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1The Commission voted 3–0–1 to approve 

publication of this rule. Chairman Inez M. 

Tenenbaum and Commissioners Nancy A. Nord and 

Robert S. Adler voted for the rule. Commissioner 

Ann M. Northup abstained from voting. 

Commissioner Adler filed a statement concerning 

this action which may be viewed on the 

Commission’s Web site at http://www.cpsc.gov/pr/ 

statements.html or obtained from the Commission’s 

Office of the Secretary. 

List of Subjects in 16 CFR Part 1224 

Consumer protection, Imports, 

Incorporation by reference, Infants and 

children, Labeling, and Law 

enforcement. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the Commission amends Title 

16 of the Code of Federal Regulations by 

adding a new part to read as follows: 

PART 1224—SAFETY STANDARD FOR 

PORTABLE BED RAILS 

Sec. 

1224.1 Scope, application, and effective 

date. 

1224.2 Requirements for portable bed rails. 

Authority: Sections 3 and 104 of Pub. L. 

110–314, 122 Stat. 3016 (August 14, 2008). 

§ 1224.1 Scope, application, and effective 

date. 

This part establishes a consumer 

product safety standard for portable bed 

rails manufactured or imported on or 

afterAugust 29, 2012. 

§ 1224.2 Requirements for portable bed 

rails. 

(a) Each portable bed rail as defined 

in ASTM F2085–12, Standard 

Consumer Safety Specification for 

Portable Bed Rails, approved January 1, 

2012, must comply with all applicable 

provisions of ASTM F2085–12. The 

Director of the Federal Register 

approves this incorporation by reference 

in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 

1 CFR part 51. You may obtain a copy 

of this ASTM standard from ASTM 

International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, 

P.O. Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 

19428–2959 USA, phone: 610–832– 

9585; http://www.astm.org/. You may 

inspect copies at the Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, Room 820, 4330 

East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814, telephone 301–504–7923, or at 

the National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). For 

information on the availability of this 

material at NARA, call 202–741–6030, 

or go to: http://www.archives.gov/

federal_register/code_of_federal 

regulations/ibr_locations.html. 

(b) [Reserved] 

Dated: February 22, 2012. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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BILLING CODE 6355–01–P 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

16 CFR Part 1420 

[CPSC Docket No. CPSC–2011–0047] 

Standard for All-Terrain Vehicles 

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety 

Improvement Act of 2008 (‘‘CPSIA’’) 

required the Consumer Product Safety 

Commission (‘‘Commission,’’ ‘‘CPSC,’’ 

or ‘‘we’’) to publish, as a mandatory 

consumer product safety standard, the 

American National Standard for FourWheel All-Terrain Vehicles Equipment 

Configuration, and Performance 

Requirements, developed by the 

Specialty Vehicle Institute of America 

(American National Standard ANSI/ 

SVIA 1–2007). We did so on November 

14, 2008. 73 FR 67385. ANSI/SVIA later 

issued a 2010 edition of its standard. In 

accordance with the CPSIA, we are 

amending the Commission’s mandatory 

ATV standard to reference the 2010 

edition of the ANSI/SVIA standard.1

DATES: The rule will become effective 

on April 30, 2012, and will apply to 

products manufactured or imported on 

or after that date. The incorporation by 

reference of the publication listed in 

this rule is approved by the Director of 

the Federal Register as of April 30, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Justin Jirgl, Office of Compliance and 

Field Operations, Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814; 

telephone (301) 504–7814; 

jjirgl@cpsc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

The Consumer Product Safety 

Improvement Act of 2008 (‘‘CPSIA’’) 

directed the Commission to ‘‘publish in 

the Federal Register as a mandatory 

consumer product safety standard the 

American National Standard for Four 

Wheel All-Terrain Vehicles Equipment 

Configuration, and Performance 

Requirements developed by the 

Specialty Vehicle Institute of America 

(American National Standard ANSI/ 

SVIA 1–2007).’’ 15 U.S.C. 2089(a)(1), as 

added by section 232 of the CPSIA. 

Accordingly, on November 14, 2008, we 

published a final rule mandating ANSI/ 

SVIA 1–2007 as a consumer product 

safety standard. 73 FR 67385. The final 

rule is codified at 16 CFR part 1420. 

B. The Amendment 

1. Procedure 

Section 42(b) of the Consumer 

Product Safety Act (‘‘CPSA’’) provides 

that, if ANSI/SVIA 1–2007 is revised 

after we have published a Federal 

Register notice mandating the standard 

as a consumer product safety standard, 

ANSI must notify us of the revision, and 

we have 120 days after receiving that 

notification to issue a notice of 

proposed rulemaking to amend our 

mandatory ATV standard ‘‘to include 

any such revision that the Commission 

determines is reasonably related to the 

safe performance of [ATVs] and notify 

the Institute of any provision it has 

determined not to be so related.’’ 15 

U.S.C. 2089(b)(1) and (2). Thereafter, we 

have 180 days after publication of the 

proposed amendment to publish a final 

amendment to revise the ATV standard. 

Id. 

2. Changes From 2007 Edition 

On March 16, 2011, ANSI notified us 

that, in December 2010, ANSI approved 

a revised version of the ANSI/SVIA 

standard for four-wheel ATVs, ANSI/ 

SVIA 1–2010. We reviewed the changes 

from the 2007 version. Many changes 

are minor revisions to the wording in 

the standard. We considered the 

substantive changes to be: (1) 

Elimination from the scope section of a 

provision calling for expiration of the 

definition and requirements for the Y– 

12+ youth ATV age category on July 28, 

2011; (2) a change in how to calculate 

the speed for the braking test of youth 

ATVs; (3) a change in the force applied 

to passenger handholds during testing; 

(4) the addition of a requirement that 

youth ATVs shall not have a power 

take-off mechanism; (5) the addition of 

a requirement that youth ATVs shall not 

have a foldable, removable, or 

retractable structure in the ATV foot 

environment; (6) additional specificity 

concerning the location and method of 

operation of the brake control; (7) 

tightening the parking brake 

performance requirement, by requiring 

the transmission to be in ‘‘neutral’’ 

during testing, rather than in ‘‘neutral’’ 

or ‘‘park’’; and (8) the requirement that 

tire pressure information be on the 

label, when the previous requirement 

could be interpreted to allow tire 

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or in the owner’s manual, or on the 

tires. 

3. Proposed Rule 

In the Federal Register of July 25, 

2011 (76 FR 44289), we proposed to 

amend our mandatory ATV standard to 

reference ANSI/SVIA 1–2010 instead of 

ANSI/SVIA 1–2007. In the preamble to 

the proposed rule, we discussed the 

changes that had been made to the 

ANSI/SVIA standard. Id. at 44290 

through 44291. We concluded that none 

of the revisions in the ANSI/SVIA 1– 

2010 standard would diminish the 

safety of ATVs. Id. at 44291. We 

concluded that, although some changes 

could be considered more related than 

others to the safe performance of ATVs, 

all, in fact, could be related to the safe 

performance because the changes 

improve the standard’s clarity and 

consistency and, in that way, advance 

the standard. We also stated that, given 

the relatively minor and editorial nature 

of most of the changes meant to improve 

the standard’s clarity and consistency, it 

makes sense to revise the Commission’s 

mandatory standard to incorporate all of 

the provisions of the ANSI/SVIA 1–2010 

version to avoid there being two slightly 

different versions of the standard, the 

current mandatory standard and the 

revised voluntary standard. Id. 

C. Response to Comments on the 

Proposed Rule 

The preamble to the proposed rule 

invited comments on the proposal to 

update the mandatory standard and also 

on numerous other issues related to 

ATVs that could be relevant to future 

ATV rulemaking. We received five 

comments. We describe and respond to 

the comments in this section of this 

document. A summary of each of the 

commenter’s topics is presented, and 

each topic is followed by staff’s 

response. For ease of reading, each topic 

will be prefaced with a numbered 

‘‘Comment’’; and each response will be 

prefaced by a corresponding numbered 

‘‘Response.’’ Each ‘‘Comment’’ is 

numbered to help distinguish between 

different topics. The number assigned to 

each comment is for organizational 

purposes only and does not signify the 

comment’s value, or importance, or the 

order in which it was received. 

Comments on similar topics are grouped 

together. 

1. Comments Related to Incorporating 

ANSI/SVIA 1–2010 

a. Clarification of the Standard 

(Comment 1)—In the preamble to the 

proposed rule, we asked whether the 

proposed revisions to ANSI/SVIA 1– 

2007 would enhance the clarity of the 

ANSI standard (76 FR at 44292). One 

commenter responded to this, 

delineating the specific sections of the 

ANSI standard that include clarifying 

language: these sections are 4.19.1(3)(b) 

(tire marking), 4.23.1 (general format for 

labels), 4.23.4.1 (general warning label 

for Type 1 (single-rider) ATVs, 4.23.5.1 

(general warning label for Type II 

(tandem) ATVs, Figures 5 (tire pressure 

warning label) and 7 (combined tire 

pressure and overloading warning 

label), and 4.23.5.3 (passenger warning 

label for Type II (tandem) ATVs. The 

commenter noted that these clarifying 

changes were made in response to 

requests it received for interpretation of 

sections of the standard that were new 

with the ANSI/SVIA 1–2007 edition of 

the standard. 

(Response 1)—We believe that these 

changes clarify the sections of the 

standard that were new with the 2007 

edition of the ANSI/SVIA standard. 

b. Youth Category Y–12+ 

(Comment 2)—In the preamble to the 

proposed rule, we asked about the effect 

of not eliminating from the scope of the 

standard the expiration of the definition 

and requirements for the Y–12+ ATV 

age category (76 FR at 44292). One 

comment noted that when ANSI/SVIA 

1–2010 was adopted, the lead content 

limits in section 101 of the CPSIA were 

in effect, which resulted in limited sales 

of the Y–6+ and Y–10+ ATV model 

categories. The Y–12+ category then was 

maintained due to SVIA’s concern that 

children, particularly those between 

ages 12–15, would have these as the 

only alternative to riding adult-size 

ATVs. 

With the passage of Public Law 112– 

28 in August 2011, the lead ban on 

youth ATVs no longer is in effect. 

However, the commenter stated that it is 

important to maintain the Y–12+ 

category because few Y–10+ models are 

available (only two for SVIA members’ 

dealers as of August 2011) and because, 

as of October 7, 2011, when it submitted 

its comment, the stay of enforcement on 

third party testing of youth ATVs was 

set to expire on November 27, 2011, 

possibly continuing to restrict the 

number of available Y–10+ models that 

could become available on the market. 

(We note that the stay of enforcement 

has expired and that there is one 

laboratory that is both accredited and 

CPSC-accepted to conduct third party 

testing for youth ATVs.) 

The commenter also stated its opinion 

that maintaining the Y–12+ age category 

is not likely to result in children 

younger than 12 years old riding Y–12+ 

ATVs, given the labeling requirements 

of the standard and the dealer 

monitoring requirements of the Action 

Plans. Furthermore, the commenter 

believes that these labeling and dealer 

monitoring requirements also would 

prevent the possibility that keeping the 

Y–12+ category would constitute an 

implicit approval for riding a Y–12+ 

ATV when a Y–6+ or Y–10+ size is not 

available. The commenter stated that it 

is not aware of any data or research 

regarding the safety of 6- to 9-year-old 

riders when operating a Y–12+ ATV, but 

said it ‘‘strongly recommends that 

parents strictly follow ATV age 

recommendations’’ and noted that 

Federal law requires that manufacturers 

and distributors adhere to age 

recommendations when offering ATVs 

for sale. Finally, the commenter noted 

that Y–10+ and Y–12+ category ATVs 

have the same maximum speed 

limitations and capabilities and that the 

Y–12+ ATVs can be larger in size and/ 

or weight. 

Another commenter expressed 

opposition to the introduction of the Y– 

12+ models, stating that ‘‘placing 

children on a vehicle that is larger, 

heavier, or faster than what is currently 

defined as an ‘adult-sized’ ATV would 

be a step backwards that would only 

serve to put our children at an even 

greater risk of death and injury.’’ 

Further, the commenter ‘‘urge[d] CPSC 

not to take any action that would permit 

children to operate any ATV that is 

larger than 90 cc.’’ 

(Response 2)—We believe that 

elimination of the scope provision 

(which effectively keeps the Y–12+ 

category of youth ATV) would not be 

problematic. The Y–12+ category was 

not new with the 2007 or the 2010 

editions of the ANSI/SVIA standard; it 

was, in fact, one of the youth ATV 

categories in the 1990 first edition of the 

ANSI/SVIA standard. Furthermore, Y– 

12+ ATVs are not necessarily larger or 

heavier than what is currently defined 

as an ‘‘adult-sized’’ ATV. They also are, 

by definition in the standard, not faster 

than an adult ATV. According to the 

definition in the 2010 edition of the 

standard, Y–12+ ATVs are required to 

have the same maximum speed and 

speed limitation requirements as the Y– 

10+ model. The Y–10+ and the Y–12+ 

ATV models are not faster than what is 

currently defined as an adult-size ATV 

because they both must have a 

maximum speed that is lower than that 

of an adult-size ATV. 

It is important to note that the ANSI/ 

SVIA standard (either 1990, 2001, 2007, 

or 2010 edition) never categorized youth 

and adult ATVs by cc engine size; the 

categories were defined and 

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maximum allowable speed and the 

presence of a speed limiter (which 

parents and caregivers could use to 

reduce the maximum allowable speed 

further). 

Using 90cc engine size as a 

demarcation between youth and adult 

ATVs originated with the 1988 consent 

decrees between the CPSC and ATV 

distributors. (The consent decrees 

expired in 1998.) Under the consent 

decrees, only ATVs between 70 to 90 cc 

were to be marketed for riders 12 years 

of age and older, and ATVs less than 70 

cc were to be marketed for use by riders 

under 12 years of age. ATVs 90 cc and 

above were to be marketed for use by 

riders 16 years of age and older, 

according to the consent decrees. 

In 2006, we issued a proposed rule on 

‘‘Standards for All-Terrain Vehicles and 

Ban of Three-Wheeled All Terrain 

Vehicles.’’ The proposed rule, which 

pre-dated the CPSIA’s enactment and 

has not been finalized, would, among 

other things, change the categorization 

of ATVs based on engine size (as 

established by the consent decrees) and 

instead, categorize youth ATVs based on 

maximum speed. 71 FR 45904, 45908 

(August 10, 2006). We explained our 

rationale for this change in the preamble 

to the proposed rule. Id. It cannot be 

assumed that a larger engine 

displacement ATV is necessarily 

heavier than a smaller engine 

displacement ATV. We will address this 

issue further when we complete our 

2006 rulemaking. However, we are not 

aware of any data to show that 

continuing to have this category 

included in the standard would reduce 

the safety of ATVs. Thus, we continue 

to believe that having the Y–12+ 

category included in the standard would 

not be problematic. 

c. The Test for Type II ATV Passenger 

Handholds 

(Comment 3)—The 2010 edition of the 

ANSI/SVIA standard includes a test for 

the passenger handholds on Type II 

(tandem) ATVs. Under the 2007 version 

of the standard, the test specifications 

could be interpreted to mean that the 

test could be applied in either a 

downward or an upward direction, or 

both. The 2010 version states that the 

force applied to the handhold must be 

upward. Before preparing the July 6, 

2011 staff briefing package in support of 

the proposed rule, CPSC staff contacted 

the SVIA with staff’s concern that the 

revised language limits the test 

procedure. SVIA indicated that it was 

not opposed to changing the standard to 

add a downward testing component and 

that such a change would be considered 

in the next revision of ANSI/SVIA 1– 

2010. 

In response to the proposed rule, 

SVIA opined that the primary direction 

of force applied to ATV handholds is in 

the upward direction. SVIA stated it had 

received no comments during the ANSI 

balloting process that suggested that the 

force be applied in a downward 

direction, and it is unaware of any 

reports of an ATV handhold failing 

under downward force. SVIA stated that 

it ‘‘has committed to adding a 

downward testing component to the 

passenger handhold testing standard 

during the next revision of the ANSI/ 

SVIA voluntary standard.’’ 

(Response 3)—We are satisfied with 

SVIA’s commitment to adding a 

downward testing component to the 

passenger handhold test during the next 

revision of the ANSI/SVIA voluntary 

standard. 

d. Effective Date 

(Comment 4)—We proposed that the 

amendment mandating ANSI/SVIA 1– 

2010 would take effect 30 days after 

publication of a final rule and apply to 

ATVs manufactured or imported after 

that date. In a joint comment submitted 

by the seven major distributors of ATVs, 

they noted that the ANSI/SVIA standard 

requires that ATVs have a certification 

label indicating that they comply with 

the ANSI/SVIA standard. The 

commenters said they will need to 

change these certification labels to 

specify compliance with the 2010 rather 

than the 2007 ANSI/SVIA standard. 

They noted that some companies may 

still be producing 2012 model year 

(‘‘MY’’) ATVs at the time when a final 

rule would become effective. This 

would mean that some companies 

would have to change the certification 

label in the middle of 2012 MY 

production. The commenters stated that 

this could create errors in labeling 

particular ATVs and could create 

confusion in the marketplace. They 

requested that the rule become effective 

for 2013 MY ATVs. In the alternative, 

the commenters requested a 60-day 

effective date to allow ATV 

manufacturers time to obtain new 

certification labels. 

(Response 4)—Keying an effective 

date to a model year rather than a date 

certain would be difficult to enforce and 

could create greater confusion. We 

understand that companies will need 

time to provide the correct certification 

labels. Because the differences between 

the 2007 and the 2010 ANSI/SVIA 

standards are primarily editorial, we are 

changing the effective date to specify 

that the rule will take effect 60 days 

after publication in the Federal 

Register, and that it will apply to ATVs 

manufactured or imported on or after 

that date. 

2. Comments Responding to the 

Commission’s Request for Comments 

and Information and Comments 

Addressing Issues in Our 2006 Proposed 

Rule 

The preamble to the proposed rule 

asked several questions that were 

beyond the scope of the immediate 

revisions to the mandatory standard, but 

relevant to future ATV rulemaking (76 

FR at 44292). For example, one question 

asked whether there are any state laws 

prohibiting the use of a Y–12+ ATV by 

children younger than 12 and the effects 

of ATV-related injuries or deaths in 

those states that have new or updated 

minimum age requirements for ATV 

operation since the adoption of ANSI/ 

SVIA–1–2007 (id.). Several commenters 

responded to those questions, 

addressing issues such as whether there 

should be restrictions on the sale, rental, 

or use of ATVs by individuals under a 

certain age, and other matters. 

Other commenters addressed matters 

that pertained more directly to the 

proposed rule that we had published in 

the Federal Register on August 10, 2006 

(71 FR 45904). For example, we 

received comments expressing support 

and opposition for roll over protection 

systems in ATVs. 

We appreciate the commenters’ 

responsiveness to the questions 

presented in the preamble to the 

proposed rule, as well as their interest 

in other ATV issues. Because this 

rulemaking focuses on the adoption of 

the modified ANSI/SVIA 1–2010 

standard pursuant to section 42(b) of the 

CPSA, we will not address those 

comments in this preamble. However, 

we will consider the information and 

opinions presented by the commenters 

and may address them in a separate 

proceeding. For example, for 

commenters who raised issues that are 

more appropriate to the proposed rule 

that we issued in 2006, we will consider 

those comments when developing 

methods for addressing ATV safety, and 

will respond to them when we finalize 

that rule. 

D. Brief Description of the Final Rule 

The final rule revises § 1420.3(a), 

‘‘Requirements for four-wheel ATVs’’ to 

incorporate by reference the ANSI/SVIA 

1–2010 standard instead of the ANSI/ 

SVIA 1–2007 version. 

E. Effective Date 

As we stated in the preamble to the 

proposed rule (76 FR at 44291), the 

CPSIA provides a timetable for us to 


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issue a notice of proposed rulemaking 

(within 120 days of receiving 

notification of a revised ANSI/SVIA 

standard) and to issue a final rule 

(within 180 days of publication of the 

proposed rule), but it does not set an 

effective date. We proposed that the 

amendment updating the ANSI/SVIA 

standard take effect 30 days after 

publication of a final rule because the 

differences between the 2007 version of 

the standard and the 2010 version are 

relatively minor and largely editorial 

and because the 2010 version of the 

ANSI/SVIA standard is already in effect 

as a voluntary standard. 

As we noted in section C of this 

preamble, we received a comment from 

several ATV companies suggesting that 

the amended standard become effective 

for 2013 MY ATVs or 60 days after 

publication of a final rule, rather than 

the 30 days we proposed. To allow time 

for ATV companies to update their 

certification labels, the final rule 

provides a 60-day effective date, and it 

applies to ATVs that are manufactured 

or imported on or after that date. 

F. Notice of Requirements 

In accordance with section 

14(a)(3)(B)(vi) of the CPSA, on August 

27, 2010, we published a notice of 

requirements for accreditation of third 

party conformity assessment bodies for 

testing ATVs designed or intended 

primarily for children 12 years of age or 

younger. 75 FR 52616. The notice of 

requirements provided the criteria and 

process for our acceptance of 

accreditation of third party conformity 

assessment bodies for testing ATVs 

pursuant to 16 CFR part 1420, which, at 

that time, incorporated by reference 

ANSI/SVIA 1–2007. With this rule, we 

are changing that reference in 16 CFR 

part 1420 to ANSI/SVIA 1–2010. With 

regard to youth ATVs, only four 

revisions in the 2010 edition are related 

to youth ATVs and only one of those, 

the brake speed test requirements 

(section 7 of the standard), is related to 

testing. Because this change does not 

constitute a substantial change in the 

requirement that would affect the 

associated third-party conformance 

testing, and, by this final rule, the 

Commission recognizes the functional 

equivalence of the specific brake speed 

test between the two versions of the 

standard. A Notice of Requirements has 

been issued by the Commission for the 

prior version of the rule, the 2007 

edition, and the Commission has 

accepted the accreditation of a third 

party conformity assessment body for 

purposes of testing youth ATVs. The 

current Notice of Requirements for third 

party testing of youth ATVs will remain 

in effect until the Notice of 

Requirements final rule for ANSI/SVIA 

1–2010 has been completed. The 

Commission is continuing to accept that 

accreditation so that the third party 

conformity assessment body can test to 

all aspects of the 2010 edition including 

the new brake speed test requirements 

in section 7. We are in the process of 

developing a notice of proposed 

rulemaking regarding accreditation of 

third party conformity assessment 

bodies. In that proposed rule, we will 

address the impact of accepting the 

revised ANSI/SVIA standard on the 

accreditation of third party conformity 

assessment bodies. 

G. Regulatory Flexibility Act 

As noted in the preamble to the 

proposed rule, in accordance with the 

Regulatory Flexibility Act (‘‘RFA’’), we 

examined the potential impact on small 

entities that could occur from amending 

our ATV standard to reference the 2010 

version of the ANSI/SVIA standard. 76 

FR at 44291–92. We concluded that 

amending the mandatory ATV standard 

to reference the 2010 edition of the 

ANSI/SVIA ATV standard would not 

have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small businesses 

or other small entities because the 

differences between the 2007 and 2010 

editions of the ANSI/SVIA standard are 

relatively minor modifications or 

updates that are not expected to have a 

significant impact on any manufacturers 

or importers of ATVs. We did not 

receive any comments on this 

conclusion, and we are not aware of any 

other information that would change 

this conclusion. 

H. Paperwork Reduction Act 

This amendment would not impose 

any information collection 

requirements. Accordingly, this rule is 

not subject to the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

I. Environmental Considerations 

Our regulations provide a categorical 

exemption for our rules from any 

requirement to prepare an 

environmental assessment or an 

environmental impact statement 

because they ‘‘have little or no potential 

for affecting the human environment.’’ 

16 CFR 1021.5(c)(2). This amendment 

falls within the categorical exemption. 

List of Subjects in 16 CFR Part 1420 

Administrative practice and 

procedure, Business and industry, 

Consumer protection, Imports, 

Incorporation by reference, Information, 

Infants and children, Labeling, Law 

enforcement, Recreation and recreation 

areas, Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Safety. 

For the reasons stated in the 

preamble, the Commission amends 

16 CFR part 1420 as follows: 

PART 1420—REQUIREMENTS FOR 

ALL TERRAIN VEHICLES 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 1420 

continues to read as follows: 

Authority: The Consumer Product Safety 

Improvement Act of 2008, Pub. L. 110–314, 

§ 232, 122 Stat. 3016 (August 14, 2008). 

§ 1420.1 [Amended] 

■ 2. In the second sentence of § 1420.1, 

remove the words, ‘‘April 13, 2009,’’ 

and in their place add ‘‘April 30, 2012.’’. 

■ 3. Revise paragraph (a) of § 1420.3 to 

read as follows: 

§ 1420.3 Requirements for four-wheel 

ATVs. 

(a) Each ATV shall comply with all 

applicable provisions of the American 

National Standard for Four-Wheel AllTerrain Vehicles (American National 

Standards Institute, Inc. ANSI/SVIA 1– 

2010), approved December 23, 2010. 

The Director of the Federal Register 

approves this incorporation by reference 

in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 

1 CFR part 51. You may obtain a copy 

from the Specialty Vehicle Institute of 

America, 2 Jenner, Suite 150, Irvine, CA 

92618–3806; telephone 949–727–3727 

ext.3023; www.svia.org. You may 

inspect a copy at the Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, Room 820, 4330 

East West Highway, Bethesda, MD 

20814, telephone 301–504–7923, or at 

the National Archives and Records 

Administration (NARA). For 

information on the availability of this 

material at NARA, call 202–741–6030, 

or go to: http://www.archives.gov/ 

federal_register/ 

code_of_federal_regulations/ 

ibr_locations.html. 

* * * * * 

Dated: February 16, 2012. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product Safety 

Commission. 

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