S.Amdt. 4131

SA 4131. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2663, to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of consumer product recall programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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(a) Establishment of Units-of-Mass-Per-Area Standard.--The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, shall study the feasibility of establishing a measurement standard based on a units-of-mass-per-area standard (similar to existing measurement standards used by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency to measure for metals in household paint and soil, respectively) that is statistically comparable to the parts-per-million measurement standard currently used in laboratory analysis.

(b) Report on Coordination With Environmental Protection Agency on Safety Standards and Enforcement.--The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report--

(1) comparing the safety standards employed by the Commission with respect to lead in children's products and the environmental standards employed by the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to lead under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.); and

(2) making recommendations for--

(A) modifying such standards to make them more consistent and to facilitate interagency coordination; and

(B) coordinating enforcement actions of the Commission and the Environmental Protection Agency with respect to children's products containing lead, including toy jewelry items.