98-23395. Voluntary Agreement and Plan of Action To Implement the International Energy Program; Amendments

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 169 (Tuesday, September 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46483-46484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23395]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Voluntary Agreement and Plan of Action To Implement the 
International Energy Program; Amendments

    The Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division has 
amended the Voluntary Agreement and Plan of Action to Implement the 
International Energy Program to implement changes recently enacted to 
Section 252 of the Energy Policy and Conservation, 42 U.S.C. 6272 
(``EPCA''). These changes extended the antitrust defense to cover 
advice given by U.S. oil companies to the International Energy Agency 
on the coordinated drawdown of government-owned or government-
controlled oil stocks. The Agreement was amended pursuant to powers 
granted to the Attorney General by Section 252 of the EPCA and 
delegated to the Assistant Attorney General by regulation, 28 CFR 
0.41(i). The text of the Voluntary Agreement, the proposed amendments, 
and notice of our intention to adopt the amendments were published on 
August

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4, 1998 (63 FR 41550). The amendments were effective August 25, 1998.
Joel I. Klein,
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-23395 Filed 8-31-98; 8:45 am]
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