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| Open Date | Accredited Standards Committee | Assigned Ballot Number | Standard Designation | Standard Title | Link to Ballot | Ballot Type | Close Date |
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| 12/19/2025 | S12 | 1791 | ASA/BSR S12.50-20XX / ISO 3740:2019 | Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels of noise sources — Guidelines for the use of basic standards (a nationally adopted international standard) |
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Identical Adoption of ISO Standard and Revision of Current ANS | 02/17/2026 |
| 12/19/2025 | S12 | 1790 | ASA/BSR S12.53-20XX/Part 2 / ISO 3743-2:2018 | Acoustics — Determination of sound power levels of noise sources using sound pressure — Engineering methods for small, movable sources in reverberant fields — Part 2: Methods for special reverberation test rooms (a nationally adopted international standard) |
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Identical Adoption of ISO Standard and Revision of Current ANS | 02/17/2026 |
| 11/05/2025 | S3/SC1 | 1917 | ASA/BSR S3/SC1.7-20XX | Standard for Acoustic Metadata for Passive Acoustic Monitoring |
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New | EXTENDED TO 01/16/2026 |
| 12/11/2025 | S12 | 1929 | TBD | Measurement of Insertion Loss of Earplugs Using an Impedance Tube Method for Quality Control Applications |
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Proposal for Development of New Standard | EXTENDED TO 01/19/2026 |