[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 239 (Wednesday, December 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 64218]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-30628]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute 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: Notice is hereby given that the 87th Interim Meeting of the 
National Conference on Weights and Measures will be held January 27 
through January 30, 2002, at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, 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 (15 U.S.C. 
272B), the National Institute of Standards and Technology supports the 
National Conference on Weights and Measures in order to promote 
uniformity among the States in the complex laws, regulations, test 
methods, and testing equipment that comprise regulatory control by the 
States of commercial transactions involving weighing and measurement.

DATES: The meeting will be held January 27-January 30, 2002.

LOCATION OF MEETING: Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, MD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Henry V. Oppermann, Director of NIST 
Office of Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, 
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2600. Telephone (301) 975-4004, or E-mail 
[email protected].

    Dated: December 4, 2001.
Karen H. Brown,
Acting Director.
[FR Doc. 01-30628 Filed 12-11-01; 8:45 am]
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