The Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) was created, through the Consumer Product Safety Act, to protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of consumer products. The act directed the CPSC to defer to voluntary consensus standards and shortly after the establishment of the CPSC, the agency asked ASTM International to create a committee to develop standards.
In 2012, ASTM formed the committee on general aviation aircraft (F44) at the request of aviation industry organizations to aid the efforts of the FAA's Part 23 ARC. These rulemaking efforts were reinforced by the Small Airplane Revitalization Act of 2013, which required the FAA to issue a final rule revising the certification requirements for small airplanes.
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