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sets requirements for producing, marketing and specifying softwood plywood used in a wide array of construction and industrial applications. It was last revised in2007. PS 2, last revised in 2004, is a performance-based standard resulting from efforts to harmonize U.S. and Canadian standards under the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. The standing committees of both standards are comprised of members representing panel manufacturers. suppliers. regulatory agencies. government, academia and inspection agencies. APA serves as a non-voting sponsor and technical advisor.

Thickness labeling changes, if adopted, would be designed to achieve consistency between provisions in PS / and PS 2 and those found in handbooks published by the National Institute of Standards & Technology.

Siding Sets Listed

Two varieties of APA 303 plywood siding are now listed in the Calilornia Wildland Urban Interface Products handbook as products complying with new California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection regulations for fire-resistive conslruction assemblies in state urban-wildland interface areas.

The products include: (1) 303 siding wilh shiplap edges, nominal '19/32" thick and grooves spaced 4" on center, manufactured with veneers of all southem pine or Douglas fir face, back and center with hemlock or Douglas fir cross plies, measuring 4x8 ft., and (2) 303 reverse board and batten, nominal 19/32" thick and shiplap edges, grooves spaced 12" on center, manufactured with face, back and center of Douglas lir veneers and cross ply veneers of hemlock or Douglas fir, measuring 4x8 ft. The new regulations went inlo effect January 1, 2009. The listings are based on the results of a series of fire tests that APA sponsored at the Western Fire Center, Inc., an accredited fire test laboratory in Kelso, Wa.

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