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CPSC RIN: 3041-AC71 Publication ID: Spring 2011 
Title: Testing, Certification, and Labeling of Certain Consumer Products 
Abstract: Section 102(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA), Public Law 110-314 (Aug. 14, 2008), requires the Commission to initiate by regulation, no later than 15 months after the date of enactment: (1) A program by which a manufacturer or private labeler may label a consumer product as complying with the certification requirements of section 102(a) of the CPSIA; (2) protocols and standards (i) for ensuring that a children's product tested for compliance with an applicable children's product safety rule is subject to testing periodically and when there has been a material change in the product's design or manufacturing process, including the sourcing of component parts; (ii) for the testing of random samples to ensure continued compliance; (iii) for verifying that a children's product tested by a conformity assessment body complies with applicable children's product safety rules; and (iv) for safeguarding against the exercise of undue influence on a third-party conformity assessment body by a manufacturer or private labeler. In May 2010, the Commission published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register. The proposed rule defined a reasonable testing program for non-children's products subject to a rule, ban, standard, or regulation enforced by the Commission and additional third-party testing requirements for children's products. The comment period ended August 3, 2010. Staff is preparing a briefing package for Commission consideration of the final rule. 
Agency: Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC)  Priority: Economically Significant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Final Rule Stage 
Major: Yes  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: Not Yet Determined     (To search for a specific CFR, visit the Code of Federal Regulations.)
Legal Authority: PL 110-314, sec 102   
Legal Deadline:
Action Source Description Date
NPRM  Statutory    11/14/2009 
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
Staff Sends Briefing Package to the Commission  04/01/2010    
Commission Decision  05/05/2010    
NPRM  05/20/2010  75 FR 28336   
NPRM Comment Period End  08/03/2010    
Staff Sends Briefing Package to Commission  07/00/2011    
Commission Decision   08/00/2011    
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined  Government Levels Affected: None 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: Yes 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Randy Butturini
Project Manager, Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction
Consumer Product Safety Commission
4330 East West Highway,
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone:301 504-7562
Email: rbutturini@cpsc.gov