“The proposed wording says that any conductor "identified as permitted" in this section shall only be used as an EGC. The use of a bare wire is permitted to identify an EGC, this will mean that bare conductors are no longer permitted to be used as grounding electrode conductors.”
I will disagree.
1) A completely bare conductor is not “identified” as in 250.119 A or B. They are referring to insulated conductors that are stripped bare for the entire EXPOSED length. To identify something you have to do something to it.
2) Nothing in the substantiation points to this. The intent is if it’s green or green w/ yellow stripe – it’s an EGC only.
[This message has been edited by engy (edited 06-06-2003).]
