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Members of the public are invited to 

observe, and will be provided 

opportunities to contribute on June 28 

and July 2, 2010. The final report will 

be available prior to the September 

NPFMC Plan Team meetings and will 

consist of individual reports from each 

panelist and a summary report. The 

results of the review will be presented 

during the September 2010 NPFMC Plan 

Team meeting, which will be 

announced at a later time in the Federal 

Register. 

Special Accommodations 

These workshops will be physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be directed to Pat Livingston, 

206–526–4172, at least 10 working days 

prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: May 26, 2010. 

Carrie Selberg, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures 95th Annual Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Annual Meetings of the 

95th National Conference on Weights 

and Measures (NCWM) will be held July 

11 to 15, 2010. 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. The meetings of the 

NCWM are open to the public but 

registration is required. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on July 

11–15, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Crowne Plaza St. Paul-Riverfront 

Hotel, 11 East Kellogg Boulevard, St. 

Paul, Minnesota 55101. 

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 

at Carol.Hockert@nist.gov by e-mail. 

Registration is required to attend this 

meeting. Please see NCWM Pub 16 

‘‘Committee Reports for the 95th 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures’’ at http://www.ncwm.net or 

http://www.nist.gov/owm to review the 

full meeting agenda, registrations forms, 

and hotel reservation information. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

NCWM is a voluntary 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. NIST participates in the 

NCWM 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. 

The following are brief descriptions of 

some of the significant agenda items 

that will be considered along with other 

issues at the NCWM Annual 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 oral and 

written comments where they will 

finalize recommendations for NCWM 

consideration and possible adoption at 

its voting sessions which are tentatively 

scheduled for July 14 and 15, 2010. The 

Committees may withdraw or carry over 

items that need additional development. 

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 (NIST Handbook 

44).’’ Those items address weighing and 

measuring devices used in commercial 

applications, that is, devices that are 

normally used to buy from or sell to the 

public or used for determining the 

quantity of product 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.’’ These 

documents are available on the Internet 

at http://www.nist.gov/owm. 

This notice contains information 

about significant items on the NCWM 

Committee agendas, but does not 

include 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 310–4. G–A.6. Nonretroactive 

Requirements (Remanufactured 

Equipment)—The NCWM will consider 

adoption of a revision to a current 

requirement to clarify the intent of the 

2001 decision regarding the application 

of a variety of nonretroactive 

requirements to devices that have been 

classified to have been 

‘‘remanufactured’’ (i.e., a device that is 

disassembled, checked for wear, parts 

replaced or fixed, reassembled and 

made to operate like a new device of the 

same type) as compared with a 

‘‘manufactured device’’ which is a 

commercial weighing or measuring 

device shipped as new from the original 

equipment manufacturer. 

Scales Code 

Item 320–2. S.1.7. Automatic ZeroSetting Mechanism (AZSM)—The 

NCWM will consider adoption of a 

proposal to define the acceptable 

operating parameters of the zero-setting 

functions used on some electronic 

weighing devices. These functions 

automatically maintain a scale’s 

indications at zero when no load is on 

the device. Existing NIST Handbook 44 

requirements prohibit some of the zerosetting functions found on weighing 

devices designed and sold for use in 

other countries when those devices are 

used in commercial applications in the 

U.S. marketplace. The intent of the 

proposal is to retroactively prohibit the 

use of this feature on scales used in 

commercial transactions. 

Vehicle Tank Meter Code 

Item 331–1. T.2.1. Automatic 

Temperature-Compensating Systems 

(ATC) on Vehicle Tank Meters (These 

systems may be used on existing vehicle 

mounted meters that are typically used 

to deliver home heating fuel and other 

products to residential and business 

consumers.)—The NCWM will consider 

adoption of the proposal to revise the 

existing tolerances applicable to 

comparisons of test results between 

compensated and non-compensated test 

runs on vehicle tank meters equipped 

with ATC systems to better reflect the 

actual performance capability of these 

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Commercial Hydrogen Gas Measuring 

Devices 

Item 360–1. Tentative Code for 

Hydrogen Gas-Measuring Devices—The 

NCWM will consider adoption of a set 

of specifications, tolerances, and other 

technical requirements as a ‘‘tentative’’ 

code for inclusion in NIST Handbook 44 

that can be applied on a trial basis to 

commercial measuring equipment used 

to deliver hydrogen fuel to highway 

vehicles, which are currently operating 

in 24 states. The code was developed by 

the U.S. National Working Group 

(USNWG) for the Development of 

Commercial Hydrogen Measurement 

Standards that included key 

stakeholders and experts in commercial 

hydrogen measurement, such as 

manufacturers and users of commercial 

hydrogen measuring equipment, fuel 

suppliers, regulatory officials, and other 

interested parties. Adoption and use of 

the code on a trial basis is expected to 

provide feedback to the USNWG on how 

well the draft meets the needs of the 

measurement community in a broad 

range of applications. The proposed 

tolerances are based on an assessment of 

the range of accuracy levels reported 

thus far, but require additional 

evaluation. The appropriateness of the 

tolerance values will be determined in 

conjunction with the evaluation of the 

other requirements contained in this 

tentative code. Based on the feedback 

received from its use as a tentative code, 

if needed additional changes, will be 

included in the code prior to it being 

recommended for adoption as a 

‘‘permanent’’ (or fully enforceable) code 

in NIST Handbook 44. 

NCWM Laws and Regulations 

Committee 

The following items are proposals to 

amend NIST Handbook 130: 

Method of Sale of Commodities 

Regulation 

Item 232–2. Method of Sale and 

Engine Fuel Quality Requirements for 

Hydrogen—The NCWM will consider 

adoption of a proposal to establish a 

uniform method of sale for hydrogen 

offered for retail sale as a vehicle fuel. 

Item 232–5. Uniform Regulation for 

Method of Sale of Commodities— 

Packaged Printer Ink and Toner 

Cartridges—This is an informational 

item and it will not be voted on at the 

2010 Annual Meeting. The L&R 

Committee will accept comments on 

this item and then consider 

recommending adoption of a method of 

sale to clarify the net quantity of 

contents and other labeling 

requirements for these products. The 

Committee requests that manufacturers 

and sellers of these products, 

consumers, and weights and measures 

officials provide comments on the draft 

regulation which is presented in 

Publication 16. 

Item 232–6. Method of Sale, Section 

2.23. Animal Bedding—The NCWM will 

consider adoption of a proposal to 

amend the current method of sale (i.e., 

a regulation that specifies whether a 

product may be sold by weight, 

measure, count, or a combination of the 

three methods to facilitate value 

comparisons by consumers) to 

accommodate the special needs and 

provisions of granular, pelleted, and 

other non-compressible dry laboratory 

animal bedding materials sold to 

commercial end-users in the specialized 

lab animal research industry on a 

weight or per pound basis. 

The following items are proposals to 

amend NIST Handbook 133 ‘‘Checking 

the Net Contents of Packaged Goods’’: 

Item 260–1. Guidance on Allowing for 

Moisture Loss and Other Revisions— 

The NCWM will consider adoption of 

proposed revisions to the procedures 

that handbook users may use to provide 

for moisture loss in packaged goods. 

Other proposals to amend the handbook 

include revisions of current language, 

including additional instructions in 

some test procedures, to increase clarity 

and uniformity. Further discussion of 

the draft revision of the handbook is 

presented in Publication 16. 

Item 260–2. Seed Count for 

Agricultural Seeds—The NCWM will 

consider adoption of test procedures for 

determining actual seed count in 

packages, which may be labeled to 

contain up to 80,000 seeds, and limits 

on unreasonable quantity variations for 

addition to the handbook. These 

proposals were developed by seed 

regulatory officials in collaboration with 

industry for use in verifying the net 

quantity of contents of packages of 

agricultural seed (specifically corn seed, 

soybean seed, field bean seed, and 

wheat seed) labeled by ‘‘count.’’ 

Item 260–6. Moisture Allowance for 

Pasta Products—The NCWM will 

consider adoption of a proposal for a 

three percent limit on moisture loss for 

macaroni, noodle, and like products 

(pasta products). If this proposal is 

adopted, the specified value would be 

used by weights and measures officials 

to enforce laws related to the accuracy 

of net quantity of contents declaration 

on packaged goods and to define 

reasonable variations caused by the loss 

or gain of moisture. 

Dated: May 26, 2010. 

Katharine B. Gebbie, 

Director, Physics Laboratory. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Manufacturing Council 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Reopening of the 

Application Period for Membership on 

the Manufacturing Council. 

SUMMARY: On March 16, 2010, the 

Department of Commerce’s International 

Trade Administration published a 

notice in the Federal Register (75 FR 

12507) soliciting applications for 

membership on the Manufacturing 

Council (Council). The March 16, 2010 

notice provided that all applications 

must be received by the Office of 

Advisory Committees of the Department 

of Commerce by close of business on 

April 15, 2010. This notice reopens the 

application period in order to provide 

the public with an additional 

opportunity to submit applications. The 

eligibility and evaluation criteria for 

selecting members contained in the 

March 16, 2010 notice shall continue to 

apply. The purpose of the Council is to 

advise the Secretary of Commerce on 

matters relating to the competitiveness 

of the U.S. manufacturing sector and to 

provide a forum for regular 

communication between Government 

and the manufacturing sector. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit application 

information to J. Marc Chittum, Office of 

Advisory Committees, Manufacturing 

Council Executive Secretariat, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Room 4043, 

1401 Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. 

DATES: All applications must be 

received by the Office of Advisory 

Committees by close of business on June 

18, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: J. 

Marc Chittum, Manufacturing Council 

Executive Secretariat, Room 4043, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230, telephone: 202–482–4501, email: marc.chittum@trade.gov. 

Please visit the Manufacturing 

Council Web site at: http:// 

www.manufacturing.gov/council/ 

index.asp?dName=council. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Advisory Committees is reopening 


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