G/TBT/N/USA/1520  
22 August 2019  
(19-5398) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AME RICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) [1547]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicat ed if different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Residential 
gas furnaces and boilers; - Boilers (HS 840310); Furnace burners for liquid fuel, for 
pulverised solid fuel or for gas; mechanical stokers, including their mechanical grates, 
mechanical ash dischargers and similar appliances (HS 8416); Protection against 
dangerous goods (ICS 13.300), Burners. Boilers (ICS 27.060), Domestic, commercial and 
industrial heating applian ces (ICS 97.100)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Performance 
Requirements for Residential Gas Furnaces and Boilers; Advance Notice of Proposed 
Rulemaking (8 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or 
CPSC) is considering developing a rule to address the risk of injury and death associated 
with carbon monoxide (CO) production and leakage from residential gas furnaces and 
boilers. This advance notice of proposed r ulemaking (ANPR) initiates a rulemaking 
proceeding under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA). We invite comments 
concerning the risk of injury associated with CO production and leakage from residential 
gas furnaces and boilers, the alternatives discusse d in this ANPR, and other possible 
alternatives for addressing the risk. We also invite interested parties to submit existing 
voluntary standards or a statement of intent to modify or develop a voluntary standard 
that addresses the risk of injury described  in this document.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
84 Federal Register (FR) 42847, 19 August 2019; Title 16 Code of Federal Regulations 
(CFR) Chapter 2:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-08-19/html/2019 -17512.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2019-08-19/pdf/2019 -17512.pdf  G/TBT/N/USA/1520  
 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  18 October 2019  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/USA/19_4632_00_e.pdf