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The Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIGs) for the following Standards are in need of additional members. These groups may or may not have ballots currently open.

All Standard-Specific Interest Groups (SSIG) require a minimum of 10 members in order to ballot and vote on a draft of a method. The following test methods do not have the required minimum number of member to initiate a ballot:

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T 207 Water solubility of wood and pulp (need 1 or more members)

T 235 Alkali solubility of pulp at 25°C (need 2 or more members)

T 237 Carboxyl content of pulp (need 3 or more members)

T 245 Silicates and silica in pulp (wet ash method) (need 2 or more members)

T 255 Water-soluble sulfates in pulp and paper (need 1 or more members)

T 264 Preparation of wood for chemical analysis (need 2 or more members)

T 265 Natural dirt in wood chips (need 4 or more members)

T 268 Weight-volume measurement of pulpwood (need 3 or more members)

T 406 Reducible sulfur in paper and paperboard (need 1 or more members)

T 408 Rosin in paper and paperboard (need 1 or more members)

T 421 Qualitative (including optical microscopic) analysis of mineral filler and mineral coating of paper (need 2 or more members)

T 430 Copper number of pulp, paper, and paperboard (need 1 or more members)

T 500 Book bulk and bulking number of paper (need 1 or more members)

T 504 Glue in paper (qualitative & quantitative determination) (need 2 or more members)

T 520 Curl of gummed flat paper (need 2 or more members)

T 529 Surface pH measurement of paper (need 2 or more members)

T 572 Accelerated pollutant aging of printing and writing paper by pollution chamber exposure apparatus (need 1 or more members)

T 604 Sulfur dioxide in sulfite cooking liquor (need 2 or more members)

T 611 Analysis of bleaching powder, calcium hypochlorite bleach liquor and bleach sludge (need 1 or more members)

T 529 Surface pH measurement of paper (need 1 or more members)

T 692 Determination of suspended solids in kraft green and white liquors (need 1 or more members) 

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