Senate Committee to hold reauthorization hearings June 17.The consumer subcommittee of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee will hold hearings Tuesday, June 17 on the possible reauthorization of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald For the Irish Garda deputy police commissioner and UN investigator into the Rafik Hariri assassination, see . Peter G. Fitzgerald (born October 20, 1960) was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 1999 until 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. (D.-Illinois) is chairman of the subcommittee. The three CPSC CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission (US) CPSC Computer Science (course) CPSC Canadian Plastics Sector Council (Ottawa, ON, Canada) CPSC Chemical Processing Safety Committee commissioners will testify, but at this writing neither the committee nor the agency has proposed any major changes in the statute. One observer predicts that any amendments would be technical in nature. Sen. John McCain For McCain's grandfather and father, see John S. McCain, Sr. and John S. McCain, Jr., respectively John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. (R.-Ariz.), chairman of the full committee, is a proponent One who offers or proposes. A proponent is a person who comes forward with an a item or an idea. A proponent supports an issue or advocates a cause, such as a proponent of a will. PROPONENT, eccl. law. of reauthorizing independent agencies prior to appropriations legislation. The CPSC has not been reauthorized since 1990, although hearings were held in 1996 and 2000. Some possible areas for discussion include the proposal to raise caps on the amount of civil penalties CPSC can impose for failure to report. (1) The current cap on the amount of civil penalties the agency may impose is $1.65 million. The Commission seldom imposes amounts of that magnitude. Also up for consideration is the elimination of the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking A notice of proposed rulemaking or NPRM is issued by law when a regulatory agency of the United States Federal Government wishes to add, remove, or change a rule (or regulation) as part of the rulemaking process. Outside the USA. (ANPR ANPR Automatic Number Plate Recognition ANPR Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ANPR Association of National Park Rangers ) stage of regulation. Some are predicting that the continued relevance of Section 37 of the statute, which imposes heavy reporting requirements on regulated companies that are the target of lawsuits, will be on the table. While the intent of the amendment was to increase reporting of possible product hazards, very little useful information has been received under the new section. CPSC insiders say that section will almost certainly be scrutinized. For its part, the Monitor would like to see Congress adopt amendments targeting the agency's relationship with voluntary standards organizations A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, . While CPSC is still mandated by Congress to defer to voluntary standards, its interference in the standards process needs to be reexamined. (1) See CPSC Monitor, Vol. 7, Issue 2, February 2002, "Acting Chairman Moore Presses for End to Cap on Civil Penalties." |
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