[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 1, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 9979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3922]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--American Lumber Standards Committee

    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 Lumber Standards 
Committee (``ALSC'') 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 
Lumber Standards Committee, Germantown, MD. The nature and scope of 
ALSC's standards development activities are: maintenance of Department 
of Commerce P.S. 20-99--American Softwood Lumber Standard (under 
revision), including standards making activities of the National 
Grading Rule Committee and Board of Review, thereunder, and development 
of standards and policies for the Committee's Untreated Wood Program, 
Treated Wood Program and Wood Packaging Program.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-3922 Filed 2-28-05; 8:45 am]
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