NPGA Scores Win with the NCWM

At its annual meeting last week, the National Conference on Weights and Measures voted overwhelmingly to accept a NPGA proposal that exempts mechanical/analog meter registers used for selling retail motor fuel from having to be replaced with electronic registers having automatic zero setback capability.

This win culminates a five-year effort to persuade state weights and measures officials that the volume of retail motor fuel sold through mechanical registers did not justify the expense to retrofit dispensers with electronic registers, which could cost up to $30,000 per dispenser.

Other items of interest at the meeting pertained to the implementation of a field trial program for master meters and discussions on the rollback of automatic temperature compensation retrofit requirements.

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