Notification of Request for Extension of Approval of Information Collection RequirementsRecordkeeping Requirements Under the Safety Regulations for Full-Size Cribs

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

Notification of Request for Extension of Approval of Information

Collection Requirements--Recordkeeping Requirements Under the Safety

Regulations for Full-Size Cribs

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In the April 7, 1998 Federal Register (63 FR 16988), the

Consumer Product Safety Commission published a notice in accordance

with provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35) to announce the agency's intention to seek an extension of

approval through September 30, 2001, of information collection

requirements in the safety regulations for full-size cribs (16 CFR

1500.18(a)(13) and Part 1508). The Commission now announces that it has

submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for

extension of approval of that collection of information.

These regulations were issued to reduce hazards of strangulation,

suffocation, pinching, bruising, laceration, and other injuries

associated with full-size cribs. (A full-size crib is a crib having an

interior length ranging from 49\3/4\ inches to 55 inches and an

interior width ranging from 25\3/8\ to 30\5/8\ inches.) The regulations

prescribe performance, design, and labeling requirements for full-size

cribs. They also require manufacturers and importers of those products

to maintain sales records for a period of three years after the

manufacture or importation of full-size cribs. If any full-size cribs

subject to provisions of 16 CFR 1500.18(a)(13) and Part 1508 fail to

comply in a manner severe enough to warrant a recall, the required

records can be used by the manufacturer or importer and by the

Commission to identify those persons and firms who should be notified

of the recall.

Additional Information About the Request for Extension of Approval

of Information Collection Requirements

Agency address: Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington,

D.C. 20207.

Title of information collection: Recordkeeping Requirements for

Full-Size Baby Cribs, 16 CFR 1508.10.

Type of request: Extension of approval.

Frequency of collection: Varies, depending upon volume of products

manufactured, imported, or sold.

General description of respondents: Manufacturers and importers of

full-size cribs.

Estimated Number of respondents: 49.

Estimated average number of responses per respondent: 1 per year.

Estimated number of responses for all respondents: 49 per year.

Estimated number of hours per response: 5.

Estimated number of hours for all respondents: 245 per year.

Estimated cost of collection for all respondents: Unknown.

Comments: Comments on this request for extension of approval of

information collection requirements should be submitted by July 20,

1998 to (1) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB

Desk Officer for CPSC, Office of Management and Budget, Washington D.C.

20503; telephone: (202) 395-7340, and (2) the Office of the Secretary,

Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, D.C. 20207.

Copies of this request for an extension of an information

collection requirement are available from Robert Frye, Director, Office

of Planning and Evaluation, Consumer Product Safety Commission,

Washington, DC 20207; telephone: (301) 504-0416, extension 2243.

Dated: June 15, 1998.

Sadye E. Dunn,

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.

[FR Doc. 98-16320 Filed 6-18-98; 8:45 am]

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