[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64370-64371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30805]


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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 November 4, 1996, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 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 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 companies were accepted as 
active members of NCMS: QM Technologies, Crystal Lake, IL and UES, 
Inc., Dayton, OH. Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association, 
Alexandria, VA, was approved for affiliate membership. The following 
companies have canceled their active membership in NCMS: Advanced 
Cybernetics Group, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Digital Equipment Corporation, 
Maynard, MA; Eitel Presses, Inc., Orwigsburg, PA; Enterprise 
Integration Technologies Corporation, Palo Alto, CA; Grow Speciality 
Polymers, Inc. (formerly Emerson & Cuming, Inc.), Woburn, MA; Light 
Machines Corporation, Manchester, NH; Mattison Machine Works, Rockford, 
IL; Munro & Associates, Inc., Troy, MI; Northern Telecom, Ltd., 
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada and Scientific Systems, Inc., State 
College Park, PA.
    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).

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    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 1, 
1996. This notice was published in the Federal Register on August 29, 
1996 (61 FR 45458).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-30805 Filed 12-3-96; 8:45 am]
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