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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Hart Communication Foundation

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 17, 1994, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Hart Communication Foundation 
(``HCF'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the 
identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the 
venture. 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 Delta Controls Limited, 
West Molesey, Surrey, ENGLAND; Drexelbrook Engineering Company, 
Horsham, PA; Endress & Hauser GmbH, Maulburg, GERMANY; Fairchild 
Industrial Products, Winston-Salem, NC; Fischer & Porter Company, 
Warminster, PA; Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Burnsville, MN; 
Flowdata, Inc., Richardson, TX; Honeywell Loveland Controls Company, 
Loveland, CO; Kay-Ray/Sensall, Inc., Mt. Prospect, IL; KDG Mobrey Ltd., 
Slough, Berks, ENGLAND; Leeds & Northrup, North Wales, PA; Measurement 
Technology Limited, Luton, Bedfordshire, ENGLAND; Micro Motion, Inc., 
Boulder, CO; Moore Industries-International, Inc., Sepulveda, CA; Moore 
Products Co., Spring House, PA; Oyster Terminal Ltd., Gwent, Great 
Britain; Prime Technology, Inc., North Branford, CT; Princo 
Instruments, Inc., Southhampton, PA; Rosemount Analytical Inc., Eden 
Prairie, MN; Rosemount Inc., Eden Prairie, MN; Smar International 
Corporation, Houston, TX; SOR, Inc., Lenexa, KS; UTSI International 
Corp., Friendswood, TX; Viatran Corporation, Grand Island, NY; Westlock 
Controls Corporation, Saddle Brook, NJ; Whessoe Varec, Inc., Cypress, 
CA.
    A Minnestoa not-for-profit corporation, HCF has been established 
through which cooperative research and development work will be 
conducted. Membership in HCF will be open to any individual or entity 
that supports the objectives of the organization, subscribes to its 
bylaws and pays the dues for such membership.
    The objective of the HCF is to develop an open and interoperable 
standard protocol for a digitally enhanced analog communications 
technology to be used by instruments and control systems for process 
control and other industrial applications. A successful open and 
interoperable standard protocol will permit field devices of different 
manufacturers to be used within a system, thereby reducing both the 
initial and operating costs and improving performance of such a system. 
Such a protocol will also increase the range of options for builders of 
industrial equipment systems. The development and use of this 
technology will provide compatability with analog instruments currently 
installed in these systems and will provide new capability for those 
installations. Use of this technology will allow a transition to the 
fully digital technology to be implemented when it is available in the 
future.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-10817 Filed 5-4-94; 8:45 am]
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