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desired capabilities. Each participant
will train NIST personnel, as necessary,
to operate its product in capability
demonstrations. Following successful
demonstrations, NIST will publish a
description of the security platform and
its performance characteristics sufficient
to permit other organizations to develop
and deploy security platforms that meet
the security objectives of the Trusted
Internet of Things (IoT) Device NetworkLayer Onboarding and Lifecycle
Management project. These descriptions
will be public information.
Under the terms of the consortium
CRADA, NIST will support
development of interfaces among
participants’ products by providing IT
infrastructure, laboratory facilities,
office facilities, collaboration facilities,
and staff support to component
composition, security platform
documentation, and demonstration
activities.
The dates of the demonstration of the
Trusted Internet of Things (IoT) Device
Network-Layer Onboarding and
Lifecycle Management project capability
will be announced on the NCCoE
website at least two weeks in advance
at https://nccoe.nist.gov/. The expected
outcome will demonstrate how the
components of the Trusted Internet of
Things (IoT) Device Network-Layer
Onboarding and Lifecycle Management
project architecture can provide security
capabilities to mitigate onboarding
identified risks. Participating
organizations will gain from the
knowledge that their products are
interoperable with other participants’
offerings.
For additional information on the
NCCoE governance, business processes,
and NCCoE operational structure, visit
the NCCoE website https://
nccoe.nist.gov/.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; External Needs Assessment
for NOAA Education Products and
Programs
The Department of Commerce will
submit the following information
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Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication
of this notice. We invite the general
public and other Federal agencies to
comment on proposed, and continuing
information collections, which helps us
assess the impact of our information
collection requirements and minimize
the public’s reporting burden. Public
comments were previously requested
via the Federal Register on July 23,
2021, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30
days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic &
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: External Needs Assessment for
NOAA Education Products and
Programs.
OMB Control Number: 0648–0784.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission
[revision and extension of currently
approved collection].
Number of Respondents: 1,200
annually.
Average Hours per Response: Five
minutes per survey.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 100.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for
revision and extension of a currently
approved information collection. The
National Ocean Service (NOS) on behalf
of the NOAA’s Education Council is
revising and extending a voluntary
multi-question survey used to assess the
needs of educators pertaining to the
development of future NOAA
multimedia products and programs. In
developing multimedia materials that
convey NOAA science, service, and
stewardship, the Agency must ensure
that these resources are of the highest
quality and meet the needs of formal
and informal educators across the
United States. To achieve this goal, it is
necessary to conduct surveys
identifying the types of educational
programs and products that are of the
highest interest and greatest need by
formal and informal educators. By
surveying external educators to gather
this information, budget expenditures
will be used optimally to develop
appropriate products and programs
most desired by educators to support
and enhance Ocean and Earth science,
in addition to other related STEM
education subjects throughout our
nation. NOAA will use the data to plan,
design, and create multimedia products
and programs.
The proposed revisions would expand
the level of detail in the currently
approved information collection. As a
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learning and teaching have changed.
The proposed revisions would expound
upon previously collected data, giving a
better indication of educators’ needs
regarding multimedia products and
programs in their teaching as well as the
educator’s professional development.
Affected Public: Formal and Informal
Educators.
Frequency: Once annually.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: The America
COMPETES Act, 33 U.S.C. 893–893B,
which directs NOAA to conduct,
develop, support, promote, and
coordinate formal and informal
educational activities at all levels to
enhance public awareness and
understanding of ocean, coastal, Great
Lakes, and atmospheric science.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view the
Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of the
publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. Find this
particular information collection by
selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection
or the OMB Control Number 0648–0784.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2018–0005]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Survey on
Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) announces that the
Commission has submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB), a
request for extension of approval for an
information collection on a survey that
will estimate the use of smoke and

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carbon monoxide alarms in United
States households. On July 23, 2021, the
CPSC published a notice in the Federal
Register announcing the agency’s intent
to seek approval of this collection of
information. After reviewing and
considering the comments, the
Commission announces that it has
submitted a request for approval of this
collection of information to the OMB.
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to: www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. In addition, written
comments that are sent to OMB also
should be submitted electronically at:
http://www.regulations.gov, under
Docket No. CPSC–2018–0005.
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:

A. Background
The Commission 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 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.
In 1992, the CPSC sponsored a
national in-home survey to collect
information on the number of
residential smoke alarms in actual use
in homes and to evaluate the operability
of the sampled alarms. The results were
published in the 1994 report, Consumer
Product Safety Commission Smoke
Detector Operability Survey Report on
Findings.1 Although the survey results,
for many years, were instrumental in
developing state and local codes and
standards related to smoke alarms,
1 1. Charles L. Smith, Smoke Detector Operability
Survey—Report on Findings, (Bethesda, MD: CPSC,
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subsequent changes in technology,
installation codes, and state/local
ordinances in the past 25 years have
rendered the information outdated and
less effective. Stakeholders’ groups for
fire loss prevention have identified a
need for an updated national survey to
increase the installation and
maintenance of smoke alarms in the
United States. In addition, installations
of CO alarms have increased since 1992.
Accordingly, CPSC sought to update its
data information collection related to
smoke and CO alarm use through a new
survey, the National Smoke and CO
Alarm Survey (SCOA survey).
Although the SCOA survey initially
commenced in January 2019, CPSC
experienced lower response rates
relative to expectations in the
administration of the SCOA survey in
fielding locations than had been
established by the study’s approved
methodology. To correct for this
challenge, and to complete the number
of homes surveyed in the contract, CPSC
undertook a revised sampling method
and contact protocol for participant
recruitment. Among the revisions to the
methodology, CPSC included a redesign
of the recruitment, screening, and inhome survey, based on a random walk,
door-to-door knocking sample
methodology. The SCOA survey seeks to
collect information from 1,185
households within the United States.
The survey will be conducted only
through face-to-face, in-home
interviews. Following all COVID–19
safety precautions, survey professionals
will provide prenotification door
hangers, requesting participation in the
survey. These households will be
recruited, willing participants will be
provided with consent forms, and the
survey team will administer questions
regarding the residence type, and smoke
and CO alarm availability and
functionality in the residences. The
survey team also will identify, test, and
examine several of the alarms in the
home, as time permits; and if the alarms
are found to be faulty, the survey team
will offer to provide new alarms or
batteries, and will do so if requested by
the participant. No action will be taken
if participants choose not to have the
alarm fixed or replaced.
CPSC contracted with EurekaFacts to
conduct the SCOA survey through a
national in-home survey that would
estimate the use and functionality of
smoke and CO alarms in households, as
well as assess user hazard perceptions
regarding such alarms. The purpose of
the SCOA survey is to collect data that
will assist CPSC with better estimation
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the proportion of working smoke and
CO alarms, the characteristics of
residences and residents where the
smoke and CO alarms are not
operational, perceptions of residents
related to the causes of ‘‘false’’ alarms or
causes of faulty alarms, consumer
hazard awareness, and consumer
behavior related to alarm use and smoke
and CO hazards.
The information collected from the
SCOA survey would provide CPSC
updated national estimates regarding
the use of smoke alarms and CO alarms
in households, based on direct
observation of alarm installations. The
survey also would help CPSC identify
the groups who do not have operable
smoke alarms and/or CO alarms and
help CPSC understand the reasons why
these groups do not have such alarms.
With this information, CPSC would be
able to target its messaging better and
help to improve consumer use and
awareness regarding the operability of
these alarms. In addition, the survey
results would help to inform CPSC’s
recommendations to voluntary
standards groups and state/local
jurisdictions regarding their codes,
standards, and/or regulations on smoke
and CO alarms.
B. Burden Hours
We estimate the number of
respondents to be 1,185. We estimate
the total annual burden hours for
respondents to be 1,552 hours, based on
the total time required to respond to the
invitation, screener, and the actual
survey. According to the U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, the total compensation
for civilian workers in March 2021 was
$39.01 per hour (Employer Cost for
Employee Compensation, Table 2).
Therefore, CPSC estimates the cost
burden for respondents to be $60,544
($39.01 per hour × 1,552 hours =
$60,543.52). The total cost to the federal
government for the contract to design
and conduct the revised survey is
$562,725.
C. Response to Comments
On July 23, 2021, notice of the SCOA
survey was published in the Federal
Register. 86 FR 39006. The CPSC
received one comment. The commenter
stated that although survey email may
produce some results, door-to-door
solicitation should not be conducted
because people do not want strangers
coming to their front door.
Staff agrees that current public
perceptions regarding an in-person
survey are significantly different than
when the smoke alarm survey was last
conducted in 1992. However, the initial
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randomly selected households via a
mailed pre-notification letter, which
were subsequently screened for an inhome or telephone interview, resulted
in an extremely low response rate. To
increase the response rate, the SCOA
survey recruitment effort was
redesigned as a door-to-door walkrecruitment methodology. Field teams
distribute door hangers on randomly
selected households to provide
prenotification that researchers will be
knocking on doors asking for
participation in a survey. A pilot survey
conducted in the Washington metro area
showed significant improvement in the
response rate. Accordingly, to obtain the
best information available, the SCOA
survey data collection will continue to
use this door-to-door recruitment
methodology, recognizing that home
visits by trained data collectors with
inspection and testing provide much
better-quality data compared to
telephone or internet surveys.
Accordingly, the Commission
announces that it has submitted a
request to OMB for approval of renewal
of this collection of information.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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[Docket No. CPSC–2009–0102]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission for OMB
Review; Comment Request; Follow-Up
Activities for Product-Related Injuries
Including NEISS
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) announces that the
Commission has submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for extension of approval for an
information collection to obtain data on
consumer product-related injuries, and
follow-up activities for product-related
injuries. OMB previously approved the
collection of information under OMB
Control No. 3041–0029. On July 20,
2021, CPSC published a notice in the
Federal Register to announce the
agency’s intention to seek extension of
approval of the collection of
information. The Commission received

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no comments. Therefore, by publication
of this notice, the Commission
announces that CPSC has submitted to
the OMB a request for extension of
approval of this collection of
information.
DATES: Submit written or electronic
comments on the collection of
information by November 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to: www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function. In addition, written
comments that are sent to OMB also
should be submitted electronically at:
http://www.regulations.gov, under
Docket No. CPSC–2009–0102.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information, or a copy of the
supporting statement, contact: Bretford
Griffin, Consumer Product Safety
Commission, 4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814; (301) 504–7037, or
by email to: bgriffin@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July
20, 2021, CPSC published a notice in
the Federal Register to announce the
agency’s intention to seek approval for
extension of the collection of
information. 86 FR 38316. The
Commission received no comments.
Accordingly, the Commission
announces that it has submitted a
request for approval for renewal of this
collection of information to the OMB.
A. Background
Section 5(a) of the Consumer Product
Safety Act, 15 U.S.C. 2054(a), requires
the CPSC to collect information related
to the causes and prevention of death,
injury, and illness associated with
consumer products. That section also
requires the CPSC to conduct
continuing studies and investigations of
deaths, injuries, diseases, other health
impairments, and economic losses
resulting from accidents involving
consumer products.
The CPSC obtains information about
product-related deaths, injuries, and
illnesses from a variety of sources,
including newspapers, death
certificates, consumer complaints, and
medical facilities. In addition, the CPSC
receives information through its internet
website through forms reporting on
product-related injuries or incidents.
The CPSC also operates the National
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treated in hospital emergency
departments in the United States. The
CPSC also uses the NEISS system to
collect information on childhood
poisonings, in accordance with the
Poison Prevention Packaging Act of
1970.
From these sources, CPSC staff selects
cases of interest for further
investigation, by contacting persons
who witnessed or were injured in
incidents involving consumer products.
These investigations are conducted onsite (face-to-face), by telephone, or by
the internet. On-site investigations are
usually made in cases where CPSC staff
needs photographs of the incident site,
the product involved, or detailed
information about the incident. This
information can come from face-to-face
interviews with persons who were
injured or who witnessed the incident,
as well as via contact with state and
local officials, including police,
coroners, and fire investigators, and
others with knowledge of the incident.
Through interagency agreements, the
CPSC also uses the NEISS system to
collect information on injuries for the
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) under the NEISS All
Injury Program (NEISS–AIP). The
NEISS–AIP is a sub-sample of
approximately two-thirds of the full
NEISS sample. In addition to the
standard data variables collected on all
NEISS injuries, the NEISS–AIP collects
variables on several studies for CDC
(Firearm-Related Injuries, Adverse Drug
Events, Assaults, Self-Inflicted Violence,
and Work-Related Injuries) and one
study on non-crash, motor vehiclerelated injuries for the National
Highway and Transportation Safety
Administration (NHTSA).
The current NEISS probability sample
was drawn and recruited in 1995–1996,
and implemented in 1997. The current
NEISS sample consists of 96 hospital
emergency departments grouped into
four strata, based on size, as measured
by the annual number of emergency
department (ED) visits, and a fifth
stratum for children’s hospitals. When a
hospital stops participating in the
NEISS, staff recruits a hospital of similar
size and geographic location as a
replacement. If a participating hospital
closes, it is not replaced, because its
closure is presumed to represent other
hospitals that have closed nationally. As
of January 1, 2021, there are currently
81 hospitals participating in the NEISS.
In September 2019, CPSC contracted
with Westat, Inc., under CPSC contract
61320619F0134, to give the agency an
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