[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 3 (Friday, January 4, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 842-843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25609]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


93rd Interim Meeting Notification of the National Conference on 
Weights and Measures

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting of the Conference in January 2008.

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SUMMARY: The Interim Meetings of the 93rd National Conference on 
Weights and Measures (NCWM) will be held January 27 to 30, 2008, in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico. The majority of the meetings are open to the 
public, but registration is required. The NCWM is an organization of 
weights and measures officials of the states, counties, and cities of 
the United States, federal agencies, and private sector 
representatives. These meetings bring together government officials and 
representatives of business, industry, trade associations, and consumer 
organizations on subjects related to the field of weights and measures 
technology, administration and enforcement. Pursuant to (15 U.S.C. 
272(b)(6)), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 
supports the NCWM as one of the means it uses to solicit comments and 
recommendations on revising or updating a variety of publications 
related to legal metrology. NIST participates to promote uniformity 
among the states in laws, regulations, methods, and testing equipment 
that comprise the regulatory control of commercial weighing and 
measuring devices and other practices used in trade and commerce. 
Publication of this notice on the NCWM's behalf is undertaken as a 
public service; NIST does not endorse, approve, or recommend any of the 
proposals contained in this notice or in the publications of the NCWM 
mentioned below. Please see NCWM Publication 15, which contains 
detailed meeting agendas and schedules, registration and hotel 
reservation information at http://www.ncwm.net.

DATES: January 27-30, 2008.

ADDRESSES: The Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carol Hockert, Chief, NIST, Weights 
and Measures Division, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 
20899-2600 or by telephone (301) 975-5507, or e-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The following are brief descriptions of some 
of the significant agenda items that will be considered along with 
other issues at the NCWM Interim Meeting. Comments will be taken on 
these and other issues during several public comment sessions. At this 
stage, the items are proposals. This meeting also includes work 
sessions in which the Committees may also accept comments and where 
they will finalize recommendations for NCWM consideration and possible 
adoption at its Annual Meeting to be held July 13 to 17, 2008, at the 
Sheraton Burlington Hotel in Burlington, Vermont. The Committees may 
withdraw or carry over items that need additional development.
    The Specifications and Tolerances Committee will consider proposed

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amendments to NIST Handbook 44, ``Specifications, Tolerances, and other 
Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices (NIST 
Handbook 44).'' Those items address weighing and measuring devices used 
in commercial measurement applications, that is, devices that are 
normally used to buy from or sell to the general public or used for 
determining the quantity of product sold among businesses. Issues on 
the agenda of the NCWM Laws and Regulations Committee relate to 
proposals to amend NIST Handbook 130, ``Uniform Laws and Regulations in 
the area of legal metrology and engine fuel quality'' and NIST Handbook 
133 ``Checking the Net Contents of Packaged Goods.'' This notice 
contains information about significant items on the NCWM Committee 
agendas, but is not inclusive of all agenda items. As a result, the 
following items are not consecutively numbered.

NCWM Specifications and Tolerances Committee

    The following items are proposals to amend NIST Handbook 44:

General Code

    Item 310-2. Appendix D--Definition of Electronic Devices, Software-
Based: This item removes the terms ``built-for-purpose'' and ``not-
built-for-purpose'' and instead defines software-based devices as 
either ``embedded software devices (Type P)'' or ``programmable or 
loadable metrological software devices (Type U)''.

Liquid-Measuring Devices

    Item 330-1. Temperature Compensation for Liquid-Measuring Devices 
Code: This is a proposal to add provisions to Handbook 44 to allow 
retail motor fuel dispensers to be equipped with the automatic means to 
deliver product with the volume compensated to a reference temperature. 
(See also Item 232-1 below under the Laws and Regulations Committee.)

Vehicle Tank Meters

    Item 331-1. Meter Size (Marking Requirements): This is a proposal 
to require meter size markings on vehicle tank meters, except for milk 
meters.
    Item 331-3. Automatic Temperature Compensation for Refined 
Petroleum Products: This proposal adds provisions to Handbook 44, which 
defines the period of use and conditions of use when selling fuel 
through a device equipped with automatic temperature compensation 
capabilities.

Multiple Dimension Measuring Devices

    Item 358-1. A.1. General., Note 7 in Table S.4.1.b., and Appendix 
D. Definitions: This proposal adds new definitions for a ``hexahedron'' 
and an ``irregularly shaped object'' and clarifies a complex marking 
requirement that currently exists in this code.
    Items 358-2. Value of Dimension/Volume Division Value, 358-3 
Position Test and 358-4 Test Objects: These proposals add requirements 
to those devices capable of measuring irregularly shaped objects.

NCWM Laws and Regulations Committee

    The following item is a proposal to amend NIST Handbook 130:

Method of Sale of Commodities Regulation

    Item 232-1. Temperature Compensation for Petroleum Products: 
Several proposals will be considered that would allow temperature 
compensation to take place on a voluntary or mandatory basis or limit 
compensation to metering systems with certain flow capacities or 
specific sales applications. Most of the proposals would allow 
compensation to occur only if certain conditions are met by the seller.
    Item 232-2. Biodiesel and Fuel Ethanol Labeling: This item requires 
the identification and labeling of biodiesel fuels and blends at retail 
service stations.

    Dated: December 19, 2007.
Richard F. Kayser,
Acting Deputy Director.
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