[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: 
Samuel.Chappell@nist,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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