@kristin Help! Do we know the final cutoff date is? I don't understand the language of this last section. Also, is CASAA going to issue a CTA? Are we going to send comments?
Treatment of E-Cigarettes in the Mail has been published.
If anyone can translate this into English, please do so.
"Effective Date of Eventual Final Rule
Particularities here merit a brief discussion of the timing of the eventual final rule, in the interest of providing stakeholders with advance information. Section 603(a) of the Act requires the Postal Service “promulgate regulations to clarify the applicability of the prohibition on mailing of cigarettes” to ENDS not later than 120 days after enactment (
i.e., April 26, 2021). Section 603(b) provides that the prohibition will apply to mailings of ENDS “on and after” the publication date of the final rule. In specifying this immediate effective date, Congress expressly abrogated the standard 30-day notice period for a final rule under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), which would otherwise apply to rulemakings concerning the mailability statute here.
5 U.S.C. 553(d), 559;
39 U.S.C. 3001(m). To the extent that this rulemaking concerns not only the mailing prohibition referenced in the Act, but also the application of exemptions from that prohibition, the APA permits those aspects of the eventual final rule likewise to take effect with less than 30 days' notice (
e.g., immediately upon publication).
5 U.S.C. 553(d)(1)."
Also,
"This document has a comment period that ends in 31 days. (03/22/2021)
SUBMIT A FORMAL COMMENT "
Now what?
