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Name: James E. Waller, P. E. Date: July 29, 2013 Jurisdiction/Company: Remagen Safe Rooms Submitted on Behalf of: Remagen Safe Rooms Address: P. O. Box 796 City: Monteagle State: TN Zip +4: 37356-0796 Phone: 931-924-3961 Ext: Fax: 931-924-3961 eMail: [email protected]

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5) Revision to: X Section 702.1.3 Table Figure 6) COMMENT Revise as follows (check BOX and state proposed change): Revise as follows: Add new text as follows Delete and substitute as follows: X Delete without Substitution:

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702.1.3 Intake openings. Outside air intake openings located in the same wall shall be located a minimum of 10 feet (3048 mm) horizontally and separated from any hazardous or noxious contaminant, such as emergency or back-up generator vents or exhaust, fuel storage tank vents and containers, maintenance or custodial storage facilities.

X COMMENT Continued (Attach additional sheets as necessary) 7) SUPPORTING INFORMATION (State purpose and reason, and provide substantiation to support proposed change):

The dimensional constraint on the location of an outside air intake opening fails to insure quality of ventilation of a tornado shelter. The minimum 10 foot horizontal spacing of intake openings on the same wall of a tornado shelter is an arbitrary restriction which cannot be proven to assure adequate or improved ventilation, cross ventilation, or air quality of intake air.

The percentage of total natural ventilation openings which must be located in the lower half of a tornado shelter (or within 46 inches of the floor) is specified in Section 702.1.1.1 Location of Ventilation Openings. The implication of this provision is that outside air intake openings for natural ventilation are to be located in walls of the tornado shelter. Section 702.1.3 Intake openings, requires a minimum horizontal spacing of outside air intake openings of 10 feet. The sizes of outside air intake openings are not restricted by Section 702. Therefore, a larger number of smaller openings or a smaller number of larger openings are permitted to be used for outside air intake openings on tornado shelter walls. Thus, flexibility in ventilation schemes is permitted and facilitated. This is particularly beneficial to tornado shelter designers who need to position outside air intake ventilation openings between structural framing members or wall reinforcement. The requirement for a minimum horizontal spacing of outside air intake openings on a single wall, while not assuring adequate ventilation, cross ventilation,

ICC Standards Public Proposal eForm Revised: August 15, 2011 or air quality of intake air, places an arbitrary, and overly restrictive, lower limit on the size of outside air intake openings on a tornado shelter wall.

SUPPORTING INFORMATION Continued (Attach additional sheets as necessary)

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IS-BLE Standard on Bleachers, Folding and Telescopic Seating, and Grandstands IS-RHW Standard for Residential Construction in High Wind Regions IS-IEDC Landscape Irrigation Sprinkler and Emitter Standard IS-LOG Standard on Design, Construction and Performance of Log Structures IS-MAN Manufactured Housing Construction & Safety Standards IS-STM Standard on Design, Construction and Performance of Storm Shelters A117.1 Standard on Accessible and Usable Buildings and Facilities