Metric Conversion Act of 1973: Hearing, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, on S. 100 November 2, 1973 |
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AFL-CIO American Answer areas Assistance Board benefits big business bill billion Building Trades Depart busin businessmen Chairman change to metric changeover Commerce Committee companies CONGRES CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction industry consumer conversion program coordinated economy effect of metric equipment estimate export Federal feel going metric Hannigan IBEW impact implementation increase iness International Brotherhood international metric labor legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Lord Ritchie-Calder major manufacturing ment Metric Conversion Act Metric Conversion Board Metric Monitoring metric system metric tools metric units metric usage Monitoring and Assistance multinational corporations National Metric NFIB percent period Peterson problems proposed Question reason recommend Report NBS SP responsibility sectors Senator PASTORE Senator PELL Senator STEVENS sion small business small firms socket wrench statement subsidies system of measurement tion trade transition U.S. Metric Study U.S. Senate WARREN G Williford workers
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Page 27 - Commerce is hereby authorized to conduct a program of investigation, research, and survey to determine the impact of increasing worldwide use of the metric system on the United States...
Page 16 - Act.28 (b) Appropriations made pursuant to the authority provided in subsection (a) of this section shall remain available for obligation, for expenditure, or for obligation and expenditure, for such period or periods as may be specified in the Acts making such appropriations.
Page 10 - Three members of the commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the commission shall have an official seal of which judicial notice shall be taken. The commission shall annually elect a . vice chairman to act in case of the absence or disability of the chairman or in case of a vacancy in the office of chairman.
Page 52 - The substitution of an entire new system of weights and measures, instead of one long established and in general use, is one of the most arduous exercises of legislative authority. There is indeed no difficulty in enacting and promulgating the law ; but the difficulties of carrying it into execution are always great, and have often proved insuperable.
Page 15 - Commerce, for which pay7 ment shall be made in advance, or by reimbursement, from 8 funds of the Board in such amounts as may be agreed upon 9 by the Chairman of the Board and the Secretary of Com10 merce.
Page 52 - Trade associations, labor unions, professional societies, and other groups were invited to submit their opinions and cost-benefit estimates concerning a possible future conversion to the metric system on behalf of their membership to the US Metric Study. . . . Many contributions report little significant usage of metric units, but twothirds of the reports indicate some metric usage, usually in research-related activities.
Page 2 - A BILL To provide a national program in order to make the international metric system the official and standard system of measurement in the United States and to provide for converting to the general use of such system within ten years after the date of enactment of this Act.
Page 21 - Federal funds paid to the applicant under this section ; and "(C) provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the...
Page 67 - ... not limited to, the impact on workers (such as costs of tools and training) and on different occupations and industries, possible increased costs to consumers, the impact on society and the economy, effects on small business, the impact on the international trade position of the United States, the appropriateness of and methods for using procurement by the Federal Government as a means to effect conversion to the metric system, the proper conversion or transition period in particular sectors...
Page 68 - ... no framework to guide the nation . There will be real costs and difficulties in the change, whether or not it is done by plan. The Study indicates that such difficulties will in any event have to be faced as metric usage reaches substantial proportions in America. Thus, without a plan the United States would experience all the difficulties of dual inventories, dual education, dual thinking, dual sets of tools, and dual production — perhaps not so soon but over a much longer period of time.