51246 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 160 / Thursday, August 19, 2010 / Notices 

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 not 

limited 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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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

[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. 

[FR Doc. 2010–20599 Filed 8–18–10; 8:45 am] 

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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. 


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