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      NCSS Standards Committee
            2011 National Meeting
          Cameron Loerch,   John Galbraith (co-chairs)
      • Status of Proposals
      • ICOMANTH
      • USC
      • Soil Survey Manual
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     Soil Taxonomy Proposals 
     • Changes to Soil Taxonomy since 
       the 2009 NCSS Nat’l Conference
        –Accepted, Published
        –Accepted, Unpublished
        –Current proposals
     • Included with conference report
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     Conference Proposals (2009 +)
     • 28 proposals/recommendations
        –17 Completed
        –5 redirected
        –6 working on
     • Part of committee report
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      Committee 
      Recommendation’s
      • Provide a link on how to propose a change to 
         standards including; minimum documentation, 
         template of what items to address, where to send
      • Provide status information on proposals and 
         rationale for decisions.
      • Post summary of changes since 2006 on website.
      • Possible list server  to announce proposals
      • soils.usda.gov