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What is NFPA 76?
Official document scope
NFPA 76: Document Scope
1.1* Scope. This standard provides requirements for fire protection of telecommunications facilities where telecommunications services such as telephone (landline, wireless) transmission, data transmission, internet transmission, voice-over internet protocol (VoIP) transmission, and video transmission are rendered to the public.
A.1.1 It is not intended that this standard apply to private telecommunications facilities. Private telecommunications facilities include rooms specifically used for a business to deliver telecommunications to its employees, containing telecommunication for employees of a company. However, private telecommunications facilities do not include facilities that are owned by non-utility business that provide telecommunications services to the public, including, but not limited to, large medical facilities, universities, large corporate telecommunications networks, military bases, and private prisons. Telecommunications facilities are referred to as telephone exchanges in NFPA 101 and NFPA 5000. The 2012 edition of NFPA 101 classifies telephone exchanges as special-purpose industrial occupancies, and the 2012 edition of NFPA 5000 classifies telephone exchanges as industrial occupancies.
1.1.1 Telecommunications facilities include signal processing equipment areas, cable entrance facility areas, power areas, main distribution frame areas, standby engine areas, technical support areas, administrative areas, and building services and support areas occupied by a telecommunications service provider.
1.1.2* This standard shall specifically exclude small outdoor structures that are normally unoccupied and that house telecommunications equipment, including on-grade, walk-in cabinets, on-grade huts, cell huts, and controlled environmental vaults (CEVs).
A.1.1.2 Outdoor structures that include abovegrade huts and cabinets and belowgrade vaults are not intended to be covered by this standard.
What does NFPA 76 address?
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Archived revision information
NFPA 76, 2012 Edition: Archived Revision Information
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NFPA 76, 2012 Edition: Archived Revision Information
Report on Proposals (ROP)
Report on Proposals (ROP)
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The Preprint appended to the ROP above shows how the draft of the proposed
2012 edition looks based on NFPA staff’s reading of the Committee Actions contained in the Technical Committee Report (i.e., the Committee Actions in the Report on Proposals).
ROP Meeting Notice
ROP Meeting Notice
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Report on Comments (ROC)
Report on Comments (ROC)
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ROC Meeting Notice
ROC Meeting Notice
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Motions Committee Report (NITMAM)
Motions Committee Report (NITMAM)
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