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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 118 / Wednesday, June 23, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
Commerce; telephone: 202 4824883;
email: PublicAffairs@doc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Executive Order 13942 of August 6, 2020, Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok, and Taking Additional Steps to Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain, 85 FR 48637
found that the mobile application TikTok posed a threat to the United States and prohibited certain transactions with respect to ByteDance Ltd. or its subsidiaries, and directed the Secretary of Commerce Secretary to identify transactions subject to the prohibitions. Similarly, Executive Order 13943 of August 6, 2020, Addressing the Threat Posed by WeChat, and Taking Additional Steps To Address the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain, 85 FR 48641 found that the mobile app WeChat posed a threat to the United States and prohibited certain transactions with respect to Tencent Holdings Ltd. or its subsidiaries, and directed the Secretary to identify transactions subject to the prohibitions.
On September 18, 2020, the Department issued an Identification of Prohibited Transactions To Implement Executive Order 13942 and Address the Threat Posed by TikTok and the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain.
A version of this Identification with revised dates of effectiveness was published in the Federal Register on September 24, 2020 85 FR 60061. Also on September 18, 2020, the Department issued an Identification of Prohibited Transactions To Implement Executive Order 13943 and Address the Threat Posed by WeChat and the National Emergency With Respect to the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain.
This Identification was not published in the Federal Register, but it has remained available for public inspection on the Departments website. All prohibitions were enjoined by federal courts prior to taking effect.
On June 9, 2021, Executive Order 14034 Protecting Americans Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries revoked Executive Orders 13942 and 3943 and required executive departments and agencies to promptly take steps to rescind any orders, rules, regulations, guidelines, or policies, or portions thereof, implementing or enforcing those Executive Orders 86 FR 31423.
Accordingly, the Secretary of Commerce
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has rescinded the Identification of Prohibited Transactions with respect to TikTok and the Identification of Prohibited Transactions with respect to WeChat.
Authority International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701, et seq.;
National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C.
1601 et seq.; Executive Order 14034, 86
FR 31423.
Dated: June 17, 2021.
Wynn W. Coggins, Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration.
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pursuant to the Flammable Fabrics Act FFA, 15 U.S.C. 1191 et seq., sets forth a test to determine the ignition resistance of a mattress or mattress pad when exposed to a lighted cigarette.
Lighted cigarettes are placed at specified locations on the mattress or mattress pad. The Standard establishes pass/fail criteria for the tests. The Standard currently specifies the ignition source for these tests as Standard Reference Material cigarette SRM 1196, available for purchase from the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST.
See 16 CFR 1632.4a2.
2. Development of the Original Standard Reference Material Cigarette
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16 CFR Part 1632
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Standard for the Flammability of Mattresses and Mattress Pads;
Amendment Consumer Product Safety Commission.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission Commission, or CPSC is issuing this final rule to amend its Standard for the Flammability of Mattresses and Mattress Pads. The ignition source cigarette specified in the standard for use in the mattress standards performance tests, Standard Reference Material cigarette SRM 1196, is no longer available for purchase. This final rule amends the mattress standard to require a revised Standard Reference Material cigarette, SRM 1196a, which was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as the ignition source for testing to the mattress standard.
DATES: This rule is effective July 23, 2021.
SUMMARY:

Lisa Scott, Directorate for Laboratory Sciences, Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 5 Research Place, Rockville, MD 20850; telephone: 301
9872064; email: lscott@cpsc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

A. Background 1. The Standard The Standard for the Flammability of Mattresses and Mattress Pads Standard, 16 CFR part 1632, issued
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The original specification for the Standards ignition source included physical characteristics of a conventional, commercially available, non-filtered, king-sized cigarette.
Although no specific brand was identified in the standard, a Pall Mall Red cigarette, manufactured by R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company RJR, was commonly known to meet the specifications. In early 2008, RJR
notified CPSC that the company intended to convert its production of Pall Mall Red cigarettes to be Fire Standard Compliant FSC.
In 2008, CPSC sought to find an alternate ignition source and contracted with NIST to develop an ignition source with an ignition strength equivalent to the Pall Mall Red cigarette. The ignition strength value is on a scale from 0 to 100 and is analogous to the percentage of full-length burns on a laboratory substrate. Lower values indicate a cigarette is more likely to self-extinguish when not actively being smoked, while higher values indicate a cigarette is more likely to remain lit while unattended. The non-FSC Pall Mall Red ignition strength varied by vintage from a low of 35 to a high of 95, most often falling at the higher end of the range.
FSC cigarettes are required to have an ignition strength lower than 25, and in practice, they are often much weaker, to ensure uniform compliance.
In 2010, NIST developed SRM 1196, Standard Cigarette for Ignition Resistance Testing. SRM 1196 was available for purchase starting in September 2010. On November 1, 2010, CPSC proposed the use of SRM 1196 as the standard ignition source. 75 FR
67047. On September 23, 2011, CPSC
issued a final rule amending the Standard to specify SRM 1196 as the standard ignition source, which became effective on September 23, 2012. 76 FR
59014.

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