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CODES AND STANDARDS

1.2 CHAPTER ONE

AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION (AGA)

The AGA advances the safe, economical, and dependable transport of gas to the public. In
conjunction with the NFPA, it publishes NFPA-54, the Fuel Gas Code.

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS
INSTITUTE (ANSI)

ANSI serves as the national coordinating institution for voluntary standardization and related
activities in the United States. Through ANSI, organizations concerned with such activities
may cooperate in establishing, improving, and approving standards and certification that such
activities remain dynamically responsive to national needs and prevent duplication of work.
ANSI’s goals are to further the voluntary standards movement as a means of advancing national
economy and benefiting public health, safety, and welfare; to facilitate domestic and interna-
tional trade; to ensure that the interests of the public, including consumers, labor, industry, and
government, have appropriate protection, participation, and representation in standardization
and certification; to provide the means for determining the need for new standards and certifica-
tion programs; to ensure activities by existing organizations competent to resolve the need; to
establish, promulgate, and administer procedures and criteria for recognition and approval of
standards as American National Standards and to encourage existing organizations and com-
mittees to prepare and submit such standards for approval by the institute; to cooperate with
departments and agencies of the federal, state, and local governments in achieving optimum use
of ANSI in regulation and procurement; and to serve as a clearinghouse for information on stan-
dards and standardization, certification, and related activities in the United States and abroad.

AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE (API)

This organization affords a means to cooperate with the government in all matters of
national concern relating to American petroleum products; to foster foreign and domestic
trade in American petroleum products; to promote in general the interests of all branches of
the petroleum industry; to promote the mutual improvement of its members and the study
of the arts and sciences connected with the petroleum industry.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEATING,
REFRIGERATING, AND AIR CONDITIONING
ENGINEERS (ASHRAE)

The purpose of ASHRAE is to advance the art and science of heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning and allied arts and sciences, as well as related human factors for the benefit of
the general public. To fulfill its role, the society recognizes the effect of its technology on
environmental and natural resources.

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLUMBING
ENGINEERS (ASPE)

The purpose of this organization is to develop and disseminate technical information in the
field of engineered plumbing systems and to provide a forum for exchange of this information
with other technical and construction code organizations.

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