[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 130 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36498-36499]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17757]


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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, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the 82nd Annual Meeting of the 
National Conference on Weights and Measures will be held July 20 
through 24, 1997, at Swissotel, Chicago, Illinois. 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, held in 
January, 1997, as well as the annual meeting, bring 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 (15 U.S.C. 272(B)(6)), 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

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complex of laws, regulations, methods, and testing equipment that 
comprises regulatory control by the States of commercial weighing and 
measuring.

DATE: The meeting will be held July 20-24, 1997.

LOCATION: Swissotel, Chicago, Illinois.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gilbert M. Ugiansky, Executive Secretary, National Conference on 
Weights and Measures, P.O. Box 4025, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20885. 
Telephone: (301) 975-4005.

    Dated: July 1, 1997.
Elaine Bunten-Mines,
Director, Program Office.
[FR Doc. 97-17757 Filed 7-7-97; 8:45 am]
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