# Petition Requesting Performance Standard for Bicycle Handlebars; Extension of Comment Period
**AGENCY:**
Consumer Product Safety Commission.
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
The Commission has received a petition (HP 01-1) requesting that the Commission issue a performance standard for bicycle handlebars regarding energy dissipation and distribution during impact. By notice published in the *Federal Register* of February 14, 2001, the Commission solicited written comments concerning the petition. 66 FR 10273. In response to a request to do so, the Commission is now extending the comment period on the petition for an additional 30 days.
**DATES:**
The Office of the Secretary must receive comments on the petition not later than May 16, 2001.
**ADDRESSES:**
Comments on the petition, preferably in five copies, should be mailed to the Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207, telephone (301) 504-0800, or delivered to the Office of the Secretary, Room 501, 4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland 20814. Comments may also be filed by facsimile to (301) 504-0127 or by e-mail to *[email protected].* Comments should be captioned “Petition HP 01-1, Petition for Bicycle Handlebar Performance Standard.”
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Rockelle Hammond, Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207; telephone (301) 504-0800, ext. 1232.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The Commission received correspondence from Flaura Koplin Winston, MD., Ph.D., Director, The Interdisciplinary Pediatric Injury Control Research Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, requesting that the Commission issue a rule prescribing performance standards for bicycle handlebars regarding energy dissipation and distribution during impact. The Commission docketed the correspondence as a petition (Petition No. HP 01-1) under provisions of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (“FHSA”), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1261-1278.
Interested parties may obtain a copy of the petition by writing or calling the Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC 20207; telephone (301) 504-0800. The petition can also be obtained from the CPSC world wide web site at: *http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/foia01/petition/bicycle.pdf*
A copy of the petition is available for inspection from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, in the Commission's Public Reading Room, Room 419, 4330 East-West Highway, Bethesda, Maryland.
By notice published in the *Federal Register* of February 14, 2001, the Commission established a 60 day comment period on the petition. 66 FR 10273. By this notice, the Commission is granting a request that the comment period be extended for thirty days, that is, through May 16, 2001.
Dated: April 11, 2001.
Sadye E. Dunn,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.