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The meeting will be held on
Thursday, June 20, 2024, from 12 p.m.
to 6 p.m. eastern time. The entire
meeting will be closed to the public.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
virtually via web conference.
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Performance Excellence Program,
National Institute of Standards and
Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail
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Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
National Conference on Weights and
Measures 2024 Annual Meeting
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The 109th Annual Meeting of
the National Conference on Weights and
Measures (NCWM) will be held at the
Hotel Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio
from Sunday, July 14, 2024, through
Thursday, July 18, 2024. 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 2024 NCWM Annual
Meeting will be held from Sunday, July
14, 2024, through Thursday, July 18,
2024. The meeting schedule will be
available on the NCWM website at
https://www.ncwm.com/events-detail/
2024-annual-OH.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at
the Hotel Cleveland, located at 24
Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44113.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Katrice Lippa, NIST, Office of Weights
and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop
2600, Gaithersburg, MD 20899–2600.
You may also contact Dr. Lippa at (301)
975–3116 or by email at katrice.lippa@
nist.gov. The meeting is open to the
public, but the payment of a registration
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fee is required. Please see the NCWM
website (www.ncwm.com) 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 and does not itself
constitute an endorsement by the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) of the content of the
notice. NIST participates in the NCWM
as an NCWM member and pursuant to
15 U.S.C. 272(b)(10) and (c)(4) and in
accordance with Federal policy (e.g.,
OMB Circular A–119 ‘‘Federal
Participation in the Development and
Use of Voluntary Consensus
Standards’’).
The NCWM is an organization of
weights and measures officials of the
states, counties, cities, and territories 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 hosted the first
meeting of the NCWM in 1905. Since
then, the conference has provided a
model of cooperation between Federal,
State, and local governments and the
private sector. 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, inter
alia, regulatory officials, industry
representatives, and consumers.
Comments will be taken by the various
NCWM committees on agenda items
during the open hearing portions of the
conference identified in the meeting
schedule. At this stage, the items are
proposals. The open hearing sessions
are accessible to all registered attendees
of the conference, including both
NCWM members and non-members.
The conference also includes committee
work sessions in which the committees
may, inter alia, accept comments,
withdraw or carry over agenda items
that need additional maturation, and
develop recommendations for the
agenda items for consideration and
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possible adoption during the voting
session of the meeting.
This notice is intended to make
interested parties aware of significant
agenda items and alert them to the
committees’ intentions to share reports
on the status of each at the 2024 NCWM
Annual Meeting. This notice is also
presented to invite the participation of
manufacturers, experts, consumers,
users, and others who may be interested
in these efforts.
Comments will be taken on these and
other recommendations to amend NIST
Handbook 44, ‘‘Specifications,
Tolerances, and other Technical
Requirements for Weighing and
Measuring Devices’’ (NIST Handbook 44
or NIST HB 44), NIST Handbook 130,
‘‘Uniform Laws and Regulations in the
areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel
Quality’’ (NIST Handbook 130 or NIST
HB 130), and NIST Handbook 133,
‘‘Checking the Net Contents of Packaged
Goods’’ (NIST Handbook 133 or NIST
HB 133).
These NIST Handbooks are regularly
adopted by reference or through the
administrative procedures of all the
states. At this stage these agenda items
are only proposals to amend the
handbooks.
NCWM S&T Committee
The NCWM Specifications and
Tolerances Committee (S&T Committee)
will consider proposed amendments to
NIST HB 44, including those identified
below. These items address weighing
and measuring devices used in
commercial applications, that is,
devices used to buy from or sell to the
public or used to determine the quantity
of products or the cost of services based
on a weight or measurement. For a
detailed technical review of the NCWM
S&T Committee agenda items, see the
2024 NIST OWM Analysis at 2024 NIST
OWM Annual Analysis.
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SCL—Scales
SCL–23.3. Verification Scale
Division e: Multiple Sections.
The S&T Committee has assigned a
Voting status to a proposal submitted by
the NCWM Verification Scale Division e
Task Group that is intended to update
NIST Handbook 44, Section 2.20 Scales
to clarify how error is determined in
relation to the verification scale division
(e) and the scale division (d), clarify
which is the proper reference; the
verification scale division (e) or the
scale division (d) throughout this
section, ensure proper selection of a
scale in reference to the verification
scale division (e) and the scale division
(d), and clarify the relationship between
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the verification scale division (e) and
the scale division (d).
WIM—Weigh-In-Motion Systems
WIM–23.1. Add Section 2.26.
Weigh-in-Motion Systems Used for
Vehicle Direct Enforcement.
The S&T Committee will consider a
proposal to add Section 2.26. Weigh-inMotion Systems Used for Vehicle Direct
Enforcement. This also includes (but is
not limited to): (1) specifications that
direct how a device must be designed.
(S); (2) the addition of test procedures
specific to devices designed to enforce
road weight limit restrictions for
vehicles in the test procedures (N)
section addressing test speeds, dynamic
test loads, and vehicle configurations;
(3) the designation of tolerances (T) to
be applied to WIM scales used for
enforcement purposes; and (4) the
addition of selection, installation,
maintenance, and violation parameters
in the user requirements (UR) for the
enforcement of road weight limit
restrictions for vehicles based on axle,
axle group, and gross vehicle weights.
The proposal has been through several
revisions since the release of the 2023
NCWM Publication 15. During the 2024
NCWM Interim Meeting, the Committee
updated the item based on revised
language proposed by the submitter and
input received during the meeting. The
item was assigned a Voting status.
EVF—Electric Vehicle Fueling Systems
EVF–24.2—S.2.7. Indication of
Delivery, N.3.2. Accuracy Testing., and
T.2.1. EVSE Load Test Tolerances.
This item proposes to amend the
exemption date applicable to DC EV
charging equipment from 2028 to 2025
for those paragraphs that include the
exemption. Exempting DC systems
currently placed into service up through
December 31, 2024, from displaying
specific sales information and accuracy
testing and tolerances. Whereas all other
AC and DC EVSE in service must meet
all HB 44 display and accuracy
requirements and be held to minimum
test procedures.
EVF–23.4—S.5.2. EVSE Identification
and Marking Requirements, S.5.3.
Abbreviations and Symbols, and N.3.
Test of an EVSE System. This item
proposes to expand EVSE test
procedures and amend EVSE marking
requirements which are used to identify
that the system is in the proper state for
testing.
EVF–23.6—S.5.2. EVSE Identification
and Marking Requirements., and T.2.
Accuracy Test Tolerances. This item
proposes to create a new accuracy class
for DC EV charging equipment where a
±5% performance tolerance would
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apply until 2034. This would permit DC
systems currently in use and placed into
service up through December 31, 2023,
a wider accuracy tolerance when
marked with the designation ‘‘Accuracy
Class 5’’ while other DC systems operate
and meet the current ±2% tolerance.
OTH—Other Items
OTH–16.1—Non-Utility ElectricityMeasuring Systems (NUEMS)—
Tentative Code. This item proposes to
create a new NIST HB 44 code section
that would apply to electricity meters
that are not under the authority of
municipal and public utilities. If
adopted the code would have a tentative
designation which means it would have
a trial or experimental status and is not
intended to be enforced.
NCWM L&R Committee
The NCWM Laws and Regulations
Committee (L&R Committee) will
consider proposed amendments to NIST
HB 133, including those identified
below. A detailed technical review of
the L&R Committee agenda items will be
made available prior to the 2024 NCWM
Annual Meeting in the 2024 NIST OWM
Annual Analysis.
NET—NIST Handbook 133
NET–24.1. Section 3.11. Ice Cream
Novelties. The L&R Committee will
consider a proposal designated as
‘‘Voting’’ to modify NIST HB 133,
Section 3.11. Ice Cream Novelties. This
is a test procedure that will provide
updated technical guidance on the
preparation and maintenance of ice
water at the required temperature to test
ice cream novelties such as ice cream
bars, ice cream sandwiches, or cones.
NET–24.2. Section 4.9. Procedure
for Checking the Contents of Specific
Agriculture Seed Packages Labeled by
Count and Appendix D. AOSA Rules for
Testing Seeds. The L&R Committee will
consider a proposal designated as
‘‘Voting’’ to align NIST HB 133, Section
4.9. Procedure for Checking the
Contents of Specific Agriculture Seed
Packages Labeled by Count and
Appendix D. AOSA Rules for Testing
Seeds with recent changes to the
Association of Official Seed Analyst
(AOSA) Rules. This proposal would
provide a standardized mechanical seed
counter calibration procedure for all
models of mechanical seed counters
being used across the United States, to
determine the number of seeds per
pound and/or for the purpose of
packaging seeds by count.
NET 22.1 Section 1.2.6. Deviations
Caused by Moisture Loss or Gain and
Section 2.3.8. Table 2–3 Moisture
Allowances. The L&R Committee will
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consider a proposal that is designated as
‘‘Voting’’ to Section 1.2.6. Deviations
Caused by Moisture Loss or Gain and
Section 2.3.8. Table 2–3 Moisture
Allowances. This proposal would
provide for a 3% moisture allowance for
packages of Cannabis plant material
containing more than 0.3% total delta9 THC (Cannabis, Marijuana, or
Marihuana 1) or containing 0.3% less
total delta-9 THC (hemp). Deviations
from the net quantity of contents caused
by the loss or gain of moisture from the
package are permitted when they are
caused by ordinary and customary
exposure to conditions that normally
occur in good distribution practices and
that unavoidably result in a change of
weight or measure.
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
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National Institute of Standards and
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Earth and Space-Based Sensors for
Environmental Measurements:
Calibration, Standards, and Testbeds
National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of workshop; request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST), an
agency of the United States Department
of Commerce, is planning a gaps
analysis workshop to assess the present
state-of-the-art of sensors used to
measure and quantify the local,
regional, and global state of the
environment and how it is changing in
time and in response to natural and
anthropogenic forcings. In advance of
the workshop, NIST is seeking public
input on agenda topics and priorities.
Such topics may include, but are not
limited to, needs in the following areas
of environmental measurement:
measurement capabilities, sensors,
modeling, documentary and artifact
standards, calibration services,
traceability, and testbeds. Additionally,
NIST is interested in assessing whether
there is a need for new measurement
technologies, testbeds, calibration
services, Standard Reference Materials
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1 In contrast to hemp, marijuana, which is defined
as cannabis with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)
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(SRMs), and documentary standards to
advance the breadth, accuracy (shortterm and long-term), sustainability
(including cost factors), and
comparability of environmental
measurements [nationally,
internationally, and over time aided by
measurement traceability to the
International System of Units (SI)].
DATES: NIST will accept written
responses to this request for information
until 10 p.m. (EST) on August 31, 2024.
Submissions received after that date
may not be considered. All submissions,
including attachments and other
supporting materials, may become part
of the public record and may be subject
to public disclosure. NIST reserves the
right to publish relevant comments
publicly, unedited and in their entirety.
Personal information, such as account
numbers or Social Security numbers, or
names of other individuals, should not
be included. Do not submit confidential
business information, or otherwise
sensitive or protected information.
Comments that contain profanity,
vulgarity, threats, or other inappropriate
language or content will not be
considered.
A public workshop will be held from
Tuesday, September 10, 2024, to
Thursday, September 12, 2024, from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern time, both in
person at the National Cybersecurity
Center of Excellence in Rockville, MD,
USA and virtually by web conferencing.
Interested parties will need to register
for the workshop. A fee will be required
for in-person attendance. Please email esensor@nist.gov prior to midnight (EST)
August 16, 2024 if you are interested in
attending in person or virtually. If you
would like to present at the meeting,
please indicate your interest and the
subject of your presentation in the
email.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
submitted to Ms. Amy Grafmuller,
Administration Specialist, Mail Stop
8400, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg,
MD or by electronic mail to e-sensor@
nist.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mail: Dr. Julia Marrs, Special Programs
Office, Mail Stop 2100, 100 Bureau
Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899.
Email: julia.marrs@nist.gov Phone
number: 301 975–2379.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Multiple
concurrent environmental challenges
presently exist, driven by human
activity. Environmental challenges
include global warming, biodiversity
loss, disease emergence and spread,
topsoil loss, environmental
contamination, altered biogeochemical
cycling, and habitat range shifts. These
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challenges have documented economic
impacts reaching into the hundreds of
billions of dollars annually and are
highly relevant to business interests,
due to the continued need for access to
the natural resources and ecosystem
services on which industrial
profitability relies. Furthermore, many
of these challenges present broader
threats to society, including the
potential for food shortages, pandemics,
and extreme weather. NIST seeks to
advance the science and artifact and
documentary standards for the
measurement of the physical, chemical,
biological, and ecological parameters
needed for understanding complex,
natural systems undergoing short and
long-term change. Such understanding
will improve the forecasting of the rate
and extent of change and aid the
mitigation of such change if
intervention is implemented.
Engagement of NIST, the
environmental sensor industry, and the
sensor user community is critical to
ensure the adoption of effective
standards to promote a competitive and
resilient market and to enable optimal
investment in tackling environmental
challenges. The standards must include
the development of best practices for
measuring key parameters and
methodologies for ensuring the accuracy
of the measurements. Without effective
standards, organizations wishing to
invest in addressing environmental
challenges will be unable to effectively
direct resources. To address these
needs, NIST is planning a gaps analysis
workshop for the environmental
measurement community, to learn more
about current limitations in making
measurements of the environment,
including terrestrial and aquatic
ecosystems, coastal zones, agriculture,
and managed and urban areas. This
workshop will entail a community
dialogue on needs related to new and
improved sensors, standardized
measurement methods, measurement
testbeds, and artifact and documentary
standards for ecosystem measurement.
The workshop aims to facilitate
engagement among sensor
manufacturers, calibration laboratories,
standards organizations, academic
researchers, Federal agencies,
nonprofits, and regional and state
agencies. NIST is seeking public
comments on current gaps in the field
of environmental measurement and on
priorities for the upcoming workshop
agenda. Sensors of interest for workshop
discussion may include point and area
sensors (including imaging systems)
deployed in aquatic (e.g., buoys,
submersibles), subsurface, surface, air
(e.g., conventional aircraft, drones, and
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Conference on Weights and Measures 2024 Annual Meeting
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The 109th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights
and Measures (NCWM) will be held at the Hotel Cleveland in Cleveland,
Ohio from Sunday, July 14, 2024, through Thursday, July 18, 2024. 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 2024 NCWM Annual Meeting will be held from Sunday, July 14,
2024, through Thursday, July 18, 2024. The meeting schedule will be
available on the NCWM website at https://www.ncwm.com/events-detail/2024-annual-OH.
ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at the Hotel Cleveland, located at
24 Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44113.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Katrice Lippa, NIST, Office of
Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD
20899-2600. You may also contact Dr. Lippa at (301) 975-3116 or by
email at [email protected]. The meeting is open to the public, but
the payment of a registration fee is required. Please see the NCWM
website (www.ncwm.com) 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 and does not itself constitute
an endorsement by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) of the content of the notice. NIST participates in the NCWM as
an NCWM member and pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 272(b)(10) and (c)(4) and in
accordance with Federal policy (e.g., OMB Circular A-119 ``Federal
Participation in the Development and Use of Voluntary Consensus
Standards'').
The NCWM is an organization of weights and measures officials of
the states, counties, cities, and territories 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 hosted the first meeting of the
NCWM in 1905. Since then, the conference has provided a model of
cooperation between Federal, State, and local governments and the
private sector. 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,
inter alia, regulatory officials, industry representatives, and
consumers. Comments will be taken by the various NCWM committees on
agenda items during the open hearing portions of the conference
identified in the meeting schedule. At this stage, the items are
proposals. The open hearing sessions are accessible to all registered
attendees of the conference, including both NCWM members and non-
members. The conference also includes committee work sessions in which
the committees may, inter alia, accept comments, withdraw or carry over
agenda items that need additional maturation, and develop
recommendations for the agenda items for consideration and
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possible adoption during the voting session of the meeting.
This notice is intended to make interested parties aware of
significant agenda items and alert them to the committees' intentions
to share reports on the status of each at the 2024 NCWM Annual Meeting.
This notice is also presented to invite the participation of
manufacturers, experts, consumers, users, and others who may be
interested in these efforts.
Comments will be taken on these and other recommendations to amend
NIST Handbook 44, ``Specifications, Tolerances, and other Technical
Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices'' (NIST Handbook 44 or
NIST HB 44), NIST Handbook 130, ``Uniform Laws and Regulations in the
areas of Legal Metrology and Fuel Quality'' (NIST Handbook 130 or NIST
HB 130), and NIST Handbook 133, ``Checking the Net Contents of Packaged
Goods'' (NIST Handbook 133 or NIST HB 133).
These NIST Handbooks are regularly adopted by reference or through
the administrative procedures of all the states. At this stage these
agenda items are only proposals to amend the handbooks.
NCWM S&T Committee
The NCWM Specifications and Tolerances Committee (S&T Committee)
will consider proposed amendments to NIST HB 44, including those
identified below. These items address weighing and measuring devices
used in commercial applications, that is, devices used to buy from or
sell to the public or used to determine the quantity of products or the
cost of services based on a weight or measurement. For a detailed
technical review of the NCWM S&T Committee agenda items, see the 2024
NIST OWM Analysis at 2024 NIST OWM Annual Analysis.
SCL--Scales
SCL-23.3. Verification Scale Division e: Multiple Sections.
The S&T Committee has assigned a Voting status to a proposal
submitted by the NCWM Verification Scale Division e Task Group that is
intended to update NIST Handbook 44, Section 2.20 Scales to clarify how
error is determined in relation to the verification scale division (e)
and the scale division (d), clarify which is the proper reference; the
verification scale division (e) or the scale division (d) throughout
this section, ensure proper selection of a scale in reference to the
verification scale division (e) and the scale division (d), and clarify
the relationship between the verification scale division (e) and the
scale division (d).
WIM--Weigh-In-Motion Systems
WIM-23.1. Add Section 2.26. Weigh-in-Motion Systems Used for
Vehicle Direct Enforcement.
The S&T Committee will consider a proposal to add Section 2.26.
Weigh-in-Motion Systems Used for Vehicle Direct Enforcement. This also
includes (but is not limited to): (1) specifications that direct how a
device must be designed. (S); (2) the addition of test procedures
specific to devices designed to enforce road weight limit restrictions
for vehicles in the test procedures (N) section addressing test speeds,
dynamic test loads, and vehicle configurations; (3) the designation of
tolerances (T) to be applied to WIM scales used for enforcement
purposes; and (4) the addition of selection, installation, maintenance,
and violation parameters in the user requirements (UR) for the
enforcement of road weight limit restrictions for vehicles based on
axle, axle group, and gross vehicle weights. The proposal has been
through several revisions since the release of the 2023 NCWM
Publication 15. During the 2024 NCWM Interim Meeting, the Committee
updated the item based on revised language proposed by the submitter
and input received during the meeting. The item was assigned a Voting
status.
EVF--Electric Vehicle Fueling Systems
EVF-24.2--S.2.7. Indication of Delivery, N.3.2. Accuracy Testing.,
and T.2.1. EVSE Load Test Tolerances.
This item proposes to amend the exemption date applicable to DC EV
charging equipment from 2028 to 2025 for those paragraphs that include
the exemption. Exempting DC systems currently placed into service up
through December 31, 2024, from displaying specific sales information
and accuracy testing and tolerances. Whereas all other AC and DC EVSE
in service must meet all HB 44 display and accuracy requirements and be
held to minimum test procedures.
EVF-23.4--S.5.2. EVSE Identification and Marking Requirements,
S.5.3. Abbreviations and Symbols, and N.3. Test of an EVSE System. This
item proposes to expand EVSE test procedures and amend EVSE marking
requirements which are used to identify that the system is in the
proper state for testing.
EVF-23.6--S.5.2. EVSE Identification and Marking Requirements., and
T.2. Accuracy Test Tolerances. This item proposes to create a new
accuracy class for DC EV charging equipment where a 5%
performance tolerance would apply until 2034. This would permit DC
systems currently in use and placed into service up through December
31, 2023, a wider accuracy tolerance when marked with the designation
``Accuracy Class 5'' while other DC systems operate and meet the
current 2% tolerance.
OTH--Other Items
OTH-16.1--Non-Utility Electricity-Measuring Systems (NUEMS)--
Tentative Code. This item proposes to create a new NIST HB 44 code
section that would apply to electricity meters that are not under the
authority of municipal and public utilities. If adopted the code would
have a tentative designation which means it would have a trial or
experimental status and is not intended to be enforced.
NCWM L&R Committee
The NCWM Laws and Regulations Committee (L&R Committee) will
consider proposed amendments to NIST HB 133, including those identified
below. A detailed technical review of the L&R Committee agenda items
will be made available prior to the 2024 NCWM Annual Meeting in the
2024 NIST OWM Annual Analysis.
NET--NIST Handbook 133
NET-24.1. Section 3.11. Ice Cream Novelties. The L&R Committee will
consider a proposal designated as ``Voting'' to modify NIST HB 133,
Section 3.11. Ice Cream Novelties. This is a test procedure that will
provide updated technical guidance on the preparation and maintenance
of ice water at the required temperature to test ice cream novelties
such as ice cream bars, ice cream sandwiches, or cones.
NET-24.2. Section 4.9. Procedure for Checking the Contents of
Specific Agriculture Seed Packages Labeled by Count and Appendix D.
AOSA Rules for Testing Seeds. The L&R Committee will consider a
proposal designated as ``Voting'' to align NIST HB 133, Section 4.9.
Procedure for Checking the Contents of Specific Agriculture Seed
Packages Labeled by Count and Appendix D. AOSA Rules for Testing Seeds
with recent changes to the Association of Official Seed Analyst (AOSA)
Rules. This proposal would provide a standardized mechanical seed
counter calibration procedure for all models of mechanical seed
counters being used across the United States, to determine the number
of seeds per pound and/or for the purpose of packaging seeds by count.
NET 22.1 Section 1.2.6. Deviations Caused by Moisture Loss or Gain
and Section 2.3.8. Table 2-3 Moisture Allowances. The L&R Committee
will
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consider a proposal that is designated as ``Voting'' to Section 1.2.6.
Deviations Caused by Moisture Loss or Gain and Section 2.3.8. Table 2-3
Moisture Allowances. This proposal would provide for a 3% moisture
allowance for packages of Cannabis plant material containing more than
0.3% total delta-9 THC (Cannabis, Marijuana, or Marihuana \1\) or
containing 0.3% less total delta-9 THC (hemp). Deviations from the net
quantity of contents caused by the loss or gain of moisture from the
package are permitted when they are caused by ordinary and customary
exposure to conditions that normally occur in good distribution
practices and that unavoidably result in a change of weight or measure.
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\1\ In contrast to hemp, marijuana, which is defined as cannabis
with a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of more than 0.3
percent on a dry weight basis, remains a Schedule I substance under
the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). 21 U.S.C. 812(d); 21 CFR
1308.11(d)(23).
Alicia Chambers,
NIST Executive Secretariat.
[FR Doc. 2024-12191 Filed 6-3-24; 8:45 am]
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