[Federal Register: November 29, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 228)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Cemented Carbide Producers Association

    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''), Cemented Carbide Producers 
Association (``CCPA'') 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: Cemented 
Carbide Producers Association, Cleveland, OH. The nature and scope of 
CCPA's standards development activities are: the standardization of 
blanks and inserts composed of carbide, ceramic and compacted diamond/
CBN; the standardization of the tools and holders for these blanks and 
inserts as used for turning (both internal and external) including 
nomenclature, classification, size, tolerances and identification; and 
the establishment of standard test methods for physical and chemical 
properties of cemented carbides, ceramics and compacted diamond/CBN.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-26202 Filed 11-26-04; 8:45 am]

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