[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 165 (Thursday, August 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51589-51590]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-21622]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Public Meeting on U.S. Technical Participation in 11th 
Quadrennial Conference of the International Organization of Legal 
Metrology (OIML)

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Meeting Announcement.

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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 
11th Quadrennial Conference of the International Organization of Legal 
Metrology (OIML). The pre-conference public meeting is open to all 
interested parties.
    The principal focus will be on 15 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.
    Participants with an expressed interest in particular topics may 
obtain copies of the OIML Conference technical agenda, including copies 
of the Recommendations to be ratified. Interested parties should 
schedule oral presentations for the pre-conference meeting, providing a 
written summary of comments, no later than 22 September 2000 with the 
NIST Technical Standards Activities Program. Written comments are 
welcome at any time.

DATES: Pre-conference meeting at the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology: 26 September 2000 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon; 
Eleventh OIML International Conference of Legal Metrology in London, 
England: 9-13 October 2000.

ADDRESSES: Pre-conference meeting: National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (NIST North), Conference Room 152, 80 West Diamond Avenue, 
Gaithersburg, MD; International Conference: Queen Elizabeth II 
Conference Centre, London, England.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Ralph Richter, Technical Standards 
Activities Program, Office of Standards Services, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 2099-2150; telephone: 301/
975-4025; fax: 301/975-5414; e-mail: [email protected]; web site: 
www.ts.nist.gov/tsap and www.oiml.org

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The International Organization of Legal 
Metrology (OIML) is an intergovernmental treaty organization in which 
the United States and 56 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 protecting the environment. The harmonized 
results promote the international trade of measuring instruments and 
products affected by measurement.
    Fifteen Recommendations will be presented for ratification by the 
Conference in the following two categories: (1) Those already approved 
by the International Committee of Legal Metrology (CIML) between 1997 
and 1997; 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

R49  Water meters intended for the metering of cold potable water 
(United Kingdom)
R60  Metrological regulation for load cells (USA)
R65  Force measuring system of uniaxial material testing machines (USA)
R81  Dynamic measuring devices and systems for cryogenic liquids (USA)
R85  Automatic level gauges for measuring the level of liquid in fixed 
storage tanks (Austria)
R93  Focimeters (Hungary)
R99  Instruments for measuring exhaust emissions (Netherlands)
R125  Measuring systems for the mass of liquids in tanks (Australia)
R126  Evidential breath analyzers (France)
R127  Radiochromic film dosimetry system for ionizing radiation 
processing of materials and products (USA)
R128  Ergometers for foot crank work (Germany)
R129  Multi-dimensional measuring instruments (Australia)

Category 2

--Draft OIML Recommendation: Octave-band and one-third octave-band 
filters (Germany)
--Draft OIML Recommendation: Polymethylmethacrylate dosimetry system 
for ionizing radiation

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processing of materials and products (USA)
--Draft OIML Recommendation: Alanine EPR dosimetry system for ionizing 
radiation processing of materials and products (USA)

    August 16, 2000.
Karen Brown,
Deputy Director.
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