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15 U.S.C. § 205d — United States Metric Board

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15 U.S.C. § 205d — United States Metric Board

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**(a) Establishment** There is established, in accordance with this section, an independent instrumentality to be known as a United States Metric Board. **(b) Membership; Chairman; appointment of members; term of office; vacancies** The Board shall consist of 17 individuals, as follows: (1) the Chairman, a qualified individual who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; (2) sixteen members who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the following basis— (A) one to be selected from lists of qualified individuals recommended by engineers and organizations representative of engineering interests; (B) one to be selected from lists of qualified individuals recommended by scientists, the scientific and technical community, and organizations representative of scientists and technicians; (C) one to be selected from a list of qualified individuals recommended by the National Association of Manufacturers or its successor; (D) one to be selected from lists of qualified individuals recommended by the United States Chamber of Commerce, or its successor, retailers, and other commercial organizations; (E) two to be selected from lists of qualified individuals recommended by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations or its successor, who are representative of workers directly affected by metric conversion, and by other organizations representing labor; (F) one to be selected from a list of qualified individuals recommended by the National Governors Conference, the National Council of State Legislatures, and organizations representative of State and local government; (G) two to be selected from lists of qualified individuals recommended by organizations representative of small business; (H) one to be selected from lists of qualified individuals representative of the construction industry; (I) one to be selected from a list of qualified individuals recommended by the National Conference on Weights and Measures and standards making organizations; (J) one to be selected from lists of qualified individuals recommended by educators, the educational community, and organizations representative of educational interests; and (K) four at-large members to represent consumers and other interests deemed suitable by the President and who shall be qualified individuals. As used in this subsection, each “list” shall include the names of at least three individuals for each applicable vacancy. The terms of office of the members of the Board first taking office shall expire as designated by the President at the time of nomination; five at the end of the 2d year; five at the end of the 4th year; and six at the end of the 6th year. The term of office of the Chairman of such Board shall be 6 years. Members, including the Chairman, may be appointed to an additional term of 6 years, in the same manner as the original appointment. Successors to members of such Board shall be appointed in the same manner as the original members and shall have terms of office expiring 6 years from the date of expiration of the terms for which their predecessors were appointed. Any individual appointed to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of any term of office shall be appointed for the remainder of that term. Beginning 45 days after the date of incorporation of the Board, six members of such Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any function of the Board. **(c) Compulsory powers** Unless otherwise provided by the Congress, the Board shall have no compulsory powers. **(d) Termination** The Board shall cease to exist when the Congress, by law, determines that its mission has been accomplished.

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15 U.S.C. § 205c — Definitions

As used in this subchapter, the term— (1) “Board” means the United States Metric Board, established under [section 205d of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section205d&num=0&edition=prelim); (2) “engineering standard” means a standard which prescribes (A) a concise set of conditions and requirements that must be satisfied by a material, product, process, procedure, convention, or test method; and (B) the physical, functional, performance and/or conformance characteristics thereof; (3) “international standard or recommendation” means an engineering standard or recommendation which is (A) formulated and promulgated by an international organization and (B) recommended for adoption by individual nations as a national standard; (4) “metric system of measurement” means the International System of Units as established by the General Conference of Weights and Measures in 1960 and as interpreted or modified for the United States by the Secretary of Commerce; (5) “full and open competition” has the same meaning as defined in [section 107 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section107&num=0&edition=prelim); (6) “total installed price” means the price of purchasing a product or material, trimming or otherwise altering some or all of that product or material, if necessary to fit with other building components, and then installing that product or material into a Federal facility; (7) “hard-metric” means measurement, design, and manufacture using the metric system of measurement, but does not include measurement, design, and manufacture using English system measurement units which are subsequently reexpressed in the metric system of measurement; (8) “cost or pricing data or price anal

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15 U.S.C. § 205d — United States Metric Board

Page 637 TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE § 205d but does not include (i) any Federal building or construction project the exclusion of which the President deems to be justified in the pub- lic interest, or (ii) any construction project or building owned or controlled by a State gov- ernment, local government, Indian tribe, or any private entity. (Pub. L. 94–168, § 4, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 1007; Pub. L. 104–289, § 3, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3411.) Editorial Notes CODIFICATION In par. (5), ‘‘section 107 of title 41’’ substituted for ‘‘section 403(6) of title 41, United States Code’’ on au- thority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. In par. (8), ‘‘section 3501(a) of title 41’’ substituted for ‘‘section 304A of the Federal Property and Administra- tive Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 254b)’’ on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. In par. (9), ‘‘section 3301(a) of title 40’’ substituted for ‘‘section 13 of the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (40 U.S.C. 612)’’ on authority of Pub. L. 107–217, § 5(c), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1303, the first section of which enacted Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works. AMENDMENTS 1996—Pars. (5) to (9). Pub. L. 104–289 added pars. (5) to (9). Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1996 AMENDMENT; SAVINGS PROVISION Pub. L. 104–289, § 6, Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3415, pro- vided that: ‘‘(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act [See Short Title of 1996 Amendment note set out under section 205a of this title] and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act [Oct. 11, 1996]. ‘‘(b) SAVINGS PROVISIONS.—This

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