[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55002-55003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21690]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--American Society of Mechanical Engineers

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 13, 2021, 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''), the American Society of American Society of 
Mechanical Engineers (``ASME'') 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, since 
September 6, 2019, ASME has published eight new standards, added two 
consensus committee charter, revised three consensus committee charter, 
initiated seventeen new standards activities, and withdrawn four 
proposed standards from consideration within the general nature and 
scope of ASME's standards development activities, as specified in its 
original notification. More detail regarding these changes can be found 
at www.asme.org. More detail regarding these changes can be found at 
www.asme.org.
    On September 15, 2004, ASME 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 13, 2004 (84 FR 60895).
    The last notification with the Attorney General was filed on 
September 06, 2019. A notice was filed in the Federal Register on 
November 12, 2019. (84 FR 61071).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2021-21690 Filed 10-4-21; 8:45 am]
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