[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 13, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 5570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3093]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--PIMA Research Task Force

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 18, 1996, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the PIMA Third 
Generation Blowing Agent Research Task Force (the ``Research Task 
Force'') filed 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 Research Task Force. 
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: The Polyisocyanurate Insulation 
Manufacturers Association (``PIMA''), Washington, DC; AlliedSignal 
Inc., Morristown, NJ; BASF Corp., Mount Olive, NJ; Bayer, Pittsburgh, 
PA; The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI; Elf Atochem North America, 
Inc., Philadelphia, PA; Exxon Chemical Co., Baytown, TX; Goldschmidt 
Chemical Co., Hopewell, VA; ICI Americas, West Gurnee, IL; Solvay 
Performance Chemicals, Greenwich, CT; Phillips Chemical Co., 
Bartlesville, OK; Stepan Co., Northfield, IL; E.I. DuPont de Nemours & 
Co., Wilmington, DE; and Premium Polymers, Austin, TX. Pursuant to an 
EPA ozone layer protection mandate, the polyisocyanurate insulation 
industry must cease its use of ``HCFC 141b'' as a blowing agent for the 
production of polyisocyanurate foam by 2002. The Research Task Force is 
being established in order to conduct research and testing of 
alternative blowing agents and to develop baseline performance data so 
as to ensure the availability of an acceptable blowing agent by 2002.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-3093 Filed 2-12-96; 8:45 am]
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