Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 21 / Wednesday, February 2, 2005 / Notices 5487

Company EADS N.V., Schiphol-Rijk, 

The Netherlands; EMC Corporation, 

Hopkinton, MA; Ericsson Inc., Plano, 

TX; Factiva, New York, NY; General 

Dynamics, Falls Church, VA; HewlettPackard Company, Palo Alto, CA; 

Honeywell Defense and Space 

Electronic Systems, Columbia, MD; 

International Business Machines Corp, 

Armonk, NY; Innerwall, Inc., Colorado 

Springs, CO; L–3 Communications, New 

York, NY; Lockheed Martin 

Corporation, Bethesda, MD; Microsoft 

Corporation, Redmond, WA; Northrop 

Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, 

CA; Oracle Corporation, Redwood 

Shores, CA; Raytheon Company, 

Waltham, MA; Rockwell Collins, Cedar 

Rapids, IA; Saab AB, Stockholm, 

Sweden; Science Applications 

International Corporation, San Diego, 

CA; Smith Aerospace, London, United 

Kingdom; Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa 

Clara, CA; Themis Computer, Fremont, 

CA; Wakelight Technologies, Inc., 

Honolulu, HI; Bay Microsystems, Inc., 

Santa Clara, CA; Parametric Technology 

Corporation, Needham, MA; Sikorsky 

Aircraft, Stratford, CT; SPARTA, Inc., 

Arlington, VA; McDonald Bradley Inc., 

Herndon, VA; Aereovironment, Simi 

Valley, CA; FlightSafety International, 

Flushing, NY; Superlative Technologies, 

Inc. (dba SuperTEK), McLean, VA; and 

Real-Time Innovations, Inc., Sunnyvale, 

CA. 

The general area of Network Centric 

Operations Industry Consortium, Inc.’s 

planned activity is to help accelerate the 

achievement of increased 

interoperability within and between all 

levels of government of the United 

States and its allies involved in joint, 

interagency and multination operations.

Dorothy B. Fountain, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Northeastern Lumber 

Manufacturers Association 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

September 16, 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’’), 

Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers 

Association (‘‘NeLMA’’) 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: Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers 

Association, Cumberland Center, ME. 

The nature and scope of NeLMA’s 

standards development activities are: 

development of size and quality 

standards for Eastern White Pine; 

maintain those rules in accordance with 

Voluntary Product Standard 20, 

developed under the auspices of the 

Department of Commerce; 

implementation of those rules as well as 

wood product grading rules of other 

agencies certified by the American 

Lumber Standard Committee through 

grading inspections of mills in the 

Northeast United States in order to 

assure conformation with those 

standards.

Dorothy B. Fountain, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division.

[FR Doc. 05–1972 Filed 2–1–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Portland Cement 

Association 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

January 10, 2005, 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 

Portland Cement Association (‘‘PCA’’) 

has filed written notifications 

simultaneously with the Attorney 

General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing changes in its 

membership. The notifications were 

filed for the purpose of extending the 

Act’s provisions limiting the recovery of 

antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages 

under specified circumstances. 

Specifically, Titan America LLC, 

Norfolk, VA has been added as a 

Member of PCA. 

No other changes have been made in 

either the membership or planned 

activity of the group research project. 

Membership in this group research 

project remains open, and PCA intends 

to file additional written notification 

disclosing all changes in membership. 

On January 7, 1985, PCA filed its 

original notification pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the Act. The Department of 

Justice published a notice in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on February 5, 1985 (50 FR 5015). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on August 9, 2004. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on August 30, 2004 (69 FR 52932).

Dorothy B. Fountain, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division.

[FR Doc. 05–1988 Filed 2–1–05; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—Southwest Research 

Institute: Joint Industry Project for 

Fluid Properties Meter Development 

and Support 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

November 30, 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 

Southwest Research Institute: Joint 

Industry Project for Fluid Properties 

Meter Development and Support 

(‘‘SwRI: Fluid Properties Meter’’) has 

filed written notifications 

simultaneously with the Attorney 

General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing (1) the identities 

of the parties to the venture and (2) the 

nature and objectives of the venture. 

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 

identities of the parties to the venture 

are: Columbia Gas Transmission, 

Charleston, WV; ConocoPhillips 

Company, Houston, TX; Duke Energy 

Gas Transmission Corporation, Houston, 

TX; Panhandle Energy, Houston, TX; 

Questar Gas Company, Salt Lake City, 

UT; Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, 

Houston, TX; and Transcanada 

Pipelines Limited, Calgary, Alberta, 

CANADA. The general area of SwRI: 

Fluid Properties Meter’s planned 

activity is to advance the development 

of the Fluid Properties meter from an 

experimental, proof-of-concept 

prototype to a production-ready pilot