-----------NEWS from CPSC-----------
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Communications
4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814
www.cpsc.gov
All notices appear on the Public Calendar on CPSC's website at: http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/Public-Calendar/. This e-mail 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 28 through Aug. 3, 2014
4. Addendum
1. Commission Agendas
There are no regular Commission briefings or Commission meetings scheduled for the week of July 21, 2014.
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 28 thru August 3, 2014
Tuesday, July 29
*Commissioner Marietta Robinson, Anu Connor, Senior Counsel, Dottie Lee, Confidential Assistant, and Allyson Tenney, Lead Compliance Officer, Office of Compliance and Field Operations, attending the American Apparel and Footwear Association, Product Safety Council Meeting. Commissioner Robinson will deliver opening remarks and Allyson Tenney will deliver remarks on regulatory enforcement. This meeting is for members of AAFA’s Product Safety Council. The meeting will be held at 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. at Crowell & Moring, 1001 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The meeting was requested by Danielle Abdul, AAFA. For additional information contact Dottie Lee, (301) 504-7198. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/22/14. Posted on the Public Calendar 7/23/14. (S)
Tuesday, July 29
*Scott Wolfson, Director, Office of Communications; Carl Purvis, Office of Communications; Hope Nesteruk, Directorate for Engineering Sciences/Human Factors; Caroleene Paul, Directorate for Engineering Sciences; Mary House, Office of the General Counsel, meeting with Stephen Oesch, concerned citizen, formerly with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, to discuss CPSC’s ATV safety education and outreach effort; 2:00 p.m., Bethesda Towers, room 714. The meeting was requested by Mr. Oesch. For additional information contact Carl Purvis, (301) 504-7805. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/22/14. Posted in the Public Calendar 7/23/14. (N)
Wednesday, July 30
*Matthew Dreyfus, Directorate for Laboratory Sciences, will meet with Andrew Bartos of Kahn Lucas Lancaster to discuss testing for CPSIA compliance; 9:30 AM at 5 Research Place, Rockville MD. The meeting was requested by Mr. Bartos. For other information contact Matthew Dreyfus, 301-987-2094 (mdreyfus@cpsc.gov). Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/21/14. Posted in the Master Calendar 7/23/14. (S)
Wednesday, July 30
*Doug Lee, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, participating in an ASTM workgroup for battery operated toys via teleconference to review negative comments for requirements for ASTM F963 to address battery ingestion and high energy battery hazards; 11:30 am. 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 7/23/14. Posted in the Public Calendar 7/24/14. (S)
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 Calendar 7/15/14. (S)
4. 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.
Tuesday, July 22
Doug Lee, Directorate for Engineering Sciences, participating in an ASTM workgroup for battery operated toys via teleconference to review negative comments for requirements for ASTM F963 to address battery ingestion and high energy battery hazards; 11:30 am. 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 7/16/14. Posted in the Public Calendar 7/17/14. (S)
Thursday, July 24
Commissioner Marietta Robinson, Heather Bramble, Chief Counsel, Anu Connor, Senior Counsel, Dottie Lee, Confidential Assistant, meeting with Dan Hinkebein, Manager, Recall Business Services, Real Time Results, and Alan Schoem to discuss recall technologies, tracking and compliance programs; 2:00 p.m., Bethesda Towers, room 723. The meeting was requested by Dan Hinkebein, Real Time Results. For additional information contact Dottie Lee, (301) 504-7198. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/21/14. Posted in the Public Calendar 7/22/14. (S)
Thursday, July 24
Commissioner Ann Marie Buerkle, Nancy Lowery, Special Assistant, Gib Mullan, Chief Counsel, and Katelyn Costello, Executive Assistant, to meeting with Dan Hinkebein, Manager, Recall Business Services, and Alan Schoem, The Law Offices of Alan Schoem, to discuss recall technologies, tracking, and compliance programs; 3:00 p.m., Bethesda Towers, room 720. The meeting was requested by Dan Hinkebein. For additional information contact Katelyn Costello, Executive Assistant, (301) 504-7237. Transmitted to the Office of the Secretary 7/21/2014. Posted in the Public Calendar 7/22/14. (S)
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