[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 98 (Monday, May 22, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 29353]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-4724]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1933--American Society of Mechanical Engineers

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 2, 2006, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1933, 
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 November 18, 
2005, ASME has published several new standards and initiated a new 
standards activity within the general nature and scope of ASME's 
standards development activities, as specified in its original 
notification and transferred other activities to other standards 
developers. More detail regarding these changes can be found at 
www.asme.org.
    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).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on November 25, 
2005. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on December 15, 2005 (70 FR 74333).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-4724 Filed 5-19-06; 8:45 am]
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