83 FR 30403 - National Conference on Weights and Measures 103rd Annual Meeting

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The 103rd Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Sunday, July 15, 2018, through Thursday, July 19, 2018. This notice contains information about significant items on the NCWM Committee agendas but does not include all agenda items. As a result, the items are not consecutively numbered.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


National Conference on Weights and Measures 103rd Annual Meeting

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The 103rd Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights 
and Measures (NCWM) will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Sunday, July 
15, 2018, through Thursday, July 19, 2018. This notice contains 
information about significant items on the NCWM Committee agendas but 
does not include all agenda items. As a result, the items are not 
consecutively numbered.

DATES: The meeting will be held on Sunday, July 15, 2018, through 
Wednesday, July 18, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time, and 
on Thursday, July 19, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Central Time. 
The meeting schedule is available at www.ncwm.net.

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Hotel, 
100 East 2nd Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Dr. Douglas Olson, NIST, Office of 
Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 
20899-2600. You may also contact Dr. Olson at (301) 975-2956 or by 
email at douglas.olson@nist.gov. The meeting is open to the public, but 
a paid registration is required. Please see the NCWM website 
(www.ncwm.net) to view the meeting agendas, registration forms, and 
hotel reservation information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 or other information 
contained in this notice or in publications produced by the NCWM.
    The NCWM is an organization of weights and measures officials of 
the states, counties, and cities of the United States, and 
representatives from the private sector and federal agencies. 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. NIST participates to encourage 
cooperation between federal agencies and the states in the development 
of legal metrology requirements. NIST also promotes uniformity in state 
laws, regulations, and testing procedures used in the regulatory 
control of commercial weighing and measuring devices, packaged goods, 
and for other trade and commerce issues.
    The NCWM has established multiple committees, task groups, and 
other working bodies to address legal metrology issues of interest to 
regulatory officials, industry, consumers, and others. The following 
are brief descriptions of some of the significant agenda items that 
will be considered by some of the NCWM Committees at the NCWM Annual 
Meeting. Comments will be taken on these and other issues during public 
comment sessions. This meeting also includes work sessions in which the 
Committees may also accept comments for clarification on issues, and 
where they will finalize recommendations for possible adoption at this 
meeting. The Committees may also withdraw or carry over items that need 
additional development.
    These notices are intended to make interested parties aware of 
these development projects and to make them aware that reports on the 
status of the project will be given at the Annual Meeting. The notices 
are also presented to invite the participation of manufacturers, 
experts, consumers, users, and others who may be interested in these 
efforts.
    The Specifications and Tolerances Committee (S&T Committee) will 
consider proposed amendments to NIST Handbook 44, ``Specifications, 
Tolerances, and other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring 
Devices.'' Those items address weighing and measuring devices used in 
commercial applications, that is, devices used to buy from or sell to 
the public or used for determining the quantity of products or services 
sold among businesses. Issues on the agenda of the NCWM Laws and 
Regulations Committee (L&R Committee) relate to proposals to amend NIST 
Handbook 130, ``Uniform Laws and Regulations in the Areas of Legal 
Metrology and Engine Fuel Quality'' and NIST Handbook 133, ``Checking 
the Net Contents of Packaged Goods.''

NCWM S&T Committee

    The following items are proposals to amend NIST Handbook 44:

SCL--Scales

Item SCL-6 S.1.2.2.3. Deactivation of a ``d'' Resolution
    In 2017, the NCWM adopted a proposal requiring the value of the 
scale division (d) and verification scale interval (e) to be equal on 
Class I and Class II scales installed into commercial service as of 
January 1, 2020, when used in a direct sale application (i.e., both 
parties of a weighing transaction are present when the quantity is 
determined). The S&T Committee will now consider a new proposal, if 
adopted, would prohibit the deactivation of a ``d'' resolution on a 
Class I or II scale equipped with a value of ``d'' that differs from 
``e'' if by such action it causes the scale to round improperly.
Item SCL-7 S.1.8.5. Recorded Representations, Point of Sale Systems
    The S&T Committee will consider a proposal requiring additional 
sales information to be recorded by cash registers interfaced with a 
weighing element for items weighed at a checkout stand. These systems 
are currently required to record the net weight, unit price, total 
price, and the product class, or in a system equipped with price look-
up capability, the product name or code number. The change proposed 
would add ``tare weight'' to the list of sales information currently 
required. This change has been proposed as a nonretroactive requirement 
with an enforcement date of January 1, 2022, which means if the 
proposal is adopted, the additional information (i.e., the tare weight) 
would be required to appear on the sales receipt for items weighed at a 
checkout stand (Point of Sale Systems) on equipment installed into 
commercial service as of January 1, 2022. This proposed change would 
not affect equipment already in service.
Item SCL-8 Sections Throughout the Code To Include Provisions for 
Commercial Weigh-In-Motion Vehicle Scale Systems
    The S&T Committee will consider a proposal drafted by the NCWM's 
Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) Task Group (TG) to amend various sections of the 
NIST Handbook 44, Scales Code to address WIM vehicle scale systems used 
for commercial application to determine a vehicle's total weight. The 
TG is made up of representatives of WIM equipment manufacturers, the 
U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, NIST 
Office of Weights and Measures, truck weight enforcement agencies, 
state weights and measures agencies, and others.
    The WIM TG was first formed in February 2016 to consider a proposal 
to expand the NIST Handbook 44, Weigh-In-Motion Systems Used for 
Vehicle Enforcement Screening--Tentative Code to also apply to legal-
for-trade (commercial) and law enforcement applications. Members of the 
TG agreed during their first face-to-face meeting at the 2016 NCWM 
Annual Meeting to eliminate from the proposal any mention of a law 
enforcement application and focus solely on WIM vehicle scale systems 
intended for use in commercial applications. Members of the TG later 
agreed that commercial application WIM vehicle scale systems should be 
addressed by the Scales Code of NIST Handbook 44, rather than the 
Weigh-In-Motion Systems Used for Vehicle Enforcement Screening--
Tentative Code.
    A focus of the TG since July 2016 has been to concentrate on the 
development of test procedures that can be used to verify the accuracy 
of a WIM vehicle scale system given a proposed maintenance and 
acceptance tolerances of 0.2 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, of 
the test loads applied during testing and considering the many 
different axle configurations of vehicles that will typically be 
weighed by these systems. Although members of the TG have not been able 
to reach agreement on appropriate test procedures, the TG recommended 
and the Committee agreed, at the 2018 NCWM Interim

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Meeting, to elevate the status of this item to ``Voting'' for the 
upcoming 2018 NCWM Annual Meeting.
Block 1 (B1) Items Manifold Flush Systems

B1: Gen-2 Withdrawn G-S.2. Facilitation of Fraud [General Code]
B1: VTM-1 V S.3. Diversion of Measured Liquid and UR.2.6. Clearing the 
Discharge Hose [Vehicle Tank Meters]

    The S&T Committee will consider a proposal that would permit the 
installation and use of a ``manifold flush system,'' which is intended 
to provide a safer means of flushing the different products from the 
delivery systems of vehicles equipped with multiple product storage 
compartments used commercially to deliver different products through a 
single vehicle-tank meter and discharge hose. This ``flushing of 
product'' is necessary when switching between the different products 
stored on and delivered from the same truck to lessen the amount of 
contamination of product delivered into a customer's storage vessel.
    Flushing of product normally requires the delivery vehicle's 
operator to climb on top of the delivery truck with discharge hose and 
nozzle in hand to discharge product back into the appropriate storage 
compartment (after opening its hatch), clearing the lines for the next 
product to be delivered.
    The manifold flush system makes possible flushing of the system at 
ground level, but its installation currently violates existing NIST 
Handbook 44 Vehicle Tank Meters (VTM) code paragraph S.3.1. Diversion 
of Measured Liquid by providing a means in which measured liquids can 
be easily diverted from the discharge line back into a product storage 
compartment. This diversion of metered product back into storage is 
considered by many to facilitate the perpetration of fraud.
    The proposal exempts all metering systems with multiple 
compartments delivering multiple products through a single discharge 
hose from having to comply with VTM code paragraph S.3.1. and requires 
a means for clearing the discharge hose be provided for metering 
systems with multiple compartments delivering multiple products through 
a single discharge hose. It also allows for the installation of a 
manifold flush system and specifies various conditions that must be met 
for this flushing system to be considered acceptable.
    The proposal also requires device users, who have the need to flush 
a discharge hose to keep a 12-month record of the different flushing 
operations to include dates, times, original product, new product, and 
gallons dispensed to avoid contamination.
Block 4 (B4), Items Terminology for Testing Standards and Block 5, 
Items (B5) Define ``Field Reference Standard''
    Block 4 (B4) Items and Block 5 (B5) Items include all the following 
items:

B4: Item SCL-4 N.2. Verification (Testing) Standards [Scales Code]
B4: Item ABW-1 N.2. Verification (Testing) Standards [Automatic Bulk 
Weighing Systems]
B4: Item AWS-1 N.1.3. Verification (Testing) Standards, N.3.1. Official 
Tests; UR.4. Testing Standards [Automatic Weighing Systems]
B4: Item CLM-1 N.3.2. Transfer Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using 
Transfer Standards [Cryogenic Liquid-Measuring Devices]
B4: Item CDL-1 N.3.2. Transfer Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using 
Transfer Standards [Carbon Dioxide Liquid-Measuring Devices]
B4: Item HGM-1 N.4.1. Master Meter (Transfer) Standard Test; T.4. 
Tolerance Application on Test Using Transfer Standard Test Method 
[Hydrogen Gas-Metering Devices]
B4: Item GGM-1 Section 5.56.(a) [Grain-Moisture Meters ``a''] N.1.1. 
Air Oven Reference Method Transfer Standards, N.1.3. Meter to Like-Type 
Meer Method Transfer Standards, and Section 5.56.(b) [Grain-Moisture 
Meters ``b''] N.1.1. Transfer Standards, T. Tolerances
B4: Item LVS-1 N.2. Testing Standards [Electronic Livestock, Meat, and 
Poultry Evaluation Systems and/or Devices]
B4: Item OTH-2 Appendix A--Fundamental Considerations, 3.2. Tolerances 
for Standards; 3.3. Accuracy of Standards
B4: Item OTH-3 Appendix D--Definitions: Fifth-wheel, official grain 
samples, transfer standard; standard, field
B5: Item CLM-2 N.3.2. Transfer Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using 
Transfer Standards [Cryogenic Liquid-Measuring Devices]
B5: Item CDL-2 N.3.2. Transfer Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using 
Transfer Standards [Carbon Dioxide Liquid-Measuring Devices]
B5: Item HGM-2 N.4.1. Master Meter (Transfer) Standard Test; T.4. 
Tolerance Application on Test Using Transfer Standard Test Method 
[Hydrogen Gas Metering-Systems]
B5: Item OTH-4 Appendix D--Definitions: Field Reference, Standard 
Meter; Transfer Standard
    Block 4 and Block 5 items are considered related agenda items. The 
items in these two blocks are currently assigned a developing status 
and while the S&T Committee may not take comments on these items at the 
2018 NCWM Annual Meeting, interested parties may wish to monitor the 
future progress of their continued development. These two groups of 
items are intended to: (1) Make clear the qualifying conditions in 
which a standard intended for use in testing (i.e., evaluating the 
performance of) a commercial weighing or measuring device or system can 
be used to conduct an official test; and (2) harmonize the terminology 
used to identify a suitable test standard in each of the Handbook 44 
codes.

NCWM L&R Committee

    The following items are proposals to amend NIST Handbook 130 or 
NIST Handbook 133:

NIST Handbook 130--Section on Uniform Regulation for the Method of Sale 
(MOS) of Commodities

Item MOS-10 2.XX. Pet Treats or Chews
    The L&R Committee is recommending adoption of a uniform method of 
sale for Pet Treats or Chews. If adopted, the proposal will require 
sellers to follow labeling guidance under the Food and Drug 
Administration and 21 CFR 501, which defines these types of products as 
``shall be sold by weight.'' This will also allow consumers to make a 
value comparison for similar like items.

NIST Handbook 133

Item NET-4 4.XX. Plywood and Wood-Based Structural Panels
    There is no current test procedure in NIST Handbook 133, for 
Plywood and Wood-based Structural Panels. This will provide a test 
procedure for Plywood and Wood-Based Structural Panels. The L&R 
Committee is recommending further comment and consideration to add a 
testing procedure to NIST Handbook 133. This procedure follows good 
measuring practices for products sold by linear measure.

    Authority:  15 U.S.C. 272(b).

Kevin A. Kimball,
Chief of Staff.
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CBP to assess importer- (or customer-) completed segment in which the Dated: June 21, 2018.
specific assessment rates based on the company was reviewed; (3) if the Gary Taverman,
resulting per-unit rates.12 Where an exporter is not a firm covered in this Deputy Assistance Secretary for Antidumping
importer- (or customer-) specific ad review or the original less-than-fair- and Countervailing Duty Operations,
valorem or per-unit rate is greater than value (LTFV) investigation, but the performing the non-exclusive functions and
de minimis (i.e., 0.50 percent), duties of the Assistant Secretary for
producer is, the cash deposit rate will be
Commerce will instruct CBP to collect Enforcement and Compliance.
the rate established for the most recently
the appropriate duties at the time of completed segment of this proceeding Appendix—List of Topics Discussed in
liquidation.13 Where an importer- (or for the producer of the subject the Issues and Decision Memorandum
customer-) specific ad valorem or per-
merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit I. Summary
unit rate is zero or de minimis,
rate for all other producers or exporters II. List of Issues
Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate
appropriate entries without regard to will continue to be 19.50 percent,16 the III. Background
all-others rate established in the LTFV IV. Scope of the Order
antidumping duties.14 V. Discussion of the Issues
For the companies which were not investigation. These cash deposit
Comment 1: Whether Motech Had Actual
selected for individual review, we will requirements, when imposed, shall or Constructive Knowledge of U.S. Sales
assign an assessment rate based on the remain in effect until further notice. to a Specific U.S. Customer.
methodology described in the ‘‘Rates for Notification to Importers Regarding the Comment 2: Whether Motech’s Contract
Non-Examined Companies’’ section, Numbers Should be Made Public for
Reimbursement of Duties Purposes of Liquidating Entries
above.
Consistent with Commerce’s Comment 3: Correction of a Cell Reference
This notice serves as a final reminder
assessment practice, for entries of in the Preliminary Cost Calculations
to importers of their responsibility Comment 4: Whether Commerce Should
subject merchandise during the POR under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a Assign Cell Grades to Prime and Non-
produced by Motech, or the non- certificate regarding the reimbursement Prime Categories for Normal Value
examined companies, for which the Calculation and Model Matching
of antidumping duties prior to
producer did not know that its Comment 5: Whether the Draft Liquidation
liquidation of the relevant entries
merchandise was destined for the Instructions Properly Reference the ‘‘All
United States, we will instruct CBP to during this POR. Failure to comply with
Others’’ Rate
liquidate unreviewed entries at the all- this requirement could result in Comment 6: Whether the Motech
others rate if there is no rate for the Commerce’s presumption that Liquidation Instructions Instruct CBP to
intermediate company(ies) involved in reimbursement of antidumping duties Liquidate Exports by Trina Schweiz and
the transaction.15 occurred and the subsequent assessment Trina Singapore at the ‘‘All Others’’ Rate
As noted in the ‘‘Final Determination of double antidumping duties. VI. Recommendation
of No Shipments’’ section, above, [FR Doc. 2018–13858 Filed 6–27–18; 8:45 am]
Notification to Interested Parties
Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
any existing entries of merchandise Regarding Administrative Protective
produced by the ‘‘no shipment’’ Order
companies, but exported by other This notice also serves as the only DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
parties, at the rate for the intermediate reminder to parties subject to
reseller, if available, or at the all-others National Institute of Standards and
administrative protective order (APO) of Technology
rate.
their responsibility concerning the
Cash Deposit Requirements disposition of proprietary information National Conference on Weights and
The following cash deposit disclosed under APO in accordance Measures 103rd Annual Meeting
requirements will be effective for all with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which
continues to govern business AGENCY: National Institute of Standards
shipments of subject merchandise and Technology, Commerce.
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, proprietary information in this segment
for consumption on or after the of the proceeding. Timely written ACTION: Notice.
publication date of the final results of notification of the return or destruction
SUMMARY: The 103rd Annual Meeting of
this administrative review, as provided of APO materials or conversion to
the National Conference on Weights and
for by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) judicial protective order is hereby Measures (NCWM) will be held in
The cash deposit rates for the requested. Failure to comply with the Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Sunday, July 15,
companies listed in these final results regulations and the terms of an APO is 2018, through Thursday, July 19, 2018.
will be equal to the weighted-average a sanctionable violation. This notice contains information about
dumping margins established in the
We are issuing and publishing this significant items on the NCWM
final results of this review; (2) for
notice in accordance with sections Committee agendas but does not include
merchandise exported by producers or
751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 all agenda items. As a result, the items
exporters not covered in this review but
CFR 351.213(h) and 351.221(b)(5). are not consecutively numbered.
covered in a prior segment of this
proceeding, the cash deposit rate will DATES: The meeting will be held on
continue to be the company-specific rate Sunday, July 15, 2018, through
published for the most recently Wednesday, July 18, 2018, from 8:00
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a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time, and on
12 Id. Thursday, July 19, 2018, from 9:00 a.m.
13 Id. to 12:00 p.m. Central Time. The meeting
14 See19 CFR 351.106(c)(2). schedule is available at www.ncwm.net.
15 Fora full discussion of this practice, see
16 See Certain Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings:
Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 FR 23954 Products: Final Determination of Sales at Less Than the Hyatt Regency Tulsa Hotel, 100 East
(May 6, 2003). Fair Value, 79 FR 76966 (December 23, 2014). 2nd Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103.

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Meeting, to elevate the status of this record of the different flushing B5: Item OTH–4 Appendix D—
item to ‘‘Voting’’ for the upcoming 2018 operations to include dates, times, Definitions: Field Reference, Standard
NCWM Annual Meeting. original product, new product, and Meter; Transfer Standard
gallons dispensed to avoid
Block 1 (B1) Items Manifold Flush Block 4 and Block 5 items are
contamination.
Systems considered related agenda items. The
Block 4 (B4), Items Terminology for items in these two blocks are currently
B1: Gen-2 Withdrawn G–S.2. Testing Standards and Block 5, Items
Facilitation of Fraud [General Code] assigned a developing status and while
(B5) Define ‘‘Field Reference Standard’’ the S&T Committee may not take
B1: VTM–1 V S.3. Diversion of
Measured Liquid and UR.2.6. Clearing Block 4 (B4) Items and Block 5 (B5) comments on these items at the 2018
the Discharge Hose [Vehicle Tank Items include all the following items: NCWM Annual Meeting, interested
Meters] parties may wish to monitor the future
B4: Item SCL–4 N.2. Verification progress of their continued
The S&T Committee will consider a (Testing) Standards [Scales Code] development. These two groups of items
proposal that would permit the B4: Item ABW–1 N.2. Verification are intended to: (1) Make clear the
installation and use of a ‘‘manifold flush (Testing) Standards [Automatic Bulk qualifying conditions in which a
system,’’ which is intended to provide Weighing Systems] standard intended for use in testing (i.e.,
a safer means of flushing the different B4: Item AWS–1 N.1.3. Verification evaluating the performance of) a
products from the delivery systems of (Testing) Standards, N.3.1. Official commercial weighing or measuring
vehicles equipped with multiple Tests; UR.4. Testing Standards device or system can be used to conduct
product storage compartments used [Automatic Weighing Systems] an official test; and (2) harmonize the
commercially to deliver different terminology used to identify a suitable
B4: Item CLM–1 N.3.2. Transfer
products through a single vehicle-tank test standard in each of the Handbook
Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using
meter and discharge hose. This 44 codes.
Transfer Standards [Cryogenic Liquid-
‘‘flushing of product’’ is necessary when
Measuring Devices] NCWM L&R Committee
switching between the different
products stored on and delivered from B4: Item CDL–1 N.3.2. Transfer
the same truck to lessen the amount of Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using The following items are proposals to
contamination of product delivered into Transfer Standards [Carbon Dioxide amend NIST Handbook 130 or NIST
a customer’s storage vessel. Liquid-Measuring Devices] Handbook 133:
Flushing of product normally requires B4: Item HGM–1 N.4.1. Master Meter NIST Handbook 130—Section on
the delivery vehicle’s operator to climb (Transfer) Standard Test; T.4. Uniform Regulation for the Method of
on top of the delivery truck with Tolerance Application on Test Using Sale (MOS) of Commodities
discharge hose and nozzle in hand to Transfer Standard Test Method
discharge product back into the [Hydrogen Gas-Metering Devices] Item MOS–10 2.XX. Pet Treats or
appropriate storage compartment (after B4: Item GGM–1 Section 5.56.(a) Chews
opening its hatch), clearing the lines for [Grain-Moisture Meters ‘‘a’’] N.1.1.
the next product to be delivered. Air Oven Reference Method Transfer The L&R Committee is recommending
The manifold flush system makes Standards, N.1.3. Meter to Like-Type adoption of a uniform method of sale for
possible flushing of the system at Meer Method Transfer Standards, and Pet Treats or Chews. If adopted, the
ground level, but its installation Section 5.56.(b) [Grain-Moisture proposal will require sellers to follow
currently violates existing NIST Meters ‘‘b’’] N.1.1. Transfer Standards, labeling guidance under the Food and
Handbook 44 Vehicle Tank Meters T. Tolerances Drug Administration and 21 CFR 501,
(VTM) code paragraph S.3.1. Diversion which defines these types of products as
B4: Item LVS–1 N.2. Testing Standards ‘‘shall be sold by weight.’’ This will also
of Measured Liquid by providing a [Electronic Livestock, Meat, and
means in which measured liquids can allow consumers to make a value
Poultry Evaluation Systems and/or comparison for similar like items.
be easily diverted from the discharge Devices]
line back into a product storage B4: Item OTH–2 Appendix A— NIST Handbook 133
compartment. This diversion of metered Fundamental Considerations, 3.2.
product back into storage is considered Item NET–4 4.XX. Plywood and
Tolerances for Standards; 3.3.
by many to facilitate the perpetration of Wood-Based Structural Panels
Accuracy of Standards
fraud.
B4: Item OTH–3 Appendix D— There is no current test procedure in
The proposal exempts all metering
Definitions: Fifth-wheel, official grain NIST Handbook 133, for Plywood and
systems with multiple compartments
samples, transfer standard; standard, Wood-based Structural Panels. This will
delivering multiple products through a
field provide a test procedure for Plywood
single discharge hose from having to
B5: Item CLM–2 N.3.2. Transfer and Wood-Based Structural Panels. The
comply with VTM code paragraph S.3.1.
Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using L&R Committee is recommending
and requires a means for clearing the
Transfer Standards [Cryogenic Liquid- further comment and consideration to
discharge hose be provided for metering
Measuring Devices] add a testing procedure to NIST
systems with multiple compartments
B5: Item CDL–2 N.3.2. Transfer Handbook 133. This procedure follows
delivering multiple products through a
Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using good measuring practices for products
single discharge hose. It also allows for
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Transfer Standards [Carbon Dioxide sold by linear measure.
the installation of a manifold flush
system and specifies various conditions Liquid-Measuring Devices] Authority: 15 U.S.C. 272(b).
that must be met for this flushing B5: Item HGM–2 N.4.1. Master Meter
Kevin A. Kimball,
system to be considered acceptable. (Transfer) Standard Test; T.4.
The proposal also requires device Tolerance Application on Test Using Chief of Staff.
users, who have the need to flush a Transfer Standard Test Method [FR Doc. 2018–13935 Filed 6–27–18; 8:45 am]
discharge hose to keep a 12-month [Hydrogen Gas Metering-Systems] BILLING CODE 3510–13–P

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Dates		The meeting will be held on Sunday, July 15, 2018, through Wednesday, July 18, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time, and on Thursday, July 19, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Central Time. The meeting schedule is available at www.ncwm.net.
Contact		Dr. Douglas Olson, NIST, Office of Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2600. You may also contact Dr. Olson at (301) 975-2956 or by email at [email protected] The meeting is open to the public, but a paid registration is required. Please see the NCWM website (www.ncwm.net) to view the meeting agendas, registration forms, and hotel reservation information.
FR Citation		83 FR 30403

83 FR 30403 - National Conference on Weights and Measures 103rd Annual Meeting

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