[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 6389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-3672]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Financial Services Technology Consortium, Inc.; 
Electronic Check Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 30, 1995, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Financial Services 
Technology Consortium, Inc. (the ``Consortium'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership in the Electronic 
Check Project sponsored by the Consortium. The notifications were filed 
for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery 
of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances. Specifically, the following have become members of the 
Electronic Check Project: Chemical Bank, New York, NY; Bolt Beranek and 
Newman Inc., Cambridge, MA; and Sun Microsystems Laboratories, Inc., 
Mountain View, CA.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research and development project. Membership in 
this group research and development project remains open, and the 
Consortium intends to file additional written notifications disclosing 
all changes in membership.
    On October 21, 1993, the Consortium filed its original notification 
pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of 
the Act on December 14, 1993 (58 FR 65399).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 18, 
1995. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on December 6, 1995 (60 FR 62477).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-3672 Filed 2-16-96; 8:45 am]
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