The phrase "an interim standard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a temporary or provisional guideline or benchmark that is established until a more permanent standard is developed.
Example: "The organization has implemented an interim standard to ensure compliance while the final regulations are being formulated."
Alternatives: "a temporary standard" or "a provisional standard".
Last October, a proposal to adopt the American treatment of financial instruments as an interim standard was voted down, apparently because it was American.By contrast, America's accounting standards are among the world's most rigorous.
Congress introduced a bill in 2013 to require OSHA to issue an interim standard based on the voluntary combustible standard set by National Fire Protection Association In March 2008 Raquel Islas, a female worker whose arms were burnt, sued Savannah company Stokes Contracting, who had a contract to clean the factory.
2. Magiorakos AP, Srinivasan A, Carey RB, et al. Multidrug-resistant, extensively drug-resistant and pandrug-resistant bacteria: an international expert proposal for interim standard definitions for acquired resistance.
Last May, as part of these regulations, the agency set an interim fleetwide standard of 31.6 m.p.g by 2015.
Indeed, in the absence of clinical diagnostic interviews, the HADS-D can be used as an interim 'gold standard'.
For the purpose of this study HADS will be considered as an interim gold standard as it has been extensively validated across somatic and psychiatric populations in primary care and the general community [ 30] and is recommended for use in the physically ill [ 37].
IS-95A is the interim standard used in North America and defines a digital cellular system based on CDMA direct sequence spread spectrum, which interoperates with the analogue cellular system AMPS.
The interim standard would force auto companies to speed up their development of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Simulation indicates that river concentrations of NO3 alone are near the current interim standard for the total of all dissolved N species.
In all samples, the sum of melamine-related compounds was below the interim standard of 0.5 mg kg−1 set by Health Canada (2008a) for infant formula products.
