[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28596-28597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14068]



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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 May 9, 1996, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301

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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 and providing information on the status of its research 
projects. 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 company was accepted as an active member of NCMS: Vacuum 
Instrument Corporation, Ronkonkoma, NY. The following organizations 
were also approved for affiliate membership: Forging Industry 
Association, Cleveland, OH; Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Michigan 
State University, E. Lansing, MI; ORTECH Corporation, Mississauga, 
Ontario, Canada and The University of Michigan, College of Engineering, 
Ann Arbor, MI. The following companies have resigned from active 
membership in NCMS: AlliedSignal Inc., Morristown, NJ; Franklin 
Consulting, Ltd., Troy, MI; Groupe Procycle Inc., St. Georges, Quebec, 
Canada and Labbe Designers & Inc., Montreal, Quebec. The following 
organization has resigned from affiliate membership in NCMS: Texas 
State Technical College, Waco, TX.
    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 
written 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 February 16, 
1996. This notice was published in the Federal Register on April 8, 
1996 (61 FR 15521).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-14068 Filed 6-4-96; 8:45 am]
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