The Stakos cannot be used legally on the US territory. That's why everytime we want to us ours we have to perform a complicated procedure which involves your very own fellow countryman putting up the flag of the United Kingdom and announcing that the ground in a 5 feet radius around the flag is now in the domain of the Queen Elisabeth the 2nd and everything in it is subject to laws set up by her majesty, especially the bulk tank and the filling station. After that he fills the Stako and than transfers it to a US citizen standing outside of the Uk territory - it involes a lot of customs paperwork and was a bitch to do in the beginning because everytime we did that, a HMS Customs officer had to be present and we had to get special permits to be able to transfer the bottle with the air inside.
Bottomline is, Stakos maybe will be DOT approved. MAYBE.