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Reviewer: Please cast your ballot, trying not to abstain. The previous ballot did not receive the required number of replies. PIP Merge Task Team  July 3, 2003. NOTES TO REVIEWER: AGENDA ITEM 650-524: Merge PIP Tank Specifications into API-650. PURPOSE: This is a revision to API-650 that incorporates most of the technical content of PIP VEST002 and VESTA003, covering atmospheric tanks. The PIP documents were written to reflect the current requirements in the PIP member company internal specifications that modify and amplify the content of API-650. Merging these specifications will put most tank technical requirements into a single industry standard, allowing owners to void much of their internal standards, and diminish the need for supporting project specifications. The intent is that this draft, when completed, will be approved and published as the 11th Edition of API-650. ACTION: The task team is resubmitting this draft for formal third PVT Subcommittee Letter Ballot. Remaining work includes: adding bullets to paragraphs with Purchaser options, updating the list of bulleted paragraphs in Appendix L, and updating the list of NDE-related paragraphs. Agenda items approved in the fall of 2002 have been included. NOTE: The API-650 file provided to the task team contains some unusual formatting, which the reviewer is asked to ignore for now. Lists and tables are particularly affected. Figures and tables in the current 650 have not been issued to the task team, but are part of this document. SCHEDULE/CONTACTS: The reviewer is welcome to contact the task team members with any questions or comments. The team members are: Steve Braune, Jim Johnston, George Morovich, and Bruce Roberts. Comments are requested by September 1, 2003, to allow time for task team review prior to the PVT Meeting in Denver. To assist the reviewer, shading has been used to identify all changes, except some metrication changes. Black unshaded text has not been revised. The codes are