Friday, December 5, 2008

TM0497 and SP0169 comments

It would seem that Jim Chmilar (TG-360 Chairman) intends to go out for ballot on the proposed/revised SP0169, before CORROSION 2009. There are many who do not believe in Jim’s version of what the “FOUR criteria” will allow. Those individuals believe the facts remain that the -850 mV “On” criterion has been removed, only the -850 mV “polarized” (actually instant-off) and the 100 mV polarization criteria remain in black and white, the regulators and other auditors will only want to deal with black and white, and other wording (and lack of wording) within the proposed/revised SP0169, as well as the yet-to-be-created proposed/revised TM0497, along with the most likely perceived ambiguity of the 3rd and 4th “criteria” in the proposed/revised SP0169, will almost certainly make it virtually impossible to ever utilize the -850 mV “On” criterion or any other alternative criterion. In other words, there are many who believe that only the -850 mV “polarized” and the 100 mV polarization criteria will end up being allowed.



Everyone does need to read the proposed/revised SP0169 very, very carefully. It is the belief of a number of individuals that everyone needs to formally insist the PRCI studies be completed, fully reviewed and incorporated, before the proposed/revised SP0169 goes to ballot. In addition, they believe that everyone should formally insist that the proposed/revised SP0169 and proposed/revised TM0497 go to ballot simultaneously, once both of these proposed revisions have been completed and appropriate changes/incorporations have been made to both based on the PRCI studies, as well as the consensus determinations of the industries most affected by these documents. These are both supposed to be consensus documents. It appears there are many who believe that objective is not truly being achieved.

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