[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 69398]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-26226]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petroleum Convenience Alliance for Technology 
Standards

AGENCY: Notice is hereby given that, on September 22, 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''), Petroleum convenience 
Alliance for Technology Standards (``PCATS'') 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: Petroleum 
Convenience Alliance for Technology Standards, Alexandria, VA. The 
nature and scope of PCATS' standards development activities are: (1) 
Development and maintenance of XML-based standards for electronic data 
interchange, specifically related to information between point-of-sale 
(POS) systems and back office systems, and for exchanging data between 
trading partners for general merchandise, lottery, and motor fuels; (2) 
development of an ``open site'' architecture for integration of devices 
used by petroleum and convenience retailers through peer-to-peer 
messaging, based on JXTA, an open standard; and (3) maintenance of 
product codes used in terminal-to-host messages developed by ANSI-
Accredited Standards Committee X9, originally contained in Technical 
Guide-23 (1999) and now being balloted by X9 for adoption as X9.104, 
Parts 1 and 2.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26226 Filed 11-26-04; 8:45 am]
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