[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 251 (Monday, December 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 68720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-33135]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Announcement of Meeting of National Conference on Weights and
Measures
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
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 12
through 16, 1997, at the Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, MD. 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 organizations to discuss subjects that
relate to the field of weights and measures technology and
administration.
Pursuant to section 2(5) of its Organic Act (15 U.S.C. 272(5)), 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 12-16, 1997.
LOCATION OF MEETING: Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, MD.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. Gilbert Ugiansky, Executive Secretary, National Conference on
Weights and Measures, P.O. Box 4025, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885.
Telephone: (301) 975-4005.
Dated: December 18, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-33135 Filed 12-27-96; 8:45 am]
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