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                                                 Union Calendar No. 324
105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3824

                      [Report No. 105-574, Part I]

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 11, 1998

Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mrs. Morella, and Mr. Cook) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, and 
     in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

                              June 9, 1998

        Reported from the Committee on Science with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

                              June 9, 1998

Referral to the Committee on Commerce extended for a period ending not 
                        later than June 9, 1998

                              June 9, 1998

  Committee on Commerce discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
    Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 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,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 15 of the Fastener Quality Act (15 U.S.C. 5414) is 
amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by inserting ``(a) Transitional Rule.--'' 
        before ``The requirements of this Act''; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by adding at the end the following new 
        subsection:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(b) Aircraft Exemption.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(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).</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(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.''.</DELETED>

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 covering the same or similar subjects, 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 Congress 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 
Congress by February 1, 1999.
                                     





                                                 Union Calendar No. 324

105th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3824

                      [Report No. 105-574, Part I]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                              June 9, 1998

        Reported from the Committee on Science with an amendment

                              June 9, 1998

Referral to the Committee on Commerce extended for a period ending not 
                        later than June 9, 1998

                              June 9, 1998

  Committee on Commerce discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
    Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed