[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 54 (Thursday, March 20, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 13394]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7112]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 29, 1997, 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 Advanced Lead-
Acid Battery Consortium (``ALABC''), a program of International Lead 
Zinc Research Organization, Inc., filed written notification 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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, Accumulatorenwerke Hoppecke, Brilon, 
Germany; Battery Energy South Pacific, Fairfield, Australia; Bolder 
Technologies, Wheat Ridge, CO; Douglas Battery, Winston-Salem, NC; 
Electrosource, Inc., Austin, TX; Amer-Sil, Kehlen, Luxembourg; Entek 
International, Ltd., Killingworth, United Kingdom; Norvik Traction, 
Mississauga, Canada; Omni-Oxide, LLC, Indianapolis, IN; Brittania 
Refined Metals, Kent, United Kingdom; Eco-Bat, Paderno Dugnano, Italy; 
ITRI, Ltd., Middx, England; ZSW, Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen 
Research, Ulm, Germany; and CITELEC, Brussels, Belgium have made 
written commitments to the Consortium. Berzelius Metal GmbH, Brauback, 
Germany; BMG Metall und Recycling, Arnoldstein, Austria; and Society de 
Traitments Chimiques Des Metaux, Bazoches Les Gallerandes, France have 
made verbal commitments to the Consortium. Cookson Entek, Ltd., 
Killingworth, United Kingdom; O&C Corporation, Indianapolis, IN; and 
Rheinische Zinkgesellschaft, Duisburg-Wanaim, Germany have withdrawn 
from the Consortium. Acumuladores Mexicanos, Monterrey, NL Mexico has 
changed its name to ENERMEX.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the Consortium. Membership in the Consortium remains open 
and ALABC intends to file additional written notification disclosing 
any future changes in membership.
    On June 15, 1992, the ALABC 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 July 29, 1992 (57 FR 33522). The last notification was filed 
with the Department on August 13, 1996. The notice was published in the 
Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on August 28, 1996 
(61 FR 44347).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-7112 Filed 3-19-97; 8:45 am]
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