[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 168 (Wednesday, August 28, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44298-44299]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21863]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Public Meeting on U.S. Technical Participation in 10th
Quadrennial Conference of the International Organization of Legal
Metrology (OIML)
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Announcement of pre-conference meeting prior to OIML 10th
Quadrennial International Conference.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will
hold a public meeting to discuss U.S. technical participation in the
10th Quadrennial Conference of the International Organization of Legal
Metrology (OIML). The principal focus will be on 29 OIML
Recommendations on legal measuring instruments that will be presented
for ratification by the Conference. These Recommendations and OIML-
member nations' technical comments on them will be reviewed with
interested parties who will be given an opportunity to present their
views on the Recommendations and other relevant issues of the
Conference.
The public meeting is open to all interested parties. Participants
with an expressed interest in particular topics may obtain copies of
the Conference technical agenda, including copies of the
Recommendations to be ratified. A written summary of oral presentations
by interested parties should be arranged and scheduled beforehand.
Written comments are welcome at any time.
DATES: Pre-conference meeting at NIST: 20 September 1996 from 10a.m. to
12 noon; Tenth OIML International Conference in Vancouver, British
Columbia: 4-8 November 1996.
LOCATION: Pre-conference meeting: National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST North), Conference Room 145, 820 West Diamond Avenue,
Gaithersburg, Maryland; International Conference: Pan Pacific Hotel,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Samuel E. Chappell, Chief, Standards Management, Office of Standards
Services, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg,
Maryland 20899; telephone: 301/975-4023, fax: 301/9266-559, e-mail:
[email protected],gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The International Organization of Legal
Metrology (OIML) is an intergovernmental (treaty) organization in which
the United States and 53 other nations participate. Its principal
purpose is to harmonize national laws and regulations pertaining to
testing and verifying the performance of legal measuring instruments
used for equity in commerce, for public and worker health and safety,
and for monitoring and protection of the environment. The harmonized
results are to promote international trade of measuring instruments and
products affected by measurement.
Twenty-nine Recommendations will be presented for ratification by
the Conference in these categories: (1) Those already approved by the
International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML) between 1993 and
1995, and (2) those that are expected to be submitted directly to the
Conference for approval. These Recommendations and the OIML-member
nations holding the responsible secretariat for their development are
as follows:
Category 1:
R14 Polarizmetric saccharimeters (France)
R31 Diaphragm gas meters (Netherlands)
R50 Continuous totalizing automatic weighing instruments (UK)
R 51 Automatic catchweighting instruments (UK)
R 61 Automatic gravimetric filling instruments (UK)
R 63 Petroleum measurement tables (USA)
R 102 Annex: Test procedures for sound calibrators Germany)
R 106 Annex: Test procedures for automatic rail-weighbridges (UK)
R 107 Annex: Test procedures for discontinuous totalizing automatic
weighting instruments (UK)
R 110 Pressure balances (Bulgaria and Czech Republic)
R 111 Weights of classes E1, E2, F1, F2, M1,
M2, M3, (USA)
R 112 High performance liquid chromatographs for measurement of
pesticides and other toxic substances (USA)
R 113 Portable gas chromatographs for field measurements of hazardous
chemical pollutants (USA)
R 114 Clinical electrical thermometers for continuous measurement
(Germany)
R 115 Clinical electrical thermometers with maximum device (Germany)
R 116 Inductiviely coupled plasma atomic emission specrtrometers for
measurement of metal pollutants in water (USA)
R 117 Measuring assemblies for liquids other than water (Germany)
R 118 Testing procedures and test report format for pattern evaluation
of fuel dispensers for motor vehicles (Germany)
R 119 Pipe provers for testing measuring systems for liquids other
than water (Japan)
R 120 Standard capacity measures for testing measuring systems for
liquids other than water (Germany/France)
R 121 The scale of relative humidity of air certified against
saturated salt solutions (People's Republic of China)
R 122 Equipment for speech audiometers (Germany)
R 123 Portable and transportable X-ray fluorescence spectrometers for
field measurement of hazardous elemental pollutants (USA)
Category 2:
--Revision of R 49: Water meters (UK)
--Revision of R 54: ph-scale for aqueous solutions (Russia)
--Revision of R 58: Sound level meters including development of Annex:
Test report format for the evaluation of sound level meters (Germany)
--Revision of R 79: Information on labels of prepackaged products (USA)
--Revision of R 88: Integrating-averaging sound level meters including
development of Annex; Test report format for the evaluation of
integrating-averaging sound level meters (Germany)
--Refractometers for measuring the sugar content of grape must (France)
Dated: August 21, 1996.
Samuel Kramer,
Associate Director.
[FR Doc. 96-21863 Filed 8-27-96; 8:45 am]
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