[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 91 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25226-25227]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-11551]



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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Dkt. 6699]


Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Prohibited Trade Practices and 
Affirmative Corrective Actions

AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.

ACTION: Set aside order.

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SUMMARY: This order reopens a 1957 consent order--which prohibited the 
respondent from discriminating in price between competing purchasers by 
charging auto manufacturers less for automotive safety glass than it 
charged glass distributors and glass dealers--and sets aside the 
consent order pursuant to the Commission's Sunset Policy Statement, 
under which the Commission presumes that the public interest requires 
terminating competition orders that are more than 20 years old.

DATES: Consent order issued April 19, 1957. Set aside order issued 
April 4, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Ducore, FTC/S-2115, Washington, DC 20580. (202) 326-2526.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the Matter of Pittsburgh Plate Glass 
Company. The prohibited trade practices and/or corrective actions are 
removed as indicated.

(Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U.S.C. 46. Interprets or applies sec. 2, 
49 Stat. 1526; 15 U.S.C. 13)
    In the matter of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, a corporation. 
Docket No. 6699.

Order Reopening Proceeding and Setting Aside Order

    On December 9, 1994, PPG Industries, Inc., the successor to 
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, (``PPG''), filed a Petition to 
Reopen and Set Aside Consent Order (``Petition'') in this matter. 
PPG requests that the Commission set aside the 1957 consent order in 
this matter pursuant to Rule 2.51 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice, 16 CFR 2.51, and the Statement of Policy With Respect to 
Duration of Competition Orders and Statement of Intention to Solicit 
Public [[Page 25227]] Comment With Respect to Duration of Consumer 
Protection Orders, issued July 22, 1994, published at 59 FR 45,286-
92 (Sept. 1, 1994) (``Sunset Policy Statement''). In the Petition, 
PPG affirmatively states that it has not engaged in any conduct 
violating the terms of the order. The Request was placed on the 
public record, and the thirty-day comment period expired on January 
16, 1995. Two public comments were received.
    The Commission in its July 22, 1994, Sunset Policy Statement 
said, in relevant part, that ``effective immediately, the Commission 
will presume, in the context of petitions to reopen and modify 
existing orders, that the public interest requires setting aside 
orders in effect for more than twenty years.''\1\ The Commission's 
order in Docket No. 6699 was issued on April 19, 1957, and has been 
in effect for more than 37 years. Consistent with the Commission's 
July 22, 1994, Sunset Policy Statement, the presumption is that the 
order should be terminated. Nothing to overcome the presumption 
having been presented, the Commission has determined to reopen the 
proceeding and set aside the order in Docket No. 6699.

    \1\See Sunset Policy Statement, 59 Fed. Reg. at 45,289.
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    Accordingly, it is ordered that this matter be, and it hereby 
is, reopened;
    It is further ordered that the Commission's order in Docket No. 
6699 be, and it hereby is, set aside, as of the effective date of 
this order.

    By the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-11551 Filed 5-10-95; 8:45 am]
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