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 104 STAT. 2948 PUBLIC LAW 101-592—NOV. 16, 1990 Records. 15 USC 5406. Records. accredit laboratories under the accreditation program established under subsection (a). (c) ENSURING COMPUANCE. — (1) The Secretary shall ensure that— (A) private entities accrediting laboratories under procedures and conditions established under subsection (a)(l)(B) comply with such procedures and conditions, and (B) laboratories accredited by such private entities, or by foreign governments pursuant to subsection (a)(l)(C), comply with the requirements for such accreditation. (2) The Secretary may require any such private entity or laboratory to provide all records and materials that may be necessary to allow the Secretary to carry out this subsection. (d) OPERATION OF LABORATORY ACCREDITATION PROGRAM. —(1) The Director may hire such contractors as are necessary to carry out the accreditation program established under subsection (a). (2) Costs to the Institute and to the Secretary for the establishment and operation of the accreditation program under this section shall be fully reimbursable to the Institute or to the Secretary, as appropriate, through fees or other charges for accreditation services under such program. (e) RECOMMENDATIONS TO CONSENSUS STANDARDS ORGANIZA- TIONS.— The Director shall periodically transmit to appropriate consensus standards organizations any information or recommendations that may be useful in the establishment or application by such organizations of standards and specifications for fasteners. SEC. 7. SALE OF FASTENERS SUBSEQUENT TO MANUFACTURE. (a) DOMESTICALLY PRODUCED FASTENERS.— It shall be unlawful for a manufacturer to sell any shipment of fasteners (except fasteners for which the Secretary has waived the requirements of this Act pursuant to section 4) which are manufactured in the United States unless the fasteners are accompanied, at the time of delivery, by a written certificate by the manufacturer certifying that— (1) the fasteners have been manufactured according to the requirements of the applicable standards and specifications and have been inspected and tested by a laboratory accredited in accordance with the procedures and conditions specified by the Secretary under section 6; and (2) an original laboratory testing report described in section 5(c) is on file with the manufacturer, or under such custody as may be prescribed by the Secretary, and available for inspection. (b) FASTENERS OF FOREIGN ORIGIN.—(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, it shall be unlawful— (A) for any person to sell to any importer, and (B) for any importer to purchase, any shipment of fasteners which are manufactured outside the United States unless delivery of such shipment to such importer is accompanied by a manufacturer's certificate as described in subsection (a), an original laboratory testing report described in section 5(c), with respect to each lot from which such fasteners were taken, and any other relevant lot identification information. (2) The requirement under paragraph (1) of this subsection that the delivery of such a shipment to such importer be accompanied by an original laboratory testing report shall not apply in the case of fasteners imported into the United States—

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