# 2024-31623: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Bathtub Slip Resistance Study

2024-31623, Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Bathtub Slip Resistance Study, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-06, effective Comments on the proposed information collection must be submitted by March 7, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31623
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31623
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Bathtub Slip Resistance Study
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-06
- Effective: Comments on the proposed information collection must be submitted by March 7, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## Summary

The Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to study how slippery bathtubs are to help create safer bathtubs and showers. They’re asking the public to share their thoughts by March 7, 2025, before collecting any info. This study could lead to better safety rules but won’t cost you anything directly.

## Abstract

As required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) requests comments on a request for approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a new information collection. The proposed collection is a bathtub slip resistance study to support work on a voluntary Safety Standard for Bathtub and Shower Structure. Before CPSC can collect this information from the public, it must solicit public comment on this proposed collection of information and receive OMB approval. This notice describes the collection of information for which CPSC intends to seek OMB approval.

## Effects PRIA read

- You can be paid $100 to participate: benefit, low. If you participate in the bathtub slip resistance study, you will receive $100 for participation. The study expects up to 200 respondents per year (up to 600 over three years).
- Participation requires about 2.5 hours: cost, low. Each respondent is expected to spend about 2.5 hours to fully participate in the study. CPSC estimates an annual response burden of 500 hours (200 responses × 2.5 hours) for the study.
- Recruitment limited to Phoenix metro area: mixed, low. Participants will be recruited from the Phoenix, Arizona metro area and experiments will be conducted at Arizona State University's Locomotion Research Laboratory. The study expects up to 200 respondents per year and up to 600 respondents over a three-year approval period.
- Study will inform new safety standard: benefit, medium. CPSC will use the study results to inform work with the ASTM F15.03 Committee to replace the withdrawn ASTM F462 standard and to help develop a voluntary Safety Standard for Bathtub and Shower Structure. The study's goal is to quantify minimum friction needed to reduce slips and falls.

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## Sources
- [2024-31623 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/06/2024-31623/agency-information-collection-activities-proposed-collection-comment-request-bathtub-slip-resistance)
- [2024-31623 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-06/pdf/2024-31623.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31623 (as of 2026-06-08).