CPSC feels pressure for decision.(Consumer Product Safety Commission's ban for all terrain vehicle sales to under 16 years old children )

Powersports Business, May, 2005 by Skogman, Eric

A decision from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on a petition that requests a ban on full-size ATV sales to children under 16 years old is expected to move forward in the next few months.

After several hearings and a comment period on the petition, a decision has been on hold awaiting the appointment of a new CPSC commissioner. The three-panel committee that will make the decision has been short one member. Federal law allows the commission to make decisions with two commissioners for only six months after a post is vacated. The six month deadline passed in April. Since then, to make rulings the committee needed all three commissioners in place.

In February President Bush nominated former Eastman Kodak lobbyist Nancy Nord to fill the...