Title: Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2017
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Portable Fuel Container Safety Act of 2017
This bill requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to promulgate a final rule for flame mitigation devices in portable flammable liquid fuel containers that impede the propagation of flame into the container, unless the CPSC publishes a determination that a voluntary standard developed by a standard development organization meets the intent of this bill.
Either the promulgated standard or the voluntary standard shall be treated as a consumer product safety rule.
If a standard development organization subsequently revises a voluntary standard, the organization must notify the CPSC and the revision becomes enforceable unless, within 90 days after receiving notice, the CPSC determines that the revised standard does not meet this bill's requirements.
The CPSC must undertake a campaign to educate consumers about dangers associated with portable fuel containers near an open flame or other source of ignition.
The bill amends the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act to extend child-resistance requirements for closures on portable gasoline containers to receptacles for gasoline, kerosene, or diesel fuel (including any spout, retrofit spout, cap, and other closure mechanism and component) produced or distributed for sale to, or use by, consumers for transport of, or for refueling of internal combustion engines with, gasoline, kerosene, or diesel fuel.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 919 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 919

 To require compliant flame mitigation devices to be used on portable 
  fuel containers for flammable liquid fuels, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 7, 2017

    Mr. Thompson of California (for himself and Mr. Joyce of Ohio) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To require compliant flame mitigation devices to be used on portable 
  fuel containers for flammable liquid fuels, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Portable Fuel Container Safety Act 
of 2017''.

SEC. 2. PERFORMANCE STANDARDS TO PROTECT AGAINST PORTABLE FUEL 
              CONTAINER EXPLOSIONS NEAR OPEN FLAMES OR OTHER IGNITION 
              SOURCES.

    (a) Rule on Safety Performance Standards Required.--Not later than 
30 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Consumer 
Product Safety Commission shall promulgate a final rule for flame 
mitigation devices in portable fuel containers that impedes the 
propagation of flame into the container, except as provided in 
subsection (c).
    (b) Rulemaking; Consumer Product Safety Standard.--A rule under 
subsection (a)--
            (1) shall be promulgated in accordance with section 553 of 
        title 5, United States Code; and
            (2) shall be treated as a consumer product safety rule 
        promulgated under section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act 
        (15 U.S.C. 2058).
    (c) Exception.--
            (1) Voluntary standard.--Subsection (a) shall not apply if 
        the Commission determines that--
                    (A) there is a voluntary standard for flame 
                mitigation devices in portable fuel containers that 
                impedes the propagation of flame into the container;
                    (B) the voluntary standard is or will be in effect 
                not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of 
                this Act; and
                    (C) the voluntary standard is developed by 
                Subcommittee F15 of ASTM International or such other 
                standard development organization that the Commission 
                determines to have met the intent of this Act.
            (2) Determination required to be published in the federal 
        register.--Any determination made by the Commission under this 
        subsection shall be published in the Federal Register.
    (d) Treatment of Voluntary Standard for Purpose of Enforcement.--If 
the Commission determines that a voluntary standard meets the 
conditions described in subsection (c), the requirements of such 
voluntary standard shall be treated as a consumer product safety rule 
promulgated under section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety Act 
beginning on the date which is the later of--
            (1) 180 days after publication of the Commission's 
        determination under subsection (c); or
            (2) the effective date contained in the voluntary standard.
    (e) Revision of Voluntary Standard.--
            (1) Notice to commission.--If the requirements of a 
        voluntary standard that meet the conditions of subsection (c) 
        are subsequently revised, the organization that revised the 
        standard shall notify the Commission not later than 60 days 
        after the final approval of the revision.
            (2) Effective date of revision.--Not later than 180 days 
        after the Commission is notified of a revised voluntary 
        standard described in paragraph (1) (or such later date as the 
        Commission determines appropriate), such revised voluntary 
        standard shall become enforceable as a consumer product safety 
        rule promulgated under section 9 of the Consumer Product Safety 
        Act, in place of the prior version, unless within 90 days after 
        receiving the notice the Commission determines that the revised 
        voluntary standard does not meet the requirements described in 
        subsection (c).
    (f) Future Rulemaking.--The Commission, at any time after 
publication of the consumer product safety rule required by subsection 
(a), a voluntary standard is treated as a consumer product safety rule 
under subsection (d), or a revision is enforceable as a consumer 
product safety rule under subsection (e) may initiate a rulemaking in 
accordance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code, to modify 
the requirements or to include any additional provision that the 
Commission determines is reasonably necessary to protect public health 
or safety. Any rule promulgated under this subsection shall be treated 
as a consumer product safety rule promulgated under section 9 of the 
Consumer Product Safety Act.
    (g) Action Required.--
            (1) Education campaign.--Not later than 1 year after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall undertake a 
        campaign to educate consumers about the dangers associated with 
        using or storing portable fuel containers for flammable liquids 
        near an open flame or any other source of ignition.
            (2) Summary of actions.--Not later than 2 years after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, the Commission shall submit to 
        Congress a summary of actions taken by the Commission in such 
        campaign.
    (h) Portable Fuel Container Defined.--In this section, the term 
``portable fuel container'' means any container or vessel (including 
any spout, retrofit spout, cap, and other closure mechanism or 
component of such container or vessel)--
            (1) intended for flammable liquid fuels, including 
        gasoline, kerosene, diesel, ethanol, methanol, denatured 
        alcohol, biofuels, or liquids with a flash point less than 140 
        degrees Fahrenheit;
            (2) that is a consumer product with a capacity of 5 gallons 
        or less; and
            (3) that the manufacturer knows or reasonably should know 
        is used by consumers for receiving, transporting, storing, and 
        dispensing flammable liquid fuels.
    (i) Rule of Construction.--This section may not be interpreted to 
conflict with the Children's Gasoline Burn Prevention Act (Public Law 
110-278; 122 Stat. 2602).

SEC. 3. CHILDREN'S GASOLINE BURN PREVENTION ACT.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 2(c) of the Children's Gasoline Burn 
Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 note; Public Law 110-278) is amended by 
inserting after ``for use by consumers'' the following: ``and any 
receptacle for gasoline, kerosene, or diesel fuel, including any spout, 
retrofit spout, cap, and other closure mechanism and component of such 
receptacle, produced or distributed for sale to or use by consumers for 
transport of, or refueling of internal combustion engines with, 
gasoline, kerosene, or diesel fuel''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take 
effect 6 months after the date of enactment of this section.
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