NFPA Standards Council News: Hydrogen Consolidation
Carl Rivkin, National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)


Proposed Hydrogen Technology Correlating Committee
The Standards Council has received a request to establish a new Hydrogen Technology Project. This project will address the safe storage, use, and handling of Hydrogen. Currently, the topic of Hydrogen is addressed in a range of various NFPA projects, and a need is rapidly emerging to consolidate and coordinate these existing requirements, based on the evolving use of Hydrogen in today's mainstream society, into one document.

To address this need for consolidation and coordination, a Technical Correlating Committee (TCC) for Hydrogen Technologies is being proposed. The Technical Committees that currently cover various aspects of this topic would continue to have primary responsibility for their subject areas and their existing documents. The proposed Technical Correlating Committee would then be comprised of representatives of the existing affected NFPA Technical Committees and others as appropriate to consolidate and coordinate the material into one cohesive code mainly through the use of extracts from the existing documents. The Standards Council, therefore, is soliciting input from the affected committees and the public on this proposed new project.

Anyone interested in commenting on this proposed project is invited to do so in writing. Please include information on resources on the subject matter, the names of those interested in participating on the Committee (if established), the names of other organizations actively involved with this subject, and why there is a need for such a project. Responses should be sent to:

Codes and Standards Administration, NFPA
1 Batterymarch Park
Quincy, MA 02169-7471

Please respond by October 1, 2005. For anyone that requires additional information on the proposed project, please contact NFPA Codes and Standards Administration.