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The latest issue of ESTA Standards Watch is now available here.

News items in this issue include:

• NEA Grant update: no DEI and celebrating the Declaration of Independence.
• Purple Guide Updates: DEI and mobile LPG.
• NAMM Webinar on tariffs.
• New rules postponed on horse shows.
• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade: hazardous materials packaging for mailing in the USA; small off-road engines in California; and climate protection in Oregon.
• ANSI public reviews: speech intelligibility; video surveillance; coordinated overcurrent protection; nickel batteries; LED drivers; upgrading lighting systems; flame effects, rockets, fireworks, and pyro; panelboards with radiated emissions; secure software development; and installing and maintaining commercial lighting systems.
• CSA public review announcements: LED drivers and BIM.
• New ANS projects: medical AI and machine learning; dimming and control methods; protecting museums, libraries, etc.; and control of infectious aerosols.
• Final actions on American National Standards: withdrawal of two ESTA standards and approval of two more; laminated timbers; data center energy; four addenda to ASHRAE/IES Standard 90.1; emergency evacuation signals; below-the-hook lifting devices; lever hoists; porta-potties; virtual reality equipment safety; and more.
• Recently published ISO & IEC docs: mobile elevating work platforms; AAL robots; sharing economy; bamboo drinking straws; BACS; and generic single-pair cabling.
• TSP meetings at USITT in Columbus.
• Investors in Innovation, supporters of ESTA's Technical Standards Program.

The archive of all the Standards News and Standards Watch issues back to the beginning of 2011 is available at http://estalink.us/nn7a1.