NBN Online for the week of August 22, 2005

Habitat Designation for Salmon Weighs Economic Impact

Five years after NAHB sued the National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA) over inadequate economic impact analysis and scientific evidence in designating critical habitat for 19 subpopulations of salmon and steelhead in California and the Pacific Northwest, the service has released a new designation that is one-fifth the size of the original one.

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Builders Urged to Join Energy Code Rollback Campaign

Only about five weeks remain before code officials at the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) final hearings in Detroit vote on a proposal by NAHB to roll back increased wall insulation requirements for wood-framed construction.

In the final stages of its nationwide campaign for the rollback, NAHB is urging all of its members to contact the code officials who attended recent ICC code hearings or conferences and are likely to vote on the rollback proposal, EC16-04/05, next month.

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