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Consumer Product Safety Act
15 U.S.C. Section 2056
§ 2056. Consumer product safety standards
(a) Types of requirements
The Commission may promulgate consumer product safety standards in
accordance with the provisions of section 2058 of this title. A consumer
product safety standard shall consist of one or more of any of the following types of
requirements:
(1) Requirements expressed in terms of performance requirements.
(2) Requirements that a consumer product be marked with or
accompanied by clear and adequate warnings or instructions, or requirements respecting the
form of warnings or instructions. Any requirement of such a standard shall be reasonably
necessary to prevent or reduce an unreasonable risk of injury associated with such
product.
(b) Reliance of Commission upon voluntary standards
(1) The Commission shall rely upon voluntary consumer product safety
standards rather than promulgate a consumer product safety standard prescribing
requirements described in subsection (a) of this section whenever compliance with such
voluntary standards would eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury addressed and
it is likely that there will be substantial compliance with such voluntary standards.
(2) The Commission shall devise procedures to monitor compliance
with any voluntary standards:
(A) upon which the Commission has relied under paragraph (1);
(B) which were developed with the participation of the Commission;
or
(C) whose development the Commission has monitored.
(c) Contribution of Commission to development cost
If any person participates with the Commission in the development of
a consumer product safety standard, the Commission may agree to contribute to the person's
cost with respect to such participation, in any case in which the Commission determines
that such contribution is likely to result in a more satisfactory standard than would be
developed without such contribution, and that the person is financially responsible.
Regulations of the Commission shall set forth the items of cost in which it may
participate, and shall exclude any contribution to the acquisition of land or buildings.
Payments under agreements entered into under this subsection may be made without regard to
section 3324(a) and (b) of
title 31.
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