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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.

T 1212 sp-21     Light sources for evaluating papers including those containing fluorescent whitening agents
T 1215 sp-21     The determination of instrumental color differences
T 267 cm-15       Compression wood identification in pulpwood
T 272 sp-21        Forming handsheets for reflectance testing of pulp (sheet machine procedure)
T 444 sp-21        Silver tarnishing by paper and paperboard
T 454 om-21      Turpentine test for voids in glassine and greaseproof papers
T 465 sp-21        Static creasing of paper for water vapor transmission tests
T 515 om-20      Visual grading and color matching of paper
T 572 sp-21        Accelerated pollutant aging of printing and writing paper by pollution chamber exposure apparatus
T 573 sp-21        Accelerated temperature aging of printing and writing paper by dry oven exposure apparatus 

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