摘要: |
This is the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Performance Budget Request for 2011. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (herein the CPSC or Commission) requests $118.6 million. Although this funding level is only $400,000 over the 2010 appropriation, significant reductions, resulting from nonrecurring 2010 activities, will allow the Commission to increase staffing levels by 46 FTE's in 2011, for a total of 576 FTE's. CPSC's mission is to protect children and families against unreasonable risk of injury and death from over 15,000 types of consumer products. It is the only Federal agency that both identifies and acts on a wide range of consumer product hazards. Its work ensures a uniform level of safety for the nation's families and provides businesses with a national level playing field for domestic and imported consumer products. CPSC addresses consumer product hazards through a multi-tiered approach: prevention through standards activities; data collection to make sure we use accurate information; education of industry, consumers, and foreign governments about product safety standards and issues; targeted port and marketplace inspections; enforcement of the nation's consumer product safety laws; and post-recall surveillance to make sure products that need to be out of the stream of commerce actually are. The agency's work has contributed substantially to the decline in the rate of deaths and injuries related to hazardous consumer products since CPSC's inception. |