[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3824 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
                                H. R. 3824


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 18, 1998

                                Received

                             June 24, 1998

  Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
                             Transportation

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                                 AN ACT


 
 Amending the Fastener Quality Act to exempt from its coverage certain 
 fasteners approved by the Federal Aviation Administration for use in 
                               aircraft.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.

    Section 15 of the Fastener Quality Act (15 U.S.C. 5414) is 
amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a) Transitional Rule.--'' before ``The 
        requirements of this Act''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) Aircraft Exemption.--
            ``(1) In general.--The requirements of this Act shall not 
        apply to fasteners specifically manufactured or altered for use 
        on an aircraft if the quality and suitability of those 
        fasteners for that use has been approved by the Federal 
        Aviation Administration, except as provided in paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Exception.--Paragraph (1) shall not apply to 
        fasteners represented by the fastener manufacturer as having 
        been manufactured in conformance with standards or 
        specifications established by a consensus standards 
        organization or a Federal agency other than the Federal 
        Aviation Administration.''.

SEC. 2. DELAYED IMPLEMENTATION OF REGULATIONS.

    The regulations issued under the Fastener Quality Act by the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology on April 14, 1998, and 
any other regulations issued by the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology pursuant to the Fastener Quality Act, shall not take effect 
until after the later of June 1, 1999, or the expiration of 120 days 
after the Secretary of Commerce transmits to the Committee on Science 
and the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives, and to 
the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a 
report on--
            (1) changes in fastener manufacturing processes that have 
        occurred since the enactment of the Fastener Quality Act; and
            (2) any changes in that Act that may be warranted because 
        of the changes reported under paragraph (1).
The report required by this section shall be transmitted to the 
Committee on Science and the Committee on Commerce of the House of 
Representatives, and to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate, by February 1, 1999.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 16, 1998.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.