[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 212 (Wednesday, November 3, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 64103]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-24559]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--American Welding Society, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 20, 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 Welding Society, 
Inc. (``AWS'') 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 
Welding Society, Inc., Miami, FL. The nature and scope of AWS's 
standards development activities are: The development, maintenance, and 
publishing of standards in the areas of Metric Practices, Definitions & 
Symbols, Filler Metals & Allied Products, Computerization of Welding 
Information, Instrumentation for Welding, Methods of Inspection, 
Welding Qualification, Mechanical Testing of Welds, Resistance Welding, 
Thermal Spray, Brazing & Soldering, Oxyfuel Gas Welding & Cutting, Arc 
Welding & Cutting, Friction Welding, High Energy Beam Welding/Cutting, 
Structural Welding, Piping & Tubing, Welding Iron Castings, Machinery & 
Equipment, Railroad Welding, Robotics & Automatic Welding, Aircraft & 
Aerospace, Food Processing Equipment, Welding in Marine Construction, 
Automotive Welding, Welding of Sheet Metal, Joining Plastics & 
Composites, Joining of Metals & Alloys, Personnel & Facilities 
Qualification and Safety & Health.
    Additional Information may be obtained from Andrew Davis, Managing 
Director of the Technical Services Division of the American Welding 
Society, (800) 443-9353.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-24559 Filed 11-2-04; 8:45 am]
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