[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 45 (Thursday, March 7, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14837-14838]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-05312]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Health Product Declaration Collaborative, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 12, 2013, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Health Product Declaration 
Collaborative, Inc. (``HPDC'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the venture 
and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. 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 identities of the parties 
to the venture are: Crystal Frost (individual member), Salt Lake City, 
UT; Lisa Britton (individual member), Minneapolis, MN; Aaron Smith 
(individual member), New Haven, CT; Mike Manzi (individual member), 
Portland, OR; Amy Running (individual member), Portland, OR; Nadav 
Malin (individual member), Brattleboro, VT; Rand Ekman (individual 
member), Chicago, IL; Dennis Wilson (individual member), Valley Forge, 
PA; Aman Desouza (individual member), Valley Forge, PA; Gail Vittori 
(individual member), Austin, TX; Ted van der Linden (individual 
member), Falls Church, VA; Scott Day (individual member), Hazleton, PA; 
Erica Godun (individual member), New York, NY; Martin Grohman 
(individual member), Wayne, NJ; Kristen Ritchie (individual member), 
San Francisco, CA; Anthony Brower (individual member), Los Angeles, CA; 
Anthony Ravitz (individual member), Mountain View, CA; Sharon Refvem 
(individual member), Mountain View, CA; Steven Kooy (individual 
member), Holland, MI; Jean Hansen (individual member), San Francisco, 
CA; Bill Walsh (individual member), Washington, DC; Nancy Hulsey 
(individual member), Dallas, TX; Susan Kaplan (individual member), New 
York, NY; Mary Ann Lazarus (individual member), St. Louis, MO; Evan 
Bane (individual member), Muskego, WI; Mikhail Davis (individual 
member), San Francisco, CA; Julie Hendricks (individual member), 
Houston, TX; Megan Koehler (individual member), San Francisco, CA; Mary 
Davidge (individual member), Los Gatos, CA; Thomas J. Nelson 
(individual member), Seattle, WA; Sophia Cavalli (individual member), 
Portland, OR; Margaret Montgomery (individual member), Seattle, WA; 
Peter Syrett (individual member), New York, NY; Dwayne Fuhlhage 
(individual member), Lawrence, KS; Lance Hosey (individual member), 
Washington, DC; Kelly Farrell (individual member), Los Angeles, CA; 
Priya Premchandran (individual member), Portland, OR; Troy Virgo 
(individual member), Calhoun, GA; Elizabeth Heider (individual member), 
Washington, DC; Luke Leung (individual member), Chicago, IL; Martin 
Flaherty (individual member), Atlanta, GA; Russell Perry (individual 
member), Washington, DC; Matt McMonagle (individual member), San 
Clemente, CA; Lynn Preston

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(individual member), Dalton, GA; Tracy Backus (individual member), 
Mount Laurel, NJ; Amanda Kaminsky (individual member), New York, NY; 
Michael Deane (individual member), New York, NY; N'Nekka Butler 
(individual member), Washington, DC; Pauline Souza (individual member), 
San Francisco, CA; Eric Raff (individual member), Milpitas, CA; Doug 
Sams (individual member), Portland, OR; Beth Stroshane (individual 
member), Seattle, WA; Christopher R Schaffner (individual member), 
Concord, MA; Holly Debrodt (individual member), Portland, OR; Justin M. 
Hardy (individual member), New York, NY; Marion J. White (individual 
member), San Jose, CA; Anna Bevan (individual member), Royersford, PA; 
and Michel Couvreux (individual member), Petaluma, CA.
    The Joint Venture was formed as a Delaware non-stock member 
corporation. The general area of HPDC's planned activities are to 
develop, maintain and evolve the Healthy Product Declaration format 
(the ``HPD Standard'') as an open standard that meets the needs of 
building product consumers for reporting of product content and 
associated health information relating to individual building products 
and materials. In pursuit of this purpose, the Joint Venture may engage 
in all or some of the following activities: (a) Develop, maintain and 
support the HPD Standard and related standards (the 
``Specifications''); (b) promote such Specifications and solutions 
worldwide; (c) provide for testing and conformity assessment of 
implementations in order to ensure and/or facilitate compliance with 
Specifications; (d) operate a branding program based upon distinctive 
trademarks to create high customer awareness of, demand for, and 
confidence in products designed in compliance with Specifications; and 
(e) undertake such other activities as may from time to time be 
appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth 
above.
    Membership in the Joint Venture remains open and the Joint Venture 
intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes 
in membership.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
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