[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 206 (Tuesday, October 26, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65657-65658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26734]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Alliance for Water Stewardship

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 10, 2010, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Alliance for Water 
Stewardship (``AWS'') 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: Alliance for 
Water Stewardship, Arlington, VA. The nature and scope of AWS's 
standards development activities are: (1) To establish equitable, 
voluntary, transparent, science-based standards for socially beneficial 
and environmentally sustainable use and management of fresh water at 
the watershed level; (2) to promote use and management of fresh water 
which will maintain or improve biodiversity and ecological processes 
and secure longterm benefits for local peoples and society at large; 
and (3) to encourage effective governance for water use and management 
through voluntary certification of businesses and water service 
providers. The AWS is responsible for coordinating and overseeing the 
process of developing water use and management target standards and 
indicators, such as catchment flow volume, user abstraction, nutrients 
in effluents, sediments in effluents, temperature of effluents, water 
pricing, and other aspects of a voluntary water stewardship standard 
system. As part of its standards development activities, the AWS 
organizes a Global Water Roundtable and continent-level Regional 
Initiatives, through which it invites stakeholder organizations to 
participate in the standards development process. The AWS will hold the 
intellectual property resulting from its standards development 
activities until such a time when it may

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transfer its holdings to a successor organization or is itself 
designated the permanent custodian of the intellectual property.
    Below is the name and contact information of an individual from 
whom additional information concerning the organization can be 
obtained: Carey R. Ramos, Esq.; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & 
Garrison LLP; 1285 Avenue of the Americas; New York, NY 10019-6064.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-26734 Filed 10-25-10; 8:45 am]
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