[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 19, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65182-65183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-27459]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Efficacy Task Force, LLC

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 14, 2018, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Efficacy Task Force, LLC 
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: BASF Corporation, Florham Park, NJ; Bayer Animal 
Health, Shawnee, KS; Central Garden & Pet Company, Schaumburg, IL; 
Control Solutions, Inc., Pasadena, TX; FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, 
PA; McLaughlin Gormley King Company (MGK), Minneapolis, MN; SC Johnson 
& Son, Inc., Racine, WI; Sergeant's Pet Care Products, Inc., Omaha, NE; 
United Industries Corporation, Earth City, MO; and W.F. Young, Inc., 
East Longmeadow, MA. The general area of Efficacy Task Force, LLC's 
planned activity is to reach agreement with the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (``EPA'') on data required for the reregistration of 
Cyfluthrin; MGK264; Permethrin; Phenothrin; Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO); 
Pyrethrins (PY); PY/PBO/MGK264/(S)-Methoprene/Tetramethrin Blend; PY/
PBO/MGK264/(S)-Methoprene Blend; PY/PBO/MGK264/Tetramethrin Blend; PY/
PBO Blends; Pyripoxyfen; and Tetramethrin (the ``Products''); to 
develop and own written procedural methods for the development of such 
data; to engage in advocacy before EPA, State and local governments, as 
appropriate, in support of the registration, sale, distribution, and 
use of the Products; and to protect

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the proprietary interest in the procedural methods and existing data 
including, but not limited to, seeking and collecting data compensation 
from non-members of the Efficacy Task Force, LLC who may seek to rely 
upon the data and procedural methods to support their registrations, to 
the extent permitted by FIFRA or the data compensation laws of non-U.S. 
jurisdictions.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2018-27459 Filed 12-18-18; 8:45 am]
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