Comment on Safety Standard for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators

"Public Resource would like to state one important and overriding fact at the outset: America is a safer place because of the dedicated efforts of the CPSC staff and commissioners. This is particularly true with garage door operators, where the CPSC took the Congressional mandate and the grave public concern and turned that into an effective mandatory safety rule in 16 CFR 1211. It is precisely because this work is so important that CPSC must address this one glaring defect in this rulemaking: The text of the law is hidden from public view, available only for deliberately limited access, which is granted only after paying an entry fee $1000. Special permission is required just to read the law. In most cases, copying the law—or even repeating a brief extract—is purportedly prohibited without a special license that is only awarded by a private organization at its discretion. This is not how the rule of law is supposed to work. This is not how America is supposed to work."