Assistance program
Weights and Measures Service
$99,954 committed in FY2020–FY2022
- Agency
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce, Department of
- Assistance
- Provision of Specialized Services;Advisory Services and Counseling;Dissemination of Technical Information;Training
- CFDA number
- 11.606
- What it does
- To provide leadership and technical resources to assure the accuracy of the quantities and quantity representations in all commercial transactions in the United States, to promote a uniform national weights and measures system, to promote harmonization of national and international legal metrology standards, and to facilitate the transition to the metric system.
- Who benefits
- States, political subdivisions of States, private industry, and the general public.
- Who applies
- States, political subdivisions of States, private industry, and the general public.
- Authorized by
- National Bureau of Standards Organic Act, Public Law 56-177, as amended, 15 U.S.C. 271 et seq.; 15 U.S.C. 201 et seq.
- 42 U.S.C. § Ch. 163 Subch. II
- Program site
- http://www.nist.gov/pml/wmd/index.cfm ↗
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- Committed through this program
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