[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 241 (Thursday, December 17, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 66995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-29948]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Schools Interoperability Framework Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 4, 2009, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act'') Schools Interoperability 
Framework Association (``SIF Association'') 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: Schools 
Interoperability Framework Association, Washington, DC. The nature and 
scope of SIF Association's standards development activities are: (1) To 
create a set of platform-independent, vendor-neutral definitions and 
interoperable specifications for software used by primary and secondary 
schools (pK-12); (2) to engage pK-12 institutions to identify gaps 
within the specifications; and (3) to engage local, state, federal, and 
international governmental agencies to make data more available by 
moving data that is stored only at the local level to higher reporting 
agencies.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-29948 Filed 12-16-09; 8:45 am]
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