Members, Having personally pursued a standards change successfully through NITMAM let me say it's a lot of work but if a participant feels that strongly about a particular issue its worth the effort.
John Drucker, CET Assistant Construction Official Fire Protection Subcode Official Building/Fire/Electrical Inspector Borough of Red Bank Red Bank, New Jersey Email: [email protected] Cell/Text: 732-904-6823 -----Original Message----- From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Huggins Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: NFPA procedures Good overall summary but for the procedural fanatics among us, there are a few additional steps within the process. Not all submitted NITMAMs go to the floor. Each are reviewed by the Standards Council for compliance such as if only a public input was submitted but no comment then a related NITMAM would be rejected. It use to be one could be submitted with only partial involvement. When accepted for presentation to the technical session, it becomes a CAM (certified amending motion). If the submitter of the CAM is not present (or their assigned representative) OR they do not stand-up to submit it when called (as happens following previous thrashings on related CAMs), then it is not discussed / processed. If the CAM is rejected (or it passes but fails the follow-up vote by the technical committee) there is the opportunity to appeal to the Standards Council (which often happens) but it is extremely rare for them to overturn the process. Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org On Sep 17, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Steve Leyton <[email protected]> wrote: > The term NITMAM is an acronym meaning, Notice of Intent to Make a Motion. After 2nd Draft (Formerly ROC), a final draft of any standard is published for one last round of public review. Since there is no opportunity to make comments for committee consideration, the last act of objection is to challenge a comment on the floor of the code hearing when the standard is up for adoption by general vote. In order to raise your objection and be on the docket, you have to file a NITMAM to be heard on the floor. After debate (often argument) the motion is put up for vote. If it fails, the committee's revision stands in the final version but if it's upheld, then the language of the section being challenged reverts back to the previous edition and the committee's efforts on that item are vaporized. > > SML > > _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
