U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Bethesda, Maryland 20814
September 10, 2008
Commission Agendas
There are no Commission briefings or Commission meetings scheduled for the week of September 15, 2008. For a recorded message concerning the
latest agenda information call (301) 504-7948.
Meetings Between Commission Staff and Outside Parties
All meetings listed below are open to the public unless otherwise stated. For information on a specific meeting or to attend a meeting, please call the contact person listed for that meeting.
Abbreviations: we use asterisks (*) to identify meetings for the
current week which have not appeared before in the printed Public
Calendar. If the meeting involves discussion of a "substantial interest matter," defined by CPSC's Meetings Policy, we show the date when we posted notice of the meeting on the Master Calendar. The Master Calendar is in the Office of the Secretary, Room 502, telephone
(301) 504-7923. We indicate whether a meeting is of substantial
interest by the symbol (S); we use the symbol (N) to indicate non-substantial interest meetings. The Commission offices are located in the Bethesda Towers Building, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda,
Maryland.
Under the Meetings Policy, a staff person holding or attending
a substantial interest meeting must file a log of the meeting with the
Office of the Secretary within 20 days.
Week of September 15 thru September 21
Thursday, September 11 thru Saturday, September 27
*Acting Chairman Nancy Nord and other CPSC staff to meet
with government officials and participate in training seminars for
exporters to the United States and related activities in Vietnam
and China. For additional information contact Patricia Bittner,
(301) 504-7263 or pbittner@cpsc.gov. Posted on Master
Calendar 9/9/08. (S)
Tuesday, September 16
Vince Amodeo, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, and other
CPSC staff attending the ASTM F15.22 Toy Safety
Subcommittee meeting; 10:00 a.m., ASTM International
headquarters, West Conshohocken, PA. The meeting was
requested by ASTM. For information regarding the meeting
agenda or additional information contact Vince Amodeo, (301)
504-7570. (S)
Wednesday, September 17
Patty Adair, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, speaking at
the Dornbirn Man-Made Fibers Congress, Dornbirn, Austria.
Ms. Adair will provide an update on the CPSC’s textile-related
flammability projects. For additional information contact Patty
Adair, (301) 504-7536; email padair@cpsc.gov (S)
Friday, September 19
*Quin Dodd, Chief of Staff, and Page Faulk, Legal Counsel, Office of Acting Chairman Nancy Nord, meeting with Joe Fields, CEO, Field Turf-Tarkett; Darren Gill, Director of Marketing, Field Turf-Tarkett; Walt Sanders, Vice President Law & Government Affairs, Van Fleet Associates, Inc., to discuss the progress of Field Turf-Tarkett to eliminate lead in artificial turf since the release of the CPSC staff report on artificial turf; 10:30 a.m., Bethesda Towers, room 724. The meeting was requested by Walt Sanders of Van Fleet Associates, Inc. For additonal information contact Autumn Moore, (301) 504-7901 or amoore@cpsc.gov. Posted on Master Calendar 9/12/08. (S)
*Pamela L. Weller, Counselor to Commissioner Thomas H.
Moore, meeting with Joe Fields and Darren Gill with Field Turf-Tarkett and Walt Sanders, outside Counsel for Field Turf-Tarkett, to discuss lead in artificial turf; 11:00 a.m., Bethesda
Towers, room 725. The meeting was requested by Walt Sanders.
For additional information contact Linda Taylor, (301) 504-7902
or ltaylor@cpsc.gov. Posted on Master Calendar 9/9/08. (S)
Future
Wednesday, September 24
Vince Amodeo, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, attending
the ASTM F08.10 Bicycle Subcommittee meetings; 10:00 a.m.,
Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV (room to be
determined). The meeting was requested by ASTM. For
information regarding the meeting agenda or additional
information contact Vince Amodeo, (301) 504-7570. (S)
Thursday, October 2
Richard W. O’Brien, Director, Office of International Programs
and Intergovernmental Affairs, will speak at a product safety and
liability conference being produced by International Product
Safety and Liability Prevention. The conference will be held at
the Radisson, Reagan Airport, Arlington, VA. Mr. O’Brien will
provide an overview of selected provisions of the revised
Consumer Product Safety Act and review the agency’s outreach
efforts with foreign producers and governments. For information
about the conference, contact Randall Goodden, (262) 594-5198
or email rgoodden@ipslp.com
Addendum
Meeting notices printed in this section did not reach the Office of the Secretary in time to meet the Tuesday noon deadline for the previously printed Public Calendar. Under the CPSC Meetings
Policy, however, staff persons, including Commissioners, can meet
the seven-day notice requirement by placing notice of the meeting on
the Master Calendar at least seven days before the meeting. The
Master Calendar is in the Office of the Secretary, Room 502, Bethesda
Towers Building.
In addition, the policy allows the Office of General Counsel to
waive the seven-day notice requirements of meetings of the staff
personnel, and individual Commissioners can waive the requirements
for themselves and their personal staff.
