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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Definitions
  2.1 Technical terms
  2.2 Organizations
  2.3 Legal documents and Department of
      Defense Directives
3 References
4 History
  4.1 Early U.S. contact with metric
  4.2 Metric Study Act of 1968
  4.3 Metric Conversion Act of 1975
  4.4 Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
      of 1988 (the trade bill)
5 Federal involvement in metric conversion
  5.1 General
  5.2 Office of Metric Programs (OMP)
  5.3 Interagency Committee on Metric
      Policy (ICMP)
  5.4 Metric conversion policy for federal
      agencies
  5.5 Metric Usage in the Federal Government
6 State involvement in metric conversion
  6.1 National Conference on Weights and
      Measures (NCWM)
  6.2 National Council on State Metrication
      (NCSM)
7 Standardization
  7.1 SI
  7.2 Standardization in Government and the
      private sector
8 Conversions
  8.1 General
  8.2 Soft conversion
  8.3 Hard conversion
  8.4 Methods of conversion
9 Benefits for converting
  9.1 General
Appendix A Metric Conversion Act of 1975
Appendix B Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness
           Act of 1988
Appendix C Conference Committee Report Sec.
           5164, Metric Usage
Appendix D DOD Directive No. 4120.18, Metrication
           Program
Appendix E Interagency Council on Metric Policy
           Membership
Appendix F Interagency Council on Metric Policy,
           December 1991
Appendix G Metric Operating Committee
Appendix H Metric Operating Committee
Appendix I Internal Revenue Service Metric
           Conversion Plan
Appendix J General Services Administration-Metric Plan

Gives information considering the reasons for and the benefits of converting form the U.S. customary units (inch and pound) to the metric system in business practices.