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Title: NOAA Fisheries Greater 

Atlantic Region Vessel Identification 

Requirements. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0350. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 3,893. 

Average Hours per Response: 45 

minutes. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,920. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a current information 

collection. 

Regulations at 50 CFR 648.8 and 

§ 697.8 require that owners of vessels 

over 25 ft (7.6 m) in registered length 

that have Federal permits to fish in the 

Greater Atlantic Region display the 

vessel’s name and official number. The 

name and number must be of a specific 

size at specified locations: the vessel 

name must be affixed to the port and 

starboard sides of the bow and, if 

possible, on its stern. The official 

number must be displayed on the port 

and starboard sides of the deckhouse or 

hull, and on an appropriate weather 

deck so as to be clearly visible from 

enforcement vessels and aircraft. The 

display of the identifying characters 

aids in fishery law enforcement. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households and business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: Once per year. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. 

Legal Authority: 50 CFR 648.8. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website 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 and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0648–0350. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; For-Hire Telephone Survey 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on June 24, 

2020 during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic & 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

Title: For-Hire Telephone Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0709. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

(extension of a current information 

collection). 

Number of Respondents: 23,114. 

Average Hours per Response: 3 

minutes, 30 seconds. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,348. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. The For-Hire 

Survey (FHS) is conducted for NMFS to 

estimate fishing effort on for-hire vessels 

(i.e., charter boats and head boats) in 

coastal states from Maine to Mississippi. 

These data are required to carry out 

provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.), as 

amended, regarding conservation and 

management of fishery resources. 

The FHS collects fishing effort 

information from for-hire vessel 

representatives by telephone interview. 

For-hire vessels are randomly selected 

for the FHS from a comprehensive 

sample frame developed and 

maintained by NMFS. A sample of 10% 

of the vessels on the FHS frame are 

selected for reporting each week. Each 

interview collects information about the 

vessel, the number and type of trips the 

vessel made during the reporting week, 

the number of anglers on each trip, and 

other trip-level information. 

For-hire fishing effort is estimated in 

numbers of angler-trips per sub-region, 

state, two-month wave, vessel type, and 

fishing area (inshore, nearshore, 

offshore). To get a total for-hire effort 

estimate, weekly FHS effort estimates 

are summed to produce wave estimates 

that are adjusted to account for frame 

coverage and reporting error. The FHS 

estimates are then combined with forhire catch-rate estimates derived from 

complementary Marine Recreational 

Information Program (MRIP) surveys, to 

estimate total, state-level fishing catch. 

These estimates are used in the 

development, implementation, and 

monitoring of fishery management 

programs by the NMFS, regional fishery 

management councils, interstate marine 

fisheries commissions, and state fishery 

agencies. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

households; Business or other for-profit 

organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act. 

This information collection request 

may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov. 

Follow the instructions to view the 

Department of Commerce collections 

currently under review by OMB. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website 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 and 

entering either the title of the collection 

or the OMB Control Number 0648–0709. 

Sheleen Dumas, 

Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

the Chief Information Officer, Commerce 

Department. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XA581] 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands Management Area; 

Cost Recovery Programs 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 


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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of standard prices and 

fee percentages. 

SUMMARY: NMFS publishes standard 

prices and fee percentages for cost 

recovery for the Amendment 80 

Program, the American Fisheries Act 

(AFA) Program, the Aleutian Islands 

Pollock (AIP) Program, and the Western 

Alaska Community Development Quota 

(CDQ) groundfish and halibut Programs. 

The fee percentage for 2020 is 1.19 

percent for the Amendment 80 Program, 

0.21 percent for the AFA inshore 

cooperatives, 3.0 percent for the AIP 

program, and 0.84 percent for the CDQ 

groundfish and halibut Programs. This 

action is intended to provide the 2020 

standard prices and fee percentages to 

calculate the required payment for cost 

recovery fees due by December 31, 2020. 

DATES: The standard prices and fee 

percentages are valid on December 1, 

2020. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charmaine Weeks, Fee Coordinator, 

907–586–7231. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 304(d) of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens 

Act) authorizes and requires the 

collection of cost recovery fees for 

limited access privilege programs and 

the CDQ Program. Cost recovery fees 

recover the actual costs directly related 

to the management, data collection, and 

enforcement of the programs. Section 

304(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act 

mandates that cost recovery fees not 

exceed 3 percent of the annual ex-vessel 

value of fish harvested by a program 

subject to a cost recovery fee, and that 

the fee be collected either at the time of 

landing, filing of a landing report, or 

sale of such fish during a fishing season 

or in the last quarter of the calendar year 

in which the fish is harvested. 

NMFS manages the Amendment 80 

Program, AFA Program, and AIP 

Program as limited access privilege 

programs. On January 5, 2016, NMFS 

published a final rule to implement cost 

recovery for these three limited access 

privilege programs and the CDQ 

groundfish and halibut programs (81 FR 

150). The designated representative (for 

the purposes of cost recovery) for each 

program is responsible for submitting 

the fee payment to NMFS on or before 

the due date of December 31 of the year 

in which the landings were made. The 

total dollar amount of the fee due is 

determined by multiplying the NMFS 

published fee percentage by the exvessel value of all landings under the 

program made during the fishing year. 

NMFS publishes this notice of the fee 

percentages for the Amendment 80, 

AFA, AIP, and CDQ groundfish and 

halibut fisheries in the Federal Register 

by December 1 each year. 

Standard Prices 

The fee liability is based on the exvessel value of fish harvested in each 

program. For purposes of calculating 

cost recovery fees, NMFS calculates a 

standard ex-vessel price (standard price) 

for each species. A standard price is 

determined using information on 

landings purchased (volume) and exvessel value paid (value). For most 

groundfish species, NMFS annually 

summarizes volume and value 

information for landings of all fishery 

species subject to cost recovery to 

estimate a standard price for each 

species. The standard prices are 

described in U.S. dollars per pound for 

landings made during the year. The 

standard prices for all species in the 

Amendment 80, AFA, AIP, and CDQ 

groundfish and halibut programs are 

listed in Table 1. Each landing made 

under each program is multiplied by the 

appropriate standard price to arrive at 

an ex-vessel value for each landing. 

These values are summed together to 

arrive at the ex-vessel value of each 

program (fishery value). 

TABLE 1—STANDARD EX-VESSEL PRICES BY SPECIES FOR THE 2020 FISHING YEAR

Species Gear type Reporting period 

Standard 

ex-vessel 

price per 

pound 

($) 

Arrowtooth flounder All .......................... January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... $0.16 

Atka mackerel ......... All .......................... January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.23 

Flathead sole ........... All .......................... January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.15 

Greenland turbot ..... All .......................... January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.53 

CDQ halibut ............. Fixed gear ............. October 1, 2019–September 30, 2020 ...................................................................... 3.82 

Pacific cod ............... Fixed gear ............. January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.42 

Trawl gear ............. January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.37 

Pacific ocean perch All .......................... January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.15 

Pollock ..................... All .......................... January 1, 2019–December 31, 2019 ....................................................................... 0.14 

Rock sole ................ All .......................... January 1, 2020–March 31, 2020 .............................................................................. 0.24 

All .......................... April 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ................................................................................. 0.13 

Sablefish .................. Fixed gear ............. October 1, 2019–September 30, 2020 ...................................................................... 2.12 

Trawl gear ............. January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.61 

Yellowfin sole .......... All .......................... January 1, 2020–October 31, 2020 ........................................................................... 0.15 

Fee Percentage 

NMFS calculates the fee percentage 

each year according to the factors and 

methods described at 50 CFR 

679.33(c)(2), 679.66(c)(2), 679.67(c)(2), 

and 679.95(c)(2). NMFS determines the 

fee percentage that applies to landings 

made during the year by dividing the 

total costs directly related to the 

management, data collection, and 

enforcement of each program (direct 

program costs) during the year by the 

fishery value. NMFS captures direct 

program costs through an established 

accounting system that allows staff to 

track labor, travel, contracts, rent, and 

procurement. For 2020, the direct 

program costs were tracked from 

October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020 

(the end of the fiscal year). The 

individual 2020 fee percentages for the 

Amendment 80 Program and the 

Western Alaska CDQ groundfish and 

halibut Programs are higher relative to 

percentages calculated for the programs 

in 2019. The 2020 percentage for the 

AFA Program was less than the 2019 

percentage, and the 2020 percentage for 

the Aleutian Islands Pollock Program 

remained the same as 2019. 


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NMFS will provide an annual report 

that summarizes direct program costs 

for each of the programs in early 2021. 

NMFS calculates the fishery value as 

described under the section Standard 

Prices. 

Amendment 80 Program Standard 

Prices and Fee Percentage 

The Amendment 80 Program allocates 

total allowable catches (TACs) of 

groundfish species, other than Bering 

Sea pollock, to identified trawl catcher/ 

processors in the Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands (BSAI). The 

Amendment 80 Program allocates a 

portion of the BSAI TACs of six species: 

Atka mackerel, Pacific cod, flathead 

sole, rock sole, yellowfin sole, and 

Aleutian Islands Pacific ocean perch. 

Participants in the Amendment 80 

sector have established cooperatives to 

harvest these allocations. Each 

Amendment 80 cooperative is 

responsible for payment of the cost 

recovery fee for fish landed under the 

Amendment 80 Program. Cost recovery 

requirements for the Amendment 80 

Program are at 50 CFR 679.95. 

For most Amendment 80 species, 

NMFS annually summarizes volume 

and value information for landings of all 

fishery species subject to cost recovery 

in order to estimate a standard price for 

each fishery species. Regulations specify 

that for rock sole, NMFS shall calculate 

a separate standard price for two 

periods—January 1 through March 31, 

and April 1 through October 31, which 

accounts for a substantial difference in 

estimated rock sole prices during the 

first quarter of the year relative to the 

remainder of the year. The volume and 

value information is obtained from the 

First Wholesale Volume and Value 

Report, and the Pacific Cod Ex-Vessel 

Volume and Value Report. 

Using the fee percentage formula 

described above, the estimated 

percentage of direct program costs to 

fishery value for the 2020 calendar year 

is 1.19 percent for the Amendment 80 

Program. For 2020, NMFS applied the 

fee percentage to each Amendment 80 

species landing that was debited from 

an Amendment 80 cooperative quota 

allocation between January 1 and 

December 31 to calculate the 

Amendment 80 fee liability for each 

Amendment 80 cooperative. The 2020 

fee payments must be submitted to 

NMFS on or before December 31, 2020. 

Payment must be made in accordance 

with the payment methods set forth in 

50 CFR 679.95(a)(3)(iv). 

AFA Standard Price and Fee 

Percentages 

The AFA allocates the Bering Sea 

directed pollock fishery TAC to three 

sectors—catcher/processor, mothership, 

and inshore. Each sector has established 

cooperatives to harvest the sector’s 

exclusive allocation. In 2020, the 

cooperative for the inshore sector is 

responsible for paying the fee for Bering 

Sea pollock landed under the AFA. Cost 

recovery requirements for the AFA 

sectors are at 50 CFR 679.66. 

NMFS calculates the standard price 

for pollock using the most recent annual 

value information reported to the Alaska 

Department of Fish & Game for the 

Commercial Operator’s Annual Report 

and compiled in the Alaska Commercial 

Fisheries Entry Commission Gross 

Earnings data for Bering Sea pollock. 

Due to the time required to compile the 

data, there is a one-year delay between 

the gross earnings data year and the 

fishing year to which it is applied. For 

example, NMFS used 2019 gross 

earnings data to calculate the standard 

price for 2020 pollock landings. 

Under the fee percentage formula 

described above, the estimated 

percentage of direct program costs to 

fishery value for the 2020 calendar year 

is 0.21 percent for the AFA inshore 

sector. To calculate the 2020 fee 

liabilities, NMFS applied the respective 

fee percentages to the landings of Bering 

Sea pollock debited from each 

cooperative’s fishery allocation that 

occurred between January 1 and 

December 31. The 2020 fee payments 

must be submitted to NMFS on or before 

December 31, 2020. Payment must be 

made in accordance with the payment 

methods set forth in 50 CFR 

679.66(a)(4)(iv). 

AIP Program Standard Price and Fee 

Percentage 

The AIP Program allocates the 

Aleutian Islands directed pollock 

fishery TAC to the Aleut Corporation, 

consistent with the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 

108–109), and its implementing 

regulations. Annually, prior to the start 

of the pollock season, the Aleut 

Corporation provides NMFS with the 

identity of its designated representative 

for harvesting the Aleutian Islands 

directed pollock fishery TAC. The same 

individual is responsible for the 

submission of all cost recovery fees for 

pollock landed under the AIP Program. 

Cost recovery requirements for the AIP 

Program are at 50 CFR 679.67. 

NMFS calculates the standard price 

for pollock using the most recent annual 

value information reported to the Alaska 

Department of Fish & Game for the 

Commercial Operator’s Annual Report 

and compiled in the Alaska Commercial 

Fisheries Entry Commission Gross 

Earnings data for Aleutian Islands 

pollock. Due to the time required to 

compile the data, there is a one-year 

delay between the gross earnings data 

year and the fishing year to which it is 

applied. For example, NMFS used 2019 

gross earnings data to calculate the 

standard price for 2020 pollock 

landings. 

For the 2020 fishing year, the Aleut 

Corporation selected participants to 

harvest or process the Aleutian Islands 

directed pollock fishery TAC. Some 

harvest occurred; however, the majority 

of that TAC was eventually reallocated 

to the Bering Sea directed pollock 

fishery TAC. Due to the small harvest, 

the estimated percentage of direct 

program costs to fishery value for the 

2020 calendar year were 

disproportionally high and well above 3 

percent. Pursuant to section 304(d)(2)(B) 

of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, the fee 

percentage amount must not exceed 3 

percent. Therefore, the 2020 fee 

percentage is set at 3 percent. To 

calculate the 2020 fee liability, NMFS 

applied the respective fee percentage to 

the pollock landings attributed to the 

AIP Program that occurred between 

January 1 and December 31. The 2020 

fee payments must be submitted to 

NMFS on or before December 31, 2020. 

Payment must be made in accordance 

with the payment methods set forth in 

50 CFR 679.67(a)(3)(iv). 

CDQ Standard Price and Fee Percentage 

The CDQ Program was implemented 

in 1992 to provide access to BSAI 

fishery resources to villages located in 

Western Alaska. Section 305(i) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act identifies 65 

villages eligible to participate in the 

CDQ Program and the six CDQ groups 

to represent these villages. CDQ groups 

receive exclusive harvesting privileges 

of the TACs for a broad range of crab 

species, groundfish species, and halibut. 

NMFS implemented a CDQ cost 

recovery program for the BSAI crab 

fisheries in 2005 (70 FR 10174, March 

2, 2005) and published the cost recovery 

fee percentage for the 2020/2021 crab 

fishing year on July 10, 2020 (85 FR 

41566). This notice provides the cost 

recovery fee percentage for the CDQ 

groundfish and halibut programs. Each 

CDQ group is subject to cost recovery 

fee requirements for landed groundfish 

and halibut, and the designated 

representative of each CDQ group is 

responsible for submitting payment for 

their CDQ group. Cost recovery 


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1https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25021/thefrontiers-of-machine-learning-2017-raymond-andbeverly-sackler. 

2 Ian Goodfellow Yoshua Bengio Aaron Courville, 

Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and 

Machine Learning series), (MIT Press, 2016), 1. 

requirements for the CDQ Program are at 

50 CFR 679.33. 

For most CDQ groundfish species, 

NMFS annually summarizes volume 

and value information for landings of all 

fishery species subject to cost recovery 

in order to estimate a standard price for 

each fishery species. The volume and 

value information is obtained from the 

First Wholesale Volume and Value 

Report and the Pacific Cod Ex-Vessel 

Volume and Value Report. For CDQ 

halibut and fixed-gear sablefish, NMFS 

calculates the standard prices using 

information from the Individual Fishing 

Quota (IFQ) Ex-Vessel Volume and 

Value Report, which collects 

information on both IFQ and CDQ 

volume and value. 

Using the fee percentage formula 

described above, the estimated 

percentage of direct program costs to 

fishery value for the 2020 calendar year 

is 0.84 percent for the CDQ groundfish 

and halibut programs. For 2020, NMFS 

applied the calculated CDQ fee 

percentage to all CDQ groundfish and 

halibut landings made between January 

1 and December 31 to calculate the CDQ 

fee liability for each CDQ group. The 

2020 fee payments must be submitted to 

NMFS on or before December 31, 2020. 

Payment must be made in accordance 

with the payment methods set forth in 

50 CFR 679.33(a)(3)(iv). 

(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) 

Dated: November 24, 2020. 

Jennifer M. Wallace, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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COMMISSION 

CPSC Artificial Intelligence Forum 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Announcement of forum. 

SUMMARY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (CPSC) staff is holding a 

forum on artificial intelligence (AI), and 

related technologies, such as Machine 

Learning (ML). CPSC staff invites 

interested parties to attend or 

participate in the AI forum via webinar. 

DATES: The AI forum will take place 

from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern Standard 

Time (EST) on Tuesday, March 2, 2021, 

via webinar. All attendees should preregister for the webinar. Individuals 

interested in serving on panels or 

presenting information at the forum 

should register by January 15, 2020. All 

other individuals who wish to attend 

the forum should register by February 

15, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The forum will be held via 

webinar. Attendance is free of charge. 

Persons interested in attending the 

forum should register online at: https:// 

attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/ 

4723099942466621456 and fill in the 

information. After registering, you will 

receive a confirmation email containing 

information about joining the webinar. 

Persons interested in serving on a panel 

or presenting information should email 

ntaylor@cpsc.gov an abstract by January 

4, 2021. Detailed instructions for the 

webinar participants and other 

interested parties will be made available 

on the CPSC website on the public 

calendar: https://cpsc.gov/newsroom/ 

public-calendar. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nevin Taylor, Chief Technologist, 4330 

East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814; telephone: 301–509–0264; email: 

ntaylor@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CPSC staff 

is hosting an AI forum to collect 

information on the voluntary consensus 

standards, certification, and product 

specification efforts associated with 

products using AI, ML, and related 

technologies. The information collected 

from the forum will assist staff in 

making recommendations for improving 

the safety of consumer products that 

include this technology. 

I. Background 

For this Forum, we are generally 

defining ‘‘Artificial intelligence’’ (AI) as 

any method for programming computers 

or products to enable them to carry out 

tasks or behaviors that would require 

intelligence if performed by humans.1

‘‘Machine learning’’ (ML) is typically 

understood to be an iterative process of 

applying models or algorithms to data 

sets to learn and detect patterns and/or 

perform tasks, such as prediction or 

decision making that can approximate 

some aspects of intelligence.2

A. Potential Uses of AI ML in Consumer 

Products To Improve Product Safety 

CPSC staff is aware of consumer 

products with claims of AI inclusion. 

Children’s toys, residential appliances, 

and recreational products are being 

marketed touting the use of AI, ML, and 

related technologies to improve product 

efficacy and consumer experience. 

Although opportunities exist for 

manufacturers to improve safety using 

new technologies, hazards may also be 

associated with the inclusion of these 

technologies. 

B. AI, ML, and Related Technologies 

AI, ML, and related technologies have 

the potential to dramatically change the 

nature of consumer products, with 

important ramifications for CPSC’s 

responsibilities to protect consumers 

from product hazards. In particular, 

products with AI or ML technologies 

would be learning from the consumer 

and from the operational environment 

for the product. Customization occurs 

through the evolution of products after 

delivery to the consumer, resulting in 

significant ramifications for 

manufacturer’s implementation of AI 

and ML that shape products and 

transform consumer experience. 

Although adapting to consumer 

preferences has the potential to make 

significant strides in product 

customization of features and safety 

enhancements, using data to predict and 

enhance product operation could result 

in safety hazards. 

C. Ramifications of AI and ML in 

Consumer Products 

Manufacturers may not fully 

understand the operation of the AIenabled products, particularly for those 

using genetic algorithms and other 

evolutionary AI techniques. Changes to 

the product after purchase may impede 

CPSC’s ability to replicate reported 

hazards, creating challenges for 

compliance investigations and product 

safety standards development. 

D. Relevant Voluntary Standards 

Voluntary standards organizations are 

developing consensus standards related 

to AI and ML technologies that will 

likely inform and improve safety-related 

characteristics in consumer products. AI 

and ML standards in the automotive, 

aerospace, and defense industries are 

ongoing, and knowledge from these 

efforts may be valuable in consumer 

product safety standards development. 

II Forum Topics 

The AI forum will discuss existing 

and proposed voluntary consensus 

standards, certifications, testing 

methods, product specifications, best 

practices, and similar guidance for AI, 

ML, and related technologies. There is 

currently considerable interest in 

exploring a variety of areas of AI and 

ML, including ethics, security, and 

privacy. However, given the CPSC 

mission, this forum is focused on 

obtaining information specific to 


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