3041-AD39 201704 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 3041 Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC Phthalates Rule

Section 108 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) prohibits certain phthalates in children's toys or child care articles. The CPSIA establishes a Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel (CHAP) to study the effects on children's health of all phthalates and phthalate alternatives as used in children's toys and child care articles. The CHAP must prepare a report and make recommendations to the Commission regarding phthalates identified in section 108 of the CPSIA and phthalate alternatives. No later than 180 days after receiving the CHAP's report, the Commission must promulgate a Final Rule pursuant to section 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act. The CHAP's report was received on July 18, 2014. In accordance with the direction in section 108 of the CPSIA, the Commission published an NPRM in December 2014. On March 13, 2015, the Commission voted to publish a Federal Register Notice to extend the comment period 30 days. The Notice published in the Federal Register on March 20, 2015, extending the comment period until April 15, 2015. On June 23, 2015, the Commission published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register for a staff document regarding assessments of NHANES data sets, with a comment period closing on August 7, 2015. On February 2, 2017, the Commission published a Notice of Availability in the Federal Register for another staff document regarding assessments of NHANES data sets, with a comment period closing on March 24, 2017. After reviewing comments, staff will prepare a briefing package on a Final Rule for Commission consideration.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage Undetermined No 16 CFR 1307 Pub. L. 110-314, sec 108 No CHAP Report Received by Commission 07/18/2014 Staff Sends NPRM Briefing Package to Commission 11/26/2014 Staff Briefs Commission at Commission Meeting 12/05/2014 Commission Votes to Publish NPR in Federal Register 12/17/2014 NPRM Published in the Federal Register 12/30/2014 79 FR 78324 NPRM Comment Period End 03/16/2015 Notice Published in the Federal Register Extending Comment Period 03/20/2015 80 FR 14879 NPRM Comment Period End 04/15/2015 Notice of Availability Published in Federal Register 06/23/2015 80 FR 35938 Notice of Availability Comment Period End 08/07/2015 Notice of Availability Published in Federal Register 02/22/2017 82 FR 11348 Notice of Availability Comment Period End 03/24/2017 Staff Sends Final Rule Briefing Package to Commission 09/00/2017 No None No No No Kent Carlson Project Manager, Directorate for Health Sciences 3041 301 987-2578 kcarlson@cpsc.gov National Product Testing and Evaluation Center, 5 Research Place, Rockville MD 20850