[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 136 (Friday, July 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34788-34789]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-16776]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 15, 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''), National Biodiesel Accreditation Commission 
(``NBAC'') 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, the NBAC has: (1) Amended its Marketer Program 
Requirements to adopt new normative references, require updating of 
quality management systems, make corrections to a specification 
procedure, add a cold soak filterability test requirement, require 
specification of final biodiesel content of a blended product prior to 
sale, change sampling and testing requirements of biodiesel stored for 
more than thirty days, require documentation of certain reinspections, 
require periodic validation of blending system accuracy, and delete a 
sixty-day storage sampling requirement; (2) amended its Producer 
Program Requirements to adopt new normative references, require the 
updating of quality management systems, amend the definition of 
Producer, add a cold soak filterability test requirement, amend 
production lot homogeneity requirements, add sampling requirements, add 
an oxidative stability test requirement for commingled production lots, 
provide an alternative test for the presence of certain elements, 
require disclosure of specifications which are less than full 
specifications, change the testing required of certain stored 
biodiesel, and add a new appendix diagraming the requirements for 
production lot homogeneity testing; and (3) adopted a laboratory 
certification program for the operation of commercial laboratories 
which test biodiesel and biodiesel blends for compliance with 
regulatory standards. Certification by the Commission indicates the 
applicant laboratory possesses and implements a quality control/quality 
assurance program meeting the Commission's requirements.
    On August 27, 2004, NEAC 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 4, 2004 (69 FR 59269).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 19, 
2007. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on September 11, 2007 (72 FR 51841).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-16776 Filed 7-16-09; 8:45 am]
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