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including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(d) Minimize the burden of the 

collection on those who are to respond, 

including through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

All comments submitted in response 

to this notice are a matter of public 

record. The USPTO will include or 

summarize each comment in the request 

to OMB to approve this information 

collection. Before including an address, 

phone number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information (PII) in 

a comment, be aware that the entire 

comment—including PII—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you may ask in your comment to 

withhold PII from public view, the 

USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be 

able to do so. 

Kimberly Hardy, 

Information Collections Officer, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15875 Filed 7–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. CPSC–2021–0020] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request; Hazard Warning 

Communication Survey 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (CPSC) is announcing an 

opportunity for public comment on a 

new proposed collection of information 

by the agency. Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), federal 

agencies are required to publish notice 

in the Federal Register for each 

proposed collection of information, and 

to allow 60 days for public comment in 

response to the notice. This notice 

solicits comments on a proposed survey 

to assess how hazard warnings are 

communicated to consumers. The 

Commission will consider all comments 

received in response to this notice 

before submitting this collection of 

information to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval. 

DATES: Submit written or electronic 

comments on the collection of 

information by September 24, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CPSC–2021– 

0020, 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. 

CPSC does not accept comments 

submitted by electronic mail (email), 

except through https://

www.regulations.gov and as described 

below. CPSC encourages you to submit 

electronic comments by using the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal. 

Mail/hand delivery/courier Written 

Submissions: Submit comments by 

mail/hand delivery/courier to: Division 

of the Secretariat, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East-West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; 

telephone: (301) 504–7479. 

Alternatively, as a temporary option 

during the COVID–19 pandemic, you 

may email such submissions to: cpscos@cpsc.gov. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this notice. CPSC may post 

all comments received without change, 

including any personal identifiers, 

contact information, or other personal 

information provided, to: https://

www.regulations.gov. Do not submit 

electronically: 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 written submissions. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to: https:// 

www.regulations.gov, insert Docket No. 

CPSC–2021–0020 into the ‘‘Search’’ box, 

and follow the prompts. A copy of the 

proposed survey is available at: http:// 

www.regulations.gov under Docket No. 

CPSC–2021–0020, Supporting and 

Related Material. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East-West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 

504–7991, or by email to: cgillham@

cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), federal 

agencies must obtain approval from 

OMB for each collection of information 

they conduct or sponsor. ‘‘Collection of 

information’’ is defined in 44 U.S.C. 

3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c) and 

includes agency proposed surveys. 

Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA (44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)) requires federal 

agencies to provide a 60-day notice in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information 

before submitting the collection to OMB 

for approval. Accordingly, CPSC is 

publishing notice of the proposed 

collection of information set forth in 

this document. 

A. Hazard Warning Communication 

Survey 

CPSC is authorized under section 5(a) 

of the Consumer Product Safety Act 

(CPSA), 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), to conduct 

studies and investigations relating to the 

causes and prevention of deaths, 

accidents, injuries, illnesses, other 

health impairments, and economic 

losses associated with consumer 

products. Section 5(b) of the CPSA, 15 

U.S.C. 2054(b), further provides that 

CPSC may conduct research, studies, 

and investigations on the safety of 

consumer products, and develop 

product safety test methods and testing 

devices. 

CPSC proposes to conduct an online 

survey to gather data on consumer risk 

perception and response to hazard 

communications from 5,000 

respondents. The study population will 

be comprised of individuals age 18 and 

over from across the United States. In 

this proposed survey, CPSC seeks 

information about consumer product 

use, including, but not limited to, the 

following topics: 

• Consumers’ beliefs, experiences, 

and tendencies regarding product safety; 

• whether consumers pay attention to 

instructions that come with products; 

• whether consumers read safety 

information and labels; 

• to what extent consumers comply 

with safety messages; 

• how product type influences 

consumers’ attitude and behavior; 

• what information resources 

consumers rely on before buying a 

product; 

• how product safety ranks among 

other factors consumers consider; 

• reasons consumers comply or do 

not comply with the safety messages; 

and 

• how consumers respond if they 

encounter a safety recall of the product 

they own. 

CPSC has contracted with Carahsoft/ 

Qualtrics, to develop and execute this 

project for CPSC. Information obtained 

through this survey is not intended to be 

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The panel provider will monitor 

respondents, and if a particular 

demographic is trending highly, the 

panel provider will slow down the 

sample for that segment and will focus 

on obtaining responses from others to 

ensure recruitment for U.S. censusmatched survey participants from the 

Midwest, Northeast, South, and West 

regions. The panel provider will also 

monitor respondents to ensure that 

underserved populations are 

represented in the sample and that 

insights are collected from a diverse 

population. 

CPSC intends to use the study 

findings to develop a better 

understanding of the mechanisms and 

types of safety messages that consumers 

receive, how they respond, and what 

affects their response. Specifically, 

responses to the items in this survey 

will provide CPSC staff with 

information on whether consumers read 

and comply with various types of safety 

information that comes with products 

they use; the causes of consumer 

noncompliance with product safety 

information; whether consumers share 

product safety information with other 

users of their products; what sources of 

information they rely on to decide if a 

product is safe to use; whether safety is 

a priority in their purchasing decisions; 

how they responded to safety notices 

and recalls in the past; reasons for 

noncompliance with safety notices and 

recalls; and if and how the product type 

affects their risk perception and 

behaviors. Findings from this survey 

will provide CPSC with information on 

ways to increase consumer 

understanding of, and adherence to, 

safety messaging and help CPSC 

develop more effective messaging that 

will convey critical information about 

product hazards. 

B. Burden Hours 

We estimate the number of 

respondents to the survey to be 5,000. 

The online survey for the proposed 

study will take approximately 15 

minutes (0.25 hours) to complete. We 

estimate the total annual burden hours 

for respondents to be 1,250 hours. The 

monetized hourly cost is $38.60, as 

defined by total compensation for all 

civilian workers, U.S. Bureau of Labor 

Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee 

Compensation, as of December 2020. 

Accordingly, we estimate the total cost 

burden to be $48,250 (1,250 hours × 

$38.60). The total cost to the federal 

government for the contract to design 

and conduct the proposed survey is 

$150,978. 

C. Request for Comments 

CPSC invites comments on these 

topics: 

• Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of CPSC’s functions, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; 

• The accuracy of CPSC’s estimate of 

the burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• 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. 

Alberta E. Mills, 

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15841 Filed 7–23–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

Public Availability of Consumer 

Product Safety Commission FY 2019 

Service Contract Inventory, FY 2018 

Service Contract Inventory Analysis, 

and Plan for FY 2019 Inventory 

Analysis 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (CPSC), in accordance with 

section 743(c) of Division C of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2010, 

is announcing the availability of CPSC’s 

service contract inventory for fiscal year 

(FY) 2019, CPSC’s FY 2018 service 

contract inventory analysis, and the 

plan for analyzing CPSC’s FY 2019 

service contract inventory. The FY 2019 

inventory provides information on 

service contract actions that exceeded 

$25,000 that CPSC made in FY 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Eddie Ahmad, Procurement Analyst, 

Division of Procurement Services, 

Division of Procurement Services, U.S. 

Consumer Product Safety Commission, 

4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814. Telephone: 301–504–7884; 

email: aahmad@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 16, 2009, the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act, 2010 (Consolidated 

Appropriations Act), Public Law 111– 

117, became law. Section 743(a) of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, titled, 

‘‘Service Contract Inventory 

Requirement,’’ requires agencies to 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB), an annual inventory of 

service contracts awarded or extended 

through the exercise of an option on or 

after April 1, 2010, and describes the 

contents of the inventory. The contents 

of the inventory must include: 

(A) A description of the services 

purchased by the executive agency and 

the role the services played in achieving 

agency objectives, regardless of whether 

such a purchase was made through a 

contract or task order; 

(B) The organizational component of 

the executive agency administering the 

contract, and the organizational 

component of the agency whose 

requirements are being met through 

contractor performance of the service; 

(C) The total dollar amount obligated 

for services under the contract and the 

funding source for the contract; 

(D) The total dollar amount invoiced 

for services under the contract; 

(E) The contract type and date of 

award; 

(F) The name of the contractor and 

place of performance; 

(G) The number and work location of 

contractor and subcontractor employees, 

expressed as full-time equivalents for 

direct labor, compensated under the 

contract; 

(H) Whether the contract is a personal 

services contract; and 

(I) Whether the contract was awarded 

on a noncompetitive basis, regardless of 

date of award. 

Section 743(a)(3)(A) through (I) of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act. 

Section 743(c) of the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act requires agencies to 

‘‘publish in the Federal Register a 

notice that the inventory is available to 

the public.’’ 

Consequently, through this notice, we 

are announcing that the CPSC’s service 

contract inventory for FY 2019 is 

available to the public. The inventory 

provides information on service contract 

actions of more than $25,000 that the 

CPSC made in FY 2019. The 

information is organized by function to 

show how contracted resources are 

distributed throughout the CPSC. OMB 

posted a consolidated government-wide 

Service Contract Inventory for FY 2019 

at https://www.acquisition.gov/servicecontract-inventory. You can access the 

CPSC’s inventories by limiting the 

‘‘Contracting Agency Name’’ field on 

each spreadsheet to ‘‘Consumer Product 

Safety Commission.’’ 

Additionally, CPSC’s Division of 

Procurement Services has posted 


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