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A line of type was inadvertently dropped from an article about the new U.S. National Grid (USNG) Standard in the June issue of GPS World. The complete fourth paragraph should read as follows:

"The USNG is a civilianized version of the Military Grid Reference System, based on Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), which is already resident in ...

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