[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 5487]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1972]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 16, 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''), Northeastern Lumber 
Manufacturers Association (``NeLMA'') 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: Northeastern 
Lumber Manufacturers Association, Cumberland Center, ME. The nature and 
scope of NeLMA's standards development activities are: development of 
size and quality standards for Eastern White Pine; maintain those rules 
in accordance with Voluntary Product Standard 20, developed under the 
auspices of the Department of Commerce; implementation of those rules 
as well as wood product grading rules of other agencies certified by 
the American Lumber Standard Committee through grading inspections of 
mills in the Northeast United States in order to assure conformation 
with those standards.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-1972 Filed 2-1-05; 8:45 am]
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