CPSC Issues 60 Day Testing/Certification Extension for Youth ATVs
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has extended, by 60 days, the date by which manufacturers (including importers) of youth all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) must submit sufficient samples of such products to a CPSC-approved third-party lab for testing and, based on such testing, issue a certificate that the products manufactured after the deadline comply with 16 CFR Part 14201, the CPSC ATV regulations.
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The date after which youth ATVs must be tested by a CPSC accredited third-party lab and certified as complying with the ATV regulations is extended to January 25, 2011 (from November 26, 2010).
Comments are due by December 30, 2010.
Extension Granted Due to Insufficient Lab Capacity
The extension is granted because there are an insufficient number of CPSC accredited third-party labs to permit testing and certification under the original schedule.
(Note that CPSC’s separate stay of enforcement of the lead content provisions of the CPSIA for certain component parts of youth ATVs, off-road motorcycles, and snowmobiles is still scheduled to remain in effect until May 1, 2011. However, CPSC sources have stated that it may extend this stay with regard to all or some of the vehicles. See ITT’s Online Archives or 05/12/09 news, 09051215, for BP summary of the 2 year stay for lead content of youth ATVs.)
(See ITT's Online Archives or 11/29/10 news, 10112948, for BP summary of CPSC's vote on this extension.
See ITT’s Online Archives or 08/30/10 news, 10083015, for BP summary of CPSC’s notice lifting the testing/certification stay for youth ATVs manufactured after November 26, 2010.)
116 CFR Part 1420 incorporates by reference the applicable provisions of the American National Standard for Four Wheel All-Terrain Vehicles, ANSI/SVIA 1--2007, Requirements for All Terrain Vehicles.