[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 28, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 83101-83102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-26131]


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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

[Docket No. CPSC-2010-0046]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Extension and 
Revision of Collection; Comment Request; Consumer Focus Groups and 
Other Qualitative Studies

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.

ACTION: Notice of information collection; request for comment.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) requests 
comments on a proposed extension of approval of a collection of 
information from persons who may voluntarily participate in consumer 
focus groups, and revision of that collection. The Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) previously approved the collection of information 
under control number 3041-0136. OMB's most recent extension of approval 
will expire on January 31, 2024. The Commission will consider all 
comments received in response to this notice before requesting an 
extension and revision of this collection of information from OMB.

DATES: Submit comments on the collection of information by January 29, 
2024.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by Docket No. CPSC-2010-
0046, by any of the following methods:

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    Electronic Submissions: Submit electronic comments to the Federal 
eRulemaking Portal at: http://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. The Commission typically does not accept 
comments submitted by email, except as described below.
    Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier/Written Submissions: CPSC encourages you 
to submit electronic comments by using the Federal eRulemaking Portal. 
You may, however, submit comments by mail/hand delivery/courier to: 
Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East 
West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923.
    Instructions: All submissions received must include the agency name 
and docket number for this notice. CPSC may post all comments without 
change, including any personal identifiers, contact information, or 
other personal information provided, to: http://www.regulations.gov. 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 [email protected].
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to: https://www.regulations.gov, insert docket 
number CPSC-2010-0046 into the ``Search'' box, and follow the prompts.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product 
Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 
504-7791, or by email to: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CPSC seeks to extend the following currently 
approved collection of information, and to revise it to include 
additional forms of qualitative studies:
    Title: Focus Groups and Other Qualitative Studies.
    OMB Number: 3041-0136.
    Type of Review: Extension and revision of collection.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Affected Public: Consumers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: CPSC estimates that this 
collection will involve 2,620 participants, including prospective focus 
group participants who are screened but ultimately not selected for 
participation.
    Estimated Time per Response: We estimate that the average response 
time for each participant will be 1.1 hours.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden: Based on CPSC's estimates that 2,620 
participants will each spend an average of 1.1 hours responding to the 
collection, CPSC estimates that the total annual burden of this 
collection is 2,882 hours. The annualized cost to respondents for the 
information collection is $124,675.32 (2,882 hours x $43.26/hr), as 
estimated from total compensation data available from the U.S. Bureau 
of Labor Statistics.\1\
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    \1\ Total hourly compensation for all civilian workers is 
estimated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to be $43.26: 
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, June 2023, Table 1, 
(https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_09122023.pdf).
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    General Description of Collection: Section 5(a) of the Consumer 
Product Safety Act (CPSA), 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), authorizes the Commission 
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 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 help identify and evaluate product-related incidents, 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. The information that the CPSC 
collects from future focus groups--including usability studies and 
ethnographic studies for consumer products, which are being added to 
this revised collection--will help inform the Commission's 
identification and evaluation of consumer products and product use, by 
providing insight and information into consumer perceptions and usage 
patterns. In some cases, one-on-one interviews may be conducted as a 
more in-depth extension of a focus group, or in place of a traditional 
focus group or study. This information may also assist the Commission 
in its efforts to support voluntary standards activities and help CPSC 
identify emerging consumer safety issues requiring additional research. 
In addition, based on the information obtained, CPSC may be able to 
provide safety information to the public that is easier to read and 
understood by a wider range of consumers.

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.

Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
[FR Doc. 2023-26131 Filed 11-27-23; 8:45 am]
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