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 92 STAT. 386

PUBLIC LAW 95-319—JULY 11, 1978

Public Law 95-319 95th Congress An Act July 11, 1978 [S. 2401]

Emergency Interim Consumer Product Safety Standard Act of 1978. 15 USC 2051 note. 15 USC 2082 note.

To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to establish an interim consumer product safety rule relating to the standards for flame resistance and corrosiveness of certain insulation, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Emergency Interim Consumer Product Safety Standard Act of 1978". FINDINGS AND PURPOSE

SEC. 2. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) existing P^ederal, State, and local laws and regulations are insufficient to protect the consumer from improperly manufactured cellulose insulation; (2) an unreasonably large quaaitity of cellulose insulation is being distributed that does not meet minimum safety standards; (3) an urgent need exists for the expedited setting of interim mandatory Federal standards for the manufacture of cellulose insulation; and (4) such standards are reasonably necessary to eliminate or reduce an unreasonable risk of injury to consumers from flammable or corrosive cellulose insulation. (b) It is the purpose of the Congress in this Act to provide an interim mandatory safety standard for cellulose insulation manufactured for use as a consumer product. I N T E R I M CELLULOSE INSULATION SAFETY STANDARD

SEC. 3. (a) The Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2051 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: u I N T E R I M CELLULOSE INSULATION SAFETY STANDARD

15 USC 2082.

"SEC. 35. (a)(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2), on and after the last day of the 60-day period beginning on the effective date of this section, the requirements for flame resistance and corrosiveness set forth in the General Services Administration's specification for cellulose insulation, HH-I-515C (as such specification was in effect on February 1, 1978), shall be deemed to be an interim consumer product safety standard which shall have all the authority and effect of any other consumer product safety standard promulgated by the Regulations. Commission under this Act. During the 45-day period beginning on Publication in the effective date of this section, the Commission may make, and shall Federal Register, publish in the Federal Register, such technical, nonsubstantive changes in such requirements as it deems appropriate to make such requirements suitable for promulgation as a consumer product safety standard. At the end of the 60-day period specified in the first sentence of this paragraph, the Commission shall publish in the Federal Register such interim consumer product safety standard, as altered by the Commission under this paragraph.

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