This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

20503

Vol. 61, No. 89

Tuesday, May 7, 1996

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY

COMMISSION

16 CFR Part 1210

Petition CP 96–1 Requesting a ChildResistance Standard for Multi-Purpose

Lighters

AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety

Commission.

ACTION: Petition for rulemaking.

SUMMARY: Judy L. Carr has petitioned

the Commission to begin a rulemaking

proceeding to amend the Safety

Standard for Cigarette Lighters, 16 CFR

part 1210, so it would apply to a ‘‘multipurpose’’ lighter. The Commission

solicits written comments concerning

the petition from all interested parties.

DATES: Comments on the petition

should be received in the Office of the

Secretary by July 8, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments on the petition

should be mailed to the Office of the

Secretary, Consumer Product Safety

Commission, Washington, DC 20207,

telephone (301) 504–0800, or delivered

to the Office of the Secretary, Consumer

Product Safety Commission, room 502,

4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda

Maryland 20814. Comments should be

captioned ‘‘Petition CP 96–1 for ChildResistant Multi-Purpose Lighters.’’

Copies of the petition are available by

writing or calling the Office of the

Secretary.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Rockelle S. Hammond, Docket Control

Specialist, Office of the Secretary,

Consumer Product Safety Commission,

Washington, DC 20207; telephone: (301)

504–0800 ext. 1232.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Commission has docketed

correspondence from Judy L. Carr as a

petition for rulemaking under the

Consumer Product Safety Act (‘‘CPSA’’).

Ms. Carr asks that the Commission begin

a rulemaking proceeding to amend the

Safety Standard for Cigarette Lighters,

16 C.F.R. § 1210, so that the standard

would apply to a particular ‘‘multipurpose’’ lighter.

This type of product is commonly

purchased for lighting charcoal or gas

grills and fireplaces. The particular

product referred to by the petitioner is

a butane-fueled lighter with a handle, a

trigger for actuating the lighting

mechanism and fuel flow, and a long

nose from which the flame extends. The

device has a ‘‘safety’’ that can be

manually moved to the ‘‘off’’ position to

block actuation of the trigger. If the

Commission grants the petition, the

rulemaking would develop a generic

description of the product to be

regulated, in order to cover similar

products made by others. For the

purposes of this notice, the product

category will be referred to as ‘‘multipurpose lighters.’’

The cigarette lighter safety standard

requires that lighters subject to the

standard have child-resistant features to

prevent operation by most children

under age 5. The child-resistant

mechanism must reset itself

automatically after each operation of the

lighter’s ignition mechanism. 16 CFR

1210.3(b)(1). However, multi-purpose

lighters are currently excluded from the

cigarette lighter regulation. See 16 CFR

1210.2(c).

The petition sets forth facts in the

form of petitioner’s personal knowledge

of an incident involving her children.

Petitioner asserts that her children

started a fire while playing with the

lighter, resulting in burns to a 4-year-old

girl on over 60% of her body. The

petition also contains information

concerning other incidents where young

children started fires using a multipurpose lighter. That information was

obtained by the petitioner through

discovery in litigation with the

product’s manufacturer.

The Commission solicits comments

on the issues raised by the petition. The

Commission is particularly interested in

comments on the following topics:

1. The types and numbers of multipurpose lighters currently sold to

consumers;

2. The manufacturers and distributors

of the product;

3. The number of persons injured or

killed in fires started by children under

the age of 5 years using multi-purpose

lighters;

4. The circumstances under which

these injuries and deaths occur,

including the ages of the children who

started the fires, the ages of the victims,

the locations from which the children

obtained the lighters, and physical

descriptions of the products involved

(including identification of the

manufacturers and models, if available);

5. Ways in which the products could

be modified to be child resistant;

6. Characteristics of the product that

could or should not be used to define

which products might be subject to the

requested rule;

7. Other information on the potential

costs and benefits of the requested rule;

and

8. Steps that have been taken by

industry or others to reduce the risk of

injuries from the product.

Comments on the petition should be

received in the Commission’s Office of

the Secretary by July 8, 1996. Comments

should be captioned ‘‘Petition CP 96–1

for Child-Resistant Multi-Purpose

Lighters.’’

Interested parties may obtain a copy

of the petition by writing or calling the

Office of the Secretary, Consumer

Product Safety Commission,

Washington, DC 20207; telephone (301)

504–0800. A copy of the petition is

available for inspection from 8:30 a.m.

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, in

the Commission’s Public Reading Room,

room 502, 4330 East-West Highway,

Bethesda Maryland 20814.

Dated: April 29, 1996.

Sayde E. Dunn,

Secretary of the Commission.

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