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industries (17 firms × 35 hours ×
$75.80). Staff also estimates that the
total annual cost of the recordkeeping
burden is estimated to be about $3,472
based on an hourly rate of $40.85 for
sales and office workers (17 firms × 5
hours × $40.85). Therefore, the total
burden cost is about $48,573 ($45,101 +
$3,472). This estimate includes
professional and clerical time that may
be spent to retrieve product data from
automated or other records systems,
explain firm practices/policies intended
to assure compliance with the standard,
or accompany Commission personnel
during inspections.
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY
COMMISSION
[Docket No. CPSC–2012–0026]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of Approval of
Information Collection; Requirements
Pertaining to Third Party Conformity
Assessment Bodies
Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer
Product Safety Commission (CPSC or
Commission) announces that the
Commission has submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for extension of approval of
information collection requirements
pertaining to third party conformity
assessment bodies. OMB previously
approved the collection of information
under Control Number 3041–0156.
OMB’s most recent extension of
approval will expire on September 30,
2025. On June 10, 2025, CPSC published
a notice in the Federal Register to
announce the agency’s intention to seek
extension of approval of the collection
of information. The Commission did not
receive any public comments.
Therefore, by publication of this notice,
the Commission announces that CPSC
has submitted to the OMB a request for
extension of approval of that collection
of information.
DATES: Submit comments on the
collection of information by October 14,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments about
this request by email: OIRA_

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submission@omb.eop.gov or fax: 202–
395–6881. Comments by mail should be
sent to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Attn: OMB Desk
Officer for the CPSC, Office of
Management and Budget, Room 10235,
725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
20503. Written comments that are sent
to OMB also should be submitted
electronically at http://
www.regulations.gov, under Docket No.
CPSC–2012–0026.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cynthia Gillham, Consumer Product
Safety Commission, 4330 East-West
Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; (301)
504–7791, or by email to: pra@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CPSC
seeks to renew the following currently
approved collection of information:
Title: Requirements Pertaining to
Third Party Conformity Assessment
Bodies.
OMB Number: 3041–0156.
Type of Review: Renewal of
collection.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Affected Public: Third party
conformity assessment bodies seeking
acceptance of accreditation or
continuing accreditation.
General Description of Collection: On
March 12, 2013, the Commission issued
a rule Pertaining to Third Party
Conformity Assessment Bodies (78 FR
15836). The rule established the general
requirements concerning third party
conformity assessment bodies, such as
the requirements and procedures for
CPSC acceptance of the accreditation of
a third party conformity assessment
body, and the rule prescribed adverse
actions that might be imposed against
CPSC-accepted third party conformity
assessment bodies. The rule also
amended the audit requirements for
third party conformity assessment
bodies and amended the CPSC’s
regulation for inspections. CPSC’s
requirements pertaining to third party
conformity assessment bodies can be
found at 16 CFR part 1112.
Estimated Respondent Burden:
• Application Burden.
The application for CPSC acceptance
of accreditation is completed by
submitting a Consumer Product
Conformity Assessment Body
Registration Form (CPSC Form 223); an
accreditation certificate for ISO/IEC
17025, General requirements for the
competence of testing and calibration
laboratories; and a statement of scope
that clearly identifies each CPSC rule
and/or test method for which CPSC
acceptance is sought. 16 CFR 1112.13(a).
For independent third party conformity
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complete the initial application
materials is 75 minutes. For
governmental and firewalled third party
conformity assessment bodies, the
estimate is longer because of their
additional requirements. See 16 CFR
1112.13(b)–(c). Firewalled third party
conformity assessment bodies will
require an estimated 8.4 hours to
develop and upload their requirements
to the CPSC. Governmental third party
conformity assessment bodies will
require three hours to develop and
upload their requirements to the CPSC.
Based on applications received from
FY 2020 to FY 2024, we estimate
receiving 40 new applications from
independent third party conformity
assessment bodies, three applications
from firewalled third party conformity
assessment bodies, and four
applications from governmental third
party conformity assessment bodies,
each year.
Therefore, we estimate the total
hourly burden for new applications to
be 87.2 hours, comprised of 50 hours for
independent bodies (75 minutes per
independent application × 40
applications = 3,000 minutes or 50
hours), 25.2 hours for firewalled bodies
(8.4 hours per firewalled application ×
3 applications = 25.2 hours) and 12
hours for government bodies (3 hours
per governmental application × 4
applications = 12 hours).
• Updating Information Burden.
To update the information on CPSC
Form 223, third party conformity
assessment bodies will not need to fill
out an entirely new form to submit new
information. They can access their
existing CPSC Form 223 via the third
party conformity assessment body
application program on the CPSC’s
website and change only those elements
that need updating. From FY 2020
through the first half of 2025, there has
been a large increase in additions to
scope applications submitted each year.
The additions to scope applications
accommodate new testing related to
toys, furniture, batteries and durable
nursery products. We estimate it will
take a third party conformity assessment
body 30 minutes to update its
information to add scope items. Further,
we estimate that about 20 percent of the
approximately 670 third party
conformity assessment bodies will do
this per year, for an estimated 134
addition to scope applications annually.
Therefore, we estimate the total hourly
burden to update information to be 67
hours (134 applications per year × 30
minutes per application = 4,020 minutes
or 67 hours per year).
• Third Party Disclosure Burden.

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During their normal course of
business, third party conformity
assessment bodies maintain testing
records. In addition, CPSC requires that
when a test conducted for purposes of
section 14 of the CPSA is subcontracted,
a prime contractor’s report must clearly
identify which test(s) were performed
by a CPSC-accepted third party
conformity assessment body acting as a
subcontractor, and the test from the
subcontractor must be appended to the
prime contractor’s report. Records
maintained by a conformity assessment
body during their normal course of
business would not be considered in
calculating Paperwork Reduction Act
(PRA) burden, but we estimate that an
average third party conformity
assessment body engages in
recordkeeping related to 12,000 tests
annually pursuant to section 14 of the
CPSA that may be considered PRA
burden. We estimate that five percent of
third party conformity assessment
bodies, or 33.5 bodies (670 conformity
assessment bodies × 5% = 33.5
subcontracting test bodies), will
subcontract tests to other CPSCaccepted third party conformity
assessment bodies. It is difficult to
estimate how many tests will be
subcontracted, but for current purposes,
we estimate that the third party
conformity assessment bodies who
subcontract will subcontract 25 percent
of their tests. We estimate that it will
take seven minutes, on average, to
comply with the recordkeeping
requirements related to subcontracted
tests. If five percent of third party
conformity assessment bodies
subcontract 25 percent of tests annually,
that is a total of 100,500 subcontract
tests per year (33.5 subcontracting test
bodies × 12,000 tests per body × 25%
tests subcontracted = 100,500
subcontract tests). Therefore, at seven
minutes per test, we estimate a total
burden for third party disclosure to be
11,725 hours (or 703,500 minutes) per
year to comply with the subcontracting
recordkeeping requirement.
• Discontinue Burden.
If a third party conformity assessment
body wishes to voluntarily discontinue
its participation with the CPSC, an
estimated 30 minutes is needed to create
and submit the required documentation.
See 16 CFR 1112.29. From FY 2020–24,
106 labs withdrew from the CPSC
program. Accordingly, we estimate 20
labs will withdraw at an estimated total
hourly burden of 10 hours (or 600
minutes) annually.
• Audit Burden.
The CPSC portion of an audit is
required no less than once every two
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we estimated that 50 percent of third
party conformity assessment bodies
each year will go through an audit. This
is based on FY2020–2024 data showing
an average of 354 CPSC Audits per year.
Based on the number of third party
conformity assessment bodies that have
already been accepted by the CPSC as of
the end of May 2025 (686) and our
experience with the rate of new
successful applications, we predict that
the total number of third party
conformity assessment bodies will be
700 by FY26. Half of those, 350, will be
audited annually. Depending on the
type of conformity assessment body
(i.e., independent, firewalled, or
governmental), and other factors not
controlled by CPSC, audit burden would
vary somewhat from body to body. We
estimate that laboratories will spend
approximately 15 minutes to resubmit
their updated materials, including the
CPSC Form 223, accredited scope listing
and accreditation certificate for the
CPSC Audits. Firewalled and
governmental labs are also expected to
submit an updated attestation, as well as
an employee undue influence
memorandum. In addition, for
firewalled labs, a revised risk
assessment of impartiality and undue
influence is also included. Therefore,
the total amount of time spent by
conformity assessment bodies will be
approximately 87.5 hours (350 bodies
audited × 15 min. per audit = 5,250
minutes, or 87.5 hours).
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
Adding all the annual estimated burden
hours results in a total of approximately
11,977 hours (87.2 hours application
burden + 67 hours updating burden +
11,725 hours disclosure burden + 10
hours discontinue burden + 87.5 hours
audit burden = 11,976.7 total annual
burden hours).
To calculate the total cost of this PRA
burden, we use the total compensation
for all civilian workers, available from
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
‘‘Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation,’’ which is $47.20 per
hour worked as of December 2024. At
$47.20 per hour, the total cost of the
PRA burden is approximately $565,314
($47.20 × 11,977 hours = $565,314.40).
Alberta E. Mills,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety
Commission.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Applications for New Awards;
Education Innovation and Research
(EIR) Program Mid-Phase Grants
Office of Elementary and
Secondary Education, Department of
Education.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Department of Education
(Department) is issuing a notice inviting
applications for fiscal year (FY) 2025 for
the EIR program Mid-phase Grants
(Mid-phase Grants).
DATES:
Applications Available: September
12, 2025.
Deadline for Transmittal of
Applications: October 14, 2025.
Deadline for Intergovernmental
Review: December 11, 2025.
Pre-Application Information: The
Department will post additional
competition information for prospective
applicants on the EIR program website:
https://www.ed.gov/grants-andprograms/grants-special-populations/
grants-economically-disadvantagedstudents/education-innovation-andresearch.
SUMMARY:

For the addresses for
obtaining and submitting an
application, please refer to our Common
Instructions for Applicants to
Department of Education Discretionary
Grant Programs, published in the
Federal Register on August 29, 2025 (90
FR 42234), and available at https://
www.federalregister.gov/documents/
2025/08/29/2025-16571/commoninstructions-and-information-forapplicants-to-department-of-educationdiscretionary-grantams.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Sonji Jones-Manson, U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20202–5900.
Telephone: 202–987–1753. Email: eir@
ed.gov.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or
have a speech disability and wish to
access telecommunications relay
services, please dial 7–1–1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:

Full Text of Announcement
I. Funding Opportunity Description
Purpose of Program: The EIR program,
established under section 4611 of the
Elementary and Secondary Education
Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA),
provides funding to create, develop,
implement, replicate, or take to scale
entrepreneurial, evidence-based (as
defined in this notice), field-initiated
innovations to improve student

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