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HRD-79-98 1 (1979-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazoe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: cm c UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE I ( 00 ( WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES RELEASED DIVISION JULY 10, 1979 / B-139310 I_. The Honorable Henry A. Waxman /e-'7Z:xi ,''! z$ House of Representatives Dear Mr. Waxman: On September 11, 1978, you requested that we review the adequacy, objectivity, and fairness of the petition- screening procedures used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission's Office of the Secretary and Office of the General Counsel. ' also-requested that we determine whether the Commission exercises good faith efforts to encourage the upgrading and resubmission of petitions found technically deficient. e examinO at-l--the requests we-oul-d--Ioea-te that the Commission staff had rejected as not meeting Commission petition criteria between January 1, 1977, and October 19, 1978 ;, generally agreed with the staff's decisions to reject requests.) We did not find any examples similar to the request to ban asbestos used in artificial fireplace ash (which the Commission staff had not accepted as a petition because the petitioner did not follow Commission regulations). We did find weaknesses in the Commission's handling of petition requests which its staff rejected and in the referral of these requests to other staff for further consideration. Regulations implementing section 10 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (16 C.F.R. 1110) allow any person or consumer organization to petition the Commission, requesting it to proceed with issuing, amending, or revoking a consumer product safety rule. Such a request should be filed with the Commission's Office of the Secretary, and as a petition, it must be accepted or rejected within 120 days of receipt by the Office. , 1HRD-79-98 110091 (107150)

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