[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: 7CFR802.1]

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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. 802.1  Qualified laboratories.

    (a) Metrology laboratories. (1) Any State metrology laboratory 
currently approved by the NBS ongoing certification program having 
auditing capability is automatically approved by the Service.
    (2) Any county or city weights and measures jurisdiction approved by 
NBS or by their respective NBS-Certified State laboratory as being 
equipped with appropriate traceable standards and trained staff to 
provide valid calibration is approved by the Service. The State approval 
may be documented by a certificate or letter. The jurisdiction must be 
equipped to provide suitable certification documentation.
    (3) Any commercial industrial laboratory primarily involved in the 
business of sealing and calibrating test weights (standards) will be 
approved by the Service provided:
    (i) It requests written authority to perform tolerance testing of 
weights used within the Service's program(s) through their approved 
State jurisdiction. Copies of its request and written reference 
regarding the State decision shall be provided to the Service. A 
positive decision by the State will be required as a prerequisite to the 
Service's granting approval to any commercial laboratory to tolerance 
test the weights used in testing scales under the jurisdiction of the 
Service;
    (ii) It has NBS traceable standards (through the State) and trained 
staff to perform calibrations in a manner prescribed by NBS and/or the 
State;
    (iii) It is equipped to provide suitable certification 
documentation;
    (iv) It permits the Service to make onsite visits to laboratory 
testing space.
    (4) Approval of the commercial industrial laboratory will be at the 
Service's discretion. Once it has obtained approval, the commercial 
industrial laboratory maintains its site in a manner prescribed by the 
State and the Service.
    (b) Type evaluation laboratories. Any State measurement laboratory 
currently certified by NBS in accordance with its program for the 
Certification of Capability of State Measurement Laboratories to conduct 
evaluations under the National Type Evaluation Program is approved by 
the Service.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
0580-0011)

[51 FR 7052, Feb. 28, 1986, as amended at 54 FR 5925, Feb. 7, 1989]

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