Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 221 / Thursday, November 17, 2005 / Notices 69741 

2006 FALL REVISION CYCLE—REPORT ON PROPOSALS—Continued 

[P = Partial revision; W = Withdrawal; R = Reconfirmation; N = New; C = Complete Revision] 

NFPA 1951 ....... Standard on Protective Ensemble for USAR Operations ....................................................................................................... C 

NFPA 1961 ....... Standard on Fire Hose ............................................................................................................................................................ P 

NFPA 1981 ....... Standard on Open-Circuit Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus for Fire and Emergency Services ...................................... C 

NFPA 1982 ....... Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS) ............................................................................................................. C 

NFPA 2001 ....... Standard on Clean Agent Fire Extinguishing Systems ........................................................................................................... P 

Dated: November 8, 2005. 

William Jeffrey, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–22785 Filed 11–16–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

National Fire Protection Association 

(NFPA) Proposes To Revise Codes and 

Standards 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Fire Protection 

Association (NFPA) proposes to revise 

some of its safety codes and standards 

and requests proposals from the public 

to amend existing or begin the process 

of developing new NFPA safety codes 

and standards. The purpose of this 

request is to increase public 

participation in the system used by 

NFPA to develop its codes and 

standards. The publication of this notice 

of request for proposals by the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

(NIST) on behalf of NFPA is being 

undertaken as a public service; NIST 

does not necessarily endorse, approve, 

or recommend any of the standards 

referenced in the notice. 

The NFPA process provides ample 

opportunity for public participation in 

the development of its codes and 

standards. All NFPA codes and 

standards are revised and updated every 

three to five years in Revision Cycles 

that begin twice each year and that takes 

approximately two years to complete. 

Each Revision Cycle proceeds according 

to a published schedule that includes 

final dates for all major events in the 

process. The process contains five basic 

steps that are followed both for 

developing new documents as well as 

revising existing documents. These 

steps are: Calling for Proposals; 

Publishing the Proposals in the Report 

on Proposals; Calling for Comments on 

the Committee’s disposition of the 

proposals and these Comments are 

published in the Report on Comments; 

having a Technical Report Session at the 

NFPA Annual Meeting; and finally, the 

Standards Council Consideration and 

Issuance of documents. 

Note: Under new rules effective this Fall 

2005, anyone wishing to make Amending 

Motions on the Technical Committee Reports 

(ROP and ROC) must signal their intention by 

submitting a Notice of Intent to Make a 

Motion by the Deadline stated in the ROC. 

Certified motions will then be posted on the 

NFPA website. Documents that receive notice 

of proper Amending Motions (Certified 

Amending Motions) will be presented for 

action at the annual June Association 

Technical Meeting. Documents that receive 

no motions will be forwarded directly to the 

Standards Council for action on issuance. 

For more information on these new 

rules and for up-to-date information on 

schedules and deadlines for processing 

NFPA Documents, check the NFPA Web 

site at www.nfpa.org or contact NFPA 

Codes and Standards Administration. 

DATES: Interested persons may submit 

proposals on or before the dates listed 

with the standards. 

ADDRESSES: Casey C. Grant, Secretary, 

Standards Council, NFPA, 1 

Batterymarch Park, Quincy, 

Massachusetts 02269–7471. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Casey C. Grant, Secretary, Standards 

Council, at above address, (617) 770–

3000. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The National Fire Protection 

Association (NFPA) develops building, 

fire, and electrical safety codes and 

standards. Federal agencies frequently 

use these codes and standards as the 

basis for developing Federal regulations 

concerning safety. Often, the Office of 

the Federal Register approves the 

incorporation by reference of these 

standards under 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 

CFR Part 51. 

When a Technical Committee begins 

the development of a new or revised 

NFPA code or standard, it enters one of 

two Revision Cycles available each year. 

The Revision Cycle begins with the Call 

for Proposals, that is, a public notice 

asking for any interested persons to 

submit specific written proposals for 

developing or revising the Document. 

The Call for Proposals is published in a 

variety of publications. Interested 

parties have approximately twenty 

weeks to respond to the Call for 

Proposals. 

Following the Call for Proposals 

period, the Technical Committee holds 

a meeting to consider and accept, reject 

or revise, in whole or in part, all the 

submitted Proposals. The committee 

may also develop its own Proposals. A 

document known as the Report on 

Proposals, or ROP, is prepared 

containing all the Public Proposals, the 

Technical Committees’ action and each 

Proposal, as well as all Committeegenerated Proposals. The ROP is then 

submitted for the approval of the 

Technical Committee by a formal 

written ballot. If the ROP does not 

receive approval by a two-thirds vote 

calculated in accordance with NFPA 

rules, the Report is returned to the 

committee for further consideration and 

is not published. If the necessary 

approval is received, the ROP is 

published in a compilation of Reports 

on Proposals issued by NFPA twice 

yearly for public review and comment, 

and the process continues to the next 

step. 

The Reports on Proposals are sent 

automatically free of charge to all who 

submitted proposals and each respective 

committee member, as well as anyone 

else who requests a copy. All ROP’s are 

also available for free downloading at 

www.nfpa.org. 

Once the ROP becomes available, 

there is a 60-day comment period 

during which anyone may submit a 

Public Comment on the proposed 

changes in the ROP. The committee 

then reconvenes at the end of the 

comment period and acts on all 

Comments. 

As before, a two-thirds approval vote 

by written ballot of the eligible members 

of the committee is required for 

approval of actions on the Comments. 

All of this information is complied into 

a second Report, called the Report on 

Comments (ROC), which, like the ROP, 

is published and made available for 

public review for a seven-week period. 

The process of public input and 

review does not end with the 

publication of the ROP and ROC. 

Following the completion of the 

Proposal and Comment periods, there is 

yet a further opportunity for debate and 

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discussion through the Technical Report 

Sessions that take place at the NFPA 

Annual Meeting. 

The Technical Report Session 

provides an opportunity for the final 

Technical Committee Report (i.e., the 

ROP and ROC) on each proposed new 

or revised code or standard to be 

presented to the NFPA membership for 

the debate and consideration of motions 

to amend the Report. Before making an 

allowable motion at a Technical Report 

Session, the intended maker of the 

motion must file, in advance of the 

session, and within the published 

deadline, a Notice of Intent to Make a 

Motion. A Motions Committee 

appointed by the Standards Council 

then reviews all notices and certifies all 

amending motions that are proper. Only 

these Certified Amending Motions, 

together with certain allowable FollowUp Motions (that is, motions that have 

become necessary as a result of previous 

successful amending motions) will be 

allowed at the Technical Report 

Session. 

The specific rules for the types of 

motions that can be made are who can 

make them are set forth in NFPA’s 

Regulation Governing Committee 

Projects which should always be 

consulted by those wishing to bring an 

issue before the membership at a 

Technical Report Session. 

Interested persons may submit 

proposals, supported by written data, 

views, or arguments to Casey C. Grant, 

Secretary, Standards Council, NFPA, 1 

Batterymarch Park, Quincy, 

Massachusetts 02269–7471. Proposals 

should be submitted on forms available 

from the NFPA Codes and Standards 

Administration Office or on NFPA’s 

Web site at www.nfpa.org. 

Each person must include his or her 

name and address, identify the 

document and give reasons for the 

proposal. Proposals received before or 

by 5 p.m. local time on the closing date 

indicated would be acted on by the 

Committee. The NFPA will consider any 

proposal that it receives on or before the 

date listed with the codes or standard. 

Document–edition Document title Proposal closing date 

NFPA 17—2002 ............ Standard for Dry Chemical Extinguishing Systems ................................................................................ 5/26/2006 

NFPA 17A—2002 .......... Standard for Wet Chemical Extinguishing Systems ............................................................................... 5/26/2006 

NFPA 59—2004 ............ Utility LP-Gas Plant Code ....................................................................................................................... 3/3/2006 

NFPA 70E—2004 .......... Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace ..................................................................................... 9/15/2006 

NFPA 115—2003 .......... Standard on Laser Fire Protection .......................................................................................................... 5/26/2006 

NFPA 496—2003 .......... Standard for Purged and Pressurized Enclosures for Electrical Equipment .......................................... 5/26/2006 

NFPA 497—2004 .......... Recommended Practice for the Classification of Flammable Liquids, Gases, or Vapors and of Hazardous (Classified) Locations for Electrical Installations in Chemical Process Areas.5/26/2006 

NFPA 499—2004 .......... Recommended Practice for the Classification of Combustible Dusts and of Hazardous (Classified) 

Locations for electrical installations in Chemical Process Areas.

5/26//2006 

NFPA 730—2006 .......... Guide for Premises Security ................................................................................................................... 5/26/2006 

NFPA 731—2006 .......... Standard for the Installation of Electronic Premises Security Systems ................................................. 5/26/2006 

NFPA 801—2003 .......... Standard for Fire Protection for Facilities Handling Radioactive Materials ............................................ 5/26/2006 

NFPA 806—P* .............. Performance Based Standard for Fire Protection for Advanced Nuclear Reactor Electric Generating 

Plants.

5/26/2006 

NFPA 921—2004 .......... Guide for Fire and Explosion Investigations ........................................................................................... 5/26/2006 

NFPA 1901—2003 ........ Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus ................................................................................................ 3/10/2006 

NFPA 1962—2003 ........ Standard for the Inspection, Care and Use of Fire Hose, Couplings and Nozzles; and the Service 

Testing of Fire Hose.

3/10/2006 

NFPA 1964—2003 ........ Standard for Spray Nozzles .................................................................................................................... 3/10/2006 

NFPA 1989—2003 ........ Standard on Breathing Air Quality for Fire and Emergency Services Respiratory Protection ............... 12//30/2005 

NFPA 1999—2003 ........ Standard on Protective Clothing for Emergency Medical Operations .................................................... 12/30/2005 

*P Proposed NEW drafts are available from NFPA’s Web site—www.nfpa.org or may be obtained from NFPA’s Codes and Standards Administration, 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, Massachusetts 02269–7471. 

Dated: November 8, 2005. 

William Jeffrey, 

Director. 

[FR Doc. 05–22786 Filed 11–16–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 092105E] 

Endangered Species; File No. 1541 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

Kristen M. Hart, Ph.D, United States 

Geologic Survey, Florida Integrated 

Science Center, Center for Coastal and 

Watershed Studies, has been issued a 

permit to take green (Chelonia mydas), 

Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), 

loggerhead (Caretta caretta), and 

hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea 

turtles for purposes of scientific 

research. 

ADDRESSES: The permit and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following office(s): 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910; phone (301)713–

2289; fax (301)427–2521; and 

Southeast Regional Office, Office of 

Protected Resources, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701; 

phone (727) 824–5312; fax (727)824–

5309. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patrick Opay or Kate Swails, (301)713–

2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 

12, 2005, notice was published in the 

Federal Register (70 FR 40004) that a 

request for a scientific research permit 

to take green, Kemp’s ridley, loggerhead, 

and hawksbill sea turtles had been 

submitted by the applicant. The 

requested permit has been issued under 

the authority of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and the regulations 

governing the taking, importing, and 

exporting of endangered and threatened 

species (50 CFR parts 222–226).