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CPSC RIN: 3041-AD35 Publication ID: Spring 2014 
Title: ●Standard for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators 
Abstract: In 1992, the Commission issued a standard for automatic residential garage door operators, 16 CFR part 1211, pursuant to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 1990 (the Act). That law made the entrapment protection provisions of Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) 325 a mandatory consumer product safety standard. The law also provides that revisions to the entrapment protection requirements of the UL 325 standard will be incorporated into the Commission's standard unless the Commission determines that UL's revision does not carry out the purposes of the entrapment protection requirements of the Act. On November 4, 2013, UL notified the Commission that UL had revised UL 325. On November 27, 2013, staff submitted to the Commission a briefing package recommending that the Commission allow UL's revisions to be included in the Commission's garage door operator standard. On December 2, 2013, the Commission voted unanimously to approve the staff's recommendation. Staff will prepare a briefing package with a draft notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend 16 CFR part 1211 to include UL's revisions to UL 325. 
Agency: Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Prerule Stage 
Major: Undetermined  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 16 CFR 1211   
Legal Authority: 15 USC 2063 and 2065    sec 203 of PL 101-608   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Staff Sends Briefing Package to Commission  11/27/2013 
Commission Decision  12/02/2013 
Staff Sends NPRM Briefing Package to Commission  06/00/2014 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Vincent Amodeo
Project Manager, Directorate for Engineering Sciences
Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Product Testing and Evaluation Center, 5 Research Place,
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone:301 987-2301
Email: vamodeo@cpsc.gov