collection will be sent to approximately 16,667 households and will take approximately five minutes (.0833 hours) to complete. An estimated 2,000 eligible repondants will be selected for telephone extended interviews (1,500 respondents) or Web surveys (500 respondents) and each will take approximately 30 minutes (.5 hours) to complete. The total estimated burden for all respondents is 2,425.92 hours, rounded up to 2,426 hours. The total cost to the respondents for the total burden is estimated to be $66,520.92, rounded up to $66,521, based on an hourly rate of $27.42 (all workers in private industry in Table 9 of the December 2009 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, Bureau of Labor Statistics).

The estimated cost to the Federal Government is $1,026,763. Since the study extends over three years, however, the estimated annualized cost of the information collection requirements to the government is $342,254.33, rounded down to $342,254, for the three year period. This sum includes contractors to implement and conduct the DNPES survey ($729,093), 21 staff months ($297,670) at an average level of GS–14 step 5 ((($119,238/.701) ÷ 12 months) × 21 months), using a 70.1 percent ratio of wages and salary to total compensation from Table 1 of the December 2009 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, published on the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Dated: August 13, 2010.
Todd A. Stevenson, Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.

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**[Docket No. CPSC–2010–0087]**

**Petition Requesting Regulations Restricting Cadmium in Children’s** 
**Products**

**AGENCY :**  Consumer Product Safety
Commission.

**ACTION :**  Notice.

**SUMMARY :**  The Consumer Product Safety Commission ( ‘‘ Commission’’ or ‘‘ CPSC ’’ ) has received a petition requesting standards restricting cadmium in children’s products, especially toy metal jewelry. The Commission invites written comments concerning the petition.

**DATES :**  The Office of the Secretary must receive comments on the petition by October 18, 2010.

**ADDRESSES :**  You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC–2010– 0087, by any of the following methods:

Submit electronic comments in the following way:

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for submitting comments.


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To ensure timely processing of comments, the Commission is no longer accepting comments submitted by electronic mail (e-mail) except through http://www.regulations.gov.

Submit written submissions in the following way:

Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for paper, disk, or CD–ROM submissions), preferably in five copies, to: Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Room 502, 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 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 electronically. 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.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Rocky Hammond, Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; telephone (301) 504–6833, e-mail rhammond@cpsc.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  The Empire State Consumer Project, Sierra Club, Center for Environmental Health, and Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides ( ‘‘ petitioners ’’ ) submitted a petition stating that the Commission should issue regulations to ban cadmium in all toy jewelry under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act ( ‘‘ FHSA’’ ), 15 U.S.C. 1261 et seq. Specifically, petitioners request that the Commission adopt regulations declaring that any toy metal jewelry containing more than trace amounts of cadmium by weight which could be ingested by children be declared a banned hazardous substance. If the Commission finds that it lacks sufficient information to determine the appropriate level of cadmium in products, petitioners request that the Commission, as an interim measure, adopt the maximum levels established for lead. In addition, petitioners request a test method based on total cadmium, which simulates a child chewing the jewelry before swallowing by cutting the metal jewelry in half, and evaluating the extractability of cadmium from children’s metal jewelry based on a 24-hour acid extraction period. Petitioners also assert that if the CPSC has insufficient information regarding cadmium, it should obtain additional information under the Interagency Testing Commission ( ‘‘ ITC ’’ ) through the Toxic Substances Control Act ( ‘‘ TSCA’’ ) administered by the Environmental Protection Agency ( ‘‘EPA ’’ ) to include metal jewelry in the scope of reporting under section 8(d) of the TSCA and require importers and processers to test toy metal jewelry for cadmium.

Interested parties may obtain a copy of the petition by writing or calling the Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504–6833. The petition is also available at http:// www.regulations.gov under Docket No. CPSC–2010–0087, Supporting and Related Materials.

Dated: August 13, 2010.
Todd A. Stevenson, Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.

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**DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE**

**Department of the Navy**

**Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy**
**Board of Visitors**

**AGENCY :**  Department of the Navy, DoD.

**ACTION :**  Notice of Partially Closed Meeting.

**SUMMARY :**  The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry, as the Board shall deem necessary into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Academy. The executive session of this meeting from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on September 13, 2010, will include discussions of disciplinary matters, law enforcement investigations into allegations of criminal activity, and personnel-related issues at the Naval Academy, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. For this reason, the executive session of this meeting will be closed to the public.

**DATES :**  The open sessions of the meeting will be held on September 13th, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. The closed session of this meeting will be the executive session held from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

**ADDRESSES :**  The meeting will be held in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 406, Washington, DC. The meeting will be handicap accessible.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Lieutenant Commander David S. Forman, USN, Executive Secretary to the Board of Visitors, Office of the Superintendent, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 21402–5000, 410–293–

1503.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  This notice of meeting is provided per the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.). The executive session of the meeting from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on September 13, 2010, will consist of discussions of law enforcement investigations into allegations of criminal activity, new and pending administrative/minor disciplinary infractions and nonjudicial punishments involving the Midshipmen attending the Naval Academy to include, but not limited to, individual honor/conduct violations within the Brigade, and personnel-related issues. The discussion of such information cannot be adequately segregated from other topics, which precludes opening the executive session of this meeting to the public. Accordingly, the Secretary of the Navy has determined in writing that the meeting shall be partially closed to the public because the discussions during the executive session from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. will be concerned with matters coming under sections 552b(c)(5), (6), and (7) of Title 5, United States Code.

Dated: August 13, 2010. H.E. Higgins, Lieutenant, Office of the Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 2010–20578 Filed 8–18–10; 8:45 am]

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**DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY**

**Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, Disposal**  **Subcommittee**

**AGENCY :**  Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy.

**ACTION :**  Notice of open meeting.

**SUMMARY :**  This notice announces an open meeting of the Disposal Subcommittee. The Disposal Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future (the Commission). The establishment of subcommittees is authorized in the Commission’s charter. The Commission was organized pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat.