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Standard for the Flammability of Mattresses and Mattress Pads; Technical Amendment
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (``CPSC,'' ``Commission,'' or ``we'') is amending its standard for the flammability of mattresses and mattress pads to revise the ignition source specification in that standard.\1\ The ignition source cigarette specified for use in the mattress standard's performance tests is no longer produced. The...
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Standard for the Flammability of Mattresses and Mattress Pads
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (``CPSC'' or ``Commission'') is proposing to amend its standard for the flammability of mattresses and mattress pads. The ignition source cigarette specified in the standard for use in the mattress standard's performance tests is no longer being produced. The Commission is proposing to amend the mattress...
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Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule-Amendments
On December 5, 2008, EPA amended the Spill Prevention Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC) rule to provide increased clarity with respect to specific regulatory requirements, to tailor requirements to particular industry sectors, and to streamline certain rule requirements. The Agency subsequently delayed the effective date of these amendments to...
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Oil Pollution Prevention; Non-Transportation Related Onshore Facilities; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule-Final Amendments
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is delaying by sixty days the effective date of the final rule that amends the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations published in the Federal Register on December 5, 2008. Thus, the amendments will become effective on April 4, 2009. EPA additionally is requesting public comment...
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Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements-Amendments
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is amending the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in order to provide increased clarity, to tailor requirements to particular industry sectors, and to streamline certain requirements for those facility owners or operators subject to the rule, which should result in...
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Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles; Corrections
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission published in the Federal Register of March 25, 2008, a final rule amending its flammability standard for general wearing apparel, the Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles, 16 CFR Part 1610. The published rule contained some incorrect typographical symbols and other inadvertent errors....
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Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles
The Commission is amending its flammability standard for general wearing apparel, the Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles, 16 CFR part 1610. The Standard, originally issued in 1953, has become outdated in several respects. The revisions better reflect current consumer practices and technologies and clarify several aspects of the...
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Standard for the Flammability of Residential Upholstered Furniture
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (``Commission'' or ``CPSC'') is proposing flammability standards for residential upholstered furniture under the Flammable Fabrics Act (``FFA''). The proposal would establish performance requirements and certification and labeling requirements for upholstered furniture. Manufacturers of...
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Final Rule: Standard for the Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattress Sets; Correction
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (``Commission'') is making corrections to the flammability standard for mattress sets that was published in the Federal Register of March 15, 2006, (71 FR 13472). The corrections rectify typographical errors, clarify technical aspects of running the flammability test required by the standard, and clarify...
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Technical Amendment to the Flammability Standards for Carpets and Rugs
The Commission is amending the flammability standards for carpets and rugs to remove the reference to Eli Lilly Company Product No. 1588 in Catalog No. 79, December 1, 1969, as the standard ignition source and provide a technical specification defining the ignition source. The specification for the standard ignition source is a timed burning...
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Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements-Amendments
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is proposing to amend the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in order to provide increased clarity, to tailor requirements to particular industry sectors, and to streamline certain requirements for a facility owner or operator subject to the rule. Specifically, EPA is...
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Standard for the Flammability of Children's Sleepwear: Sizes 0 Through 6X; Correction
The Commission is amending the standard for the flammability of children's sleepwear sizes 0 through 6X to correct a measurement in a table in final regulations which were published in the Federal Register on January 19, 1999 (64 FR 2833), and to correct several typographical errors in the standard.
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Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles; Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
The Commission is proposing to amend its flammability standard of general wearing apparel, the Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles, 16 CFR part 1610. The Standard, originally issued in 1953, has become outdated in several respects. The Commission is proposing changes to better reflect current consumer practices and technologies...
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Oil Pollution Prevention; Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan Requirements-Amendments
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is amending the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan requirements by: first, providing the option for owners and operators of facilities that store 10,000 gallons of oil or less and meet other qualifying criteria to self-certify their SPCC Plans in lieu of review and...
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Technical Amendment to the Flammability Standards for Carpets and Rugs
The Commission proposes to amend the flammability standards for carpets and rugs to remove the reference to Eli Lilly Company Product No. 1588 in Catalog No. 79, December 1, 1969, as the standard ignition source and provide a technical specification defining the ignition source.\1\ The proposed specification for the standard ignition source is a...
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Final Rule: Standard for the Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattress Sets
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (``Commission'') is issuing a flammability standard under the authority of the Flammable Fabrics Act. This new standard establishes performance requirements based on research conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (``NIST''). Mattresses and mattress and foundation sets (``mattress...
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Standard for the Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattresses and Mattress/Foundation Sets; Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
The Commission is proposing a flammability standard under the authority of the Flammable Fabrics Act that would address open flame ignition of mattresses and mattress and foundation sets (``mattresses/ sets''). The Commission currently has a flammability standard that addresses ignition of mattresses by cigarettes. However, that standard does...
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Revision of Emergency Evacuation Demonstration Procedures To Improve Participant Safety
These amendments revise the airworthiness standards for transport category airplanes and the operating requirements for domestic, flag, and supplemental operations, by allowing certain alternative procedures in conducting full-scale emergency evacuation demonstrations for transport category airplanes. The changes will make full-scale emergency...
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Oil Pollution Prevention and Response; Non-Transportation-Related Onshore and Offshore Facilities
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or we) is today extending by eighteen months certain upcoming compliance dates for the July 2002 Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC or Plan) amendments. The dates affected by today's final rule are the date for a facility to amend its Plan and the date for a facility to implement that...
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Oil Pollution Prevention and Response; Non-Transportation-Related Onshore and Offshore Facilities
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or we) is today extending, by eighteen months from the dates promulgated in the July 2002 Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) amendments, the dates for a facility to amend its SPCC Plan and implement the amended Plan (or, in the case of facilities becoming operational after August 16, 2002,...
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