Notice of ASTM International Filing Published in the Federal Register
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On June 20, 2025, the Department of Justice announced an official notice from ASTM International. This notice appears in Volume 90, Number 117 of the Federal Register, on page 26328.
The notice states that ASTM International has filed written notifications as of May 22, 2025. The filing is under section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, found at 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq., also known as “the Act.”
ASTM International sent these notifications to both the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission. The purpose of the notification is to extend the protections in the Act. These protections limit what antitrust plaintiffs can recover to only actual damages under specific situations.
The content of the filing from ASTM International contains an updated list of ongoing standards development activities. These activities are called “Work Items,” and they started between February 17, 2025, and May 13, 2025. Each Work Item has a brief description and is listed on the ASTM website at http://www.astm.org.
ASTM International first filed a notification for these purposes on September 15, 2004. The Department of Justice then published a notice about it in the Federal Register on November 10, 2004, found at 69 FR 65226.
The most recent prior notification from ASTM was filed on February 28, 2025. That notice appeared in the Federal Register on April 21, 2025, at 90 FR 16701.
Suzanne Morris, Deputy Director of Civil Enforcement Operations at the Antitrust Division, certified this notice. The document’s reference number is 2025-11311. It was filed on June 18, 2025, at 8:45 am. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s billing code for this notice is 4410-11-P.
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