Due to the increasing demand on the United States to convert to the metric system of measurement, this document was developed to alert owner-managers to the implications surrounding the system as well as to increase their knowledge of it. Based on the findings of a 3-year Federal study, the information presented focuses on the possibility of the U. S. changing to the metric system and the expressed anxieties associated with such a conversion. Included is a plan for national changeover to the metric system over a 10-year period. (SN)