(a) Moisture meters. All moisture meters approved for use in official grain moisture determination and certification shall meet applicable requirements contained in the FGIS Moisture Handbook and the General Code and Grain Moisture Meters Code of the 1991 edition of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Handbook 44, “Specifications, Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring Devices.” Pursuant to the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552(a), the materials in Handbook 44 are incorporated by reference as they exist on the date of approval and a notice of any change in these materials will be published in the Federal Register.
The NIST Handbook is for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20403. It is also available for inspection at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For information on the availability of this material at NARA, call 202-741-6030, or go to: http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ibr_locations.html.
The following Handbook 44 requirements are not incorporated by reference:
General Code (1.10.)
G-S.5.5. Money Values, Mathematical Agreement
G-T.1. Acceptance Tolerances
G-UR.3.3. Position of Equipment
G-UR.3.4. Responsibility, Money-Operated Devices
Grain Moisture Meters (5.56.)
N.1.1. Transfer Standards
N.1.2. Minimum Test
N.1.3. Temperature Measuring Equipment
T.2. Tolerance Values
T.3. For Test Weight Per Bushel Indications or Recorded Representations
UR.3.2. Other Devices not used for Commercial Measurement
UR.3.7. Location
UR.3.11. Posting of Meter Operating Range
(b) [Reserved]
[57 FR 2673, Jan. 23, 1992, as amended at 69 FR 18803, Apr. 9, 2004]