Criteria Development
Alternative Criteria Process
June 2008
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Explanation of Alternative Criteria Process: Revised 11/27/07
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Selected criteria will be posted to the ICC-ES web site for public comment while they are being balloted to the Evaluation Committee. To qualify for this process, proposed criteria need to meet at least one of the following requirements:
- The subject is nonstructural, does not involve life-safety, and is addressed in nationally recognized standards or generally accepted industry standards.
- The subject is a revision to an existing acceptance criteria that requires Evaluation Committee voting but is considered by staff to be noncontroversial.
- Other acceptance criteria and/or the code provide precedent, but a separate criteria is needed for the product in question.
Once it is decided by staff that a proposed acceptance criteria can follow the alternate process, the criteria will be posted for public comment on the ICC-ES web site for 30 days and simultaneously balloted to the Evaluation Committee. The committee will have 30 days to respond to the ballot. Following final balloting, and resolution of any comments on the criteria in accordance with current ICC-ES Rules of Procedure for the Evaluation Committee, the approved criteria will be posted to the web site.
ICC-ES will post proposed criteria six times a year, and will send an e-mail notification of the general posting to evaluation report holders and others who have specifically requested the notification. Following the 30-day comment period, all comments will be forwarded to the appropriate technical staff member. Following review of comments, staff will decide whether to reballot the criteria, with appropriate revisions, to the committee; to revise the criteria and repost for additional comment; or to place the item on the agenda for a future Evaluation Committee meeting. Commenters will be notified of staff actions by posting all such actions on the web site. Previous postings of proposed criteria will be made available in an archive file.
When public input is desired by staff before presentation to the committee at a public hearing, a similar process will be followed except for balloting by the committee.
Revised 11/27/07
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