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Standards
 The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) administers programs to provide a consistent
system of physical measurement in the United States and ensure that evaluated
scientific and technical data are readily available to scientists, engineers,
and the general public.
The NIST also serves as an
information center and referral service by maintaining a reference collection of
specifications, regulations, certification rules, directories, reference books
and special publications. Other agencies, like the Department of Labor maintain
standards to protect the wages of working individuals by requiring a minimum
hourly wage rate and overtime pay.
Click on any title below to read more about the program.
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11.550 Public Telecommunications Facilities_Planning and Construction - Objective: To assist in the planning, acquisition, installation and modernization of public
telecommunications facilities, through planning grants and matching construction
grants, in order to: a) extend delivery of public telecommunications services to
as many citizens of the United States and territories as possible by the most
efficient and economical means, including the use of broadcast and non-broadcast
technologies; b) increase public telecommunications services and facilities
available to, operated by and owned by minorities and women; and c) strengthen
the capability of existing public television and radio stations to provide
public telecommunications service to the public.
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11.552 Technology Opportunities - Objective: To promote the widespread use and availability of advanced telecommunications
and information technologies in the public and nonprofit sectors. By providing
matching grants for information infrastructure projects, this program will help
develop a nationwide, interactive, multimedia information infrastructure that is
accessible to all citizens, in rural areas as well as urban areas.
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11.604 Standard Reference Materials - Objective: Standard reference materials are certified and issued by NIST to develop
accurate methods of analysis; to calibrate measurement systems used to: (1)
facilitate the exchange of goods, (2) institute quality control, (3) determine
material performance characteristics, (4) measure materials at state-of-the-art
limits, and (5) assure the long-term adequacy and integrity of measurement
quality assurance programs.
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11.606 Weights and Measures Service - Objective: To provide leadership and technical resources to assure the accuracy of the
quantities and quantity representations in all commercial transactions in the
United States, and to promote a uniform national weights and measures system.
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11.610 National Center for Standards and Certification Information - Objective: To serve as an information center and referral service, by maintaining a
reference collection of standards and specifications, regulations, certification
rules, directories, reference books and special publications. To respond to
inquiries, develop and publish lists, bibliographies, indexes, and directories
of standards and related information, and to provide trade related regulations
and certification information to U.S. exporters and manufacturers.
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11.611 Manufacturing Extension Partnership - Objective: To establish, maintain, and support manufacturing extension centers and
services, the functions of which are to improve the competitiveness of firms
accelerating the usage of appropriate manufacturing technology by smaller U.S.
based manufacturing firms, and partner with the States in developing such
technical assistance programs and services for their manufacturing base.
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11.612 Advanced Technology Program - Objective: To work in partnership with industry to foster the development and broad
dissemination of challenging, high-risk technologies that offer the potential
for significant, broad-based economic benefits for the nation.
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17.303 Wage and Hour Standards - Objective: To provide standards protecting wages of working persons by requiring a minimum
hourly wage rate and overtime pay, or prevailing hourly wage rates, fringe
benefits and overtime pay under the Government Contract Acts. Additional
standards apply to child labor, to wage payment standards for professional
performers and related or supporting professional employees of productions
assisted by grants from the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, to
curtail employer use of lie detector tests, including polygraph tests, for
pre-employment screening or during the course of employment and to enforce
contractual obligations regarding wages and other working conditions between
certain temporary, alien agricultural workers (H-2A) and their employers, to
require the reporting of information about work performed by special
agricultural workers employed in seasonal agricultural services and the
enforcement of provisions concerning terms of employment of replenishment of
agricultural workers, to enforce the employment conditions attested to by
employers of H-1A temporary alien nonimmigrant registered nurses, to enforce
worker protection provisions applicable to foreign students, nonimmigrant
workers in "specialty occupations" and foreign crew members performing longshore
work, and to require private employers with 50 or more employees and all public
employers to provide eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave, job
restoration, and continued health insurance due to personal illness, the birth
or adoption of a child or for the care of a child, spouse or parent with a
serious health condition.
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17.309 Labor Organization Reports (Landrum-Griffin Act) - Objective: To provide for the reporting and disclosure of, financial transactions and
administrative practices of labor organizations, employers, labor consultants
and others required to report under the Landrum-Griffin Act; to provide
standards for the election of union officers, trusteeships, fiduciary
responsibilities of union officers, and rights of union members.
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96.007 Social Security_Research and Demonstration - Objective: (1) To conduct social, economic, and demographic research on topics important to
the Social Security Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and Supplemental
Security Income (SSI) programs and the current and future well-being of their
beneficiaries; (2) to develop and carry out experiments and research
demonstration projects to determine the efficacy of: (a) alternative ways of
rehabilitating beneficiaries and encouraging their return to work; and (b)
modifying conditions applicable to such beneficiaries including: (i) early
referral for rehabilitation services; and (ii) greater use of employers and
others in the rehabilitation and placement process.
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