Draft:  new (in progress) documents prepared by Technical Committees which are available solely for use in submitting proposals (with no official status), and are not intended for any other use. Drafts are available to allow the public to view the drafts and make proposals. 

Errata: A correction issued to an NFPA document, published in NFPA News, the National Fire Codes Subscription Service (NFCSS), and included in any further distribution of the document.

Extract Update: A change issued to the extracted text of a document  because the source document has been changed.

Formal Interpretation (FI): A question on an NFPA document  that is processed in accordance with Section 6 of the Regulations Governing Committee Projects. An FI is the official position of the Technical Committee on the meaning or intent of the document. Published in NFPA News and Volume 15 of the National Fire Codes Subscription Service (NFCSS).

National Fire Codes® (NFC): A 14-volume annual compilation of all NFPA Technical Committee documents (some 300) with the first 12 volumes consisting of codes and standards and the remaining two containing recommended practices and guides. Published in March, it includes the documents adopted as a result of NFPA's Fall Education Conference (Fall Meeting).

NFC Supplement: A volume supplement to the National Fire Codes (NFC) published in July containing the documents adopted as a result of NFPA's World Safety Conference & Exposition (Annual Meeting).

National Fire Codes® Subscription Service (NFCSS): A subscription service consisting of a CD-ROM, looseleaf, or online version of the National Fire Codes. In addition to the 14 volumes of the National Fire Codes, there is a 15th volume consisting of standards information containing Formal Interpretations and the Master Index.

NITMAM (Notice of Intent to Make a Motion):  a NITMAM is required to be submitted in order to make a motion at an Association Technical Meeting.

Pamphlet: One of the 300 committee documents published and distributed as an individual booklet.

Performance-based codes: Performance-based codes and standards specifically state their safety goals, and reference approved methods that can be used to demonstrate compliance with their requirements. The document may be phrased as a method for quantifying equivalencies to an existing prescriptive-based code or standard, or it may identify one or more prescriptive codes or standards as approved solutions. Either way, the document allows the use of any solution that demonstrates compliance.

Report on Comments (ROC): A compilation of reports containing public and committee comments and the committees' actions on comments received as a result of the circulation of the Report on Proposals (ROP).

Report on Proposals (ROP): A compilation of committee reports consisting of proposed changes (public proposals and committee proposals) to existing documents and proposed text of any new documents published for public review and comment prior to the published comment closing date.

Standards Council: The Standards Council is a committee of the Association comprised of 13 individuals appointed by the NFPA Board of Directors. The Council's primary function is to oversee the Association's codes and standards development activities, and the Regulations Governing Committee Projects.

Technical Committee (TC): A group responsible for development and revision of any document or documents emanating from a Technical Committee project. A Technical Committee reporting to a Technical Correlating Committee can be termed a Panel.

Technical Committee Project (Project): A technical activity defined by an approved committee scope within which a Technical Committee or Technical Correlating Committee functions to develop one or more Documents.

Technical Correlating Committee (TCC): A group assigned to manage and coordinate the activities of a Technical Committee project within which more than one Technical Committee functions.

Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA):  An amendment to an NFPA document processed in accordance with Section 5 of the Regulations Governing Committee Projects. It has not gone through the entire codes and standards-making process of being published in a ROP and ROC for review and comment. TIAs are effective only between editions of the Document. A TIA automatically becomes a proposal of the proponent for the next edition of the Document, as such it then is subject to all of the procedures of the codes and standards making process. Published in NFPA News and any further distribution of the document, and sent to NFCSS, after being issued by the Standards Council.