Authorization of the Standard Reference Data Act and Review of the National Bureau of Standards: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2615 ... February 15 and April 6, 1978U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 258 pages |
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A04 NTIS ACTIVITY BY FISCAL aircraft AMBLER analysis Development/issue Maintenance applications areas assessment Cost/benefit analysis Atomic BARUCH Brooks Act budget Bureau of Standards carbon fibers Chairman Chemical Chemical Kinetics Compilation components composite materials Computer Sciences CONGRESS THE LIBRARY cooperative technology corrosion cost Cost/benefit analysis Development Cost/benefit analysis Development/issue data base Data Center Director effects electrical electronic energy equipment evaluation FAMILY & PRODUCTS Federal agencies FISCAL YEAR 1979 funds Government graphite composites graphite fiber impact improved Institute LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Magnetic Tape Maintenance Standard million NASA National Bureau National Engineering Laboratory National Measurement Laboratory NBS Spec needs NSRDS NSRDS-NBS NTIS PB organization Particle Data Group performance physical problems projects radiation response role Science and Technology scientific Senator STEVENSON specific Spectra Standard Reference Data technical Technology assessment Cost/benefit tion users W. H. Evans
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Page 3 - The Bureau is authorized to exercise its functions for the Government of the United States, for any State or municipal government within the United States, or for any scientific society, educational institution, firm, corporation, or individual within the United States engaged in manufacturing or other pursuits requiring the use of standards or standard measuring instruments.
Page 184 - department' means the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the...
Page 23 - ... materials needed by industry, commerce, educational institutions, and Government; provides advisory and research services to other Government Agencies; develops, produces, and distributes Standard Reference Materials; and provides calibration services. The Laboratory consists of the following centers: Absolute Physical Quantities...
Page 45 - Under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act and the Energy Conservation and Production Act...
Page 15 - Constitution ; (B) determine to what extent governmental and private information systems affect Federal-State relations or the principle of separation of powers; (C) examine the standards and criteria governing programs, policies, and practices relating to the collection, soliciting, processing, use, access, integration, dissemination, and transmission of personal information...
Page 11 - Act which is inconsistent with the provisions of this section shall be applicable in the administration of this section. (f) The Secretary of Commerce is authorized (1) to provide agencies, and the Administrator of General Services in the exercise of the authority delegated in this section, with scientific and technological advisory services relating to automatic data processing and related systems, and (2) to make appropriate recommendations to the President relating to the establishment of uniform...
Page 187 - A reasonable charge, as described below, should be made to each identifiable recipient for a measurable unit or amount of Government service or property from which he derives a special benefit.
Page 12 - State" includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. ELECTRONIC PRODUCT RADIATION CONTROL PROGRAM SEC. 356. (a) The Secretary shall establish and carry out an electronic product radiation control program designed to protect the public health and safety from electronic product radiation. As a part of such program, he shall — (1) pursuant to section...
Page 51 - To provide for the economic and efficient purchase, lease, maintenance, operation, and utilization of automatic data processing equipment by Federal departments and agencies.
Page 11 - ... (d) Whenever the Secretary of Commerce determines that there is undue proliferation of the weights, measures, or quantities in which any consumer commodity or reasonably comparable consumer commodities are being distributed in packages for sale at retail and such undue proliferation impairs the reasonable ability of consumers to make value comparisons...