[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 1, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 9980]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3925]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Commission on Correctional Health Care

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 21, 2005, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), National Commission on 
Correctional Health Care (``NCCHC'') 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 failed 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: National 
Commission on Correctional Health Care, Chicago, IL. The nature and 
scope of NCCHC's standards development activities are: to develop, 
plan, establish, coordinate, and publish voluntary consensus standards 
applicable to the field of correctional health care. Specifically, 
NCCHC develops, plans establishes, coordinates, and publishes voluntary 
consensus standards for prisons, jails and juvenile confinement 
facilities in the form of: Standards for the provision of health 
services; position statements concerning the provision of health 
services; and clinical guidelines concerning the provision of health 
services. Through its standard development activities, NCCHC seeks to 
help correctional health care systems provide efficient, high quality 
care. NCCHC's standards development activities are ongoing in nature, 
and existing standards, policy statements, and guidelines may be 
updated or amended from time to time.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-3925 Filed 2-28-05; 8:45 am]
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