This team meeting is not an extension of the public comment period.  Public comments were formally submitted during the 30-day public comment period March 16-April 14, 2009, on draft BAL-001-TRE-01.  These comments may be viewed at http://trackstandard.texasre.org.  On May 4, 15, 29, and June 9, the team began the assigned task of formally writing responses to the written comments.  At this meeting on July 2, the team will continue writing these responses, and will go through each comment that was submitted, discuss it, and draft a response.  All responses will be posted at http://trackstandard.texasre.org when the team is finished writing all of them.

This meeting, like all standard drafting team meetings is open; however, the public is reminded that the formal comment period on this first draft has closed.  We must follow our standards development process, and to be completely fair to all those who timely and appropriately submitted comments during the 30-day comment period, the team must now complete its assignment and respond in writing to those comments that were formally submitted in writing. The team Chair is responsible for conducting the meetings in a responsible, timely and efficient manner. To accomplish its assigned tasks there may be times when the Chair has to limit the participation of guests to ensure that the team accomplishes its assigned tasks in a timely and efficient manner.  Thank you.