3041-AD90 202304 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 3041 Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC Play Yard and Play Yard Mattresses Petitions

On November 29, 2021, Carol Pollack-Nelson, Ph.D., Sarah B. Newens, M.S., and Alan H. Schoem, Esq. (collectively, "Petitioners"), submitted to the Commission Secretary: (1) a Petition to Require Minimum Thickness for Play Yard Mattresses (Mattress Thickness Petition), and (2) a Petition to Standardize the Size of Play Yards and Play Yard Mattresses (Play Yard Size Petition)(collectively petitions). The petitions seek a rulemaking to amend the Commission’s regulation, Safety Standard for Play Yards, 16 CFR part 1221, to address the hazards of infants suffocating from soft bedding added to play yard sleep environment and infants becoming entrapped between the edge of a play yard and the play yard mattress and suffocating (gap entrapment hazard). CSPC docketed the Mattress Thickness Petition as petition CP 22-1 and docketed the Play Yard Size Petition as CP 22-2. On May 19, 2022, the Commission published notice of the petitions in the Federal Register. The comment period on the petitions ended on July 18, 2022. In fiscal year 2023, staff will submit to the Commission a briefing package with recommendations regarding the petitions.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Prerule Stage Undetermined No Not Yet Determined 15 U.S.C. 2056 15 U.S.C. 2058 No Petitions Docketed 04/27/2022 Notice of Petitions Published in Federal Register 05/19/2022 87 FR 30436 Comment Period End 07/18/2022 Staff Sends Briefing Package to Commission 03/29/2023 Commission Decision Denying Both Petitions 04/04/2023 Staff Sends Draft Denial Letter to the Commission 06/00/2023 Undetermined Undetermined Undetermined No No Frederick DeGrano Project Manager, Directorate for Engineering Sciences 3041 301 987-2711 fdegrano@cpsc.gov National Product Testing and Evaluation Center, 5 Research Place, Rockville MD 20850