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15 U.S.C. § 2056 — Consumer product safety standards
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**(a) Types of requirements** The Commission may promulgate consumer product safety standards in accordance with the provisions of [section 2058 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2058&num=0&edition=prelim). A consumer product safety standard shall consist of one or more of any of the following types of requirements:
(1) Requirements expressed in terms of performance requirements.
(2) Requirements that a consumer product be marked with or accompanied by clear and adequate warnings or instructions, or requirements respecting the form of warnings or instructions.
Any requirement of such a standard shall be reasonably necessary to prevent or reduce an unreasonable risk of injury associated with such product.
**(b) Reliance of Commission upon voluntary standards**
(1) The Commission shall rely upon voluntary consumer product safety standards rather than promulgate a consumer product safety standard prescribing requirements described in subsection (a) whenever compliance with such voluntary standards would eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury addressed and it is likely that there will be substantial compliance with such voluntary standards.
(2) The Commission shall devise procedures to monitor compliance with any voluntary standards—
(A) upon which the Commission has relied under paragraph (1);
(B) which were developed with the participation of the Commission; or
(C) whose development the Commission has monitored.
**(c) Contribution of Commission to development cost** If any person participates with the Commission in the development of a consumer product safety standard, the Commission may agree to contribute to the person’s cost with respect to such participation, in any case in which the Co
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**(a) Types of requirements** The Commission may promulgate consumer product safety standards in accordance with the provisions of [section 2058 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2058&num=0&edition=prelim). A consumer product safety standard shall consist of one or more of any of the following types of requirements:
(1) Requirements expressed in terms of performance requirements.
(2) Requirements that a consumer product be marked with or accompanied by clear and adequate warnings or instructions, or requirements respecting the form of warnings or instructions.
Any requirement of such a standard shall be reasonably necessary to prevent or reduce an unreasonable risk of injury associated with such product.
**(b) Reliance of Commission upon voluntary standards**
(1) The Commission shall rely upon voluntary consumer product safety standards rather than promulgate a consumer product safety standard prescribing requirements described in subsection (a) whenever compliance with such voluntary standards would eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury addressed and it is likely that there will be substantial compliance with such voluntary standards.
(2) The Commission shall devise procedures to monitor compliance with any voluntary standards—
(A) upon which the Commission has relied under paragraph (1);
(B) which were developed with the participation of the Commission; or
(C) whose development the Commission has monitored.
**(c) Contribution of Commission to development cost** If any person participates with the Commission in the development of a consumer product safety standard, the Commission may agree to contribute to the person’s cost with respect to such participation, in any case in which the Commission determines that such contribution is likely to result in a more satisfactory standard than would be developed without such contribution, and that the person is financially responsible. Regulations of the Commission shall set forth the items of cost in which it may participate, and shall exclude any contribution to the acquisition of land or buildings. Payments under agreements entered into under this subsection may be made without regard to section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31.
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Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a) Commencement of proceeding; publication of prescribed notice of proposed rulemaking; transmittal of notice** A proceeding for the development of a consumer product safety rule may be commenced by the publication in the Federal Register of an advance notice of proposed rulemaking which shall—
(1) identify the product and the nature of the risk of injury associated with the product;
(2) include a summary of each of the regulatory alternatives under consideration by the Commission (including voluntary consumer product safety standards);
(3) include information with respect to any existing standard known to the Commission which may be relevant to the proceedings, together with a summary of the reasons why the Commission believes preliminarily that such standard does not eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury identified in paragraph (1);
(4) invite interested persons to submit to the Commission, within such period as the Commission shall specify in the notice (which period shall not be less than 30 days or more than 60 days after the date of publication of the notice), comments with respect to the risk of injury identified by the Commission, the regulatory alternatives being considered, and other possible alternatives for addressing the risk;
(5) invite any person (other than the Commission) to submit to the Commission, within such period as the Commission shall specify in the notice (which period shall not be less than 30 days after the date of publication of the notice), an existing standard or a portion of a standard as a proposed consumer product safety standard; and
(6) invite any person (other than the Commission) to submit to the Commission, within such period as the Commission shall specify in the notice (which period shall not be less than 30
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**(a)** The Congress finds that—
(1) an unacceptable number of consumer products which present unreasonable risks of injury are distributed in commerce;
(2) complexities of consumer products and the diverse nature and abilities of consumers using them frequently result in an inability of users to anticipate risks and to safeguard themselves adequately;
(3) the public should be protected against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products;
(4) control by State and local governments of unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products is inadequate and may be burdensome to manufacturers;
(5) existing Federal authority to protect consumers from exposure to consumer products presenting unreasonable risks of injury is inadequate; and
(6) regulation of consumer products the distribution or use of which affects interstate or foreign commerce is necessary to carry out this chapter.
**(b)** The purposes of this chapter are—
(1) to protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products;
(2) to assist consumers in evaluating the comparative safety of consumer products;
(3) to develop uniform safety standards for consumer products and to minimize conflicting State and local regulations; and
(4) to promote research and investigation into the causes and prevention of product-related deaths, illnesses, and injuries.
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**(a) In general** In this chapter:
(1) **Appropriate Congressional committees** — The term “appropriate Congressional committees” means the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate.
(2) **Children’s product** — The term “children’s product” means a consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger. In determining whether a consumer product is primarily intended for a child 12 years of age or younger, the following factors shall be considered:
(A) A statement by a manufacturer about the intended use of such product, including a label on such product if such statement is reasonable.
(B) Whether the product is represented in its packaging, display, promotion, or advertising as appropriate for use by children 12 years of age or younger.
(C) Whether the product is commonly recognized by consumers as being intended for use by a child 12 years of age or younger.
(D) The Age Determination Guidelines issued by the Commission staff in September 2002, and any successor to such guidelines.
(3) **Commerce** — The term “commerce” means trade, traffic, commerce, or transportation—
(A) between a place in a State and any place outside thereof, or
(B) which affects trade, traffic, commerce, or transportation described in subparagraph (A).
(4) **Commission** — The term “Commission” means the Consumer Product Safety Commission, established by [section 2053 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2053&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Consumer product** — The term “consumer product” means any article, or component part thereof, produced or distributed (i) for sale to a consumer for use in
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**(a) State compliance to Federal standards** Whenever a consumer product safety standard under this chapter is in effect and applies to a risk of injury associated with a consumer product, no State or political subdivision of a State shall have any authority either to establish or to continue in effect any provision of a safety standard or regulation which prescribes any requirements as to the performance, composition, contents, design, finish, construction, packaging, or labeling of such product which are designed to deal with the same risk of injury associated with such consumer product, unless such requirements are identical to the requirements of the Federal standard.
**(b) Consumer product safety requirements which impose performance standards more stringent than Federal standards** Subsection (a) of this section does not prevent the Federal Government or the government of any State or political subdivision of a State from establishing or continuing in effect a safety requirement applicable to a consumer product for its own use which requirement is designed to protect against a risk of injury associated with the product and which is not identical to the consumer product safety standard applicable to the product under this chapter if the Federal, State, or political subdivision requirement provides a higher degree of protection from such risk of injury than the standard applicable under this chapter.
**(c) Exemptions** Upon application of a State or political subdivision of a State, the Commission may by rule, after notice and opportunity for oral presentation of views, exempt from the provisions of subsection (a) (under such conditions as it may impose in the rule) any proposed safety standard or regulation which is described in such application and which is des
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**(a)** This section applies, according to the provisions thereof, except to the extent that there is involved—
(1) a military or foreign affairs function of the United States; or
(2) a matter relating to agency management or personnel or to public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts.
**(b)** General notice of proposed rule making shall be published in the Federal Register, unless persons subject thereto are named and either personally served or otherwise have actual notice thereof in accordance with law. The notice shall include—
(1) a statement of the time, place, and nature of public rule making proceedings;
(2) reference to the legal authority under which the rule is proposed;
(3) either the terms or substance of the proposed rule or a description of the subjects and issues involved; and
(4) the Internet address of a summary of not more than 100 words in length of the proposed rule, in plain language, that shall be posted on the Internet website under section 206(d) of the E-Government Act of 2002 ([44 U.S.C. 3501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3501&num=0&edition=prelim) note) (commonly known as regulations.gov).
Except when notice or hearing is required by statute, this subsection does not apply—
(A) to interpretative rules, general statements of policy, or rules of agency organization, procedure, or practice; or
(B) when the agency for good cause finds (and incorporates the finding and a brief statement of reasons therefor in the rules issued) that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.
**(c)** After notice required by this section, the agency shall give interested persons an opportunity to participate in the rule making through subm
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**(a) Short title** This section may be cited as the “Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2020”.
**(b) Standards**
(1) **Rule on safety performance standards required** — Not later than 30 months after December 27, 2020, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (referred to in this section as the “Commission”) shall promulgate a final rule to require flame mitigation devices in portable fuel containers that impede the propagation of flame into the container, except as provided in paragraph (3).
(2) **Rulemaking; consumer product safety standard** — A rule under paragraph (1)—
(A) shall be promulgated in accordance with [section 553 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section553&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(B) shall be treated as a consumer product safety rule promulgated under [section 2058 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2058&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Exception**
(A) *Voluntary standard* — Paragraph (1) shall not apply for a class of portable fuel containers in the scope of this section if the Commission determines at any time that—
(i) there is a voluntary standard for flame mitigation devices for those containers that impedes the propagation of flame into the container;
(ii) the voluntary standard described in clause (i) is or will be in effect not later than 18 months after December 27, 2020; and
(iii) the voluntary standard described in clause (i) is developed by ASTM International or such other standard development organization that the Commission determines to have met the intent of this section.
(B) *Determination required to be published in the Federal Register* — Any determination made by the Commission under this subsection s
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**(a) In general** Bicycle helmets manufactured 9 months or more after June 16, 1994, shall conform to—
(1) any interim standard described under subsection (b), pending the establishment of a final standard pursuant to subsection (c); and
(2) the final standard, once it has been established under subsection (c).
**(b) Interim standards** The interim standards are as follows:
(1) The American National Standards Institute standard designated as “Z90.4–1984”.
(2) The Snell Memorial Foundation standard designated as “B–90”.
(3) The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard designated as “F 1447”.
(4) Any other standard that the Commission determines is appropriate.
**(c) Final standard** Not later than 60 days after June 16, 1994, the Commission shall begin a proceeding under [section 553 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section553&num=0&edition=prelim) to—
(1) review the requirements of the interim standards set forth in subsection (a) and establish a final standard based on such requirements;
(2) include in the final standard a provision to protect against the risk of helmets coming off the heads of bicycle riders;
(3) include in the final standard provisions that address the risk of injury to children; and
(4) include additional provisions as appropriate.
Sections 7, 9, and 30(d) 11 See References in Text note below. of the Consumer Product Safety Act ([15 U.S.C. 2056](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2056&num=0&edition=prelim), 2058, 2079(d)) shall not apply to the proceeding under this subsection and section 11 of such Act ([15 U.S.C. 2060](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section2060&num=0&edition=prelim)) shall not
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§ 2056
amended Pub. L. 112–28, § 7, Aug. 12, 2011, 125
Stat. 281.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2011—Subsec. (c)(3)(A). Pub. L. 112–28, § 7(1), inserted
‘‘or paragraph (5)’’ after ‘‘paragraph (4)(A)’’.
Subsec. (c)(4)(A). Pub. L. 112–28, § 7(2), substituted
‘‘receives notice that the information in such report or
comment is materially inaccurate, the Commission
shall stay the publication of the report on the database
as required under paragraph (3) for a period of no more
than 5 additional days. If the Commission determines
that the information in such report or comment is ma-
terially inaccurate, the Commission shall—’’ for ‘‘de-
termines that the information in such report or com-
ment is materially inaccurate, the Commission shall—
’’ in introductory provisions.
Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 112–28, § 7(3), added par. (5).
§ 2056. Consumer product safety standards
(a) Types of requirements
The Commission may promulgate consumer
product safety standards in accordance with the
provisions of section 2058 of this title. A con-
sumer product safety standard shall consist of
one or more of any of the following types of re-
quirements:
(1) Requirements expressed in terms of per-
formance requirements.
(2) Requirements that a consumer product
be marked with or accompanied by clear and
adequate warnings or instructions, or require-
ments respecting the form of warnings or in-
structions.
Any requirement of such a standard shall be rea-
sonably necessary to prevent or reduce an un-
reasonable risk of injury associated with such
product.
(b) Reliance of Commission upon voluntary
standards
(1) The Commission shall rely upon voluntary
consumer product safety standards rather than
promulgate a consumer product safety standar
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