IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 814 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 15, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
AN ACT 
To require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to 
issue regulations mandating child-resistant closures on 
all portable gasoline containers. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Children’s Gasoline 
Burn Prevention Act’’. 
SEC. 2. CHILD-RESISTANT PORTABLE GASOLINE CON-
TAINERS. 
(a) CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY RULE.—The pro-
vision of subsection (b) shall be considered to be a con-
sumer product safety rule issued by the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission under section 9 of the Consumer Prod-
uct Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2058). 
(b) REQUIREMENTS.—Effective 6 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act, each portable gasoline con-
tainer manufactured on or after that date for sale in the 
United States shall conform to the child-resistance re-
quirements for closures on portable gasoline containers 
specified in the standard ASTM F2517-05, issued by 
ASTM International. 
(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this Act, the term 
‘‘portable gasoline container’’ means any portable gasoline 
container intended for use by consumers. 
(d) REVISION OF RULE.—If, after the enactment of 
this Act, ASTM International proposes to revise the child 
resistance requirements of ASTM F2517-05, ASTM 
International shall notify the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission of the proposed revision and the proposed re-
vision shall be incorporated in the consumer product safe-
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ty rule under subsection (a) unless, within 60 days of such 
notice, the Commission notifies ASTM International that 
the Commission has determined that such revision does 
not carry out the purposes of subsection (b). 
(e) IMPLEMENTING REGULATIONS.—Section 553 of 
title 5, United States Code, shall apply with respect to 
the issuance of any regulations by the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission to implement the requirements of this 
section, and sections 7 and 9 of the Consumer Product 
Safety Act shall not apply to such issuance. 
(f) REPORT.—Not later than 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Consumer Product Safety 
Commission shall transmit to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of 
the Senate a report on— 
(1) the degree of industry compliance with the 
standard promulgated under subsection (a); 
(2) any enforcement actions brought by the 
Commission to enforce such standard; and 
(3) incidents involving children interacting with 
portable gasoline containers (including both those 
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