[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 60895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-22890]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--American Oil Chemists' Society

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 14, 2004, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), American Oil Chemists' 
Society (``AOCS'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with 
the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) 
the name and principal place of business of the standards development 
organization and (2) the nature and scope of its standards development 
activities. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking 
the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the name and principal place 
of business of the standards development organization is: American Oil 
Chemists' Society, Champaign, IL. The nature and scope of ACOS's 
standards development activities are: The society investigates, adopts 
and publishes uniform methods of analysis and recommended practices in 
the filed of oils, fats and related materials. These methods are used 
in processing, trading, utilizing, and evaluating fats, oils and lipid 
products. The scope of the work includes but is not limited to the 
following subjects: Vegetable oil source material, oilseeed by-
products, commercial fats and oils, soap and synthetic detergents, 
glycerin, sulfonated and sulfated oils, soapstocks, specifications for 
reagents and solvents, and method development procedures.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-22890 Filed 10-12-04; 8:45 am]
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