[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 10 (Friday, January 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2628-2629]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-899]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Announcement of Meeting of National Conference on Weights and
Measures
agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology.
action: Notice of meeting.
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summary: Notice is hereby given that the Interim Meeting of the
National Conference on Weights and Measures will be held January 31
through February 4, 1999, at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. The meeting is open to the public.
The National Conference on Weights and Measures is an organization
of weights and measures enforcement officials of the States, counties,
and cities of the United States, and private sector representatives.
The interim meeting of the conference, as well as the annual meeting to
be held next July (a notice will be published in the Federal Register
prior to such meeting), brings together enforcement officials, other
government officials, and representatives of business, industry, trade
associations, and consumer
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organizations to discuss subjects that relate to the field of weights
and measures technology and administration.
Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 272 B, the National Institute of Standards
and Technology acts as a sponsor of the National Conference on Weights
and Measures in order to promote uniformity among the States in the
complex of laws, regulations, methods, and testing equipment that
comprises regulatory control by the States of commercial weighing and
measuring.
Dates: The meeting will be held January 31-February 4, 1999, 8:00 a.m.-
5:00 p.m.
Location of Meeting: Sheraton Old Town Hotel, 800 Rio Grande Boulevard,
N.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 878104.
For further information contact: Dr. Gilbert Ugiansky, Chief, NIST,
Office of Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 2350
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-2350. Telephone: (301) 975-4004, or E-
mail: owm@nist.gov.
Dated: January 8, 1999.
Robert E. Hebner,
Acting Deputy Director.
[FR Doc. 99-899 Filed 1-14-99; 8:45 am]
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