[Federal Register: February 2, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 21)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

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

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 23, 2004, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act 
off 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``Act''), American Institute of 
Timber Construction (``AITC'') 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 
Institute of Timber Construction, Centennial, CO. The nature and scope 
of AITC's standards development activities are: AITC is the secretariat 
of a single standard ANSI/AITC A190.1 and maintains the revision of 
this standard using the ``Procedures for Development of American 
Standards Institute of Timber Construction Consensus Standards'' 
approved by the American National Standards Institute on June 6, 2003. 
The said standard describes the minimum requirements for the 
production/manufacture of structural glued laminated as well as the 
quality control system which must be employed by the manufacturer.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-1979 Filed 2-1-05; 8:45 am]

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