AS VGB Deadline Approaches, Aquatics Leaders Plead for More Time

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Aquatics leaders plead for more time as the federal deadline to install unblockable drain covers approaches.

Fpg 1208 Ab The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act was signed into law last December, giving public pool operators exactly one year to ensure that their drain covers and suction systems would adequately prevent a pool user from being entrapped or eviscerated. In June, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the entity that will enforce compliance, laid out its interpretations of the legislation, named for a seven-year-old girl fatally eviscerated in a Maryland spa in 2002 (see "Pool Rules," August, p. 58). At that point, with the compliance deadline clock at six months and ticking, a wave of panic began to wash over the pool industry.

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