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thank you very much i would like to call this meeting of the assembly committee on natural resources to order uh members before we begin a quick reminder to please be sure to meet your microphone when you're not speaking so that we can minimize background noise with that will the secretary please take the role assemblywoman anderson here assemblywoman black here assemblywoman brownmay here assemblywoman carlton here assemblywoman cohen assemblyman ellison present assemblywoman gonzalez here assemblywomanhansen here assemblywoman martinez present assemblywoman titus here assemblyman wheeler here chair watts here thank you please mark uh vice chair cohen present as she arrives uh with that we have a quorum and uh we can begin with our agenda we have one presentation one bill hearing our first bill hearing on the agenda today before we start i'll go through a couple of quick housekeeping announcements which we always do at the start of our meetings members of the public may provide 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speakers can be accommodated and we can get through the agenda [Music] like fashion speakers are urged to avoid repetition of comments made by previous speakers and uh finally a reminder that it's unlawful for any person to knowingly misrepresent the facts when testifying before a legislative committee when we do along with the motion or second for the clarity of the record uh let's see with that uh we will now go to the first item on our agenda which is an overview uh by the state department of agriculture so director ott please go ahead and begin whenever you are ready and introduce yourself for the record right thank you so much chairman watts a member of the committee my name is jennifer odd i'm the director for the department of agriculture and i am absolutely pleased to present to you an overview of the department today and describe a little bit about the work that the men and women of the department do for the state of nevada let's see the mission of the department of agriculture is to preserve protect and promote nevada agriculture and we do that through our five divisions at the department our administration division our plant industry division our animal industry division division of consumer equitability and our food and nutrition division the department of agriculture has several responsibilities throughout the supply chain the food supply chain in the state of nevada starting off from planting and working with farmers for food crops seeds for forage to make sure they're free of noxious weeds to livestock and production animals through transportation and making sure that crops and livestock get to the proper locations with high quality fuel that meets regulatory standards we work in processing especially in the dairy industry to go over those food safety guidelines and ensure food safety and quality we work with weights and measures this is really a consumer protection activity so that we ensure that nevadans are getting what they pay for when you are buying a pound that's actually a pound and so forth to distribution much of our distribution activities is in our food and secure sector to assist food banks food pantries and community organizations and to trade assistance and economic and workforce development so we work with uh farmers ranchers manufacturers of food products or fiber products to be introduced to new buyers and over the next couple of years we're really going to be working in our economic development and workforce development to ensure that our food industries has the best opportunities possible to them and also to make sure that they have an adequate workforce to support the food supply chain in the state the economic impact of agriculture in the state for 2020 as 4.71 billion dollars the what you would think of as the traditional agriculture segment of ranching and farming uh had an economic input of 787.8 million dollars and our food and beverage manufacturing segment had 3.925 billion dollars of economic impact that's slightly down from 2019 for two reasons of course the pandemic did have an effect on that the agriculture industry specifically did receive uh a bit of federal assistance quite a bit of federal assistance so that the impact of the pandemic on the agriculture sector was not as great it was felt but that that assistance did help uh and then it was also a decrease due to trade policies that have been um made it difficult over the last couple of years to form those trade relationships that we've enjoyed in the past and so we're hoping over the next several years that those numbers will increase the economic impact uh employs or the agriculture sector employs over 18 000 people in the state for 113.2 million dollars worth of wages oh and actually before i go on i just want to make a quick plug each of you and all of the legislature should have received our economic analysis in your inboxes so it is full of data about agriculture and all of the impacts broken down by county and also our top trading countries and our biennial report i also followed up with an email that had electronic links to those so please look out for those documents they are full of really great information so the department has a board of agriculture the board was created by nrs 561 the board establishes policies of the department and adopts regulations as authorized by the board for the department to operate and carry out laws and provisions administered by the department the board is made up of 11 members and i won't read them off here but here is a list of all of the members and their segments that they're designated to be from and i'm going to go into a little bit about each of the divisions of the department because of time constraints i'll only highlight some of our programs not to say that one is more important than the other it's just i've selected a few that you might be seeing bills about or might have questions about so always feel free to contact me if you have any questions about any of our programs but i'll start with the animal industry division our animal industry division is responsible for animal disease detection prevention food safety livestock identification livestock theft prevention commercial feed and on down a lot of the activities of the animal industry and livestock industry we have five programs in the division our livestock inspection program is responsible for tracking the movement of lives of livestock across nevada and between states for health purposes so this is really this is what we would call our brand inspection program and this is really to make sure that our livestock are healthy as they're moved across the state and across state lines our agriculture enforcement programs prevents agricultural products that have not met the requirements of plant or animal health and livestock inspection from ending entering or exiting the state uh our agricultural livestock enforcement or our agriculture enforcement folks also assist law enforcement on matters and are the subject matter experts for any agricultural laws our animal disease laboratory monitors diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans we call those zoonotic diseases as well as these diseases impacting safe transport of livestock our division of consumer equitability ensures quality of motor fuel and lubricants and consistency in commercial transactions by regulating devices used to determine weight and volume our weights and measures program inspects and certifies weighing and measuring devices our metrology program maintains traceability of nevada's primary weight and volume standards and making sure they're aligned with national standards and our petroleum technology program including our petroleum technology laboratory ensures fuel sold at retail facilities meets regulatory requirements our food and nutrition division administers federal funds to provide access to healthy food for nevada's children seniors and food insecure populations and we have three main segments of our food and nutrition division and the first segment of that is our child nutrition programs we have several federally federally funded programs that we administer in the state uh our most well-known programs that um that get a lot of conversation of course is our national school lunch and national school breakfast programs that the department works with all of the schools across the state to administer that also includes our summer food service program that we deployed to meet the needs of school children during the pandemic so even though it is the summer food service program it is deployed not during summer time uh because it is a grab-and-go program which made it appropriate for the schools that were doing distance learning or you know of course being kobe compliant and our fresh fruit and vegetable program increases availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in elementary schools our special milk program provides milk to children who don't participate in any other federal program and we provide that milk through elementary schools and also through child care child care centers as well the other two segments of the food and nutrition division is our senior nutrition programs and the commodity supplemental food program is what you would know as senior food boxes and those boxes supplement food insecure senior diets with nutritious foods that are procured through usda funds and our senior farmer's market nutrition program that provides low-income seniors with coupon books to use as cash at nevada farmers market so that they are able to purchase their own fresh fruits and vegetables we have our community support programs the tfap program emergency food assistance program is a program that you have seen probably most talked about during the pandemic that would be considered our food bank program and that is working with food banks and food pantries to provide food assistance to food insecure populations and then also our food distribution on indian reservations programs and that provides monthly food boxes to individuals in 11 tribes colonies and reservations across the state our plant industry division protects nevada agriculture the public workers and the environment through education inspection and certification and again the plant industry division is another large division and so that is broken up into three segments our first segment is crop production covering crop production we have our export certification program and this program provides mandatory inspection and certification for plants and plant products exported out of state and out of the country as you can see we've seen an increase in exported products through from fiscal year 19 to fiscal year 20 and we're going to we're anticipating and seeing another increase in fiscal year 21 much of that being exported out of the country and also crop production we include our hemp program i bring that up we're seeing a lot of um bills on cbd uh this legislative session and um we had uh quite a boom of hemp until about 2020 and and 2020 we have seen a decline in hemp production that is for two reasons uh the first is that at the federal level there has been some regulatory um there's there's been some unsurety in the in the regulatory area in on the federal level the final rules on hemp didn't come out until this january and so it made it difficult for those that are wanting to plant or invest in the hemp industry to have some surety about their crop being able to get to market uh the second portion of that is that we have seen a decline in cbd prices and so it is not nearly as a profitable industry as it was through 2019. the next segment is plant health we have several programs in the plant health area our noxious weed program is in charge of preventing controlling and managing invasive weed species on both public lands and private lands and we do that through partnerships with federal entities partnerships with counties and with private land owners our entomology program they are charged with preventing the entry and spread of harmful exotic pests they do this through identification field surveys and enforcement of state and federal quarantines and regulations and then the plat pathology program is the sister program there they do everything entomology does but plant diseases instead of plant pests and our final segment for the plant industry division is environmental protection our environmental services program is charged with protecting the environment and human health from the effects of pesticide misuse this program and these employees monitor the waterways in nevada to make sure that there is no pesticide runoff into our waterways our pest control program license and monitors pest control companies and individuals for compliance with state and federal laws and our drought initiative works with several partners to provide proactive long-term strategies to make nevada's agricultural and ranching resources resilient to the impacts of prolonged drought and finally our administration division this division is really the support hub of all of our divisions within the department i spoke a little bit about our trade program but i'll highlight it here as well as our global trade program assists farmers ranchers and food manufacturers to enter and grow into international markets they we provide educational seminars we assist them in going on trade missions and making market assessments uh so that they can make the right decisions when entering in and looking for buyers and with that thank you so much uh that concludes my presentation and sherman watts i'm available if you need me wonderful thank you for that uh overview director ott it's clear that your department uh handles quite a bit and um we appreciate you uh giving us a quick overview so that we can also proceed through the rest of our agenda we do have a couple of questions so far and i will start off with assemblywoman carlton thank you mr chairman so mossad when you were going at the very beginning of your presentation you were talking about uh the food chain the food supply and earlier last year when the shutdown happened there were some definite issues in the food supply chain and not only just for families but being a food pantry person it was very difficult to get certain items have you guys done a little analysis on on what actually happened how did and i can only speak for southern nevada how did southern nevada ended up in a position to where we could not get the food supplies that we needed i actually had a group bring in food from california for me that's how bad it was so i'd like to know if we're looking at what happens so that it doesn't happen again yes absolutely uh jennifer ought for the record uh it was a perfect storm really of of food supply issues um you know there were a lot of issues on the processing ends with um you know companies shutting down because of covet outbreaks which affected this food supply the the closure of restaurants across the united states um led food processing uh you know manufacturers had to pivot and they can't pivot that quickly and so when they are when we have um entities that are packaging for restaurants and we were seeing shortages in our grocery stores you know those packaging items do not look the same and so it took a while for those companies to pi ot there were problems with transportation and there were logistical problems with warehouses having uh outbreaks and those kinds of items and so uh you know i always liken the the food system in the united states to this this cruise ship and even if we turn off or you know if we stop an engine or two or even if we stop the whole engine it it takes a long time for it to come to a stop and while it's coming to a stop manufacturers logistics groups are all pivoting to fill in the need and so that was what was happening over that really two months of a shortage especially especially in grocery stores as far as what the department is doing um it's difficult uh we you know we don't have any regulatory authority over the supply chain and so there's there's not things that we can do there but one of the things that we are doing is shoring up and looking at in the future how can we stop future impacts to nevada's food in the future nevada doesn't have a great processing industry there are some great companies many of them are in las vegas but when we have a fairly large livestock production in the state we send most of our livestock out of state to be to be processed um we have great farming production in the state um but much of that is again sent outside of the state for processing and packaging and so we have um we have some gaps in our supply chain that we really need to work on and shore up and so we recognize that as a department we're working on that not only from a regulatory standpoint but also from an economic development standpoint attracting businesses that might want to come to the state to shore up some of those gaps so i hope i've um addressed some of your questions there thank you mr sharon yes mizan you did and i just hope that maybe you can compare notes with folks in your position in other states um just to see if they had some of the same issues if there's just a systemic problem in this or was it just as you said the perfect storm um but luckily when those small restaurants closed and the casinos closed um food pantries and food banks will be forever grateful that they thought of us and emptied out their fridges and pantries and anything that was going to expire they sent it to us and literally it was coming in one door and going out the other so it didn't not sit on the shelf very long for us to get it out so the community in southern nevada really did step up and do an excellent job of making sure that no food went to waste i'm just could not figure out being you know so close to california the highway system transportation what exactly happened so thank you very much for the explanation i appreciate it right thank you so much that will go on to assemblywoman anderson thank you mr chair and thank you for the presentation director ott um my question has to do with slide 12 when it comes to the senior nutrition programs and looking at the document which by the way was very helpful of the biennial report um i i know that there was work that that there was outreach for many of our seniors but when i take a look at how many seniors are being served this feels very low to me uh 5 450 seniors are are getting help so what does the outreach look like for our seniors especially due to the pandemic and the shovings that occurred what is that outreach and how is that utilized and i also want to make sure it's noticed you only have 31 full-time employees in a very large state so i recognize that as well so it was just curious as to how that outreach was uh was handled during the last year and then also prior to that sure uh jennifer ott for the record uh our senior programs uh are something that over the next couple of years that we're really focusing on we see that we are not meeting the need there uh two reasons one is uh frankly the naming of the program is pretty darn terrible and so to uh we're looking at rebranding that and so that you know that a senior who is interested in supplemental food knows to come to the senior wellness program and not the commodity supplemental food program because nobody knows what that is right so uh we're working with our federal partners to rebrand that and uh to make it a higher profile and more recognizable the second step is that we are administering all of the dollars that we receive and so we need to get more dollars into our state and so we are working with the usda on that uh there is a formula that is followed to assess you know the need in the state and we're working on um how to express or you know i'm not sure how successful we're going to be on revising the formula but we can certainly work with our federal partners to tap in either to other funds or to better administer uh or you know some other solution and so we are looking we're looking for more more funding uh we're looking for more efficient options more investments and technologies so that you know funding doesn't have to go necessarily to old systems uh but to actual distribution and so i agree with you it's not enough and it's it's an area that we're working on follow-up and if i may mr chair go ahead thank you and and thank you for that answer i i completely agree that part of it is as as a assembly member carlton has stated more than a few times our seniors are incredibly caring and they think somebody else needs it and so they they don't always take it themselves and so we got to do a better job of messaging that but with that do we what is the outreach for our minority communities especially our second language communities is there an individual on staff that is also concerned or dealing with sometimes the language barriers that gets in the way of providing these essential services and nutritional health for people sure jennifer ought for the record uh i am not aware of of somebody on our stuff but again we are um you know we administer the funds we work with our partners that are doing the work on the ground for the actual distribution and so i i can certainly look through our partners you know the food banks food pantries senior centers to check for for language barriers or focus on stuff i'm happy to look into that thank you so much and thank you mr chair thank you so much anderson uh i have a brief question and um it falls in line with the theme that i've been asking in many committees and i was just wondering if you could explain particularly when it comes to uh livestock uh plant industry division have you seen impacts from climate change on the department's work and if so what are some of the impacts that you've seen and what are the department's plans to adapt and mitigate to those changes i think i muted myself properly jennifer ott for the record uh in two areas uh the first being of course drought in a drought year it's incredibly difficult for our producers and for our well both on the plant side and on the livestock side to operate there's a lot of accommodations that have to be made which makes drought reporting and drought predictive monitoring really important if a farmer knows that their water supplies are going to be cut off on july 4th they need to make good planting decisions on that um if a livestock producer knows that there's going to be water that's going to run dry rather on the land or you know what they have is water rights available to them they have to make decisions about that uh so water is incredibly important um we do have a drought position um because of uh the the um effect of the pandemic on general fund we have had you know we have very few general funded positions at the department most of our uh positions are federally funded and so we did have to cut back on some of our drought positions it was just um sort of the reality of the situation so that's one area the second of course is wildfire i know everybody mentions it everybody talks about it i want to talk about it just on the perspective of the livestock um you know when you have these uh major disastrous wildfires sweeping through an area it's um incredibly damaging to those that are grazing on our public lands you know oftentimes not often but there's sometimes that livestock get caught up in those fires um you know the land is not able to be grazed after the wildfire which creates other problems and so that is uh detrimental in an environmental impact uh and i would just um say you know one of the things that we're really looking forward to and really working on with our partners in the state is a meaningful measurement when it comes to environmental conditions meaningful measurement of air quality and you know and having a standardized way that we're measuring whether it's carbon capture or air quality or you know any of those um i think that it's really important for the agriculture industry to have that meaningful measurement and making sure that we're using um there's so many different studies out there and and it's really important that we're using all of the same language and and same measurements so wonderful thank you for that and i have one last question from assemblyman ellison thank you mr chair uh i've got a real like question uh it said the plant industry division on page seven which is mostly the hemp uh wasn't a lot of that destroyed by early frost that did a lot of damage to that and then my my main question is uh you know based on the kuvad 19 uh with the employment base if you notice any of the other suppliers like plants like lettuce onions and any of these has been impacted by this it might have a effect on the steak thank you uh thank you jennifer ott for the record um for the hemp uh there was some frost in some areas and so that did have an effect um i would say probably the biggest effect of the hemp industry was the cbd prices it just wasn't um it wasn't an industry that made it profitable for growers to be in over the years i think that even in 2019 at the end of 2019 folks have been holding on to their crop um hoping for for bigger prices and so um that has been a problem in some areas there were frost absolutely uh to your second question um what was your second question on uh you know are we seeing a shortage in crops you know uh like like uh we have onions growers we have carrots lettuce some of these other products based on the coved you know in the short of employment are did we see any kind of effect that might create a problem coming up apologies yes jennifer ought for the record um not too much uh to be honest with you the producers in the state have been incredibly responsive and you know have done a great job in responding to any covet outbreaks on staff and so there hasn't been too much of effect of growers the the larger growers the department was able with some cares funds state allocation of cares funds was able to provide ppe and other preventative measures to our farmers and ranchers through our cares programs and so um that that helped and was able to assist in that way um but have been incredibly responsible and and responsive to to social distancing and mask wearing and other food safety precautions and you know these are folks especially our larger growers are folks that are very aware of food safety measures and food safety precautions and so um they didn't have to step up much thank you very much okay that's good news thank you mr ellison and thank you again director ott for the presentation uh we very much appreciated it uh with that we'll move on to the other item on our agenda today which is our first bill hearing i will open up the hearing on assembly bill 75 the bill revises provisions relating to weights and measures before we start the bill presentation i do want to clarify a couple of things for members in the public that's following the meeting anyone joining the meeting on camera is either a committee member staff bill sponsor or presenter currently no one else is joining these meetings on video and we the committee may change this policy at some point but this is how we're connecting our business to currently uh to ensure fairness and equal representation for all so uh with that um we'll have the administrator go ahead and introduce yourself and present assembly bill 75. good afternoon chairman watts and members of the committee for the record my name is cadence mathiavitch i'm hoping that you can all hear me oh okay we can thank you uh again cadence matijevic i have the privilege of serving as administrator for the division of consumer equitability at the department of agriculture one of the department of agriculture's strategic plan goals is to modernize our statutory and regulatory framework assembly bill 75 is part of that effort and is the result of a comprehensive review of chapter 581 of nevada revised statutes which governs weights and measures these updates are intended to align nevada's weights and measures laws with the uniform laws and regulations established by the national conference on weights and measures and published by the u.s department of commerce national institute of standards and technologies office of weights and measures better known as missed owm sections two through four of this build add definitions for certain physical standards used in the installation adjustment repair or calibration of weighing and measuring devices and establishes applicable uses of those standards section 5 of the bill provides that the presence of a field reference standard in the possession of a person who is paid to install make adjustments to repair or calibrate commercial weighing and measuring equipment creates a rebuttable presumption that the standard is being used for such purpose the addition of this presumption will assist the agency in enforcing the requirements that any standard used in the installation adjustment repair or calibration of commercial weighing and measuring equipment must be certified by a laboratory that has been qualified by nist owm sections 6 7 and 8 make conforming changes to nrs 581.001 581.065 and 581.067 to include the words and terms newly established in sections 2 and 3 of this bill additionally section 8 eliminates the duty of the state sealer of consumer equitability to establish requirements for information relating to the open dating of packaged food open dating information includes such terms as sell by used by best before and the like in july of 2019 the national conference on weights and measures voted to remove open dating of packaged food from within the scope of responsibility for weights and measures officials and deleted it from the uniform regulations contained in this handbook 130 effective january 1st 2022 this amendment to ms handbook 130 came about because it was believed that the subject matter area is more appropriately regulated by health and food safety officials rather than by weights and measured regulators section 9 of the bill is intended to clarify that the rebuttable presumption that a weight measure or weighing or measuring device present in or about a place from which buying or selling is commonly carried on is regularly used for the commercial business purposes of that place the addition of the term commercial will assist the agency in enforcing the requirement that any weighing or measuring device being used for a commercial purpose must be licensed by the state sealer of consumer equitability as commercial weighing equipment weighing and measuring equipment excuse me section 10 makes conforming changes to nrs 561.412 to include all fees and other money collected pursuant to sections two through five of this bill within those funds which must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to a separate account of the state general fund for use by the department of agriculture and finally section 11 sets forth the effective date of the bill that concludes my presentation mr chairman thank you very much administrator mattia we do have a couple of questions i'll start off with assemblywoman titus thank you chair watts i appreciate the opportunity to ask a question and thank you for the presentation and i certainly understand where you're going with this bill and do support it but i do have a question on section four on one of my concerns on section four you you uh refer to the handbook number 44 the 2020 edition and whenever i see a specific date written into a law i am worried that it becomes antiquated when the next dition comes out and so i'm wondering why um you actually refer to that as opposed to the latest edition because that's typically where we have gone with some of this in the past where we don't we don't tag it so you don't have to come back each every couple sessions whenever these books come out if you don't tag it with latest edition could you clarify for me please uh for the record cadence mateovich through you mr chairman to assemblywoman titus um i i appreciate the question i will say that we adopt missed handbook 44 and other handbooks through by reference in nevada administrative code chapter 581 and in those adoptions there is reference that it would be that as there are newer versions of those handbooks published and that they that they essentially become automatically adopted by reference unless the board of agriculture would take action within 60 days of the publication date so that language does exist within our regulations that allows for future publications to be updated and perhaps that's something that your legal counsel may be better able frankly to address than i as to how this specific citation uh would would continue on as it relates to how we adopt those campaigns could we have legal mr chair yes mr amber would you like to speak on this i would thank you chair uh watts alan ambron for the record uh so in this specific situation that default to where it would be updated to the most recent example would not occur and that is because the statutes supersede regulations in this specific situation the statute is specifically referencing a 2020 edition so if we wanted to update the handbook for this specific situation we would have to come in and do an amendment to that statute um if we removed that reference or we just said the latest version of the most recent version or mimicked the language in the regulation then that regulatory practice would take effect in this situation thank you that's where i was going with that that's what my impression was has been with numbers like this in the past so thank you sir all right thanks mr amburn thank you assemblywoman titus for the question did you have any follow-up or all right uh seeing none i think we also have a question from assemblywoman cohen thank you chair um and thank you um administrator going to section 8 um d the the removed language um on the dating of packaged foods you you mentioned that this this is generally done by um i think student health and human services do before we remove that is that is that the case now and we know that in nevada that's happening for the record cadence matijevic uh through you mr chairman to the vice chair thank you for the question assemblywoman yes uh in back in 2019 when uh the national conference on weights and measures which nevada is a member of was contemplating removing this from the handbook i did reach out to health and food safety regulators both at the state department of health and human services and also at county health and human services health districts to inquire with them if they had concerns about this this particular authority being removed from the statute essentially were they relying on on this authority that exists for the department of agriculture to help assist them with their regulations and the feedback that we received from them at the time was no really none of those agencies are relying on that that they felt like within their own um statutes that give them their authorities uh and their duties that they had what they needed uh to be able to enforce uh regulations for for open dating of packaged food uh and much of that guidance is actually set by the fda and so many of them follow that um and as we were developing this uh this bill when when the bdr was published i reached out to them once again just to be sure that nothing had changed uh in the time since uh 2019 and now um and didn't did not hear anything from them that they were concerned about removal of this this provision thank you and thank you for for being so thorough with that thank you vice chair cohen i have a question from assemblyman ellison thank you mr chair uh i've got one in it it pertains to the seal and what we're doing uh one of the questions i've got is are you going to be changing the standards on how you do gas stations and and the pumps and the measurements on the pumps and is that being done now for the record cadence meteovic through you mr chair to assemblyman ellison there is nothing within this bill that would change our current practices and procedures with respect to inspecting and certifying any of our weighing and measuring devices in use in the state of nevada including retail motor fuel dispensers the standards for those devices are all included within this the national institute of standards and technology nist handbook 44 which we adopt by reference in nevada administrative code that handbook is as i mentioned earlier updated from time to time nevada takes part in the updates to that handbook we vote on proposals to amend that handbook and if those provisions are contrary to what we think are best for commercial practices in our state then we have the opportunity to bring that forward to the board of agriculture and adopt something different but there isn't currently anything in this bill that would affect our our practices and procedures with respect to inspecting uh validating the accuracy and stealing accurate weighing and measuring devices in the state thank you mr chairman uh maybe at a later date we can we can discuss uh you know how often they do this and and where they're going in the future thank you thank you assemblyman nelson uh i have one quick question so um understanding that a lot of these terms for the standards are being updated i was just wondering if you could elaborate briefly on um the changes in section seven so i see that in section eight we're adding field reference standards and transfer standards in addition to these primary and secondary standards and in section seven we're taking out the word physical and then using the field reference standards and transformation so i'm just wondering if you could speak very briefly to that and what standards wouldn't be included in that and and kind of what the thought or justification behind that is for the record cadence patio thank you for the question mr chairman and i will do my best to be brief um so if as i said at the beginning of my presentation the addition of the terms field reference standards and transfer standards are are terms that have been newly uh developed and included uh essentially in the terminology that's that's being used in the metrology industry and the metro metrology is the science of measurement and previously really there have been primary and secondary standards were the predominant terms in use and there became a concern that the term secondary standard which really is something that is typically used in a laboratory um a primary standard uh frankly is something that the state of nevada's primary standards are issued to us by the u.s department of commerce and they were issued to us in 1972 and we use them to calibrate our secondary standards which we use in our laboratories to compare the physical artifacts and all of these are physical artifacts that are then used out in the field and so within the metrology industry or science uh they did they've developed additional terms to uh more robustly i guess flesh out uh the full inventory of types of standards that are used in what they're used for and so this is us nevada updating our definition and terminology to include those newly defined terms that are being used in the handbooks and used in the industry and so uh really we're not leaving anything out by the addition of these terms we're not meaning to to take anything away from what is currently being used it's really expanding the dictionary of terms that's used and so that as we are working with agents who are out in the field doing installation repair and adjustments when we're talking about the standards that they use we're using the appropriate terms their field reference standards or their transfer standards rather than calling them secondary standards which are generally really only used in the laboratory wonderful thank you for the clarification administrator mateovich uh not being an expert in metrology the clarification is welcome as the members of the committee weigh this bill uh does anyone el do any other members have questions okay hearing none uh i will now open up testimony on assembly bill 75 again in order to provide testimony you must register online on the legislative website where you'll receive a phone number meeting id and instructions to join the meeting for those who wish to testify please clearly state and spell your name and limit your testimony to two minutes we'll be timing each speaker to make sure everyone's giving up this week with that we will begin testimony in support of assembly bill 75 staff from broadcast production services are there any callers in the queue here the public line is open and working but there are no callers at this time all right thank you with that we will open it for opposition on assembly bill 75 do we have anybody in opposition bps there are no callers in opposition at this time thank you and is there anyone wishing to testify in neutral on assembly bill 75 jared there are no callers in the neutral position at this time all right thank you very much broadcast production services for assisting us with that uh with that um unless there are any closing remarks from uh the department all right mr chair thank you for the opportunity to present the bill today thank you and hopefully we can work out to ensure that these standards and the books that are being referenced continue to be updated moving forward so that i will close the hearing on assembly bill 75 and we will now move on to the last item on our agenda today which is public comment as a reminder to provide public comment you must register online on the legislative websites where you will receive the information to participate and as with testimony we will be limiting any public comment to two minutes i will broadcast production services please let me know if any callers are currently in the queue sure there are currently no callers in queue at this time all right we're gonna wait just uh one minute to see if there's anybody that would like to participate but was on a delay all right do we have anybody in the cube uh bps chair there are still no colors in the one well thank you very much for your assistance in helping us to make these virtual meetings work and with that that concludes our meeting for today we'll meet again on wednesday february 17th at 4 pm where we'll continue to hear bills and with that this meeting is adjourned you