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request permission to present a short 

statement at the hearing. All parties and 

nonparties desiring to appear at the 

hearing and make oral presentations 

may be required to attend a prehearing 

conference to be held, if necessary, at 

9:30 a.m. on June 23, 2005, at the U.S. 

International Trade Commission 

Building. Oral testimony and written 

materials to be submitted at the public 

hearing are governed by sections 

201.6(b)(2), 201.13(f), 207.24, and 

207.66 of the Commission’s rules. 

Parties must submit any request to 

present a portion of their hearing 

testimony in camera no later than 7 

days prior to the date of the hearing. 

Written submissions—Each party to 

the reviews may submit a prehearing 

brief to the Commission. Prehearing 

briefs must conform with the provisions 

of section 207.65 of the Commission’s 

rules; the deadline for filing is June 17, 

2005. Parties may also file written 

testimony in connection with their 

presentation at the hearing, as provided 

in section 207.24 of the Commission’s 

rules, and posthearing briefs, which 

must conform with the provisions of 

section 207.67 of the Commission’s 

rules. The deadline for filing 

posthearing briefs is July 7, 2005; 

witness testimony must be filed no later 

than three days before the hearing. In 

addition, any person who has not 

entered an appearance as a party to the 

reviews may submit a written statement 

of information pertinent to the subject of 

the reviews on or before July 8, 2005. 

On August 5, 2005, the Commission will 

make available to parties all information 

on which they have not had an 

opportunity to comment. Parties may 

submit final comments on this 

information on or before August 9, 2005, 

but such final comments must not 

contain new factual information and 

must otherwise comply with section 

207.68 of the Commission’s rules. All 

written submissions must conform with 

the provisions of section 201.8 of the 

Commission’s rules; any submissions 

that contain BPI must also conform with 

the requirements of sections 201.6, 

207.3, and 207.7 of the Commission’s 

rules. The Commission’s rules do not 

authorize filing of submissions with the 

Secretary by facsimile or electronic 

means, except to the extent permitted by 

section 201.8 of the Commission’s rules, 

as amended, 67 FR 68036 (November 8, 

2002). 

Additional written submissions to the 

Commission, including requests 

pursuant to section 201.12 of the 

Commission’s rules, shall not be 

accepted unless good cause is shown for 

accepting such submissions, or unless 

the submission is pursuant to a specific 

request by a Commissioner or 

Commission staff. 

In accordance with sections 201.16(c) 

and 207.3 of the Commission’s rules, 

each document filed by a party to the 

reviews must be served on all other 

parties to the reviews (as identified by 

either the public or BPI service list), and 

a certificate of service must be timely 

filed. The Secretary will not accept a 

document for filing without a certificate 

of service.

Authority: These reviews are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of the 

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published 

pursuant to section 207.62 of the 

Commission’s rules.

Issued: January 27, 2005.

By order of the Commission. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993—AAF Association, Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

December 22, 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 

AAF Association, Inc. 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, MESoft, Burbank, CA; and 

XVUE Ltd., Artemida-Attika, Greece 

have been added as parties to this 

venture. Also, Nucoda, London, United 

Kingdom has withdrawn as a party to 

this venture. In addition, BBC 

Technology has changed its name to 

Siemens Business Services, San Jose, 

CA. 

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 AAF 

Association, Inc. intends to file 

additional written notification 

disclosing all changes in membership. 

On March 28, 2000, AAF Association, 

Inc. 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 June 29, 2000 

(65 FR 40127). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on September 17, 2004. 

A notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the 

Act on November 29, 2004 (69 FR 

69391).

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—American College of 

Surgeons 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

September 15, 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’’), 

American College of Surgeons (‘‘ACS’’) 

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 College of Surgeons, 

Chicago, IL. The nature and scope of 

ACS’s standards development activities 

are: Fellowship requirements; 

statements and guidelines on surgery, 

surgery practice and surgeon conduct; 

trauma guidelines, evaluation, 

management and education relating to 

trauma; and cancer standards, 

evaluation, management and education 

relating to cancer.

Dorothy B. Fountain, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division.

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