PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To serve as an information center and referral service, by maintaining a reference collection of standards and specifications, regulations, certification rules, directories, reference books and special publications. To respond to inquiries, develop and publish lists, bibliographies, indexes, and directories of standards and related information, and to provide trade related regulations and certification information to U.S. exporters and manufacturers.

 ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. BUSINESS AND COMMERCE;
- Special Technical Service;
2. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT;
- Technical Assistance and Services;
3. EDUCATION;
- Libraries and Technical Information Services;
4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Information and Technical;

 WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Local;
- Individual/Family;
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization;
- Anyone/general public;

 WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Individual/Family;
- Profit organization;
- Private non-profit institution/organization (includes institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Anyone/general public;