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NATA Fights Fuel Farm Modifications
The public comment window on the National Fire Protection Association’s changes to NFPA 407 Standard for Aircraft Fuel Servicing is now open.
NATA hopes to overturn the NFPA's mandate for the equipage of fuel farm automatic shutdown systems, a move that it says is redundant and will add thousands of dollars of unneeded costs to companies that are already feeling the pinch from the Covid pandemic.
NATA hopes to overturn the NFPA's mandate for the equipage of fuel farm automatic shutdown systems, a move that it says is redundant and will add thousands of dollars of unneeded costs to companies that are already feeling the pinch from the Covid pandemic.

With the public comment window on the National Fire Protection Association’s changes to NFPA 407 Standard for Aircraft Fuel Servicing now open, NATA is urging the industry to support its Tentative Interim Amendment (TIA) 1558, which calls for the removal of requirements for automatic shutdown systems at all airport loading racks that are compatible with mobile refuelers. In 2017, NFPA created a revision to 407, giving the industry five years to comply with a requirement for automatic shutdown systems that can communicate with the sensor modules on the refuelers.