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Metric Conversion and the Federal Role: An Update (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date May 29, 1997
Report Number 95-875
Authors Lennard G. Kruger, Science Policy Research Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The United States remains the only major industrialized country in which a nonmetric measurement system is predominantly employed. Section 5164 of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (P.L. 100-418) amended the Metric Conversion Act to require federal agencies to use the metric system in their activities. Legislation in the 104th and 105th Congress limits federal metric conversion activities, particularly in instances where states, local governments, and the private sector may be required to convert to the metric system in order to participate in federally funded programs.