[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17912-17913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9883]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Joint Industry Program

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 15, 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''), Southwest Research Institute 
(SwRI) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its 
membership and restating the nature and objectives of the venture. 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. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 
Act, the new participant who has been added to the venture known as the 
Joint Industry Program is: Chevron Research and Technology Company, a 
division of Chevron U.S.A., Inc., Richmond, CA. SwRI wishes to restate 
the planned activities of JIP because the originally published notice 
was abbreviated and did not sufficiently state these activities. The 
planned research activities are to develop a cost effective 
nondestructive evaluation technique whose capabilities include the 
nonintrusive inspection of the entire cross section of pipe and to 
detect both OD and ID defects without the removal of insulating 
material at a high inspection speed with a short set up time and to 
develop a field deployable production model magnetostrictive sensor 
(MsS) for inspecting and detecting corrosion in insulated piping 
systems found in the oil, gas, chemical and petrochemical industries by 
evaluating the operating range of the MsS technique taking into 
consideration pipe diameter, grade, configuration, wall thickness, 
temperature and operating pressure of the line and by developing 
instrument specifications suitable for in-plant testing.
    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 SwRI intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On October 25, 1995, Southwest Research Institute, (Joint Industry 
Program, JIP) 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 February 23, 1996 (61 
FR 7020).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-9883 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]
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