Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 80 / Tuesday, April 25, 2000 / Notices 24187

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 11:00 a.m., Friday, May

19, 2000.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW, Washington,

DC, 9th Floor Conference Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance

matters.

CONTRACT PERSON FOR MORE

INFORMATION: Jean A. Webb, 202–418–

5100.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

[FR Doc. 00–10348 Filed 4–21–00; 11:34 am]

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:

Commodity Futures Trading

Commission.

TIME AND DATE: 11:00 a.m., Friday, May

26, 2000.

PLACE: 1155 21st St., NW, Washington,

DC, 9th Floor Conference Room.

STATUS: Closed.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Surveillance

matters.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY

COMMISSION

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request; Clothing Textiles, Vinyl

Plastic Film

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety

Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

chapter 35), the Consumer Product

Safety Commission requests comments

on a proposed extension of approval of

a collection of information from

manufacturers and importers of

clothing, and textiles and related

materials intended for use in clothing.

This collection of information is

required in regulations implementing

the Standard for the Flammability of

Clothing Textiles (16 CFR part 1610)

and the Standard for the Flammability

of Vinyl Plastic Film (16 CFR part 1611).

These regulations establish

requirements for testing and

recordkeeping for manufacturers and

importers who furnish guaranties for

products subject to the flammability

standards for clothing textiles and vinyl

plastic film. The Commission will

consider all comments received in

response to this notice before requesting

an extension of approval of this

collection of information from the Office

of Management and Budget.

DATES: Written comments must be

received by the Office of the Secretary

not later than June 26, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be captioned ‘‘Clothing Textiles and

Film, Collection of Information’’ and

mailed to the Office of the Secretary,

Consumer Product Safety Commission,

Washington, DC 20207, or delivered to

that office, room 502, 4330 East-West

Highway, Bethesda, MD, 20814. Written

comments may also be sent to the Office

of the Secretary by facsimile at (301)

504–0127 or by e-mail at cpscos@cpsc.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

information about the proposed

extension of the collection of

information, or to obtain a copy of 16

CFR parts 1610 and 1611, call or write

Linda L. Glatz, Office of Planning and

Evaluation, Consumer Product Safety

Commission, Washington, DC 20207;

telephone (301) 504–0416, extension

2226.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background

Clothing and fabrics intended for use

in clothing (except children’s sleepwear

in sizes 0 through 14) are subject to the

Standard for the Flammability of

Clothing Textiles (16 CFR part 1610).

Clothing made from vinyl plastic film

and vinyl plastic film intended for use

in clothing (except children’s sleepwear

in sizes 0 through 14) are subject to the

Standard for the Flammability of Vinyl

Plastic Film (16 CFR part 1611). These

standards prescribe a test to assure that

articles of wearing apparel, and fabrics

and film intended for use in wearing

apparel, are not dangerously flammable

because of rapid and intense burning.

(Children’s sleepwear and fabrics and

related materials intended for use in

children’s sleepwear in sizes 0 through

14 are subject to other, more stringent

flammability standards, codified at 16

CFR parts 1615 and 1616.) The

flammability standards for clothing

textiles and vinyl plastic film were

made mandatory by the Flammable

Fabrics Act of 1953 (FFA) (Pub. L. 83–

88, 67 Stat. 111; June 30, 1953).

Section 8 of the FFA (15 U.S.C. 1197)

provides that a person who receives a

guaranty in good faith that a product

complies with an applicable

flammability standard is not subject to

criminal prosecution for a violation of

the FFA resulting from the sale of any

product covered by the guaranty.

Section 8 of the FFA requires that a

guaranty must be based on ‘‘reasonable

and representative tests.’’ The

Commission estimates that about 1,000

manufacturers and importers of

clothing, and of textiles and vinyl film

intended for use in clothing, issue

guaranties that the products they

produce or import comply with the

applicable standard.

B. Testing and Recordkeeping

Regulations implementing the

flammability standards for clothing

textiles and vinyl plastic film prescribe

requirements for testing and

recordkeeping by firms that issue

guaranties. See 16 CFR part 1610,

subpart B, and 16 CFR part 1611,

subpart B.

The Commission uses the information

compiled and maintained by firms that

issue these guaranties to help protect

the public from risks of injury or death

associated with clothing and fabrics and

vinyl film intended for use in clothing.

More specifically, the information helps

the Commission arrange corrective

actions if any products covered by a

guaranty fail to comply with the

applicable standard in a manner that

creates a substantial risk of injury or

death to the public. The Commission

also uses this information to determine

whether the requisite testing was

performed to support the guaranties.

The Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approved the collection of

information in the enforcement

regulations implementing the standards

for clothing textiles and vinyl plastic

film under control number 3041–0024.

OMB’s most recent extension of

approval will expire on July 31, 2000.

The Commission proposes to request an

extension of approval without change

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for the collection of information in those

regulations.

C. Estimated Burden

The Commission staff estimates that

about 1,000 firms that manufacture or

import products subject to the

flammability standards for clothing

textiles and vinyl plastic film issue

guaranties that the products they

produce or import comply with the

applicable standard. The Commission

staff estimates that these standards and

implementing regulations will impose

an average annual burden of about 101.6

hours on each of those firms. That

burden will result from conducting the

testing and maintaining records

required by the implementing

regulations. The total annual burden

imposed by the standards and

regulations on all manufacturers and

importers of clothing textiles and vinyl

plastic film will be about 101,600 hours.

The hourly wage for the testing and

recordkeeping required by the standards

and regulations is about $13.50, for an

estimated annual cost to the industry of

$1,400,000.

D. Request for Comments

The Commission solicits written

comments from all interested persons

about the proposed collection of

information. The Commission

specifically solicits information relevant

to the following topics:

• Whether the collection of

information described above is

necessary for the proper performance of

the Commission’s functions, including

whether the information would have

practical utility;

• Whether the estimated burden of

the proposed collection of information

is accurate;

• Whether the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be collected

could be enhanced; and

• Whether the burden imposed by the

collection of information could be

minimized by use of automated,

electronic or other technological

collection techniques, or other forms of

information technology.

Dated: April 19, 2000.

Sadye E. Dunn,

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety

Commission.

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COMMISSION

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request—Safety Standard

for Automatic Residential Garage Door

Operators

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety

Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In the Federal Register of

February 9, 2000 (65 FR 6361), the

Consumer Product Safety Commission

published a notice in accordance with

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35) to

announce the agency’s intention to seek

extension of approval of the collection

of information in the Safety Standard for

Automatic Residential Garage Door

Operators (16 CFR part 1211). No

comments were received in response to

that notice. The Commission now

announces that it has submitted to the

Office of Management and Budget a

request for reinstatement of approval of

that collection of information without

change for a period of three years from

the date of approval.

The Consumer Product Safety

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–

608, 104 Stat. 3110) requires all

automatic residential garage door

openers manufactured after January 1,

1993, to comply with the entrapment

protection requirements of UL Standard

325 that were in effect on January 1,

1992. In 1992, the Commission codified

the entrapment protection provisions of

UL Standard 325 in effect on January 1,

1992, as the Safety Standard for

Automatic Residential Garage Door

Operators, 16 CFR part 1211, Subpart A.

Certification regulations implementing

the standard require manufacturers,

importers and private labelers of garage

door operators subject to the standard to

test their products for compliance with

the standard, and to maintain records of

that testing. Those regulations are

codified at 16 CFR part 1211, subparts

B and C.

The Commission uses the records of

testing and other information required

by the certification regulations to

determine that automatic residential

garage door operators subject to the

standard comply with its requirements.

The Commission also uses this

information to obtain corrective actions

if garage door operators fail to comply

with the standard in a manner which

creates a substantial risk of injury to the

public.

Additional Information About the

Request for Reinstatement of Approval

of a Collection of Information

Agency address: Consumer Product

Safety Commission, Washington, DC

20207.

Title of information collection: Safety

Standard for Automatic Residential

Garage Door Operators, 16 CFR part

1211.

Type of request: Approval of a

collection of information.

General description of respondents:

Manufacturers, importers, and private

labelers of automatic residential garage

door operators.

Estimated number of respondents: 22.

Estimated average number of hours

per respondent: 40 per year.

Estimated number of hours for all

respondents: 880 per year.

Estimated cost of collection for all

respondents: $11,880.

Comments: Comments on this request

for reinstatement of approval of

information collection requirements

should be submitted by June 26, 2000,

to (1) the Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk

Officer for CPSC, Office of Management

and Budget, Washington DC 20503;

telephone: (202) 395–7340, and (2) the

Office of the Secretary, Consumer

Product Safety Commission,

Washington, DC 20207. Written

comments may also be sent to the Office

of the Secretary by facsimile at (301)

504–0127 or by e-mail at cpscos@cpsc.gov.

Copies of this request for

reinstatement of the information

collection requirements and supporting

documentation are available from Linda

Glatz, management and program

analyst, Office of Planning and

Evaluation, Consumer Product Safety

Commission, Washington, DC 20207;

telephone: (301) 504–0416, ext. 2226.

Dated: April 19, 2000.

Sadye E. Dunn,

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety

Commission.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

National Assessment Governing

Board; Meeting.

AGENCY: National Assessment

Governing Board; Education

ACTION: Notice of Closed and Partially

Closed Meetings

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the

schedule and proposed agenda of a