[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 203 (Thursday, October 21, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 61873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-23528]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Water Quality Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 15, 2004, pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Water Quality Association 
(``WQA'') 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: Water Quality 
Association, Lisle, IL. The nature and scope of WQA's standards 
development activities are: planning, developing, establishing and 
coordinating voluntary harmonized consensus standards in the water 
treatment industry, either itself or through cooperative standards 
making activities with other not for profit standards development 
organizations.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-23528 Filed 10-20-04; 8:45 am]
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