[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 68 (Monday, April 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15521-15522]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8563]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 
Inc. (NCMS)

    Notice is hereby given that, on February 16, 1996, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the National Center for 
Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. (``NCMS'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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 companies were recently 
accepted as active members of NCMS: AccuData, Inc., Jackson, MI; 
Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL; Deformation Control Technology, Inc., 
Cleveland, OH; Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH; ICON Industrial 
Controls Corporation, Shreveport, LA; IMPACT Engineering, Inc., 
Jackson, MI; J.P. Industrial, Inc., South Lyon, MI; Laserform, Inc., 
Auburn Hills, MI; Performance Controls, Inc., Horsham, PA; PolyCycle 
Corporation, Towson, MD; and Viatec, Inc., Hastings, MI. In addition, 
the following companies were recently accepted as affiliate members of 
NCMS: The University of Texas at Austin, Manufacturing Systems Center, 
Austin, TX; and High Performance Manufacturing Consortium, Kitchener, 
Ontario, CANADA. The following companies have resigned from active 
membership in NCMS: Advanced Quality Systems, Inc., Loves Park, IL; 
Arrindell Associates, Orange, CA; BDM Technologies, Inc., McLean, VA; 
Berkeley Process Control, Inc., Richmond, CA; Campbell Grinder Company, 
Muskegon, MI; G.K.S. Inspection Services, Inc., Sterling Heights, MI; 
Great Lakes Industry, Inc., Jackson, MI; Omni-Circuits, Inc., Glenview, 
IL; Paradigm Shift International, Oakland, CA; Quest Integrated, Inc., 
Kent, WA; Sarcos, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT; and Thesis Group, Inc., 
Dallas, TX. The following organization has resigned from affiliate 
membership in NCMS: Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, MI.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and NCMS intends to file additional 
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notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 20, 1987, NCMS 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 
March 17, 1987 (52 FR 8375).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on November 20, 
1995. This notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8563 Filed 4-5-96; 8:45 am]
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