[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 68 (Monday, April 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15520-15521]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8565]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Bethlehem Steel Corporation and U.S. Steel 
Group, a Unit of USX Corporation

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 2, 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''), Bethlehem Steel Corporation 
and U.S. Steel Group, a unit of USX Corporation, has filed written 
notification simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in the planned activity of the 
venture. The notification was filed for the purpose of extending the 
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, the general 
areas of additional planned activity by the venture are research and 
development activities relating to: (1) conducting a ``Joint Hot Side 
Conference'' to identify potential areas for implementing new 
technological developments and/or technology exchanges in basic iron 
and steelmaking operations, and (2) identification,

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development, and/or transfer of environmental technology for use or 
application in basic iron and/or steelmaking operations.
    On July 15, 1994, the venture filed its original notification 
pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department published a notice 
in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on August 
31, 1994 (59 FR 45009). The venture filed its last notification with 
the Department on November 8, 1994. The Department published a notice 
in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on February 
16, 1995 (60 FR 9051).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8565 Filed 4-5-96; 8:45 am]
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