[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 202 (Thursday, October 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 54222]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26605]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Durability and Life Assessment of GTD-111 
Buckets

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 31, 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''), Southwest Research 
Institute (``SwRI'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) the identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of 
the venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking 
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 identities of the parties are ARCO Alaska, Inc., 
Anchorage, AK; Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, 
NJ; and, Mobil Exploration & Producing Technical Center, a unit of 
Mobil Research & Development Corporation, Dallas, TX. The general areas 
of planned activities are to develop the necessary technology to assess 
the life of coated gas turbine buckets made from GTD-111 as used in the 
General Electric line of gas turbines by defining and quantifying the 
rate of the actual degradation; by developing the properties of these 
buckets; by developing a life assessment methodology and software 
program to determine the conditions of the buckets; and by developing 
nondestructive evaluation (NDE) methods for assessing the coatings. The 
focus of the program is on the model MS5002 gas turbine.
    Membership in the program remains open, and SwRI intends to file 
additional written notifications disclosing all changes in the 
membership or planned activities.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-26605 Filed 10-16-96; 8:45 am]
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