Meetings: Weights and Measures National Conference,

[Federal Register: January 15, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 10)]

[Notices]

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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.

action: Notice of meeting.

summary: Notice is hereby given that the Interim Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures will be held January 31 through February 4, 1999, at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 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

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organizations to discuss subjects that relate to the field of weights and measures technology and administration.

Pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 272 B, 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.

Dates: The meeting will be held January 31-February 4, 1999, 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Location of Meeting: Sheraton Old Town Hotel, 800 Rio Grande Boulevard, N.W., Albuquerque, New Mexico 878104.

For further information contact: Dr. Gilbert Ugiansky, Chief, NIST, Office of Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive Stop 2350 Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-2350. Telephone: (301) 975-4004, or E- mail: owm@nist.gov.

Dated: January 8, 1999. Robert E. Hebner, Acting Deputy Director.

[FR Doc. 99-899Filed1-14-99; 8:45 am]

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