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Someone asked "Why would an expert in
the Standards need SoP RFI?"
An experienced inspector replied: "There are many
Standards experts. It is demonstrated that they can disagree on subjective
requirements. TREC requires the inspector to use reasonable judgment to form an
opinion. When two experts disagree and a licensee is being judged for negligent
and incompetent acts what is reasonable?
What is the new licensee, who is not an
expert, to think?
What is an enforcement attorney, trained in law but not
construction, to think?
What would a jury or mediator think?
This is the purpose of SoP RFI . . . a voice
for ALL inspectors and a resource for all parties involved.
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Update October 3, 2010
No work being has been done in a year as far as we know. The TREC below indicates the last work was done one year ago. The Commentary may be a dead project. We will check into it.
Update February 12, 2010
The TREC SoP subcommittee met on February 12, 2010 and dismissed all public comment stating opposition for a Commentary and support for RFI negated itself.
The continued Commentary development will be posted at TREC and we will try to keep that link updated here.
http://www.trec.state.tx.us/inspector/SpecialTopics/SoP_Commentary_2009.asp
Update January, 2010
The TREC Inspector Advisory Committee is authoring a Commentary to help explain the recently revised Standards of Practice. A partial draft is available for review.
TREC is meeting to determine how best to implement the document or if it should be written. Opinions are:
 | The document could be made enforceable like the SoP |
| The document could be reference only |
| The entire project could be terminated. |
Comments submitted to date that we have been able to obtain are:
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Thom Walker, Professional Inspector opinion (an excellent presentation of TREC's mission statement) |
| Cahill opinion |
| INACHI opinion |
| There have been no favorable comments supporting a Commentary. SoP RFI strives to represent all opinions. If you favor the Commentary send us an email and copy TREC. I guarantee we will post your comments. |
Send your comments to Comments and suggestions should be sent to commentaries@TREC.state.tx.us and soprfi@gmail.com