The Pool & Hot Tub Alliance (PHTA) is inviting a third round of public review and comments on revisions to the ANSI/APSP/ICC-5 2011 (R2022) American National Standard for Residential Inground Swimming Pools. The standard in development will be the PHTA/ICC-5 Standard for Residential Inground Swimming Pools, and public review is a fundamental part of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards consensus development process.
This third round is a 30-day public review. Comments are limited to the revisions printed in the Jan. 17, 2025 edition of the ANSI Standards Action newsletter, including changes to Section 9.1.3 on turnover and water clarity and Section 12 on sanitizing equipment and chemical feed systems. These revisions are available for review on the PHTA website.
The latest revisions were made after the second round of public comment held in Nov. 2024 and incorporate feedback from the PHTA Recreational Water and Air Quality Committee (RWAQC) and the PHTA Standards Consensus Committee (SCC), along with individuals who submitted public comments.
The PHTA/ICC-5 standard applies to permanently installed residential inground swimming pools intended for noncommercial use as a swimming pool by not over three owner families and their guests and exceeding 24 in. (61 cm) in water depth. The objective of this is to provide recommended minimum guidelines for the design, equipment, installation and use of residential inground swimming pools.
PHTA invites pool, spa and hot tub professionals, along with non-industry members, to review the revisions printed in Standards Action and submit comments. The ANSI public review announcement on the required 30-day public review period for the PHTA-5 standard was published in Standards Action on Jan. 17, 2025. All public review comments are due by Feb. 16, 2025.
For more information on the draft standard, click here, email standards@phta.org, or call (703) 838-0083.
