This petition is a request for correction of information disseminated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”). This Request for Correction (the “Request”) is being submitted by Bob McIlvaine, Bill Doyle, Dr. Steven Jones, Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, AIA Architect, and Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice (referred to herein collectively as the “Requesters”) under Section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the Data Quality Act (the “DQA”), the Office of Management and Budget’s (“OMB’s”) government-wide Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated by Federal Agencies (the “OMB Guidelines”), and NIST’s “Guidelines, Information Quality Standards, and Administrative Mechanism” (the “NIST IQS”).
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The information that is the subject of this Request is NIST’s Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, including its various supporting reports and appendices thereto, all of which begin with “NIST NCSTAR” (collectively referred to herein as the “WTC Report”). The WTC Report can be found at the following NIST website: http://wtc.nist.gov/reports_october05.htm (last visited January 19, 2007). NIST should be commended for the amount of time and effort put into the WTC Report. However, the WTC Report contains information that clearly violates the DQA, the OMB Guidelines and the NIST IQS, and such violations seriously affect Requesters, as described more fully below.
