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8See Notice of Antidumping Duty Order and 

Amended Final Determination of Sales at Less 

Than Fair Value: Certain Pasta From Turkey, 61 FR 

38545 (July 24, 1996). 

all-others rate established in the lessthan-fair-value investigation.8 These 

cash deposit requirements, when 

imposed, shall remain in effect until 

further notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary reminder to importers of 

their responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during this 

review period. Failure to comply with 

this requirement could result in the 

Department’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

results in accordance with sections 

751(a)(1) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.214. 

Dated: December 24, 2014. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

Summary 

Background 

Scope of the Order 

Methodology 

Bona Fide Sales Analysis 

Fair Value Comparisons 

Product Comparisons 

Determination of Comparison Method 

Date of Sale 

U.S. Price 

Normal Value 

Currency Conversion 

Conclusion 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

National Conference on Weights and 

Measures 100th Interim Meeting 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The 100th Interim Meeting of 

the National Conference on Weights and 

Measures (NCWM) will be held in 

Daytona Beach, Florida, from Sunday, 

January 18, 2015 through Wednesday, 

January 21, 2015. 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 18, 2015 through 

Wednesday, January 21, 2015, meeting 

schedule is available at www.ncwm.net. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held at 

the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront 

Resort 100 North Atlantic Avenue, 

Daytona Beach, Florida 32118. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Carol Hockert, Chief, NIST, Office of 

Weights and Measures, 100 Bureau 

Drive, Stop 2600, Gaithersburg, MD 

20899–2600. You may also contact Ms. 

Hockert at (301) 975–5507 or by email 

at carol.hockert@nist.gov. The meeting 

is open to the public, but a paid 

registration is required. Please see 

NCWM Publication 15 ‘‘Interim Meeting 

Agenda’’ (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 of the NCWM. 

The NCWM is an organization of 

weights and measures officials of the 

states, counties, and cities of the United 

States, federal agencies, and 

representatives from the private sector. 

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 among the states in laws, 

regulations, methods, and testing 

equipment that comprise the regulatory 

control of commercial weighing and 

measuring devices, packaged goods, and 

other trade and commerce issues. 

The following are brief descriptions of 

some of the significant agenda items 

that will be considered 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 2015 

Annual Meeting. The Committees may 

withdraw or carryover items that need 

additional development. The 100th 

Annual Meeting of the NCWM will be 

held July 19 to 23, 2015, at The 

Sheraton Philadelphia Society Hill 

Hotel, 1 Dock Street, Philadelphia, 

Pennsylvania 19106. 

Some of the items listed below 

provide notice of projects under 

development by groups working to 

develop specifications, tolerances, and 

other requirements for devices used in 

the retail sales of engine fuels and the 

establishment of approximate gallon 

and liter equivalents to diesel fuel that 

would be used in marketing both 

compressed and liquefied natural gas. 

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 Specifications and Tolerances 

Committee 

The following items are proposals to 

amend NIST Handbook 44: 

Scales (including weigh-in-motion 

vehicle scales for use in the enforcement 

of highway load limits) 

Item 320–4 Weigh-in-Motion Vehicle 

Scales for Use in Highway Weight 

Enforcement 

The S&T Committee will consider 

recommending adoption of a new code 

to be included in NIST Handbook 44 

that will include the specifications, 

tolerances, and other technical 


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requirements for the vehicle scales used 

by highway weight enforcement 

agencies to determine the axle weights 

and gross weights of trucks and other 

large highway vehicles while they are in 

motion. The proposed code includes 

recommended tests and tolerances for 

static and dynamic weighing modes as 

well as user requirements that will 

ensure devices are maintained properly, 

allowing weighing results to be used to 

carry out highway weight enforcement 

programs across the nation. 

Belt-Conveyor Scale Systems 

Item 321–1 Belt-Conveyor Scale 

Systems 

Belt-conveyor scales are used in a 

wide variety of applications for 

weighing coal, grain, ore, and many 

other raw materials or products. 

Currently, only scales that are fully 

integrated into a conveyor system are 

permitted under NIST Handbook 44. 

The S&T Committee will consider 

adoption of new definitions and 

proposals to broaden the scope of the 

requirements to allow fully ‘‘selfcontained weigh-belt systems’’ to be 

covered by the specifications, 

tolerances, and other technical 

requirements in NIST Handbook 44 so 

these devices may be utilized in 

commercial transactions. 

Automatic Bulk Weighing Systems 

Item 322–1 N.1. Testing Procedures 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal to change the test procedures 

and tolerances for automatic bulk 

weighing systems to reflect that these 

devices are generally operating in a 

‘‘dynamic’’ mode when commercial 

weight determinations are made. When 

these devices weigh in a ‘‘dynamic’’ 

mode, the accuracy of the weighment 

can be affected by many additional 

factors (e.g., vibration, mechanical 

timing of the systems’ filling and 

emptying mechanisms); this may result 

in differences when compared to the 

weight determinations obtained in 

‘‘static’’ weighing mode. The proposed 

procedures require ‘‘as used’’ testing to 

verify the accuracy of these devices. 

Requiring ‘‘as used’’ testing would 

improve the weighing accuracy of these 

devices and bring this code into 

agreement with requirements in other 

NIST Handbook 44 codes where 

dynamic weighing is allowed. 

Liquid Measuring Devices 

Item 330–2 S.2.2. Categories of Device 

and Methods of Sealing 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal that would allow device 

manufacturers to supply required 

security and configuration related data 

in ‘‘event loggers’’ (i.e., digital systems 

that keep track of the number of times 

a calibration event occurs) to weights 

and measures officials and service 

personnel utilizing digital 

communications (e.g., cellular or 

Internet connections) or other electronic 

means (e.g., USB flash memory drive) in 

lieu of providing a printed record. This 

information is used to ascertain how 

many and what type of calibrations and 

configuration changes were made to a 

weighing and measuring device since 

the last official inspection or service. 

The S&T Committee will evaluate the 

costs, practicality, and other aspects of 

the proposal in addition to considering 

the data security and privacy concerns 

that may arise if this proposal is 

adopted. 

Item 330–3 N.4.1.3. Normal Tests on 

Wholesale Multi-Point Calibration 

Devices 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal to update the LiquidMeasuring Devices Code to include test 

procedures that recognize technological 

advances in meter calibration and 

improve the accuracy of meters used to 

measure petroleum, chemicals, and 

other liquids. The intent of the proposal 

is to prescribe test procedures for meters 

with multi-point calibration (i.e., their 

measurement accuracy is adjusted to 

account for variations in volume, which 

result from the meter being operated at 

different flow rates). The S&T 

Committee will also consider 

requirements that will govern how users 

utilize the optional features found on 

these systems. See also Item 331–1 

which addresses these features on 

vehicle-tank meters used to measure 

products such as home heating fuel and 

other fuel deliveries. 

Liquefied Petroleum Gas and 

Anhydrous Ammonia LiquidMeasuring Devices 

Item 332–2 N.3. Test Drafts—Use of 

Transfer Standards for Calibration and 

Verification 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

proposal to recognize the use of 

calibrated transfer standards (also called 

‘‘master meters’’) in the verification and 

calibration of Liquefied Petroleum Gas 

and Anhydrous Ammonia LiquidMeasuring Devices. Currently, most 

official tests of these devices are 

conducted using volumetric test 

measures or using gravimetric testing. 

Adoption of this proposal, which 

includes requirements for a minimum 

test draft, would allow the use of 

‘‘master meters’’ in both service-related 

and official testing. The S&T Committee 

will also consider expanding the use of 

transfer standards to other types of 

measuring devices, including those used 

to measure petroleum at terminals and 

retail outlets and to meters used to 

deliver home heating fuel and other 

products. 

Mass Flow Meters 

Item 337–1 Diesel Energy Equivalents 

for Compressed and Liquefied Natural 

Gas 

Natural gas is sold in the marketplace 

in both compressed (CNG) and liquefied 

(LNG) states as alternative fuel choices 

to gasoline and diesel fuel. The S&T 

Committee will consider proposed 

revisions to NIST Handbook 44 to 

define volume units for CNG and LNG 

in terms of the energy equivalents for a 

liter or gallon of diesel fuel. The 

availability of these values should 

enable consumers to compare the cost 

and mileage economy of different fuels 

so enable informed purchasing 

decisions when considering the use, 

purchase, or lease of vehicles equipped 

to operate on different fuels. 

Taximeters (and GPS Devices When 

Used in Transportation Services) 

Items 354–1, 354–2, 354–3, 354–4, and 

354–5 

The S&T Committee will consider this 

group of proposals (listed above) which 

includes proposed revisions and 

updates to the Taximeter Code in NIST 

Handbook 44 to address changes in 

technology related to indicating and 

recording elements (i.e., printers) and 

operational features including the 

indications required to be presented to 

passengers. 

Item 354–6 U.S. National Working 

Group on Taximeters and Global 

Positioning System-Based Systems for 

Time and Distance Measurement 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

progress report from a national working 

group that is studying the use of Global 

Positioning Systems and smart phone/

web based applications in 

transportations services in order to 

develop proposed specifications, 

tolerances, and other technical 

requirements to ensure accuracy and 

transparency for passengers, drivers, 

and businesses for inclusion in NIST 

Handbook 44. 

Other Items 

Item 360–1 Proposed Definition for a 

‘‘Batching System’’ 

The S&T Committee will consider a 

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systems.’’ These systems are used daily 

in a wide variety of industries to 

produce concrete (sold by the cubic 

yard) used in buildings, bridge and 

highway construction, and ‘‘blacktop’’ 

or asphalt pavement (sold by the short 

ton) used for road surfaces. Batching 

systems are also used in the production 

of animal food, agricultural seed and 

many other commodities. These systems 

(which can operate automatically or 

manually) often include multiple 

components such as weighing and 

measuring devices, which fall under 

different codes in NIST Handbook 44. 

When these multiple-component 

systems are used, it is sometimes 

difficult to categorize the system as a 

whole as a scale, a measuring device, or 

an automatic weighing system. 

Confusion over what requirements to 

apply from the various codes sometimes 

occurs. The definition is intended to 

clarify that weights and measures 

officials and users may apply different 

NIST Handbook 44 codes to the 

components of a batching system 

without classifying the device as an 

‘‘automatic bulk weighing system’’ 

because that code includes operational 

and other requirements that 

manufacturers may not design a system 

to meet. See also Items 320–1—A.1. 

General; 324–1—A.1. General; and 330– 

1—A.1. General. 

Item 360–5 Electric Vehicle Fueling 

and Submetering 

The S&T Committee will consider 

recommending adoption of a draft code 

for use in electric vehicle charging and 

submetering for inclusion in NIST 

Handbook 44. The code was developed 

by a national working group that 

continues to further refine the 

specifications, tolerances, and other 

technical requirements to ensure 

accuracy and transparency for drivers of 

electric vehicles and power resellers. 

The S&T Committee will also consider 

proposed changes to the section 5.55. 

‘‘Timing Devices’’ in NIST Handbook 44 

to address requirements for the timing 

mechanisms that are likely to be used in 

some recharging systems to determine 

additional charges for other services 

(e.g., parking). 

NCWM Laws and Regulations 

Committee (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 232–3 Animal Bedding 

Animal Bedding is generally defined 

as any material, except for baled straw, 

that is kept, offered or exposed for sale 

or sold to retail consumers for primary 

use as a medium for any pet or 

companion or livestock animal to nest 

or eliminate waste. The purpose of this 

proposal is to provide a uniform method 

of sale for animal bedding that will 

enhance the ability of consumers to 

make value comparisons and will 

ensure fair competition. If adopted, the 

proposal will require packers to 

advertise and sell packages of animal 

bedding on the basis of the expanded 

volume of the bedding. Most packages 

of animal bedding are compressed 

during packaging and the expanded 

volume is the amount of product that 

consumers will recover through 

unwrapping and decompressing the 

bedding according to the instructions 

provided by the packer. See also Item 

260–3 for proposed Test Procedures for 

Verifying the Expanded Volume 

Declaration on Packages of Animal 

Bedding 

NIST Handbook 133—‘‘Checking the 

Net Contents of Packaged Goods’’ 

Item 260–1 Chitterling Test Procedure 

This proposal will add a test 

procedure and purge allowance to NIST 

Handbook 133 so that the drainage 

equipment and methods used by state 

and local weights and measures officials 

are identical to those used by the Food 

Safety and Inspection Service of the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

in packing plants. Currently neither a 

purge allowance nor test procedure are 

contained in the handbook so state and 

local weights and measures inspectors 

use a modified test procedure developed 

for frozen seafood and information 

provided in a USDA response to a 

consumer inquiry to carry out 

inspections of these food products. This 

test procedure will also be used in 

verifying the amount of purge from beef 

tripe. 

Dated: December 30, 2014. 

Willie E. May, 

Acting Director. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

[Docket ID: USA–2015–0003] 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Army & Air Force Exchange 

Service (Exchange), DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Army & Air Force Exchange Service 

announces a proposed public 

information collection and seeks public 

comment on the provisions thereof. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the information collection on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by March 9, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Federal Docket Management 

System Office, 4800 Mark Center Drive, 

East Tower, Suite 02G09, Alexandria, 

VA 22350–3100. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name, docket 

number and title for this Federal 

Register document. The general policy 

for comments and other submissions 

from members of the public is to make 

these submissions available for public 

viewing on the Internet at http://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. Any associated form(s) for 

this collection may be located within 

this same electronic docket and 

downloaded for review/testing. Follow 

the instructions at http://

www.regulations.gov for submitting 

comments. Please submit comments on 

any given form identified by docket 

number, form number, and title. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

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