Minutes. NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Code. NFPA First Draft Meeting

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1 Minutes NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Code NFPA First Draft Meeting October 8-9, 2015 Doubletree by Hilton Hotel San Diego Downtown San Diego, California 1. Call to order. Chair Jeffrey Collins called the meeting to order at 8:00 AM, Thursday, October 8, Self-introduction of members and guests. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT Jeffrey Collins, Chair Anthony Apfelbeck, Principal Kenneth Bush, Principal Daniel Buuck, Principal Robert Davidson, Principal Keith Farmer, Principal Ronald Farr, Principal Andrew Fukuda, Principal Reinhard Hanselka, Principal Sarina Hart, Principal Wayne Moore, Principal James Peterkin, Principal John Sharry, Principal Catherine Stashak, Principal J.L. Tidwell, Principal Palm Beach County Fire/Rescue Rep.: NFPA Fire Service Section Altamonte Springs Building/Fire Safety Division Rep.: NFPA Architects, Engineers, & Building Officials Section Maryland State Fire Marshal s Office National Association of Home Builders Rep: National Association of Home Builders Davidson Code Concepts, LLC The Chemours Company Underwriters Laboratories LLC Honolulu Fire Department Rep.: International Association of Fire Fighters aidi, Inc. Koffel Associates, Inc. JENSEN HUGHES Rep.: Automatic Fire Alarm Association, Inc. Heery International Rep: NFPA Health Care Section Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal Tidwell Code Consulting Page 1 of 5

2 Shane Clary, Alternate to W. Moore Jeffrey Hugo, Alternate to W. Waggoner Scott Laramee, Alternate to J. Devlin Steven Taulbee, Alternate to R. Fash Gregory Harrington, Staff Liaison Rep.: Fire Equipment Manufacturers Association Bay Alarm Company Rep.: Automatic Fire Alarm Association, Inc. National Fire Sprinkler Association, Inc. Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation Las Vegas Fire Department National Fire Protection Association TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PRINCIPAL MEMBERS NOT PRESENT (NOT LISTED WHERE ALTERNATE ATTENDED) Scott Adams, Principal Park City Fire Service District Rep.: Western Fire Chiefs Association Butch Browning, Jr., Principal Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshal Rep.: International Association of Fire Chiefs Sean DeCrane, Principal Cleveland Division of Fire F. Tom Fangmann, Principal SunCoke Energy Rep.: NFPA Industrial Fire Protection Section Sam Francis, Principal American Wood Council Richard Miller, Principal Michigan Department of Fire Services Rep.: International Fire Marshals Association Morton Myers, Principal City of Chico Fire Department Rep.: Western Fire Chiefs Association Joseph Navarra, Principal Pepco Holdings Inc. Rep.: Edison Electric Institute Randolph Tucker, Principal ccrd partners Peter Willse, Principal XL Global Asset Protection Services GUESTS PRESENT Bill Brooks Gregory Cahanin Joe Cain Dan Finnegan Brad Gething Martin Gresho Bill Ivey William Kessel Brent McClendon Pat McLaughlin Kelly Nicolello Lunar Onovakpari Matt Paiss Steven Sawyer Don Shandy Jeff Shapiro Ed Tierney Brooks Engineering American Hydrotech Solar Energy Industries Association Siemens NWPCA FP2 FIRE Ivey Engineering Koffel Associates Inc. NWPCA SIA/CSPA/CGA UL Solar City IAFF NFPA CHEP IIAR American Hydrotech Page 2 of 5

3 3. Approval of June 4-5, 2015 meeting minutes. The committee approved the previous meeting minutes as submitted. 4. Chair s report J. Collins. The Chair provided an overview of meeting; the TC will break into task groups to review assigned PIs and develop recommendations for review by the whole TC. 5. NFPA 1 First Draft Meeting procedures G. Harrington. Staff provided an overview of the first draft meeting procedures. See the agenda for the PowerPoint handout. 6. Standards Council response to committee inquiry re. consumer fireworks. Staff presented the Standards Council s response to the committee re. the inclusion of consumer fireworks provisions (agenda attachment) and answered questions. 7. Energy storage systems. Kelly Nicolello provided an overview of the agenda attachment material and answered questions. The Chair referred the subject to the Hazardous Materials Task Group for recommendations. See the first draft report. 8. Carbon-dioxide systems. Ron Farr provided an overview of the agenda attachment material and answered questions. The Chair referred the subject to the Hazardous Materials Task Group for recommendations. See the first draft report. 9. Fire fighter breathing air systems. Staff provided an overview of Appendix F of the Uniform Plumbing Code, Firefighter Breathing Air Replenishment Systems, for consideration of inclusion of similar provisions in NFPA 1. The Chair referred the subject to the General Task Group for recommendations. See the first draft report for the associated committee input. 10. Comprehensive photovoltaic system standard. Staff provided an overview of the correspondence in the related agenda attachment. It was noted that NFPA currently has activity underway relating to PV systems in the electrical division. Staff will coordinate accordingly and potentially bring the issue forward to NFPA s newly formed emerging issues team if deemed appropriate. 11. Miscellaneous NFPA 1 issues. See the first draft report for associated FRs and CIs, where applicable. i) Sprinkler system impairment conflict ( and ): Referred to Task Group 1 (General). ii) iii) iv) Class I standpipe-building height determination ( ): Referred to TG-1. Withdrawal of NFPA 51A, Standard for Acetylene Cylinder Charging Plants, incorporated into NFPA 55 (ref d in ): Referred to Task Group 2 (Hazardous Materials). Application of Ch. 60 and Ch. 61 to aerosol storage: Referred to TG-2. Page 3 of 5

4 12. NFPA 1 extract updates though Annual-2015 revision cycle (NFPA 13, 20, 31, 34, 45, 55, 72, 80, 303, 307, 312, 400, 415, 805, extract package distributed separately). Staff provided an overview of the extract update package. Individual revisions will not be balloted as separate first revisions. Rather, each extract document will have a separate global first revision. The detailed revisions will be provided in the first draft for review. 13. NFPA 1 public input with Pre-First Draft Meeting actions, DRAFT first revisions and committee input. The committee reviewed the Pre-FD meeting recommendations. See the first draft report for actions. 14. NFPA 1 task group assignments and breakout sessions. The Chair recessed the meeting for task group breakout sessions at 12:00 Noon, October 8, See attachment for task group rosters. 15. NFPA 1 task group reports. Acting Chair Ken Bush reconvened the meeting at 8:00 AM on Friday, October 9, Task Group 1 (General) Chair Shane Clary and Task Group 2 (Hazardous Materials) Chair Cathy Stashak presented their respective groups recommendations. See the first draft report for the TC actions. 16. Other business. A task group was appointed to study the inclusion of requirements for marijuana growing/processing facilities in NFPA 1, as brought to the TC by Tony Apfelbeck. Task group members: Scott Laramee (TG chair); Cathy Stashak; Reinhard Hanselka. Additional interested parties might be appointed as the TG progresses. The TG will provide a report to the full TC at the next meeting. See the first draft report for related committee input, new Chapter Next meeting. The next meeting will be scheduled for around October 2016 at a location to be determined. Details will be provided when available. 18. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at 3:00 PM, Friday, October 9, Page 4 of 5

5 NFPA TASK GROUPS Task Group 1 (General) Shane Clary, Chair Tony Apfelbeck Ken Bush Dan Buuck Ron Farr Andy Fukuda Sarina Hart Jeff Hugo Jim Peterkin John Sharry Jim Tidwell Wayne Waggoner Gregory Harrington (NFPA staff) Task Group 2 (Hazardous Materials) Cathy Stashak, Chair Greg Cahanin Keith Farmer Reinhard Hanselka Scott Laramee Pat McLaughlin Kelly Nicolello Jeff Shapiro Steven Taulbee Ed Tierney Kristin Bigda (NFPA staff) Steven Sawyer (NFPA staff) Page 5 of 5