

Comment Info: =================

General Comment:Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC
05/27/14


Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
Food and Drug Administration
5630 Fishers Lane
Room 1061
Rockville, MD 20852
Re: Request for Extension of Comment Period: Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0189


We,
 Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC
have conducted preliminary review of your lengthy proposed
regulations
and respectfully request
that the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
extend the comment period for the proposed rule entitled “Deeming Tobacco Products to be Subject to the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as Amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and
Tobacco Control Act; Regulations on the Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and
Required Warning Statements for Tobacco Products.”
We, Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC
, are small electronic cigarette
manufacturer/ retailer 
employing fewer than 350 people
.
[Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC provides quality vapor Products, and USA made E-Liquid)]
As explained further below;  the initial 75-day comment period does not provide
enough time for small companies like us
(Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC)
to adequately analyze the entire proposal and
provide substantive comments on the many questions posed by the agency. We
need more time to address this 240-page document whose contents will deal a devastating economic blow to our
business. A business in which, my wife and I believe in, and have
 poured our heart and soul into, (as well as our nest egg).
The preamble to the proposed rule identifies approximately 70 topics and issues
the agency has requested comments on.
Many of these issues are complex, and difficult,and relate to
an extremely diverse array of products.
Clearly, the lengthy time period
that the Agency required to propose these regulations
is evidence that the issues addressed in the proposal are
multi-faceted and challenging..

FDA cannot expect any interested party, and in particular, any
manufacturer, to conduct a meaningful review
and analysis of these issues
and provide detailed
and thoughtful comment, a75-day period.There are so many products, 
and variants of those products, that it would be a futile effort.
Therefore, we, at Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC,
again
respectfully requests that FDA
extend the comment period by 105
days and agree to accept comments filed to the docket on or before
October 22, 2014.
This will help ensure that the final rule is based on 
an adequate and meaningful administrative record.

Thank you in advance
for your consideration of this request.

Sincerely,
W, David Chumbley, 3rd
Owner/operator, Rock Ridge Vapor, LLC
