95-16633. Notification of Request for Extension of Approval of Information Collection Requirements; Mattress Flammability Standard

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 129 (Thursday, July 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35182-35183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16633]



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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

Notification of Request for Extension of Approval of Information 
Collection Requirements; Mattress Flammability Standard

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
(44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), the Consumer Product Safety Commission has 
submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for 
extension of approval through September 30, 1998, of information 
collection requirements in the Standard for the Flammability of 
Mattresses and Mattress Pads (16 CFR Part 1632). The standard is 
intended to reduce unreasonable risks of burn injuries and deaths from 
fires associated with mattresses and mattress pads. The standard 
prescribes a test to assure that a mattress or mattress pad will resist 
ignition from a smoldering cigarette. The standard requires 
manufacturers to perform prototype tests of each combination of 
materials and construction methods used to produce mattresses or 
mattress pads and to obtain accceptable results from such testing. Sale 
or distribution of mattresses without successful completion of the 
testing required by the standard violates section 3 of the Flammable 
Fabrics Act (15 USC 1192). An enforcement rule implementing the 
standard requires manufacturers to maintain records of testing 
performed in accordance with the standard and other information about 
the mattress or mattress pads which they produce.

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Additional Information About the Request for Extension of Approval of 
Information Collection Requirements

    Agency address: Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 
20207
    Title of information collection: Standard for the Flammability of 
Mattresses and Mattress Pads, 16 CFR 1632.
    Type of request: Extension of approval.
    Frequency of collection: Varies depending upon the number of 
individual combinations of materials and methods of construction used 
to produce mattresses.
    General description of respondents: Manufacturers and importers of 
mattresses and mattress pads.
    Estimated number of respondents: 800.
    Estimated average number of hours per respondent: 26 per year.
    Estimated number of hours for all respondents: 20,800 per year.
    Comments: Comments on this request for extension of approval of 
information collection requirements should be addressed to Donald 
Arbuckle, Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503; telephone: (202) 
395-7340. Copies of the request for extension of information collection 
requirements are available from Nicholas Marchica, Office of Planning 
and Evaluation, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 
20207; telephone: [phone].
    This is not a proposal to which 44 U.S.C. 3504(h) is applicable.

    Dated: June 30, 1995.
Sadye E. Dunn,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission
[FR Doc. 95-16633 Filed 7-5-95; 8:45 am]
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