[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 229 (Friday, November 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63388-63389]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-31194]


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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 October 15, 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 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: American Induction 
Heating Corporation, Fraser, MI; Cardell Corporation, Auburn Hills, MI; 
Dresser Instrument Division of Dresser Industries Inc., Milford, CT; 
I.Q. Plus Corporation, Willowdale, Ontario, CANADA; Quantum 
Consultants, East Lansing, MI. PRECARN Associates Inc., Nepean, 
Ontario, CANADA was approved for affiliate membership. The following 
companies have resigned from active membership in NCMS: Abrasive 
Technology, Inc., Westerville, OH; Browne & Sharpe Manufacturing 
Company, North Kingstown, RI; Continental Electronics Corporation, 
Dallas, TX; Cost Technology Inc., Beaverton, OR; GenRad, Inc., Concord, 
MA; Expansion Programs International, Inc., Cleveland, OH; Micro 
Engineering Solutions, Novi, MI; Netrologic, Inc., San Diego, CA; Onset 
BIDCO, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; Oracle, Inc., Chelsea, MI; Poly Circuits, 
Inc., Bensenville, IL; Saginaw Machine Systems Inc., Troy, MI; 
Technology Integration, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; Texel Inc., Quebec, 
CANADA; Thriller, Inc., Dearborn, MI; Utilase Systems, Inc., Detroit, 
MI. Organizations which have recently resigned from affiliate 
membership are: Oregon Advanced Technology Consortium, Wilsonville, OR; 
Southern Arkansas University Technical Branch, Camden, AR.
    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).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 8, 
1997. This notice was published in the Federal

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Register on August 21, 1997 (62 FR 44488).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 97-31194 Filed 11-26-97; 8:45 am]
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