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 PAGE 12 Task Force for Model Law for Surveying George E. Freeman, P.E., P.L.S., Chair ABSTRACT The NCEES Task Force on Model Law for Surveying was formed by Past-President Dick Cottingham and continued by President Ted Fairfield in response to communication and correspondence received by NCEES regarding the 1995 revisions to the Model Law for Surveying. Those revisions included adopting a broader range of activities into the definition of surveying that were being performed by surveyors, and that were already regulated by a significant number of jurisdictions. The charges set forth below are the most recent issues that have been raised. The NCEES Task Force deliberated over these issues during the past year and offers the following recommendations and conclusions. TEXT Charge #1: Evaluate the Report of the Joint Task Force on the NCEES Model Law for Surveying, correspondence received from the California Land Surveyors Association, and other related information. Evaluate for what? Coordinate with and solicit feedback from the representative members of the joint task force (ACSM, ASCE, ASPRS, NSPS, NSGEC and URISA), to ensure full understanding of their report The NCEES Task Force on the Model Law reviewed the original 1997 Multi-Organizational Task Force report and it’s 2000 Addendum line by line. Greg Johnson, PE, PLS, who was the NSPS delegate to the Multi-Organizational Task Force, was present and provided valuable insight into the deliberations of that group and the reasons for the concerns that were raised. The NCEES Task Force concluded that many of the basic concepts of the original report had already been addressed by NCEES through Model Law changes and the adoption of EP 12 between 1997 and 2000. The NCEES Task Force also reaffirmed that the two-tier licensing approach outlined in the original 1997 report was not well received by many in the surveying community or within NCEES. In regards to the letter from the California Land Surveyors Association,