Products Liability Law Daily Wrap Up, CPSC NEWS—COMMENT CALENDAR—CPSC actions open for public comment, (Feb 23, 2022)

By WK Editorial Staff

Consumer Product Safety Commission actions, with links to source documents, are open for public comment until the dates indicated.

As detailed in previous Products Liability Law Daily stories, the following Consumer Product Safety Commission actions are open for public comment until the dates indicated below. Comments may be submitted to the docket number identified in the heading of the document by any of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Mail/Hand delivery/Courier (for paper, disk, or CD-ROM submissions), preferably in five copies, to: Office of the Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Room 820, 4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 504-7923.

February 23, 2022. Any individual wishing to make an oral presentation at a CPSC hearing on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) regarding a safety standard for magnets must submit a request to the Division of the Secretariat by February 23, 2022. Oral comments will be part of the rulemaking record. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. EST on March 2, 2022, via webinar (CPSC Notice, 87 FR 8442, February 15, 2022).

March 2, 2022. CPSC’s semiannual regulatory agenda, which includes regulatory actions that CPSC expects to be under development or review by the Commission during the next year (Semiannual Regulatory Agenda, 87 FR 5332, January 31, 2022).

March 2, 2022. Any individual wishing to make an oral presentation at a CPSC hearing on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) regarding a safety standard for operating cords on custom window coverings must submit a request to the Division of the Secretariat by March 2, 2022. Oral comments will be part of the rulemaking record. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. EST on March 16, 2022, via webinar (CPSC Notice, 87 FR 8441, February 15, 2022).

March 23, 2022. Proposed safety standard for operating cords on custom window coverings largely identical to the existing rules over stock window coverings in light of the continuing death and disability hazard among children. The proposal would amend 16 CFR Part 1112 to include third-party testing for custom window covering operating cords, and add provisions to 16 CFR Part 1260. The additions to Part 1260 incorporate Section 4.3.1 of ANSI/WCMA–2018, which sets forth the performance requirements for operating cords on stock window coverings to apply to custom window coverings (Notice of proposed rulemaking, 87 FR 1014, January 7, 2022).

March 23, 2022. Proposed rule to address the risk of strangulation to young children associated with certain window covering cords. The new rule would deem certain readily observable characteristics of window coverings present a substantial product hazard (SPH) under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA); and it would amend the Substantial Product Hazard List (16 CFR part 1120) by adding “stock window coverings” and “custom window coverings” (Notice of proposed rulemaking, 87 FR 891, January 7, 2022).

March 28, 2022. Proposed rule to address the risk of injury or death associated with magnet ingestions, by requiring loose or separable magnets in subject magnet products to be either too large to swallow or weak enough to reduce the risk of internal interaction injuries when swallowed. The proposal specifies the method for determining the flux index of a magnet and defines the term “hazardous magnet.” Toys that are subject to CPSC’s mandatory toy standard are exempt from the proposed rule; and each loose or separable magnet in a product that is subject to the proposed rule and that fits entirely within CPSC’s small parts cylinder would be required to have a flux index of less than 50 kG2 mm2 (Notice of proposed rulemaking, 87 FR 1260, January 10, 2022).

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