[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 52 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 13417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6592]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive Copyright License

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of the General Counsel.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Grant Exclusive Copyright License.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy intends to grant to Wilmington 
Publishing Ltd. an exclusive license in the U.S. copyright in the 
``Commercial Environmental Cleanup, Products and Services Directory'' 
(Directory), as well as the right to register the copyright in foreign 
countries. The copyright is owned by the United States of America, as 
represented by the Department of Energy (DOE). DOE intends to grant the 
license unless we receive a request from a qualified party for a 
nonexclusive license in the Directory, as well as a credible written 
plan for maintaining the Directory and making it available to the 
Government and the public, both in print and electronically, at 
reasonable cost, or a statement of reasons why it would not be in the 
best interests of the United States to grant the proposed exclusive 
license, together with supporting documents.

DATES: Send written responses to the address listed below no later than 
April 2, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Technology 
Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 
Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael P. Hoffman, Office of the 
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property, U.S. Department of Energy, Forrestal Building, Room 6F-067, 
1000 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20585; Telephone (202) 
586-3441.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Commercial Environmental Cleanup, 
Products and Services Directory, which is a database of companies 
working in the area of environmental cleanup, was prepared under 
Government contract. DOE does not wish to pay for the continued 
maintenance and dissemination of this Directory, both to Government 
agencies and to the general public. A Notice of the Opportunity for a 
license in the Directory appeared in the January 20, 1998 issue of the 
Federal Register [63 FR 2972]. DOE has secured a private entity, 
Wilmington Publishing Ltd., which, in return for an exclusive, royalty-
free license in the Directory, will maintain it as well as make it 
available in both print and electronic forms. They will make this 
Directory available both to the Government and the general public, as a 
stand-alone entity or incorporated with other services on a for-profit 
basis, thereby relieving the Government of the labor and expense of 
doing so.

    Issued in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 1999.
Paul A. Gottlieb
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
[FR Doc. 99-6592 Filed 3-17-99; 8:45am]
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