Pursuant to Section 5 of the NFPA Regulations Governing Committee Projects, the National Fire Protection
Association has issued the following Tentative Interim Amendment to NFPA 1999, Standard on Protective Clothing
for Emergency Medical Operations, 2003 edition. The TIA was processed by the Emergency Medical Services
Protective Clothing and Equipment Committee, and was issued by the Standards Council on January 26, 2006, with an
effective date of February 14, 2006.
A Tentative Interim Amendment is tentative because it has not been processed through the entire standards-making
procedures. It is interim because it is effective only between editions of the standard. A TIA automatically becomes a
proposal of the proponent for the next edition of the standard; as such, it then is subject to all of the procedures of the
standards-making process.