2019-03535. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-American Wood Council

Notice is hereby given that, on February 12, 2019, 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 Wood Council (“AWC”) 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 Wood Council, Leesburg, VA. The nature and scope of this AWC's standards development activity is: Development of a new consensus standard for engineered design of permanent wood foundations, replacing the 2015 version.

Suzanne Morris,

Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.