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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 1092 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require certain products to be labeled with ‘Do Not Flush’ labeling, |
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| 6 | 6 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH24, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ERKLEY(for himself, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. KING, Mr. |
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| 11 | 11 | | M |
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| 12 | 12 | | ARKEY, Mrs. MURRAY, Mr. PADILLA, Mr. WYDEN, and Mrs. SHAHEEN) |
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| 13 | 13 | | introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To require certain products to be labeled with ‘Do Not Flush’ |
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| 17 | 17 | | labeling, and for other purposes. |
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| 18 | 18 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 21 | 21 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wastewater Infrastruc-4 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ture Pollution Prevention and Environmental Safety Act’’ 5 |
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| 23 | 23 | | or the ‘‘WIPPES Act’’. 6 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. ‘‘DO NOT FLUSH’’ LABELING. 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (a) I |
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| 26 | 26 | | NGENERAL.—A covered entity shall label a cov-8 |
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| 27 | 27 | | ered product clearly and conspicuously with the label no-9 |
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| 31 | 31 | | tice and symbol, in accordance with subsections (b) and 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (c). 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (b) R |
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| 34 | 34 | | EQUIREMENTS.— 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (1) C |
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| 36 | 36 | | YLINDRICAL PACKAGING.—In the case of a 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | covered product sold in cylindrical or near-cylindrical 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | packaging, and intended to dispense individual 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | wipes— 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (A) the symbol and label notice shall be 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | displayed on the principal display panel in a 9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | clear and conspicuous location reasonably visi-10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ble to the user each time a wipe is dispensed; 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | or 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (B) the symbol shall be displayed on the 13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | principal display panel and the label notice, or 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | a combination of the label notice and symbol, 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | shall be displayed on a flip lid in a manner that 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | covers at least 8 percent of the surface area of 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the flip lid. 18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (2) F |
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| 52 | 52 | | LEXIBLE FILM PACKAGING .—In the case 19 |
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| 53 | 53 | | of a covered product sold in flexible film packaging, 20 |
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| 54 | 54 | | and intended to dispense individual wipes— 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (A) the symbol shall be displayed on the 22 |
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| 56 | 56 | | principal display panel and, if the principal dis-23 |
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| 57 | 57 | | play panel is not on the dispensing side of the 24 |
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| 58 | 58 | | packaging, on the dispensing side panel; and 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (B) the label notice shall be displayed on 1 |
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| 63 | 63 | | either the principal display panel or the dis-2 |
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| 64 | 64 | | pensing side panel, in a clear and conspicuous 3 |
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| 65 | 65 | | location reasonably visible to the user each time 4 |
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| 66 | 66 | | a wipe is dispensed. 5 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (3) R |
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| 68 | 68 | | IGID PACKAGING.—In the case of a cov-6 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ered product sold in a refillable tub or other rigid 7 |
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| 70 | 70 | | packaging that may be reused by a customer, and 8 |
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| 71 | 71 | | that is intended to dispense individual wipes, the 9 |
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| 72 | 72 | | symbol and label notice shall be displayed on the 10 |
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| 73 | 73 | | principal display panel in a clear and conspicuous lo-11 |
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| 74 | 74 | | cation reasonably visible to the user each time a 12 |
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| 75 | 75 | | wipe is dispensed. 13 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (4) P |
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| 77 | 77 | | ACKAGING NOT INTENDED TO DISPENSE 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | INDIVIDUAL WIPES.—In the case of a covered prod-15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | uct sold in packaging that is not intended to dis-16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | pense individual wipes, the symbol and label notice 17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | shall be displayed on the principal display panel in 18 |
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| 82 | 82 | | a clear and conspicuous location reasonably visible to 19 |
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| 83 | 83 | | the user of the covered product. 20 |
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| 84 | 84 | | (5) B |
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| 85 | 85 | | ULK PACKAGING.— 21 |
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| 86 | 86 | | (A) I |
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| 87 | 87 | | N GENERAL.—In the case of a covered 22 |
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| 88 | 88 | | product sold in bulk at retail, the symbol and 23 |
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| 89 | 89 | | label notice shall be displayed on both the outer 24 |
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| 90 | 90 | | packaging visible at retail and the individual 25 |
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| 93 | 93 | | •S 1092 IS |
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| 94 | 94 | | packaging contained within the outer pack-1 |
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| 95 | 95 | | aging. 2 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (B) E |
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| 97 | 97 | | XEMPTION.—The following shall be 3 |
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| 98 | 98 | | exempt from the requirements of subparagraph 4 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (A): 5 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (i) Individually packaged covered 6 |
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| 101 | 101 | | products that are contained within outer 7 |
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| 102 | 102 | | packaging, are not intended to dispense in-8 |
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| 103 | 103 | | dividual wipes, and have no retail labeling. 9 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (ii) Outer packaging that does not ob-10 |
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| 105 | 105 | | scure the symbol and label notice on indi-11 |
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| 106 | 106 | | vidually packaged covered products con-12 |
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| 107 | 107 | | tained within. 13 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (6) P |
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| 109 | 109 | | ACKAGING OF COMBINED PRODUCTS .— 14 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (A) O |
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| 111 | 111 | | UTER PACKAGING.—The outer pack-15 |
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| 112 | 112 | | aging of combined products shall be exempt 16 |
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| 113 | 113 | | from the symbol and label notice requirements 17 |
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| 114 | 114 | | of subsection (a). 18 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (B) P |
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| 116 | 116 | | ACKAGES LESS THAN 3 BY 3 19 |
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| 117 | 117 | | INCHES.—In the case of a covered product in 20 |
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| 118 | 118 | | packaging smaller than 3 inches by 3 inches 21 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (such as an individually packaged wipe in tear- 22 |
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| 120 | 120 | | top packaging) and sold as part of a combined 23 |
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| 121 | 121 | | product, if a symbol and label notice are placed 24 |
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| 122 | 122 | | in a prominent location reasonably visible to the 25 |
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| 125 | 125 | | •S 1092 IS |
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| 126 | 126 | | user of the covered product, such covered prod-1 |
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| 127 | 127 | | uct shall be considered to be labeled clearly and 2 |
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| 128 | 128 | | conspicuously. 3 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (c) R |
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| 130 | 130 | | EASONABLEVISIBILITY OFSYMBOL ANDLABEL 4 |
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| 131 | 131 | | N |
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| 132 | 132 | | OTICE.— 5 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (1) I |
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| 134 | 134 | | N GENERAL.—A covered entity shall ensure 6 |
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| 135 | 135 | | that— 7 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (A) packaging seams or folds or other 8 |
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| 137 | 137 | | packaging design elements do not obscure the 9 |
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| 138 | 138 | | symbol or label notice; 10 |
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| 139 | 139 | | (B) the symbol and label notice are each 11 |
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| 140 | 140 | | equal in size to at least 2 percent of the surface 12 |
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| 141 | 141 | | area of the principal display panel; and 13 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (C) the symbol and label notice have high 14 |
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| 143 | 143 | | contrast with the immediate background of the 15 |
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| 144 | 144 | | packaging so that such symbol and label notice 16 |
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| 145 | 145 | | may be seen and read by an ordinary individual 17 |
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| 146 | 146 | | under customary conditions of purchase and 18 |
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| 147 | 147 | | use. 19 |
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| 148 | 148 | | (2) P |
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| 149 | 149 | | ROXIMITY OF SYMBOL AND LABEL NO -20 |
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| 150 | 150 | | TICE.—A covered entity may display a symbol and 21 |
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| 151 | 151 | | label notice either adjacent to or on separate areas 22 |
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| 152 | 152 | | of the principal display panel. 23 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (3) E |
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| 154 | 154 | | XCEPTION.—Paragraph (1)(C) does not 24 |
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| 155 | 155 | | apply to an embossed symbol or label notice on the 25 |
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| 158 | 158 | | •S 1092 IS |
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| 159 | 159 | | flip lid of a covered product sold in cylindrical or 1 |
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| 160 | 160 | | near-cylindrical packaging. 2 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (d) R |
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| 162 | 162 | | EPRESENTATIONS OF FLUSHABILITY.—With re-3 |
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| 163 | 163 | | spect to a covered product, a covered entity may not make 4 |
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| 164 | 164 | | any express or implied representation that such covered 5 |
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| 165 | 165 | | product can or should be flushed. 6 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (e) E |
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| 167 | 167 | | NFORCEMENT BY FEDERALTRADECOMMIS-7 |
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| 168 | 168 | | SION.— 8 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (1) U |
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| 170 | 170 | | NFAIR OR DECEPTIVE ACTS OR PRAC -9 |
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| 171 | 171 | | TICES.—A violation of this section or any regulation 10 |
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| 172 | 172 | | promulgated under this section shall be treated as a 11 |
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| 173 | 173 | | violation of a regulation under section 18(a)(1)(B) 12 |
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| 174 | 174 | | of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 13 |
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| 175 | 175 | | 57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair or deceptive acts or 14 |
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| 176 | 176 | | practices. 15 |
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| 177 | 177 | | (2) P |
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| 178 | 178 | | OWERS OF COMMISSION .—The Commis-16 |
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| 179 | 179 | | sion shall enforce this section and any regulations 17 |
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| 180 | 180 | | promulgated under this section by the same means, 18 |
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| 181 | 181 | | and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and duties, 19 |
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| 182 | 182 | | as though all applicable terms and provisions of the 20 |
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| 183 | 183 | | Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | seq.) were incorporated into and made a part of this 22 |
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| 185 | 185 | | section, and any person who violates this section or 23 |
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| 186 | 186 | | any regulation promulgated under this section shall 24 |
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| 187 | 187 | | be subject to the penalties and entitled to the privi-25 |
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| 190 | 190 | | •S 1092 IS |
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| 191 | 191 | | leges and immunities provided in the Federal Trade 1 |
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| 192 | 192 | | Commission Act. 2 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (3) R |
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| 194 | 194 | | EGULATIONS.—The Commission may pro-3 |
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| 195 | 195 | | mulgate regulations under section 553 of title 5, 4 |
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| 196 | 196 | | United States Code, to implement this section. In 5 |
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| 197 | 197 | | developing the regulations, the Commission may con-6 |
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| 198 | 198 | | sult with the Administrator of the Environmental 7 |
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| 199 | 199 | | Protection Agency, the Commissioner of Food and 8 |
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| 200 | 200 | | Drugs, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, 9 |
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| 201 | 201 | | or any other agency as appropriate. 10 |
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| 202 | 202 | | (4) A |
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| 203 | 203 | | UTHORITY PRESERVED .—Nothing in this 11 |
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| 204 | 204 | | section may be construed to limit the authority of 12 |
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| 205 | 205 | | the Commission under any other provision of law. 13 |
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| 206 | 206 | | (f) P |
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| 207 | 207 | | REEMPTION OFSTATELAWS.—No State or po-14 |
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| 208 | 208 | | litical subdivision of a State may directly or indirectly es-15 |
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| 209 | 209 | | tablish or continue in effect, under any authority, require-16 |
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| 210 | 210 | | ments with respect to the ‘‘Do Not Flush’’ labeling of cov-17 |
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| 211 | 211 | | ered products that are not identical to the requirements 18 |
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| 212 | 212 | | of this section and the regulations promulgated under this 19 |
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| 213 | 213 | | section. 20 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (g) D |
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| 215 | 215 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 21 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (1) C |
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| 217 | 217 | | OMBINED PRODUCT .—The term ‘‘com-22 |
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| 218 | 218 | | bined product’’ means two or more products sold in 23 |
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| 219 | 219 | | shared retail packaging, of which— 24 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (A) at least one of the products is a cov-1 |
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| 224 | 224 | | ered product; and 2 |
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| 225 | 225 | | (B) at least one of the products is another 3 |
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| 226 | 226 | | consumer product intended to be used in com-4 |
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| 227 | 227 | | bination with such covered product. 5 |
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| 228 | 228 | | (2) C |
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| 229 | 229 | | OMMISSION.—The term ‘‘Commission’’ 6 |
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| 230 | 230 | | means the Federal Trade Commission. 7 |
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| 231 | 231 | | (3) C |
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| 232 | 232 | | OVERED ENTITY.—The term ‘‘covered en-8 |
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| 233 | 233 | | tity’’ means a manufacturer, wholesaler, supplier, in-9 |
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| 234 | 234 | | dividual or group of individuals, or retailer that is 10 |
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| 235 | 235 | | responsible for the labeling or retail packaging of a 11 |
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| 236 | 236 | | covered product that is sold or offered for retail sale 12 |
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| 237 | 237 | | in the United States. 13 |
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| 238 | 238 | | (4) C |
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| 239 | 239 | | OVERED PRODUCT.— 14 |
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| 240 | 240 | | (A) I |
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| 241 | 241 | | N GENERAL.—The term ‘‘covered 15 |
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| 242 | 242 | | product’’ means a premoistened, nonwoven dis-16 |
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| 243 | 243 | | posable wipe sold or offered for retail sale— 17 |
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| 244 | 244 | | (i) that is marketed as a baby wipe or 18 |
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| 245 | 245 | | diapering wipe; or 19 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (ii) that is a household or personal 20 |
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| 247 | 247 | | care wipe (including a wipe described in 21 |
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| 248 | 248 | | subparagraph (B)) that— 22 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (I) is composed entirely, or in 23 |
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| 250 | 250 | | part, of petrochemical-derived fibers; 24 |
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| 255 | 255 | | (II) has significant potential to 1 |
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| 256 | 256 | | be flushed. 2 |
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| 257 | 257 | | (B) I |
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| 258 | 258 | | NCLUSIONS.—The wipes described in 3 |
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| 259 | 259 | | this subparagraph are— 4 |
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| 260 | 260 | | (i) antibacterial wipes and disinfecting 5 |
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| 261 | 261 | | wipes; 6 |
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| 262 | 262 | | (ii) wipes intended for general purpose 7 |
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| 263 | 263 | | cleaning or bathroom cleaning, including 8 |
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| 264 | 264 | | toilet cleaning and hard surface cleaning; 9 |
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| 265 | 265 | | and 10 |
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| 266 | 266 | | (iii) wipes intended for personal care 11 |
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| 267 | 267 | | use on the body, including hand sanitizing, 12 |
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| 268 | 268 | | makeup removal, feminine hygiene, adult 13 |
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| 269 | 269 | | hygiene (including incontinence hygiene), 14 |
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| 270 | 270 | | and body cleansing. 15 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (5) H |
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| 272 | 272 | | IGH CONTRAST.—The term ‘‘high con-16 |
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| 273 | 273 | | trast’’ means, with respect to the symbol or label no-17 |
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| 274 | 274 | | tice, that such symbol or label notice— 18 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (A) is either light on a solid dark back-19 |
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| 276 | 276 | | ground or dark on a solid light background; and 20 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (B) has a contrast percentage of at least 21 |
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| 278 | 278 | | 70 percent between such symbol or label notice 22 |
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| 279 | 279 | | and the background, using the formula (B1– 23 |
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| 280 | 280 | | B2)/B1 * 100 = contrast percentage, where B1 24 |
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| 281 | 281 | | is the light reflectance value of the lighter area 25 |
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| 285 | 285 | | and B2 is the light reflectance value of the 1 |
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| 286 | 286 | | darker area. 2 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (6) L |
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| 288 | 288 | | ABEL NOTICE.—The term ‘‘label notice’’ 3 |
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| 289 | 289 | | means the written phrase ‘‘Do Not Flush’’. 4 |
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| 290 | 290 | | (7) P |
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| 291 | 291 | | RINCIPAL DISPLAY PANEL .—The term 5 |
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| 292 | 292 | | ‘‘principal display panel’’ means the side of a prod-6 |
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| 293 | 293 | | uct package that is most likely to be displayed, pre-7 |
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| 294 | 294 | | sented, or shown under customary conditions of dis-8 |
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| 295 | 295 | | play for retail sale, and— 9 |
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| 296 | 296 | | (A) in the case of a cylindrical or near-cy-10 |
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| 297 | 297 | | lindrical package, the surface area of which 11 |
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| 298 | 298 | | constitutes at least 40 percent of the product 12 |
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| 299 | 299 | | package, as measured by multiplying the height 13 |
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| 300 | 300 | | by the circumference of the package; or 14 |
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| 301 | 301 | | (B) in the case of a flexible film package 15 |
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| 302 | 302 | | in which a rectangular prism or near-rectan-16 |
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| 303 | 303 | | gular prism stack of wipes is housed within the 17 |
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| 304 | 304 | | film, the surface area of which is measured by 18 |
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| 305 | 305 | | multiplying the length by the width of the side 19 |
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| 306 | 306 | | of the package when the flexible packaging film 20 |
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| 307 | 307 | | is pressed flat against the stack of wipes on all 21 |
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| 308 | 308 | | sides of the stack. 22 |
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| 309 | 309 | | (8) S |
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| 310 | 310 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each 23 |
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| 311 | 311 | | State of the United States, the District of Columbia, 24 |
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| 315 | 315 | | and each commonwealth, territory, or possession of 1 |
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| 316 | 316 | | the United States. 2 |
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| 317 | 317 | | (9) S |
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| 318 | 318 | | YMBOL.—The term ‘‘symbol’’ means the 3 |
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| 319 | 319 | | ‘‘Do Not Flush’’ symbol, as depicted in the most re-4 |
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| 320 | 320 | | cent edition of the Guidelines for Assessing the 5 |
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| 321 | 321 | | Flushability of Disposable Nonwoven Products pub-6 |
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| 322 | 322 | | lished by the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics 7 |
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| 323 | 323 | | Industry (INDA) and the European Disposables 8 |
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| 324 | 324 | | And Nonwovens Association (EDANA), or an other-9 |
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| 325 | 325 | | wise equivalent symbol adopted by the Commission 10 |
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| 326 | 326 | | through rulemaking under this section. 11 |
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| 327 | 327 | | (h) E |
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| 328 | 328 | | FFECTIVEDATE.—This section shall apply to 12 |
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| 329 | 329 | | a covered entity beginning on the date that is 1 year after 13 |
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| 330 | 330 | | the date of the enactment of this Act. 14 |
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