The publications and documentary standards produced within NIST OWM pertains to areas of legal metrology, laws, regulations, measurement devices, and specifications and tolerances. This includes:
NIST (as NBS) published the first legal metrology standards in 1918 as Miscellaneous Publication No. 1 Manual of Inspection and Information for Weights and Measures Officials. This continues to be published as NIST Handbook 44 and is adopted by all 50 States. For more background on the origin of the NIST Handbooks 44, 130 and 133, please see The NIST Handbooks and NCWM: A Brief History.