[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR10.11]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
PART 10--PROCEDURES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOLUNTARY PRODUCT STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.11  Revision or amendment of a standard.

    (a) A published standard shall be subject to revision or amendment 
when it is determined to be inadequate by its Standing Committee or by 
the Department of one or more of the following reasons or for any other 
appropriate reasons:
    (1) Any portion of the standard is obsolete, technically inadequate, 
or no longer generally acceptable to or used by the industry;
    (2) The standard or any part of it is inconsistent with law or 
established public policy; or
    (3) The standard or any part of it is being used to mislead users or 
consumers or is determined to be against the interest of users, 
consumers, or the public in general.
    (b) A revision of a standard shall be considered by the Department 
to include changes which are comprehensive in nature, which have a 
substantive effect on the standards, which change the level of 
performance or safety or the design characteristics of the product being 
standardized, or which cannot reasonably be injected into a standard 
without disturbing the general applicability of the standard. Each 
suggestion for revision shall be submitted by the Department to the 
Standing Committee for appropriate consideration. The Standing Committee 
shall serve the same functions in the revision of a standard as the 
Standard Review Committee serves in the development of a new standard. 
The processing of a revision of a standard shall be dependent upon the 
age of the standard as computed from its effective date and shall be 
accomplished as follows:
    (1) A proposed revision of a standard older than 5 years at the time 
such proposed revision is submitted to the Standing Committee by the 
Department shall be processed as a new standard under these procedures 
and, when approved for publication, the standard shall be republished 
and reidentified to indicate the year in which the revision became 
effective. The revised standard shall supersede the previously published 
standard.
    (2) A proposed revision of a standard less than 5 years at the time 
such proposed revision is submitted to the Standing Committee by the 
Department shall be processed as a new standard except that:

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    (i) Distribution for acceptance or rejection shall be made to an 
appropriate list of producers, distributors, and users and consumers 
compiled by the Department;
    (ii) If the revision affects only one subsection of the requirement 
section and/or only one subsection of the test methods section, it may 
be circulated separately for determining consensus and subsequently 
published as an addendum to the standard with appropriate dissemination 
and public notice of the addendum; and
    (iii) If the revision does not change the level of performance or 
safety or the design characteristics of the product being standardized, 
the standard need not be reidentified.
    (c) An amendment to a standard shall be considered by the Department 
to be any non-editorial change which is not comprehensive in nature, 
which has no substantive effect on the standard, which does not change 
the level of performance or safety or the design characteristics of the 
product being standardized, and which reasonably can be injected into a 
standard without disturbing the general applicability of the standard. 
Each suggestion for amendment shall be submitted by the Department to 
the Standing Committee for appropriate consideration. An amendment to a 
standard recommended by not less than 90 percent of the members of the 
committee eligible to vote and found acceptable by the Department, shall 
be published as an addendum (until the standard is republished) and 
distributed to acceptors of record. Public notice of the amendment shall 
be given and copies of the amendment shall be distributed to those 
filing written requests.