U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - Bethesda, Maryland 20814
September 19, 2012
Commission Agendas
There are no regular Commission briefings or
Commission decision meetings scheduled for the week of September 24, 2012. 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. Individuals requiring reasonable accommodation for a meeting should contact the Office of the Secretary, 301-504-7923 or by email, cpsc-os@cpsc.gov. Determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
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 can be found on CPSC's web site at www.cpsc.gov/calendarmast.html. 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 24 thru September 30, 2012
Monday, September 24
*Doug Lee, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, participating
in ASTM workgroup for battery operated toys via
teleconference to discuss requirements for ASTM F963 to
address battery ingestion and high energy battery hazards;
3:00 p.m. The teleconference was requested by the ASTM
Workgroup chair. For additional information contact Doug
Lee,(301)987-2073; e-mail: dlee@cpsc.gov. Transmitted to
the Office of the Secretary 9/17/12. Posted on Master
Calendar 9/18/12. (S)
Monday, September 24
*Brian Baker, Directorate for Laboratory Sciences, attending
ASC Z97 Meeting. ANSI Washington D.C. Headquarters,
Washington D.C.; 1899 L Street NW, 11th Floor, Washington
D.C. 20036; 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The meeting was requested
by the ASTM subcommittee. For additional information,
contact Brian Baker, (301) 987-2289; email:
bbaker@cpsc.gov. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary
9/18/12. Posted on Master Calendar 9/18/12. (S)
Monday, September 24
Renae Rauchschwalbe, Office of Compliance and Field
Operations, and Robert Ochsman, Directorate for Engineering
Sciences, will be participating in a teleconference with
Canadian Standards Association (CSA) S707 Window
Covering Products Technical Committee; 9:00 a.m. EST. For
additional information contact Brian Haydon via e-mail:
brian.haydon@csagroup.org. Transmitted to the Office of the
Secretary 9/10/12. Posted on Master Calendar 9/11/12. (S)
Tuesday, September 25
*Jonathan Midgett, Human Factors, will attend a meeting of
the ASTM F963 toy standard subcommittee; 10:00 a.m.-2:00
p.m., at ASTM headquarters in West Conshohocken, PA. For
additional information contact Jonathan Midgett, (301) 504-
7692. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 9/18/12.
Posted on Master Calendar 9/18/12. (N)
Tuesday, September 25
Scott Ayers, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, will be
attending the UL 1370 meeting on Unvented Alcohol Fuel
Burning Decorative Appliances in at Underwriters
Laboratories, Inc. in Research Triangle Parkway, NC 27709.
For further details on this meeting please contact Ms. Diane
Haithcock (Diane.J.Haithcock@ul.com) of UL. Transmitted
to the Office of the Secretary 9/6/12. Posted on Master
Calendar 9/7/12. (S)
Thursday and Friday, September 27-28
Commissioner Robert Adler speaking to the new Advanced
Product Safety Management class at Saint Louis University’s
Center for Supply Chain Management Studies and
conducting a session on ethics; Saint Louis University, St.
Louis, MO. The meeting was requested by Don Kornblet,
Product Safety Advisor, Center for Supply Chain
Management Studies at Saint Louis University. For additional
information contact Ophelia McCardell, (301) 504-7731.
Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 8/31/12. Posted on
Master Calendar 9/4/12. (N)
Future
Tuesday, October 9
Gregory K. Rea, Directorate for Laboratory Sciences, will
participate in the ASTM D10.32 Consumer, Pharmaceutical,
Medical, and Child Resistant Packaging subcommittee
meeting. This meeting was requested by ASTM. Contact D10
Staff Manager Dianne Trinsey (dtrinsey@astm.org, 610-832-
9661) by Monday, October 8, 2012 to obtain information
about joining the conference call or attending in person, or for
further information regarding the meeting. Transmitted to the
Office of the Secretary 8/29/12. Posted in the Public Calendar
8/29/12. (S)
Thursday and Friday, October 11-12
The U .S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is
inviting affected stakeholders and other interested persons to
attend a free, 2-day public ATV Safety Summit, titled,
“Working together to keep families safe on ATVs.” The ATV
Safety Summit will be held October 11-12, 2012. For more
information, please see
http://www.cpsc.gov/meetingsignup.html and click on the link
for ATV Safety Summit. Transmitted to the Office of the
Secretary 8/15/12. Posted in Public Calendar 8/15/12. (S)
Monday and Tuesday, October 15-16
Neal S. Cohen (Small Business Ombudsman) speaking to
attendees at the 2012 ABC Kids Expo at the Louisville, KY
Exposition Center.
Monday October 15th 8:15 am – 9 am: Exhibitors: Are you
ready for February 2013? CPSC Update on Product Safety
Rules and Periodic Testing Requirements. In this session
tailored towards manufacturers, importers, private labelers,
and others, we will discuss recent and pending changes to
regulations for durable infant products and other children’s
products. We will also spend a great deal of time discussing
the testing and certification requirements of CPSIA and the
periodic testing requirements that are set to go into effect in
February 8, 2013. See www.cpsc.gov/3PT and
www.cpsc.gov/durableinfantproducts for additional resources
and links.
Tuesday October 16th 8:15 am – 9 am: Retailers & Buyers:
Your Roles in Federal Consumer Product Safety. In this
session tailored towards buyers and retailers, you will learn not
only about a retailer’s responsibilities under federal law but
the tools available to you to protect your customers and
yourselves. Additional information is available at
www.cpsc.gov/retailer. Information may also be relevant for
manufacturers and exhibitors unable to attend the Monday
presentation.
Mr. Cohen will be available all day on Monday and Tuesday
of the Expo to speak and can be reached via Twitter
@CPSCSmallBiz and via email at ncohen@cpsc.gov during
the Expo. The presentation was requested by Neal Cohen to
provide businesses manufacturing, importing, and selling
juvenile products an update of the U.S. regulatory
requirements and to prepare those businesses for the periodic
testing requirements that become effective on February 8,
2013. For additional information, please contact Neal S.
Cohen at ncohen@cpsc.gov. Transmitted to the Office of the
Secretary 9/10/12. Posted on Master Calendar 9/11/12. (N)
Tuesday, October 23
Tim Smith, Engineering Psychologist, Human Factors,
attending a meeting of the ASTM F15.30 Bunk Bed
Subcommittee; 1:30 p.m. EST, at ASTM Headquarters, West
Conshohocken, PA. The meeting was requested by ASTM
International. For additional information contact Tim Smith,
(301) 504-7691, tsmith@cpsc.gov. Transmitted to the Office
of the Secretary 9/6/12. Posted on the Master Calendar
9/6/12. (S)
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 can be found on CPSC's web site at www.cpsc.gov/calendarmast.html.
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.
Thursday, September 20
Chairman Inez Tenenbaum will meet with Randall Hertzler,
Vice President of the Handmade Toy Alliance (HTA) to
discuss reducing third party testing costs, as detailed in HTA’s
letter to the Commission; 1:30, Bethesda Towers. For
additional information contact Dottie Lee, (301) 504-7198.
Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 9/19/12. Posted in
the Public Calendar 9/19/12. (N)
Thursday, September 20 (Meeting Cancelled)
Commissioner Robert Adler, Jana Fong-Swamidoss and Jason
Levine, Counsel to Commissioner Adler, meeting with Bill
Perdue of the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA)
and Mary Martha McNamara, Counsel to AHFA, to discuss
furniture tip over; 2:00 p.m. Bethesda Towers, room 723. The
meeting was requested by Mary Martha McNamara. For
additional information contact Ophelia McCardell, (301) 504-
7731. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 8/31/12.
Posted on the Master Calendar 9/4/12. (S)
Thursday, September 20
Janet Buyer, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, will be
participating in the bi-annual conference call of the National
Carbon Monoxide Surveillance Work Group at 3:00 p.m.-
4:30 p.m. EST to answer any questions regarding one agenda
item pertaining to CPSC’s recently-released staff report
“Technology Demonstration of a Prototype Low CO Emission
Portable Generator”. The conference call was requested by
the working group chairman. For additional information
contact Janet Buyer at jbuyer@cpsc.gov or (301) 987-2293.
For conference call information contact Jacqueline Clower
(jclower@cdc.gov). Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary
9/17/12. Posted on the Master Calendar 9/18/12. (S)
