[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 155 (Tuesday, August 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 43184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21232]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993: Appliance Industry--Government CFC Replacement 
Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 27, 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 Appliance Industry-
Government CFC Replacement Consortium, Inc. (``Corporation'') filed 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing changes in its participants' status. 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 have 
become additional participants of the Corporation: Marvel Industries, a 
division of Northland Corporation, Richmond, IN; Goldschmidt Chemical 
Company, Hopewell, VA; Air Products & Chemicals, Elburn, IL; and Witco 
Corporation, Greenwich, CT. In addition, Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh, 
PA has acquired the styrenics business unit of Monsanto Corporation, 
Springfield, MA (effective January 3, 1996), with Bayer Corporation 
being the sole surviving corporation. As a request of the acquisition, 
the rights and obligations of Monsanto as a participant in the 
Corporation have been transferred to Bayer as of that date.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the Corporation.
    On September 19, 1989, the Corporation 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 November 1, 1989 (54 FR 46136).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 1, 
1993. A notice was published in the Federal Register on August 17, 1993 
(58 FR 43655).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-21232 Filed 8-11-97; 8:45 am]
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