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within 20 working days of filing its

report.

6. A company’s proposed corrective

action plan must include:

(a) A description of the recall action

(refund, repair, or replacement) that the

company will take to eliminate the

identified risk.

(b) Sufficient product design,

incident, and testing information to

allow the staff to determine whether the

proposed action corrects the identified

problem and the problem is limited to

the model(s) and production dates

identified by the company. Such

information should include, but is not

limited to: consumer complaints, test

data, engineering drawings, material

specifications, samples of product, and/

or component parts, as needed. If the

needed information and documentation

is being compiled, but is not yet

available, the company must provide

the date it expects to forward the

information to CPSC. CPSC staff must

have sufficient time to review the

information and respond within the 20

working day time limit.

(c) Usually, the company’s proposed

plan must include notice of the recall to

distributors, retailers, and consumers of

the subject product. The notice must

describe the product, the hazard, the

number and type of injuries that have

been reported, the type of injury that

can occur, and the action to be taken in

plain language understandable to the

people to whom the notice is directed.

Generally, the plan must include a joint

news release with the Commission

announcing the recall, letters and

instructions to retailers and distributors,

point-of-purchase posters, and,

depending upon the level of risk, the

population at risk, age and number of

products involved, additional notice.

Supplementary notice may include a

video news release, print and/or radio

advertisements, incentives or bounties

to encourage consumer response,

posters for specific audiences, such as

for posting in pediatricians’ offices,

medical clinics, national parks and

campgrounds, and repair shops (see

Corrective Action Handbook, available

for CPSC Division of Corrective

Actions). In those cases where all

purchasers can be contacted directly, a

news release may not be necessary.

(d) An agreement that the

Commission may publicize the terms of

the plan and inform the public of the

nature and the extent of the alleged

hazard. The consumer notice should be

targeted to reach a significant portion of

the public likely to have purchased the

subject product. (See 16 CFR

§ 1115.20(a) and CPSC Corrective Action

Handbook.)

7. The corrective action plan and

notice must be acceptable to the staff.

The staff will consider whether the

corrective action plan adequately

addresses the risk of injury presented by

the product and whether the notice and

corrective action plan are designed to

make the plan as effective as is

reasonably possible given the nature of

the product and the risk.

8. The staff will provide expedited

review of every proposal submitted and

work with every interested company to

develop an acceptable corrective action

plan that can be implemented within 20

working days. However, there may be

cases where the staff cannot evaluate

and approve implementation of a

corrective action plan within 20

working days, even though the company

has submitted all the necessary

information in a timely manner.

Similarly, there may be cases where the

staff and firm agree that notice and

corrective action should occur after 20

working days have passed (for example,

in the case of a seasonal product). So

long as delay is not caused by or the

fault of the company, the staff generally

will not make a preliminary hazard

determination.

9. If corrective action is implemented

within 20 working days, staff will

acknowledge in writing that the

company has submitted information

under section 15(b) of the CPSA and

that, based on available information, the

proposed corrective action plan is

adequate. In addition, the staff will

advise the company that it has a

continuing obligation to report new or

different information that may affect the

scope, prevalence or seriousness of the

defect or hazard. Once the company

implements its corrective action plan,

the staff will monitor its progress.

10. If the company does not

implement a corrective action

acceptable to the staff within 20

working days, the staff will continue its

evaluation and will preliminarily

determine whether the product contains

a defect that creates a substantial risk of

injury to children under the FHSA or

presents a substantial product hazard

under the CPSA. The staff will so

inform the company.

11. A company should not delay its

report under section 15(b) of the CPSA

in order to prepare a corrective action

plan. The staff will not refrain from

making a preliminary determination if

the information available suggests that a

company did so.

Dated: July 21, 1997.

Todd A. Stevenson,

Deputy Secretary, Consumer Product Safety

Commission.

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CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Sunshine Act Meeting

Pursuant to the provisions of the

Government in the Sunshine Act (5

U.S.C. 552(b)), notice is hereby given of

the following meeting of the Board of

Directors of the Corporation for National

and Community Service (Corporation).

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, July 31, 1997,

from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

PLACE: The meeting will be held via

conference call.

STATUS: The meeting will be closed,

pursuant to exemptions (4) and (9(b)) of

the Government in the Sunshine Act.

The basis for this closing has been

certified by the Corporation’s Acting

General Counsel. A copy of the

certification will be posted for public

inspection at the Corporation’s

headquarters at 1201 New York Avenue

NW, Suite 8200, Washington, DC 20525,

and will otherwise be available upon

request.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: This is a

correction to the original Federal

Register Notice, dated July 22, 1997,

page 39214. The Board of Directors of

the Corporation will meet to deliberate

and make decisions on grant awards in

the following areas. AmeriCorps*State

formula programs, AmeriCorps

Education Awards Program, and Learn

and Service America fund for the

advancement of service learning and

local education agencies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rhonda Taylor, Associate Director of

Special Projects and Initiatives,

Corporation for National and

Community Service, 1201 New York

Avenue NW, 8th Floor, Washington DC

20525. Telephone (202) 606–5000, ext

282.

Dated: July 22, 1997.

Stewart A. Davis,

Acting General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 97–19707 Filed 7–22–97; 3:44 pm]

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