[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 87 (Thursday, May 7, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21402-21403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-10357]


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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 April 17, 2009, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301

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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 January 12, 2009, ASME has published 
two new standards and initiated eight new standards activities 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.
    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 January 14, 
2009. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on February 9, 2009 (74 FR 6420).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-10357 Filed 5-6-09; 8:45 am]
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