Jerry, you can read EO12770 yourself on the USMA website. It's not
terribly long.
Jim
Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
Is there anything in the Executive order that would have required anyone
claiming difficulties to prove the difficulties exist?
Jerry
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*From:* "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, February 16, 2009 12:12:43 PM
*Subject:* [USMA:43034] Executive Order 12770
Executive Order 12770 of 1991 was not effective because it permitted
heads of Federal Agencies and Departments to evade metrication by
asserting difficulties.
Hopefully, a new Executive Order by President Obama will not allow easy
exceptions to metrication such as those practiced, for example, by the
Energy Information Agency.
But first, a new Secretary of Commerce must be confirmed before we can
expect a new Executive Order directing metrication of Federal programs.
---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:43:47 -0800
>From: "Victor Jockin" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>Subject: [USMA:43023] Re: More companies primed to pounce on
metric-only labeling
>To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
>...
> There is certainly precedent for this limited
> approach: G.H.W. Bush's executive order for the
> metrication of federal agencies..
That failed
> because (a) the logistics and bureaucracy of
> changing was far more complicated and multi-faceted
> than just changing road signs, (b) opponents of
> metrication hired lobbyists and proponents did
> not, but most importantly his whole plan was flawed
> because (c) they're little rocks. Bush thought the
> government would tip the scales for the country, but
> the department of the interior reporting quake data
> in metric units or states contracting for road work
> in metric units is not going to tip anything, or
> change public language...
> I'd love to see a coordinated, comprehensive
> national initiative for change. It's by far the
> best way for us to prevail, but also one of the
> least likely.
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