[Federal Register: November 10, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 217)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--American Concrete Institute

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 13, 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''), the American Concrete 
Association (``ACI''), 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: American 
Concrete Institute, Farmington Hills, MI. The nature and scope of ACI's 
standards development activities are: ACI provides contributions to the 
body of consensus knowledge for concrete materials and the resulting 
applications in the built environment. Each ACI technical committee 
explores and reports on areas of knowledge within the scope of its 
specific missions. This reporting can be done by the creation or 
revision of an ACI Code, Specification or Guide (collectively referred 
to as ``Standards'').
    ACI maintains Standards on a wide variety of subjects related to 
concrete, concrete related items, such as steel reinforcement, 
properties relating to concrete design and construction, such as fire 
resistance, and how best to design and construct concrete in its many 
applications.
    Related to the material of concrete, ACI issues Standards on 
mixture ingredients and proportions, time-dependent chemical and 
physical characteristics, and hardened properties of different types of 
concretes, such as: Normalweight; lightweight; heavyweight; soil 
cement; shrinkage compensating; no slump; pervious; self-consolidating; 
high strength; shotcrete; plaster; polymer modified; fiber reinforced; 
roller compacted; and sulfur concrete.
    Related to the design, construction and repair of various 
applications for concrete, ACI issues Standards on commercial 
buildings, industrial floors, architectural, pavements, parking lots, 
residential, shells, piers, foundations, bridge structures and systems, 
pipe, nuclear containment, sanitary structures, barges, offshore 
structures, silos, guideways, parking structures, dams and water tanks.
    Related to items important to the construction of concrete, ACI 
issues Standards on formwork; batching, mixing; placing; consolidation; 
finishing; curing; inspection; testing; jointing; reinforcement; fire 
resistance; anchorage to concrete, durability; field tolerances; 
quality assurance systems; and cracking.
    Related to design of concrete elements and systems, ACI issues 
Standards on structural strength of elements such as slabs, beams, 
columns, walls, foundations, shells, and diaphragms; elastic and 
inelastic characteristics; thermal properties; volumetric changes; 
design, detailing, and protection of reinforcing bars, welded wire 
reinforcement, and prestress steel; behavior under seismic conditions; 
behavior of monolithic and discrete joints, and behavior under dynamic 
loads.
    Related to techniques of construction, ACI issues Standards on 
cast-in-place, factory precast, tilt-up, concrete block, shotcrete, 
underwater concreting, ferrocement, overlays, mass concrete, cellular 
concrete, fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) reinforced, prestressed, post-
tensioned, and slip formed.
    All of the current ACI Standards are published as the ACI Manual of 
Concrete Practice, which is printed in six parts and is available from 
ACI.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-25078 Filed 11-9-04; 8:45 am]

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