[Publib] RE: Publib Digest, Vol 47, Issue 5

[Cannon, Sandra]

This is not proposed legislation.  Also, it is not part of the stimulus
package.  This is part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
What is in question is whether or not libraries are included in this
Act.  

 

The stay is for one year on the enforcement of testing and certification
requirements.  

The CPSC has, also, requested an emergency stay of the effective date of
Section 101(a)(2) which sets the lead content limits.  The stay would be
for 185 days or until 90 days after the Commission issued final rules
implementing section 101.  

 

 

 

Sandra Cannon

Planner Principal & Research Manager 

Austin Public Library

sandra.cannon at ci.austin.tx.us

512-974-7588

512-974-7403 (fax)

 

 

Message: 3

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:52:23 -0600

From: Paul Ericsson <ericssonp at krls.org>

Subject: RE: [Publib] lead in toys

To: mmaney at south-berwick.lib.me.us, "'Sharon Foster'"

            <fostersm1 at gmail.com>,           "'Nann Blaine Hilyard'"

            <nbhilyard at zblibrary.org>

Cc: 'Rose Chenoweth' <rmcheno122 at gmail.com>, publib at webjunction.org

Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.1.20090204114941.01a31358 at krls.org>

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Please clarify for me when you say "cooler heads have 

prevailed".   Is there some new news that I have not yet heard?   The 

last I heard is that this proposed legislation was still alive.

 

I will look forward to whatever news you may have.

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

 

Paul Ericsson

Branch Manager, Bemidji Public Library

218-751-3963

ericssonp at krls.org

 

 

 

At 12:14 PM 2/3/2009, South Berwick Public Library wrote:

>The only thing this bill would have been good for is its "economic
stimulus"

>provision of $750 million dollars over the next 5 years for
enforcement.

>That would have provided for a lot of inspectors........

> 

>I am glad that cooler heads have prevailed.  We've been inundating our

>Congressional delegation with mail to bring this to their attention.

> 

>Mamie

> 

>Mamie Anthoine Ney

>Director

>South Berwick Public Library

>37 Portland Street

>P.O. Box 35

>South Berwick, ME 03908-003

>207-384-3308 (incl. fax)

>south-berwick.lib.me.us

>mmaney at south-berwick.lib.me.us

> 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The CPSC has "stayed" the implementation -- as it applies to books --

for a year. See their web site here:

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09115.html

 

And ALA's site: http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=1713

 

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