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Agenda_March2015Agenda

National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee (NCSTAC) Meeting

26 March 2015

Portrait Room, Administration BUILDING 101

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS & TECHNOLOGY (NIST)

100 BUREAU DRIVE

GAITHERSBURG, MD 20899

AGENDA (PDF download)

MEETING GOALS:

  • Receive NIST's response to the Committee's 2013 annual report recommendations
  • Receive update on the progress of the implementation of NIST Joplin tornado investigation's recommendations
  • Receive update on NIST's implementation of the NCST Act
  • Receive update on NIST's effort on development of disaster data repositories
  • Outline Committee's 2015 annual report to Congress and assign writing assignments for sections

Thursday, 26 March

Time

Topic

Discussion Leader

Opening Remarks

8:30 – 8:45 am

Meeting Goals
Agenda

Jeremy Isenberg
NCSTAC Chairperson

8:45 – 9:00 am

Welcome
Opening Remarks

Willie May
Acting Director
NIST

9:00 – 9:15 am

Overview of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA)

Alice McKenna
Senior Counsel
General Law Division
Department of Commerce

9:15 – 9:45 am

NIST's Response to NCSTAC's 2013 Annual Report Recommendations

Howard Harary
Director
Engineering Laboratory, NIST
Designated Federal Officer

9:45 – 10:00 am

BREAK

10:00 – 11:30 am

Presentation on EL's Fire Investigations

Anthony Hamins
Alex Maranghides
Craig Weinschenk

11:30 – 12:00 am

Presentation on Community Resilience Center of Excellence

Terri McAllister

12:00 – 1:00 pm

LUNCH (NIST Cafeteria, Administration Building, Dining Rooms A & B)

Progress on Implementation of the Joplin Tornado Recommendations

1:00 – 2:15 pm

Long Phan
Marc Levitan
Erica Kuligowski

NCST Act Implementation

2:15 – 2:45 pm

Jason Averill

Disaster Data

2:45 – 3:15 pm

Presentation on Repository Development Update: Joplin/Moore tornados and Chile Earthquake data repositories

Long Phan

3:15– 3:30 pm

BREAK and COMMITTEE PHOTO

Advisory Committee Discussions

3:30 – 4:15 pm

NCSTAC Preparation of Annual Report to Congress

Jeremy Isenberg

4:15 – 4:45 pm

Identification of Topics for Next Meeting

Jeremy Isenberg

4:45 – 5:00 pm

Public Comment Period

Jeremy Isenberg

5:00 pm

ADJOURN

Created March 18, 2015, Updated August 25, 2016