[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 78 (Friday, April 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 21399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10006]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institution of Standards and Technology


Announcing a Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and 
Measures

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

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SUMMARY: The 85th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights 
and Measures will be held July 16 through July 20, 2000, at the Omni 
Richmond Hotel, 100 South Street, Richmond, VA. 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, other government 
officials and representatives of business, industry, trade 
associations, and consumer organizations. Conference members meet twice 
a year to develop weights and measures laws and 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 complex of laws, regulations, methods, and testing 
equipment that comprises regulatory control by the states of commercial 
weighing and measuring devices and practices.

DATES: The meeting will be held July 16-July 20, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 
p.m.

ADDRESSES: Omni Richmond Hotel located at 100 South Street, Richmond, 
VA 23219.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henry V. Oppermann, Chief, NIST, 
Office of Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2350, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2350. Telephone (301) 975-4005, or E-mail 
[email protected].

    Dated: March 17, 2000.
Karen H. Brown,
Deputy Director, NIST.
[FR Doc. 00-10006 Filed 4-20-00; 8:45 am]
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