[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 28 (Friday, February 11, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 7307]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2737]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--American Society of Mechanical Engineers

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 21, 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 Society of 
Mechanical Engineers (``ASME'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing additions or changes to its standards development 
activities. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending 
the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, since 
September 15, 2004, ASME has revised several consensus committee 
charters; has published several new standards; and has initiated 
several new standards development projects, all within the general 
nature and scope of ASME's standards development activities, as 
specified in its original notification. More detail regarding these 
changes can be found at http://www.asme.org/codes.
    On September 15, 2004, ASME filed its original notification 
pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of 
the Act on October 13, 2004 (69 FR 60895).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-2737 Filed 2-10-05; 8:45 am]
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