diff --git a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteAwareRegistry.java b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteAwareRegistry.java
index 20bceafac7..4dc706b173 100644
--- a/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteAwareRegistry.java
+++ b/edexOsgi/com.raytheon.uf.edex.site/src/com/raytheon/uf/edex/site/SiteAwareRegistry.java
@@ -48,13 +48,13 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.edex.core.props.PropertiesFactory;
 import com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.SiteActivationMessage.Action;
 
 /**
- *
+ * 
  * Site Aware Registry
- *
+ * 
  * <pre>
- *
+ * 
  * SOFTWARE HISTORY
- *
+ * 
  * Date         Ticket#    Engineer    Description
  * ------------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
  * Nov 30, 2010            rjpeter     Initial creation
@@ -63,9 +63,10 @@ import com.raytheon.uf.edex.site.SiteActivationMessage.Action;
  * Nov 1, 2012   15417     ryu         Modified getActiveSites to include
  *                                     home site only if activated.
  * Dec 11, 2012  14360     ryu         No printing stack trace on activation exception
- *
+ * Mar 10, 2014  2721      randerso    Fix error when activeSites.txt contains blank lines.
+ * 
  * </pre>
- *
+ * 
  * @author rjpeter
  * @version 1.0
  */
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
 
     /**
      * registers/adds site activation listeners
-     *
+     * 
      * @param sa
      *            the listener to register / add to the list
      */
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
 
     /**
      * get the set of strings for the active sites
-     *
+     * 
      * @return the requested array of Strings this is a string array to make it
      *         work with dwr frontend, most of the other stuff is Set<String>
      */
@@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
 
     /**
      * Checks to see if the given site is active
-     *
+     * 
      * @param site
      *            The site to check
      * @return True if the site is active, else false
@@ -183,7 +184,7 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
 
     /**
      * activate the site specified in each listener
-     *
+     * 
      * @param siteID
      */
     public void activateSite(String siteID) {
@@ -204,7 +205,7 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
 
     /**
      * deactivate the site specified in each listener
-     *
+     * 
      * @param siteID
      */
     public void deactivateSite(String siteID) {
@@ -224,7 +225,7 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
 
     /**
      * cycle the site specified in each listener
-     *
+     * 
      * @param siteID
      */
     public void cycleSite(String siteID) {
@@ -297,7 +298,10 @@ public class SiteAwareRegistry {
                 in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file));
                 String site;
                 while ((site = in.readLine()) != null) {
-                    activeSites.add(site);
+                    site = site.trim();
+                    if (!site.isEmpty()) {
+                        activeSites.add(site);
+                    }
                 }
             }
         } catch (IOException e) {