[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 69395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26220]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--HR-XML Consortium, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 27, 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''), HR-XML Consortium, Inc. 
(``HR-XML'') 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: HR-XML 
Consortium, Inc., Raleigh, NC. The nature and scope of HR-XML's 
standards development activities are: the development of voluntary, 
consensus standards for data interchange between and among human 
resource (HR) management systems. Topics for data interchange standards 
considered by HR-XML include: Payroll, employee benefits, compensation, 
recruiting, temporary staffing, background checks, drug testing, 
assessments, competencies, HR business process outsourcing, and other 
HR management processes.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26220 Filed 11-26-04; 8:45 am]
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