[Federal Register: October 21, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 203)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--NAHB Research Center, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 17, 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''), NAHB Research Center, Inc. 
(``NAHB'') 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: NAHB Research 
Center, Inc., Upper Marlboro, MD. The nature and scope of NAHB's 
standards development activities are: To develop and publish consensus 
standards--including products, construction materials and systems, 
technology, and methodologies that facilitate commerce--in response to 
needs for performance and prescriptive standards for use in single-
family and multi-family housing.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-23523 Filed 10-20-04; 8:45 am]

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