[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 47691]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23876]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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 July 8, 1997, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 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. 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: CAMotion, Inc., Atlanta, GA; Plynetics Express, 
Inc., Auburn Hills, MI; Primavera Systems, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, PA; Soft 
Select Systems, LLC, Vancouver, WA; Tubal Cain Company, Loveland, OH 
and Universal Flow Monitors, Inc., Hazel Park, MI. Michigan Virtual 
Automotive College, Ann Arbor, MI, was approved for affiliate 
membership. The following companies have resigned from active 
membership in NCMS: View Engineering, Inc., Simi Valley, CA, and XFER 
International, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. Organizations which have recently 
resigned from affiliate membership are: Electronics Manufacturing 
Productivity Facility (EMPF), Indianapolis, IN and Wayne State 
University, Detroit, MI.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
actvitity 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 March 3, 
1997. This notice was published in the Federal Register on April 29, 
1997 (62 FR 23268).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-23876 Filed 9-8-97; 8:45 am]
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