Joe,
Nothing in that section requires any of the branch circuit equipment grounding conductors to be connected to the equipment grounding terminal bar. That is certainly implied, but not specified in the wording. The only code required connection to this bar is the EGC that is installed with the panel feeder. This is just very poor code wording. We all know how it should be installed, but the actual code wording does not require us to make the installation in the correct way. In the '87 code this section (then 384.27) said that "all feeder and branch circuit EGCs shall be connected to the equipment grounding terminal". This wording was lost in the revisions for the '90 code. The old wording needs to be returned to the code. This would be a good section for a 2008 proposal.
... to be secured to a "Terminal Bar" not "Terminal Bars" ...
Are you saying that the code wording prohibits more than one equipment grounding terminal bar? Many large panels require more than one bar.
Don
