[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 7]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR802.0]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER VIII--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARD ADMINISTRATION 
      (FEDERAL GRAIN INSPECTION SERVICE), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 802--OFFICIAL PERFORMANCE AND PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS FOR GRAIN WEIGHING EQUIPMENT AND RELATED GRAIN HANDLING SYSTEMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 802.0  Applicability.

    (a) The requirements set forth in this part 802 describe certain 
specifications, tolerances, and other technical requirements for grain 
weighing equipment and related grain handling systems used in performing 
Class X and Class Y weighing services, official inspection services, and 
commercial services under the Act. All scales used for official grain 
weight and inspection certification services provided by FGIS shall meet 
applicable requirements contained in the FGIS Weighing Handbook, the 
General Code, the Scales Code, the Automatic Bulk Weighing Systems Code, 
and the Weights Code of the 1994 edition of National Institute of 
Standards and Technology (NIST) Handbook 44, ``Specifications, 
Tolerances, and Other Technical Requirements for Weighing and Measuring 
Devices'' (Handbook 44); and NIST HANDBOOK 105-1 (1990 Edition), 
``Specifications and Tolerances for Reference Standards and Field 
Standard Weights and Measures'' (Handbook 105-1). These requirements are 
confirmed to be met by having National Type Evaluation Program or 
Federal Grain Inspection Service type approval. Scales used for 
commercial purposes will be required to meet only the applicable 
requirements of the 1994 edition of the NIST Handbook-44. Pursuant to 
the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552(a), with the exception of the Handbook 44 
requirements listed in paragraph (b) of this section, the materials in 
Handbooks 44 and 105-1 are incorporated by reference as they

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exist on the date of approval and a notice of any change in these 
materials will be published in the Federal Register. The NIST Handbooks 
are for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government 
Printing Office, Washington, DC 20403. They are also available for 
inspect at the Office of the Federal Register, 800 North Capitol Street, 
NW., suite 700, Washington, DC.
    (b) The following Handbook 44 requirements are not incorporated by 
reference:

                           Scales Code (2.20)

S.1.8.  Computer Scales
S.1.8.2.  Money-Value Computation
S.1.8.3.  Customer's Indications
S.1.8.4.  Recorded Representations, Point of Sale
S.2.5.2.  Jeweler's, Prescription, & Class I & II Scales
S.3.3.  Scoop Counterbalance
N.1.3.2  Dairy-Product Test Scales
N.1.5.  Discrimination Test (Not adopted for Grain Test Scales only)
N.1.8.  Material Tests
N.3.1.2.  Interim Approval
N.3.1.3.  Enforcement Action for Inaccuracy
N.4.  Coupled-in-Motion Railroad Weighing Systems
N.5.  Nominal Capacity of Prescription Scales
T.1.2.  Postal and Parcel Post Scales
T.2.3.  Prescription Scales
T.2.4.  Jewelers' Scales (all sections)
T.2.5.  Dairy--Product-Test Scales (all sections)
T.N.3.9.  Materials Test on Customer-Operated Bulk-Weighing Systems for 
Recycled Materials
UR.1.4.  Grain Test Scales: Value of Scale Divisions
UR.3.1.  Recommended Minimum Load
UR.3.1.1.  Minimum Load, Grain Dockage
Automatic Bulk Weighing Systems (2.22): UR.1.1.  Selection Requirements 
for Systems Used to Weight Grain.

[60 FR 31910, June 19, 1995]