[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 203 (Thursday, October 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61867-61868]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-23511]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Hydraulic Institute, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 15, 2004, pursuant to 
section

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6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Hydraulic Institute, Inc. 
(``HI'') 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: Hydraulic 
Institute, Inc., Parsippany, NJ. The nature and scope of HI's standards 
development activities are: more than twenty pump standards for pumps 
prepared and updated in accordance with the canvass approval process of 
the American National Standards Institute (``ANSI''). The HI standards 
define a product, material, process or procedure relating to, inter 
alia, centrifugal, reciprocating, vertical, rotary, sealless, air 
operated or controlled volume metering pumps, with reference to one or 
more of the following: nomenclature, composition, construction, 
dimensions, tolerances, safety, operating characteristics, 
performances, quality, rating, testing and service. Further HI's 
supplier members and others participate in the development of 
guidelines and standards within the scope of, inter alia, motors and 
drives, monitoring devices, seals, housings, and more broad-based 
topics such as electronic data exchange, pump piping, intake design, 
viscosity correction, variable speed pumping and life cycle cost.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-23511 Filed 10-20-04; 8:45 am]
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