Fwd: ANSI Announcement of Federal Register Notice Regarding theSAFETY Act

[Allen Wyke <emtc@nc.rr.com>]

Thought those of you who are vendors in the EM space out there might
benefit from this. No direct relevance to the EM TC otherwise.

Allen

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Matthew Deane <mdeane@ansi.org>
> Subject: ANSI Announcement of Federal Register Notice Regarding the SAFETY Act
> Date: 17 Jul 2003 13:58:52 -0400
> 
> Dear Members of the CIF, CMF, OMF, and Interested Parties of the ANSI-HSSP,
> 
> The attached document is a Federal Register Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
> published Friday, July 11, 2003 by the Department of Homeland Security
> (DHS).  Please note that it provides for definitions, procedures and
> criteria for DHS designation of "qualified anti-terrorism technologies" and
> "approved qualified anti-terrorism technologies" under the SAFETY Act.  Such
> designations and approvals provide for specific limitations on liability for
> sellers of technology products and services necessary or useful in homeland
> security applications.
> 
> The comment period for this Notice is exceptionally short (comments must be
> received by August 11, 2003).  ANSI staff is working on comments on behalf
> of the standards community, which will be submitted to the National Policy
> Committee for approval, and to members of the CMF, OMF and CIF for
> information thereafter.  If you have any questions about this process,
> please contact ANSI's Vice President of Public Policy and Government
> Affairs, David Karmol (dkarmol@ansi.org). 
>  
> The Notice is distributed for information and in the event that you wish to
> file comments for your organization (methods for submission are detailed in
> the attached).
> 
> We apologize to those that receive this message multiple times due to being
> a member of multiple Forums.
> 
> Best regards,
> Matt Deane
> ANSI-HSSP Secretary
> 
>  <<FR Doc 03-17561.htm>> 
>  
> 
> 
-- 
R. Allen Wyke
Chair, Emergency Management TC
emtc@nc.rr.com
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency

FR Doc 03-17561.htm