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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

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All notices appear on the Public Calendar on CPSC's website at: http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/Public-Calendar/.  This email is sent weekly on Wednesdays.

Items included in this message:

1. Commission Agenda

2. Meetings Between Commission Staff and Outside Parties

3. Meetings for the Week of July 21 thru July 27, 2014

4. Future Meetings

5. Addendum

1. Commission Agendas 

There are no regular Commission briefings or Commission meetings scheduled for the week of July 21, 2014.  Listed below is a notice of a Public Hearing scheduled for this week. 

Public Hearing

Thursday, July 24, 2014

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Hearing Room 420

Open to the Public

Commission Agenda and Priorities for FY 2015 and FY 2016

A live webcast of the Hearing can be viewed at http://www.cpsc.gov/live

2. 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 is on the CPSC Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/Public-Calendar/.  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, 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.

3. Week of July 21 thru July 27, 2014

Tuesday, July 22

*Acting Chairman Robert Adler, Chief of Staff Jason Levine and Senior Counsel Sarah Klein meeting with Veena Singla, Staff Scientist and Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Dr. Susan Shaw, SUNY Albany School of Public Health and Dr. Ami Zota, George Washington University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health to discuss CPSC’s work on a national flammability standard for upholstered furniture, including information about the observed effects of the mattress flammability standard and to share NRDC’s work on California’s furniture standards and the broad coalition of public health, environmental and firefighter groups engaged in furniture flammability standards as well as health concerns associated with the use of flame retardant chemicals in furniture; 1:00 p.m., Bethesda Towers, room 725.  The meeting was requested by Avinash Kar, Attorney, NRDC.  For additional information contact Ophelia McCardell, (301) 504-7731.  Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/14/14.  Posted in the Public Calendar 7/15/14.  (S)

Tuesday, July 22

*Commissioner Ann Marie Buerkle, Nancy Lowery, Special Assistant, Gib Mullan, Chief Counsel, and Katelyn Costello, Executive Assistant, meeting with Natural Resources Defense Council; Veena Singla, Staff Scientist NRDC; Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney, NRDC; Eve Gartner, Staff Attorney, EarthJustice; Dr. Susan Shaw from SUNY Albany School of Public Health; Dr. Ami Zota from George Washington University Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.  The meeting will be to discuss flammability standards and flame retardant chemicals in furniture.  The meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m., Bethesda Towers, room 720.  The meeting was requested by Avinash Kar.  For additional information contact Katelyn Costello, Executive Assistant, (301) 504-7237.  Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/15/14.  Posted in the Public Calendar 7/15/14.  (S)

Tuesday, July 22

Robert Howell, Deputy Executive Director, Safety Operations; George Borlase, Assistant Executive Director, Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction; Andy Stadnik, Associate executive Director, Laboratory Sciences; Rohit Khanna, Fire Prevention Engineer; Hyun Kim, General Attorney, Office of the General Counsel; and Patricia Pollitzer, Supervisory General Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, will be meeting with representatives of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC).  Representing the NRDC are Veena Singla, Staff Scientist; Daniel Rosenberg, Senior Attorney; and Avinash Kar, Attorney.  The NRDC representatives will share information about their work on furniture flammability standards in California and the coalition of public health, environmental, and firefighter groups engaged on the furniture flammability issue.  They will also share information about health concerns associated with the use of flame retardant chemicals in furniture.  To the extent possible, CPSC staff will discuss the agency’s ongoing work to develop furniture flammability performance standards.  The meeting was requested by the NRDC.  The meeting is being held at 4:00 pm, CPSC’ headquarters, Bethesda Towers, room 836-C.  Those attending the meeting should present themselves no later than 3:45 pm to the CPSC security personnel on the 4th floor of the Bethesda Towers, Building 4330, Bethesda, MD.  For additional information contact Robert Howell, (301) 504-7621 or rhowell@cpsc.gov. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/1/14.  Posted to the Public Calendar 7/1/14.  (S)

Thursday, July 24

*Acting Chairman Robert Adler, Chief of Staff Jason Levine and Senior Counsel Sarah Klein meeting with Dan Hinkebein, Manager, Recall Business Services, Realtime Results and Alan H. Schoem of the Law Office of Alan Schoem, LLC to discuss recall technologies, tracking and compliance programs; 1:00 p.m., Bethesda Towers, room 725.  The meeting was requested by Dan Hinkebein of Realtime Results.  For additional information contact Ophelia McCardell, (301) 504-7731.  Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/15/14.  Posted in the Public Calendar 7/15/14.  (S)

Thursday, July 24

Perry Sharpless, Directorate for Laboratory Sciences/Mechanical Division, and other Commission staff, will be participating in the ASTM Gravity 15.51 Consumer Products, Suction Limited Gravity Flow Systems task group meeting; 1:30 p.m.  This meeting was requested by ASTM.  For information, please contact Len Morrissey of ASTM at 610-832-9719 or lmorriss@astm.org.  (S)

Thursday, July 24

Elliot Kaye, Executive Director; Robert Howell, Deputy Executive Director, Safety Operations; DeWane Ray, Deputy Executive Director, Support Operations; Patrick Weddle, Assistant Executive Director, Office of Information Technology; Marc Schoem, Deputy Assist Executive Director, Office of Compliance and Field Operations; Howard Tarnoff, Senior Counsel to the Assist Executive Director, Office of Compliance and Field Operations; and Carol Cave, Assistant Executive Director, Import Surveillance, will be meeting with representatives of iCiX.  Participates from iCiX include Matt Smith, Founder; Dave Schwab, CEO; Brian Roufa, VP Business Development; Jean Roberts, VP Services; and Brian Stephans, Director of Solutions.  The meeting is educational in nature.  Representatives from iCiX intend to explain how their platform facilitates the exchange and management of business information, allowing their clients to analyze and manage risk and compliance across their network of suppliers.  The meeting is being held at 1:00 p.m., in room 836-C of the CPSC’s headquarters facility.  Those attending the meeting should present themselves no later than 12:45 p.m. to CPSC security personnel on the 4th floor of Bethesda Towers Building 4330, Bethesda, Maryland.  For additional information contact Robert Howell, (301) 504-7621 or rhowell@cpsc.gov.  Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/8/14.  Posted in the Public Calendar 7/8/14.  (N)

4. Future

Wednesday, July 30

Scott Ayers, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, will be participating in an ASTM Subcommittee F15.45 task group teleconference for Candle Fire Safety from 10:00 am EST to 11:00 am EST.  For additional information including call-in instructions contact Len Morrissey of ASTM (lmorriss@astm.org, 610-832-9719).  Transmitted to the Office Secretary 7/15/14.  Posted in the Public 7/15/14.  (S)

5. 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 meeting on the Master Calendar at least seven

days before  the meeting.  The Master Calendar can be found on the CPSC Web Site at http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/Public-Calendar/.

In addition, the policy allows the Office of the General Counsel to waive the seven-day notice requirement of meetings of the staff personnel, and individual Commissioners can waive the requirement for themselves and their personal staff.

Thursday, July 16

Dr. Suad Wanna-Nakamura, Directorate for Health Sciences, and other EXHR staff, participating in an ASTM F2167 Voluntary Standards Task Group Meeting via teleconference; 9:00 am Eastern Time, to discuss voluntary standards requirements for infant bouncer seat. The teleconference was called for by Lisa Trofe, (organizer). For additional information, contact Suad Wanna-Nakamura at (301) 987-2550; or by email: snakamura@cpsc.gov. (OGC approved waiver of seven-day notice.)  Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/16/14.  Posted in Public Calendar 7/16/14.  (S)

Friday, July 18

Caroleene Paul, Directorate for Engineering Sciences; Perry Sharpless, Directorate for Laboratory Sciences, and other CPSC staff to attend ANB45(1) Rollover Subcommittee Meeting; 8am-3pm, Transportation Research Board (TRB) Keck Centre, Washington, DC. This meeting was requested by the TRB. To attend the meeting, contact Raphael Grzebieta (r.grzebieta@unsw.edu.au).  Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/10/14.  Posted in the Public Calendar 7/10/14. (S)

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