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the Consortium will be required to sign 

a Cooperative Research and 

Development Agreement (CRADA). 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3710a. 

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures Interim Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Interim Meeting of the 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures (NCWM) will be held in St. 

Pete Beach, Florida, from Sunday, 

January 21, 2018, through Wednesday, 

January 24, 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 from 

Sunday, January 21, 2018, through 

Wednesday, January 24, 2018, on 

Sunday through Tuesday, from 8:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and on 

Wednesday, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 

p.m. Eastern Time. The meeting 

schedule is available at www.ncwm.net. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at 

the Sirata Beach Resort and Conference 

Center, 5300 Gulf Boulevard, St. Pete 

Beach, Florida 33706. 

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 the 

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 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 

recommendations will be developed for 

consideration and possible adoption at 

the NCWM 2018 Annual Meeting. The 

Committees may withdraw or carryover 

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 Interim 

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 that are 

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 area 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: 

GEN—General Code 

Item GEN–3 G–A.1. Commercial and 

Law-Enforcement Equipment and G– 

S.2. Facilitation of Fraud 

These paragraphs currently specify 

that all weighing and measuring 

equipment and all mechanisms, 

software, and devices that are attached 

or used in conjunction therewith must 

be designed, constructed, assembled, 

and installed for use so that they do not 

facilitate the perpetration of fraud. 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal that would expand the 

application of paragraph G–A.1. 

Commercial and Law-Enforcement 

Equipment to include accessory 

equipment that can be used to defraud 

or collect unauthorized personal or 

financial information from a user (e.g., 

credit/debit card ‘‘skimmers). The 

proposal would also expand paragraph 

G–S.2. Facilitation of Fraud by requiring 

credit/debit card readers and other 

devices capable of customer initiated 

electronic financial transactions that are 

used in conjunction with weighing and 

measuring equipment to: (1) Be 

designed and constructed to restrict 

access and tampering by unauthorized 

persons; and (2) include an event 

counter that records the date and time 

of access. 

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 that, 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 


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registers interfaced with a weighing 

element for items that are 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, 2020, 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, 2020. 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 WeighIn-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 applications. 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, WeighIn-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. 

The 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 the different 

axle and tandem axle configurations of 

vehicles that will typically be weighed 

by a system and a proposed 

maintenance and acceptance tolerance 

of 0.2 percent on gross (total) vehicle 

weight. Members of the TG, to date, 

have been unsuccessful in agreeing on 

test procedures, and, as a result, the TG 

recently developed a ‘‘White Paper’’ 

during the summer of 2017, which it 

distributed to the different regional 

weights and measures associations 

requesting feedback from their fall 2017 

conferences on some different draft test 

procedures being considered and some 

other concerns. 

Liquefied Petroleum Gas and 

Anhydrous Ammonia Liquid-Measuring 

Devices 

Item LPG–3 S.2.5. Zero-Setback 

Interlock, Stationary and Vehicle 

Mounted Meters, Electroinic 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal to add a new nonretroactive 

paragraph (effective date yet to be 

determined) that requires both 

stationary and vehicle mounted 

electronic LPG and anhydrous ammonia 

liquid-measuring devices be designed 

with an automatic interlock system that 

must engage following completion of a 

delivery. The proposal specifies that the 

interlock system must prevent a 

subsequent delivery from occurring 

until such time the indicating elements 

and recording elements, if so equipped, 

have been reset to zero. The proposal 

also requires the automatic interlock 

system to activate within three minutes 

of product flow cessation and that this 

‘‘timeout’’ feature be sealable at the 

indicator. 

Block 4, Items (B4) Terminology for 

Testing Standards and Block 5, Items 

(B5) Define ‘‘Field Reference Standard’’ 

Block 4 Items (B4) and Block 5 Items 

(B5) include all of 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 LiquidMeasuring 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 [Hyrdogen GasMetering 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 [Cryogentic LiquidMeasuring Devices] 

B5: Item CDL–2 N.3.2. Transfer 

Standard Test; T.3. On Tests Using 

Transfer Standards [Carbon Dioxide 

Liquid-Measuirng 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, and it 


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is likely the S&T Committee will take 

comments at the 2018 NCWM Interim 

Meeting on these two groups of items at 

the same time. 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 of Commodities 

Item MOS–10 Section 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 

that shall be sold by weight. This will 

also allow consumers to make a value 

comparison for similar like items. 

NIST Handbook 133—‘‘Checking the 

Net Contents of Packaged Goods’’ 

Item NET–4 Section 4.XX. Plywood and 

Wood-Based Structural Panels 

Currently, there is no test procedure 

in NIST Handbook 133 for Plywood and 

Wood-Based Structural Panels. This 

item will provide a test procedure for 

these products that follows good 

measuring practices for products sold by 

linear measure. The L&R Committee is 

seeking further comment and is 

recommending this test procedure be 

considered for addition to the 

handbook. 

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

Kevin Kimball, 

NIST Chief of Staff. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

[Docket No. 171115999–7999–01] 

National Cybersecurity Center of 

Excellence (NCCoE) Mitigating Internet 

of Things (IoT) Based Distributed 

Denial of Service (DDoS) Building 

Block 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 

invites organizations to provide 

products and technical expertise to 

support and demonstrate security 

platforms for the Mitigating IoT-Based 

DDoS Building Block. This notice is the 

initial step for the National 

Cybersecurity Center of Excellence 

(NCCoE) in collaborating with 

technology companies to address 

cybersecurity challenges identified 

under the Mitigating IoT-Based DDoS 

Building Block. Participation in the 

building block is open to all interested 

organizations. 

DATES: Interested parties must contact 

NIST to request a letter of interest 

template to be completed and submitted 

to NIST. Letters of interest will be 

accepted on a first come, first served 

basis. Collaborative activities will 

commence as soon as enough completed 

and signed letters of interest have been 

returned to address all the necessary 

components and capabilities, but no 

earlier than January 26, 2018. When the 

building block has been completed, 

NIST will post a notice on the NCCoE 

Mitigating IoT-Based DDoS Building 

Block website at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/ 

projects/building-blocks/mitigating-iotbased-ddos announcing the completion 

of the building block and informing the 

public that it will no longer accept 

letters of interest for this building block. 

ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at 

9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, 

MD 20850. Letters of interest must be 

submitted to mitigating-iot-based-ddosnccoe@nist.gov or via hardcopy to 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca 

Highway, Rockville, MD 20850. 

Organizations whose letters of interest 

are accepted in accordance with the 

process set forth in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of this notice will 

be asked to sign a consortium 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. An 

NCCoE consortium CRADA template 

can be found at: http://nccoe.nist.gov/ 

node/138. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim 

Polk, William Haag and Murugiah 

Souppaya via email to mitigating-iotbased-ddos-nccoe@nist.gov; by 

telephone 301–975–0239; or by mail to 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca 

Highway, Rockville, MD 20850. 

Additional details about the Mitigating 

IoT-Based DDoS Building Block are 

available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/

projects/building-blocks/mitigating-iotbased-ddos. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The NCCoE, part of 

NIST, is a public-private collaboration 

for accelerating the widespread 

adoption of integrated cybersecurity 

tools and technologies. The NCCoE 

brings together experts from industry, 

government, and academia under one 

roof to develop practical, interoperable 

cybersecurity approaches that address 

the real-world needs of complex 

Information Technology (IT) systems. 

By accelerating dissemination and use 

of these integrated tools and 

technologies for protecting IT assets, the 

NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT 

communications, data, and storage 

systems; reduce risk for companies and 

individuals using IT systems; and 

encourage development of innovative, 

job-creating cybersecurity products and 

services. 

Process: NIST is soliciting responses 

from all sources of relevant security 

capabilities (see below) to enter into a 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (CRADA) to provide 

products and technical expertise to 

support and demonstrate platforms for 

the Mitigating IoT-Based DDoS Building 

Block. The full building block can be 

viewed at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/

projects/building-blocks/mitigating-iotbased-ddos. 

Interested parties should contact NIST 

using the information provided in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section of this notice. NIST will then 

provide each interested party with a 

letter of interest template, which the 

party must complete, certify that it is 

accurate, and submit to NIST. NIST will 

contact interested parties if there are 

questions regarding the responsiveness 

of the letters of interest to the building 

block objective or requirements 

identified below. NIST will select 

participants who have submitted 

complete letters of interest on a first 

come, first served basis within each 

category of product components or 

capabilities listed below up to the 


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