[Federal Register: October 4, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 191)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Tree Care Industry Association (``TCIA'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 8, 2004, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Tree Care Industry 
Association (``TCIA'') 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 Tree Care Industry 
Association, Inc., Manchester, NH. The nature and scope of the TCIA's 
standards development activities are to serve as the secretariat and 
SDO for the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) A300 standards 
for tree, shrub, and other woody plant maintenance operations. The 
ANSI-accredited Standards Committee (ASC) A300 is the committee that 
writes the standards. TCIA currently has developed four performance 
standards addressing tree, shrub, and other woody plant maintenance 
operations: ANSI A300 Part 1-2001 Pruning; ANSI A300 Part-2004 
Fertilization; ANSI A300 Part 3-2000 Support Systems; and ANSI A300 
Part 4-2002 Lightning Protection Systems. TCIA also has three standards 
in development: BSR A300 Part 5-200x Management of Trees and Shrubs 
during Site Planning, Site Development, and Construction; BSR A300 Part 
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Transplanting; and PINS Part 7-200x Integrated Vegetation Management 
(IVM). TCIA is the SDO for the TCIA Standards for Accreditation. The 
TCIA Accreditation Council is the committee that writes the standards. 
The current Version is TCIA Accreditation Council Standards for 
Accreditation Draft 4 Version 2. TCIA was formerly the SDO for the NAA 
Standards for Pruning of Shade Trees; Guying of Shade Trees; 
Fertilizing Shade and Ornamental Trees; Lightning Protection 
Installation Systems for Trees; and Hydraulic Sprayer Calibration. The 
NAA Standard Practices committee was the committee that wrote the 
standards. The NAA standards were last updated in 1988 and no longer 
maintained by the TCIA. They are considered obsolete and have been 
superseded by ANSI 300 standards; however they are still used by some 
arborists, tree care companies, and governmental agencies.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-22160 Filed 10-1-04; 8:45 am]

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