1. Call to Order. The meeting was called to order by Chair Jeffrey Collins at 8:00 AM, October 24, REPRESENTING

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1 NFPA Technical Committee on Fire Code (FCC-AAA) NFPA SECOND DRAFT MEETING MINUTES October 24, 2013 DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel Austin, Texas 1. Call to Order. The meeting was called to order by Chair Jeffrey Collins at 8:00 AM, October 24, Introduction of Committee Members and Guests. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEMBERS PRESENT NAME Jeffrey Collins, Chair Gregory Harrington, Staff Liaison Anthony Apfelbeck, Principal Carl Baldassarra, Principal Jim Budzinski, Principal Kenneth Bush, Principal Shane Clary, Alt. to W. Moore John Devlin, Principal Ronald Farr, Principal Sam Francis, Principal Richard Kraus, Principal James Lathrop, Principal Valeriano Martin, Principal Richard Miller, Principal REPRESENTING Palm Beach County Fire/Rescue Rep. NFPA Fire Service Section National Fire Protection Association Altamonte Springs Building/Fire Safety Division Rep. NFPA Architects, Engineers, & Building Officials Section The RJA Group, Inc. International Association of Fire Chiefs Maryland State Fire Marshal s Office Bay Alarm Company Rep. Automatic Fire Alarm Association, Inc. Aon Fire Protection Engineering Corporation Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. American Wood Council API/Petroleum Safety Consultants Rep. American Petroleum Institute Koffel Associates, Inc. County of Maui Dept. of Fire and Public Safety Rep. Western Fire Chiefs Association Michigan Department of Fire Services FCC-AAA SECOND DRAFT Meeting Minutes / Page 1

2 Rep. International Fire Marshals Association Wayne Moore, Principal Hughes Associates, Inc. Rep. Automatic Fire Alarm Association, Inc. Morton Myers, Alt. to V. Martin City of Chico Fire Department Rep. Western Fire Chiefs Association Steven Orlowski, Principal National Association of Home Builders Catherine Stashak, Principal Office of the Illinois State Fire Marshal J. Tidwell, Principal Tidwell Code Consulting Rep. Fire Equipment Manufacturers Assn. Peter Willse, Principal XL Global Asset Protection Services Mohd Moeed Al Arim Al Qahatni, Dar Alkawashif Company (DACO) Nonvoting Member John Chartier, Nonvoting Member Rhode Island State Fire Marshal Rep. Northeast Regional Fire Code Development Committee Bill Galloway, Nonvoting Member West Florence Fire & Rescue Rep. Southern Regional Fire Code Development Committee Kelly Nicolello, Nonvoting Member Alaska Department of Public Safety Rep. Western Regional Fire Code Development Committee GUESTS Kristin Bigda Andy Burke Andrew Fukuda Jon Roberts Joe Scheffey Jeff Shapiro Robert Solomon NFPA Restaurant Technologies, Inc. IAFF UL Hughes Assoc. Inc. International Code Consultants NFPA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE PRINCIPAL MEMBERS NOT PRESENT (NOT LISTED WHERE ALTERNATE ATTENDED) NAME REPRESENTING Scott Adams, Principal Park City Fire Service District Rep. Western Fire Chiefs Association Sean DeCrane, Principal City of Cleveland-Division of Fire F. Tom Fangmann, Principal SunCoke Energy Rep. NFPA Industrial Fire Protection Section Keith Farmer, Principal The DuPont Company, Inc. Robert Fash, Principal Las Vegas Fire & Rescue Reinhard Hanselka, Principal aidi, Inc. FCC-AAA SECOND DRAFT Meeting Minutes / Page 2

3 Douglas Hipp, Sr., Principal Vickie Lovell, Principal Joseph Navarra, Principal James Peterkin, Principal John Sharry, Principal Randolph Tucker, Principal Wayne Waggoner, Principal Baltimore City Fire Department Rep. International Association of Fire Fighters InterCode Incorporated Rep. Alliance for Fire & Smoke Containment & Control, Inc. Pepco Holdings Inc. Rep. Edison Electric Institute Heery International Rep. NFPA Health Care Section Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ccrd partners National Fire Sprinkler Association, Inc. 3. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes. The minutes of the October 17-19, 2012 meeting were approved as submitted. 4. Chair s Report J. Collins. The Chair thanked the committee membership for attending and announced the purpose of the meeting was to act on the NFPA 1 public comments and prepare the NFPA 1 Second Draft. 5. Review of New NFPA Codes and Standards Development Process G. Harrington. Staff reviewed the second draft meeting procedures and timeline for subsequent activities (e.g., NITMAM submittals). See the meeting agenda for the PowerPoint slide presentation. Complete details on the NFPA codes and standards development process are available online at: 6. NFPA 1 Task Group Assignments and Breakout Sessions J. Collins. The Chair broke the committee into task groups to review the public comments and extract updates, and develop recommended committee actions. See the attached task group rosters on pg NFPA 1 Task Group Reports. The committee reconvened, and the task group chairs presented their respective task group recommendations for actions on public comments and second revisions (SRs). See the NFPA 1 Second Draft Report for the committee actions. i) Task Group 1: General (everything other than HAZMAT-related, Agenda Items 6.i, 6.ii, 6.iv, and 6.v) P. Willse, Chair ii) Task Group 2: HAZMAT (Agenda Item 6.iii) C. Stashak, Chair 8. NFPA 1 Public Comments. All NFPA 1 public comments were resolved in conjunction with the task group reports in Item 7. See the NFPA 1 Second Draft Report. 9. Other Business. FCC-AAA SECOND DRAFT Meeting Minutes / Page 3

4 i) NFPA 56 request for consideration. In response to Agenda Item 6.iii.d, a task group was appointed to review the request for the next revision cycle. The task group members are: C. Stashak (Chair), K. Nicolello, K. Bush, and R. Kraus. See attachment on pg. 6. ii) NFPA 30B extracts. It was noted that the NFPA 30B extract update second revisions were not ready in time for this meeting due to NFPA 1 and NFPA 30B being in concurrent revision cycles. A motion passed directing staff to create SRs, which will appear on the Second Draft ballot, to update all 30B extracts accordingly. NFPA 30B has undergone substantial technical revisions in recent editions; a task group chaired by P. Willse will be appointed prior to the next revision cycle to perform a detailed technical review of NFPA 30B and evaluate its extracts in NFPA 1. Staff was directed to solicit volunteers from the committee following the meeting. 10. Future Meetings. Meetings to prepare the 2018 edition of NFPA 1 will likely commence in the spring of Details will be provided when available. 11. Adjournment. The meeting adjourned at 4:45 PM, October 24, FCC-AAA SECOND DRAFT Meeting Minutes / Page 4

5 NFPA SECOND DRAFT MEETING TASK GROUPS Task Group 1: General Peter Willse, Chair Mohd Moeed Al Arim Al Qahatni Tony Apfelbeck Carl Baldassarra Ken Bush Jack Chartier Shane Clary John Devlin Ron Farr Task Group 2: HAZMAT Cathy Stashak, Chair Jim Budzinski Andy Burke Bill Galloway Dick Kraus Morton Myers Jim Peterkin Joe Scheffey Jeffrey Shaprio Sam Francis Jim Lathrop Val Martin Wayne Moore Kelly Nicolello Steven Orlowski James Tidwell FCC-AAA SECOND DRAFT Meeting Minutes / Page 5

6 Harrington, Greg From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Beach, Denise Friday, August 23, :13 PM Harrington, Greg NFPA 56 Request for Consideration (Sent on behalf of GPS-AAA Chairman F. Switzer) Dear Mr. Collins, The purpose of this letter is to request a review of NFPA 56, Standard for Fire and Explosion Prevention During Cleaning and Purging of Flammable Gas Piping Systems, by your committee and consideration of incorporation of NFPA 56 by reference in your subject document. The Technical Committee on Gas Process Safety (GPS) performed a cursory review of your document. It appears that there could be inter-related issues between your subject document and NFPA 56. It has come to our attention from some committees that, although NFPA 56 addresses many important applicable issues, it may not be specific enough for the many ways that flammable liquids and gases are applied in different industries. Because of this, we suggest you review NFPA 56 and either reference it if your document does not at all address the topic of cleaning and purging piping systems, or extract relevant sections, after appropriate modifications identified by your committee. NFPA 56 applies to fire and explosion prevention during cleaning and purging activities for new and existing flammable gas piping found in electric-generating plants and in industrial, institutional, and commercial applications. NFPA 56 was developed in direct response to the explosion and subsequent fatalities at the Kleen Energy natural gas-fired power plant in Middletown, CT. (See the Chemical Safety Board report here: Following the incident, the Chemical Safety Board issued urgent recommendations to NFPA and other stakeholders requesting that a safety standard be developed to address the fire and explosion hazards related to procedures that require, by their nature, the release of flammable gases. NFPA established the GPS committee, which developed and approved for publication NFPA 56(PS). In accordance with the regulations regarding the development of provisional standards (PS), NFPA 56 was immediately entered into a full revision cycle and the second edition will be issued in mid On behalf of the GPS TC, I ask that you acknowledge receipt of this request and please let us know what action, if any, your group chooses to take. The GPS committee is willing to assist in any way, including participation in task groups, providing further explanation, and discussing further the intent of NFPA 56. We want to make sure that we make this a mutually beneficial interaction. If there are things included in NFPA 56 that are inappropriate for your application, please provide that feedback to us so that we can also continue to make NFPA 56 a stronger and more usable document for flammable gas and liquid industries. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Sincerely, Franklin Switzer Chair, Technical Committee on Gas Process Safety 1 FCC-AAA SECOND DRAFT Meeting Minutes / Page 6