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Program News for Facilities Planning

October 28, 2025
OFP’s Notable 2025 NYS Code Changes for Educational Facilities
October 9, 2025
The 2025 NYS Uniform Code and State Energy Code will take effect on December 31, 2025
August 4, 2025
Memo regarding RFID-Blocking Paint in School Restrooms
July 30, 2025
Paperwork Electronic Submission Memo and Instructions
June 6, 2025
Transition to Electronic Submission of Paperwork - Amended 7/30/25
June 3, 2025
New Charter School Handbook
June 3, 2025
New FP-AU (Application for Use) Form
May 7, 2025
Facilities Planning – Fire Safety / Project Management System is Now LIVE!
April 18, 2025
Fire Safety / Project Management Update
April 14, 2025
Safe Schools by Design Act – A Guide by NYSED
April 7, 2025
NYSED Office of Facilities Planning Open Vacancy
February 20, 2025
AHERA 2025 Re-inspection Reminder
February 6, 2025
Early Aid Start Request (EASR) Form
January 4, 2025
Publication of the Revised MOU with Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
December 11, 2024
REMINDER: Certificate of Substantial Completions
November 14, 2024
2025-2029 Building Condition Survey
October 29, 2024
Preliminary Review Submissions and BAU Recalculations
October 9, 2024
Fire Safety Application – Building Information Change Request Procedure
September 24, 2024
Memo Issued - "Third Party Review (TPR) Program Returns for Capital Project Submissions to NYSED”
June 7, 2024
Preserving Privacy in All-Gender Multi-User and Public Single-User Toilet Facilities
April 29, 2024
Battery Energy Storage Systems and Energy Performance Contracts
March 27, 2024
Memo Issued – ‘Use of Building Aid to Support Expansion of UPK/SUFDPK Spaces’
March 25, 2024
Zero Emission Bus Charging Infrastructure Project Submissions
March 1, 2024
Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) Charging Infrastructure Permit Exemptions
January 4, 2024
2023 & 2024 Building Condition Survey and 2022 Visual Inspection
December 28, 2023
Newsletter 101
July 12, 2023
Zero Emission Bus Charging Infrastructure: State Aid Q&A
June 16, 2023
Preliminary Review Submissions and BAU Recalculations
June 16, 2023
SED Fiscal Associate List Updated
June 13, 2023
Notice of Amended Regulations for Construction Documents to Include the Design Professional’s Registration Expiration Date
March 29, 2023
Revision to 2022 Manual of Planning Standards
March 28, 2023
Revision to the Fire Safety Manual (NEW)
March 8, 2023
Suspending the Third Party Review (TPR) Expedited Program
January 26, 2023
Permit Application Submission Deadlines for Federal Stimulus Projects
November 16, 2022
Break out Federal Stimulus Fund Supported Projects
March 21, 2022
Electronic Project Submissions (Revised)
February 17, 2022
School Security and Door Hardening Memo
January 14, 2022
Federal Stimulus Funding Supported Projects - CRRSA and ARP Funding (Revised)
December 14, 2021
Statement Regarding Ionization Air Cleaners
December 8, 2021
Requesting Mailed and PDF Copies of All SED Submission Paperwork
October 22, 2021
Forms and Checklists (New)
October 13, 2021
Please See Facilities Planning Business Processes (Updated)
October 5, 2021
Bonfire and Fireworks Permits
September 23, 2021
Updated COVID 19 FAQs
August 5, 2021
Post Bid Addenda and Energy Performance Contract Amendments
June 7, 2021
Federal Stimulus Fund Supported Projects
May 27, 2021
Changes to Policy on Prescreening and Addressing Incomplete Design Submissions
March 26, 2021
Gender Neutral Single-Occupancy Bathroom Facilities
December 4, 2020
Fire Safety Report – Changes
September 4, 2020
COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
July 30, 2020
Use of Plastic Sneeze Guards
October 24, 2019
2020 Lead Testing in School Drinking Water Webinar
September 30, 2019
2019 US ED Green Ribbon Schools Honorees
March 6, 2019
Restroom Avaliability
July 29, 2009
Newsletter 99
January 9, 2006
Newsletter 71
June 5, 2004
State Building Aid for Public School Districts and BOCES
February 9, 2004
Evening Assembly Events
December 13, 2002
Required in New Projects: Floodplain Info
November 5, 2002
Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) Playgrounds Prohibition
March 9, 2002
Newsletter 25
November 8, 2000
Newsletter 9
June 13, 2000
CPSC Releases Test Results on Crayons

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Regents Actions in 35 Professional Discipline Cases and 4 Restoration Petitions
Tuesday, November 4, 2025
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