[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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