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1The 1990 COMSIS report, Development of 

Human Factors Criteria for Playground Equipment 

Safety, is available in six parts on the CPSC website. 

Part 1 is available at: https://www.cpsc.gov/content/ 

Development-of-Human-Factors-Criteria-forPlayground-Equipment-Safety-Part-1. Part 2 is 

available at: https://www.cpsc.gov/content/ 

Development-of-Human-Factors-Criteria-forPlayground-Equipment-Safety-Part-2. Part 3 is 

available at: https://www.cpsc.gov/content/ 

Development-of-Human-Factors-Criteria-forPlayground-Equipment-Safety-Part-3. Part 4 is 

available at: https://www.cpsc.gov/content/ 

development-human-factors-criteria-playgroundequipment-safety-part-4. Part 5 is available at: 

https://www.cpsc.gov/content/Development-ofHuman-Factors-Criteria-for-Playground-EquipmentSafety-Part-5. Part 6 is available at: https://

www.cpsc.gov/content/development-humanfactors-criteria-playground-equipment-safety-part6. 

2See section 1.4.1 of the draft Handbook for a list 

of relevant standards. 

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Comments submitted in response to this 

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of its review of this request. All 

comments will become a matter of 

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Anthony May, 

Paperwork Reduction Act Officer, Consumer 

Financial Protection Bureau. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22491 Filed 9–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–AM–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CPSC–2024–0030] 

Notice of Availability and Request for 

Comment: Public Playground 

Handbook Update 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission (Commission or 

CPSC) is announcing the availability of 

draft updates to its ‘‘Public Playground 

Safety Handbook.’’ 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

December 2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You can submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CPSC–2024– 

0030, by any of the following methods: 

Electronic Submissions: Submit 

electronic comments to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Do not submit through this website: 

confidential business information, trade 

secret information, or other sensitive or 

protected information that you do not 

want to be available to the public. CPSC 

typically does not accept comments 

submitted by email, except as described 

below. 

Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier/ 

Confidential Written Submissions: CPSC 

encourages you to submit electronic 

comments by using the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal. You may, however, 

submit comments by mail, hand 

delivery, or courier to: Office of the 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission, 4330 East West Highway, 

Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: (301) 

504–7479. If you wish to submit 

confidential business information, trade 

secret information, or other sensitive or 

protected information that you do not 

want to be available to the public, you 

may submit such comments by mail, 

hand delivery, or courier, or you may 

email them to: cpsc-os@cpsc.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number. CPSC may post all comments 

without change, including any personal 

identifiers, contact information, or other 

personal information provided, to: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Do not 

submit to this website: confidential 

business information, trade secret 

information, or other sensitive or 

protected information that you do not 

want to be available to the public. If you 

wish to submit such information, please 

submit it according to the instructions 

for mail/hand delivery/courier/ 

confidential written submissions. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to: https://

www.regulations.gov, and insert the 

docket number, CPSC–2024–0030, into 

the ‘‘Search’’ box, and follow the 

prompts. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel Taxier, Children’s Program 

Manager, Division of Mechanical and 

Combustion Engineering, U.S. 

Consumer Product Safety Commission, 

5 Research Place, Rockville, MD 20850– 

3213; email: dtaxier@cpsc.gov; 

telephone: (301) 987–2211. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Consumer Product Safety Commission 

published the first Handbook for Public 

Playground Safety (the Handbook) in 

1981. This original document was a 

two-volume set containing technical 

guidance intended to reduce deaths and 

injuries to children associated with 

playground equipment. In 1991, the 

Handbook was revised to a single 

volume, which contained 

recommendations based on a COMSIS 

Corporation report to the CPSC.1 Also in 

1991, the first ASTM International 

(ASTM) standard for playground safety, 

F1292: Standard Specification for 

Impact Attenuation of Surface Systems 

Under and Around Playground 

Equipment, was published. In 1993, 

ASTM F1487: Standard Consumer 

Safety Performance Specification for 

Playground Equipment for Public Use 

was published. CPSC published minor 

revisions to the Handbook in 1994. In 

1997, the Handbook was updated based 

on ASTM F1487, a playground safety 

roundtable meeting held in October of 

1996, and comments received in 

response to a May 1997 CPSC request. 

Due to the lack of a Commission 

quorum at the time, 2008 revisions to 

the Handbook were released as a draft 

staff document. Later in 2008, members 

of ASTM’s voluntary standards 

committee on playground equipment 

and the International Play Equipment 

Manufacturers Association (IPEMA) 

identified areas where the voluntary 

standards and the Handbook did not 

align. In 2010, CPSC published a revised 

the Handbook that resolved many of 

these issues. 

Since 2010, ASTM has published new 

and revised public playground 

standards,2 and new materials and 

equipment have been installed in 

playgrounds. Additionally, members of 

ASTM, the National Program for 

Playground Safety (NPPS), IPEMA, and 

members of the general public have 

requested clarifications and 

recommended an update to the 

Handbook. Based on the current 

editions of the relevant ASTM 

standards, feedback from the public, 

and comments from ASTM and NPPS, 

CPSC is publishing a revised draft 

Handbook with a focus on 

improvements to safety. 

The staff memorandum accompanying 

the draft Handbook, available at https:// 

cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/BallotVote-PublicPlayground-Handbook-Update-2.pdf?, 

summarizes major revisions included in 

the draft. These changes include 

updated signage and labeling guidance; 

updated guidance on common hazards 

for supervisor awareness; references to 

new impact attenuation testing for 

suspended elements in ASTM F1487; an 

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strangulation hazards; expanded 

guidance on merry-go-rounds and other 

spinning equipment, consistent with 

requirements in ASTM F1487; and 

several other minor revisions and 

corrections. 

The draft Handbook is intended to 

provide guidance to childcare 

personnel, school officials, parks and 

recreation personnel, equipment 

purchasers and installers, playground 

designers, and any other members of the 

general public (e.g., parents and school 

groups) concerned with playground 

safety and interested in evaluating their 

respective playgrounds. The draft 

Handbook also includes references to 

voluntary standards that contain 

technical requirements that are 

primarily intended for use by 

equipment designers and 

manufacturers, architects, and any 

others requiring more technical 

information. The draft Handbook is a 

guidance document; it is not a rule and 

does not establish legally enforceable 

responsibilities. 

The draft Handbook is available on 

the Commission’s website at: https://

cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/BallotVote-PublicPlayground-Handbook-Update-2.pdf? 

and from the Commission’s Office of the 

Secretary at the location listed in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

The Commission invites comment on 

the document, ‘‘Public Playground 

Safety Handbook.’’ Comments should be 

submitted by December 2, 2024. 

Information on how to submit 

comments can be found in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2024–22433 Filed 9–30–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket ID ED–2024–IES–0116] 

Request for Information for 

Recommendations on Improving Data 

User Experiences Through a National 

Center for Education Statistics’ 2025 

Data Users Conference 

AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, 

Department of Education. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The National Center for 

Education Statistics (NCES), the 

statistical center within the U.S. 

Department of Education’s Institute of 

Education Sciences (IES), is soliciting 

public input on the framework for an 

inaugural Data Users Conference. The 

event will bring together a diverse set of 

NCES data users, including researchers, 

practitioners, parents/guardians, 

students, academic and commercial 

leaders in their fields, and 

policymakers. Their input will be used 

to refine NCES’s approach to meeting 

the needs of its data users. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

by October 31, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Recommendations must be 

submitted via the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal at regulations.gov. However, if 

you require an accommodation or 

cannot otherwise submit your 

recommendations via regulations.gov, 

please contact the program contact 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. The Department 

will not accept recommendations by 

email or by fax. To ensure that the 

Department does not receive duplicate 

copies, please submit your 

recommendations only once. 

Additionally, please include the Docket 

ID at the top of your comments. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov to submit your 

recommendations electronically. 

Information on using Regulations.gov, 

including instructions for accessing 

agency documents, submitting 

comments, and viewing the docket, is 

available on the site under the ‘‘FAQ’’ 

tab. 

Privacy Note: The Department’s 

policy for comments received from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing in their entirety on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at 

www.regulations.gov. Therefore, 

commenters should be careful to 

include in their recommendations only 

information that they wish to make 

publicly available. We encourage, but 

do not require, that each respondent 

include their name, title, institution or 

affiliation, and the name, title, mailing 

and email addresses, and telephone 

number of a contact person for the 

institution or affiliation, if any. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eunice Greer, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW, 

Room PCP–4101, Washington, DC 

20202. Telephone: (202) 320–7356. 

Email: Eunice.Greer@ed.gov. 

As stated above, recommendations 

must be submitted via the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at regulations.gov. 

However, if you require an 

accommodation or cannot otherwise 

submit your recommendations via 

regulations.gov, please contact the 

program contact person listed above. 

If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or 

have a speech disability and wish to 

access telecommunications relay 

services, please dial 7–1–1. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: NCES has a legal 

mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and 

report complete statistics on the 

condition of American education; 

conduct and publish reports; and review 

and report on education activities 

internationally. 20 U.S.C. 9541 et seq. 

Additionally, the Center is authorized to 

establish one or more national 

cooperative education statistics systems 

to produce and maintain, with the 

cooperation of the States, comparable 

and uniform information and data on 

early childhood education, elementary 

and secondary education, postsecondary 

education, adult education, and libraries 

that are useful for policymaking at the 

Federal, State, and local levels. 20 

U.S.C. 9547. Additional information 

about NCES is available here: https://

nces.ed.gov/. 

NCES is convening data users in 

response to recommendations from the 

National Academies of Science, 

Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) 

detailed in their 2022 report, A Vision 

and Roadmap for Education Statistics. 

This report was prepared at the request 

of NCES. NASEM recommends that 

NCES: 

—Adapt to the changing world of 

education by increasing diversity and 

awareness of equity issues; 

—Expand data-acquisition strategies to 

gain new insights; 

—Prioritize topics, data content, and 

statistical information to increase 

relevance; and 

—Expand engagement and 

dissemination for greater mission 

impact. 

The Data Users Conference will draw 

heavily on NCES data and invite 

presentations from external experts 

working with broader sources of data. 

Facilitated discussions will explore 

opportunities for expanding NCES data 

collection, application, and reporting. 

The Conference’s centerpiece will be a 

three-day series of seminars that will 

focus on three themes: 

(1) Identifying and closing learning 

and achievement gaps; 

(2) Identifying and explaining ways 

that Pre-K, K–12, and postsecondary 

landscapes are changing; and 

(3) Expanding awareness and use of 

socio-spatial data, data for rural areas, 

and blended data to improve 

understanding of underrepresented 

groups. 

External experts will join NCES 

researchers in a series of presentations 

to address each theme in new and 

powerful ways. Within each theme, 


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