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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Monsanto Company

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 19, 1994, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1994, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Monsanto Company 
(``Monsanto''), on behalf of Monsanto, E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company 
and the General Electric Company, has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing: (1) The identities of the parties to and (2) the 
nature and objectives of a joint research and development program for 
the advancement of integrated in situ treatment technologies. 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 identities of the parties are Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO; 
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company, Wilmington, DE; and the General 
Electric Company, Schenectady, NY.
    The area of planned activity is to combine expertise, technology 
and resources from the parties to advance integrated in situ treatment 
technologies to remediate organic and metal contaminants in soils. The 
technologies to be integrated into a viable system include electro-
kinetics with one or more technologies involving: (a) Treatment zone 
formation via hydrofracturing, trenching, sheet piling, etc.; (b) in 
situ destruction via biotreatment, catalysis, etc.; (c) adsorption/
precipitation technology; and (d) surfactant flushing or other 
separation technology.
Joseph H. Widmar,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-6996 Filed 3-23-94; 8:45 am]
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