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- Title
- Guidelines and Procedures for Implementation of the Executive Order on Seismic Safety of New Construction (July 1991).
- File
- PB93228674.pdf
- Author(s)
- Todd, D.
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC. Office of Earthquakes and Natural Hazards., July 1991, 27 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NISTIR-4635
- Abstract
- Executive Order 12699, 'Seismic Safety of Federal and Federally Assisted or Regulated New Building Construction', was signed by the President to further the goals of Public Law 95-124, the 'Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977', as amended. These guidelines and procedures for implementing the Order have been prepared and endorsed by consensus of the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction.
- Keywords
- ; Seismic design; Executive orders; Safety engineering; Earthquake engineering; Instructions; Federal buildings