Prohibition of Children's Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Consumer Product Safety Commission 16 CFR Part 1307 [Docket No. CPSC-2014-0033] AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission. ACTION: Availability of Response to Comments and Commission Finding. SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) is publishing this document in response to a federal court decision remanding the Commission's final phthalates rule, without vacatur, to allow the Commission to address two procedural deficiencies the court found. This document provides notice of the availability of CPSC staff's memorandum responding to public comments on the justification for the phthalates final rule and on the staff's cost-benefit analysis of continuing the interim prohibition on diisononyl phthalate (DINP). This document also provides the Commission's finding that further rulemaking is not warranted at this time. DATES: December 5, 2022. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Proper, Directorate for Economic Analysis, Consumer Product Safety Commission, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone: (301) 504-7628; email: sproper@cpsc.gov . SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: I. Background Section 108(b)(3) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) required the Commission to promulgate a final rule addressing children's toys and child care articles containing certain phthalates, not later than 180 days after the Commission received a final Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel (CHAP) report. 15 U.S.C. 2057c(b)(3) . The Commission was r…