Harley Benz and Kaye Shedlock will prepare the agenda for the meeting and will have it distributed to the CNSS and EERI communities by Monday, April 9. Some of the new instruments will go to upgrading existing sites. To date, they have 20 sites permitted and they are working on several alternative sites. They have held two advisory committee meetings, the latest to discuss the engineering and geotechnical issues of the past and newly permitted sites. The committees also stressed the need that all data be available at one place and in one format.
Ease of access is the principal issue and desire of the user community.
Additional sites in some different regions will now be sought based on some recommendations. The advisory committee also asked about the possibility of portable instrumentation for recording ambient signal in structures as a way to characterize the structures, possibly as part of a selection process for instrumentation. Final siting will likely be 4 stations on rock and 16 urban reference stations. Two additional stations will be installed thru cooperative arrangements, one with UDOT on the I-15 flyway and one on the University of Utah campus. They have tentative site selection and are now planning communications.