98-1224. Directory Database Available for License

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 2972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1224]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY


Directory Database Available for License

AGENCY: Office of General Counsel, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Energy announces that the following 
Directory Database is available for license: ``Commercial Environmental 
Cleanup, Products and Services Directory.''

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Michael P. Hoffman, Office of the Assistant 
General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property, U.S. 
Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. 
20585; Telephone [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The above-captioned Directory, which is in 
the nature of a database of companies working in the area of 
environmental cleanup, was prepared under Government contract. The 
Department of Energy (DOE) is currently paying for the continued 
maintenance and dissemination of the above-captioned Directory 
database, both to Government agencies and to the general public. DOE is 
attempting to secure a private entity which, in return for a possible 
exclusive royalty-free license in the Directory database, will maintain 
the Directory database as well as print and market it, both to the 
Government and the general public as a stand-alone entity or 
incorporated with other services on a for-profit basis, thereby 
relieving the Government of the labor and expense of doing so.

    Issued in Washington, DC., on January 9, 1998.
Paul A. Gottlieb,
Assistant General Counsel for Technology Transfer and Intellectual 
Property.
[FR Doc. 98-1224 Filed 1-16-98; 8:45 am]
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