[Federal Register: September 17, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 180)]
[Notices]
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC-2010-0046]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission for Office
of Management and Budget Review; Comment Request; Consumer Focus Groups
AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (``CPSC'' or
``Commission'') is announcing that a proposed collection of information
has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (``OMB'') for
review and clearance under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Fax written comments on the collection of information by October
18, 2010.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that comments on the information collection are
received, OMB recommends that written comments be faxed to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attn: CPSC Desk Officer,
FAX: 202-395-6974, or e-mailed to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. All
comments should be identified with the OMB control number 3041-0136 and
identified by Docket No. CPSC-2010-0046. In addition, written comments
also should be submitted in http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.regulations.gov under Docket No.
CPSC-2010-0046, or by mail/hand delivery/courier (for paper, disk, or
CD-ROM submissions), preferably in five copies, to: Office of the
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Room 820, 4330 East West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Glatz, Division of Policy and
Planning, Office of Information Technology, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 504-7671,
lglatz@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In compliance with 44 U.S.C. 3507, the CPSC
has submitted the following proposed collection of information to OMB
for review and clearance:
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Consumer Focus Groups--(OMB Control Number 3041-0136-Extension).
The Commission is authorized, under section 5(a) of the Consumer
Product Safety Act (``CPSA''), 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), to collect
information, conduct research, and perform 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 the Commission may conduct research, studies and
investigations on the safety of consumer products or test consumer
products and develop product safety test methods and testing devices.
To better identify and evaluate the risks of product-related
incidents, the Commission staff invites and obtains direct feedback
from consumers on issues related to product safety such as recall
effectiveness, product use, and perceptions regarding safety issues.
Through participation in certain focus groups, consumers answer
questions and provide information regarding their actual experiences,
opinions and/or perceptions on the use or pattern of use of a specific
product or type of product, including recalled products. The
information collected from the Consumer Focus Groups will help inform
the Commission's evaluation of consumer products and product use by
providing insight and information into consumer perceptions and usage
patterns. Such information also may assist the Commission's efforts to
support voluntary standards activities and help identify areas
regarding consumer safety issues that need additional research. In
addition, the information will assist with forming new ways of
providing user friendly data to consumers through CPSC's Web site and
information and education campaigns.
If this information is not collected, the Commission may not have
available certain useful information regarding consumer experiences,
opinions, and perceptions related to specific product use in its
ongoing efforts to improve the safety of consumer products and safety
information on behalf of consumers. Currently, the Commission staff
relies on its expert judgment about consumer behavior, perceptions, and
similar information related to consumer products and product use. Not
conducting the information collection activity, therefore, could reduce
the quality of assessments currently completed by Commission staff. The
information collection activity would likely provide the Commission
staff with information that would focus the staff's assessments, or
could provide insight into consumer perceptions and usage patterns that
could not be anticipated by Commission staff.
In the Federal Register of June 7, 2010 (75 FR 32161), the CPSC
published a 60-day notice requesting public comment on the proposed
collection of information. No comments were received.
We estimate the burden of this collection of information as
follows. We anticipate that, over the three year period of this
request, we will conduct 40 focus groups and 20 one-on-one interviews
for a variety of projects. The total hours of burden to the respondents
are: (4 hours per person x 400 participants) + (30 minutes per person x
20 participants) = 1,610 hours (537 hours budgeted per year for three
years). The total annual cost is: 1,610 x $29.40 (U.S. Department of
Labor, Employer costs for Employee Compensation, September 2009) =
$47,334 ($15,778 budgeted per year for three years).
The estimated annual cost of the information collection
requirements to the Federal government is approximately $140,000 per
year for three years. Salary and benefits costs for government
personnel assigned to this study are estimated at $127,573 based on 9
months of staff time at an average level of GS-14 step 5 (($119,238 /
.701) / 12 months) x 21 months), using a 70.1 percent ratio of wages
and salary to total compensation from Table 1 of the December 2009
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, published by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. This sum also includes travel costs expended for
meeting with contractors ($40,000, estimated at $1,000 per focus
group), and contracts for conducting focus groups and/or one-on-one
interviews ($250,000, estimated at $5,000 per focus group and $2,500
per one-on-one interview).
Dated: September 14, 2010.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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