[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 24 (Thursday, February 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5969-5970]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2849]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Elevator Industry, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 8, 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 Elevator 
Industry, Inc. (``NEII''), on behalf of the participants of the 
Escalator Performance Standard Study Agreement joint venture, filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties 
and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications 
were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting 
the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of 
the parties are: Bay State Elevator Company, Inc., Agawam, MA; 
Demetrius G. Bellas, Bay State Elevator Company, Inc., Agawam, MA; 
Louis Bialy, Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT; James Bolch, Otis 
Elevator Company, Bloomfield, CT; Calvin Brast, Montgomery Kone Inc., 
Louisville, KY; Davie Camp, Dover Elevator Systems Inc., Memphis, TN; 
John Corcoran, Schindler Elevator Corp., Morristown, NJ; John J. 
Delorenzi, Schindler Elevator Corp., Morristown, NJ; Edward A. 
Donoghue, Salem, NY;

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Edward A. Donoghue Associates Inc., Salem, NY; Dover Elevator Systems 
Inc., Memphis, TN; Tim Duin, Montgomery Kone Inc., Moline, IL; Eastern 
Elevator Company Inc., New Haven, CT; Paul Farnsworth, Eastern Elevator 
Company, Inc., New Haven, CT; Fujitech America Inc., Lebanon, OH; 
Maurice Gage, Ouachita Elevator Consultants Inc., Oden, AR; Zenola 
Harper, Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT; Thomas Hubbell, 
Montgomery Kone Inc., Moline, IL; Andrew Juhasz, Montgomery Kone Inc., 
Moline, IL; George Kappenhagen, Schindler Elevator Corp., Morristown, 
NJ; John S.M. Karnash, Schindler Elevator Corp., Morristown, NJ; Dennis 
M. Mayer, Otis Elevator Company, Farmington, CT; Millar Elevator 
Service Company, Holland, OH; Montgomery Kone Inc., Moline, IL; 
National Elevator Industry, Inc., Fort Lee, NJ; Tom Nurnberg, 
Montgomery Kone Inc., Moline, IL; Otis Elevator Company, Bloomfield, 
CT; Ouachita Elevator Consultants Inc., Oden, AR; Edward Parvis, 
Fujitech America Inc., Lebanon, OH; Edwin M. Philpot, Dover Elevator 
Systems Inc., Memphis, TN; Jerry Pohlman, Millar Elevator Service 
Company, Holland, OH; Frank Sansevero, Otis Elevator Company, 
Farmington, CT; Robert Schaeffer, Montgomery Kone Inc., Moline, IL; 
Schindler Elevator Corp., Morristown, NJ; Jean Smith, Schindler 
Elevator Corp., Morristown, NJ; David L. Steel, Otis Elevator Company, 
Farmington, CT; and E. James Walker, Jr., NEII, Fort Lee, NJ. The 
general area of planned activity will involve an independent study to 
define a performance standard to measure potential entrapment between 
the moving steps and the stationary skirt panel on escalators. The 
objectives of the joint venture are to: (1) Create a concept for 
developing a performance standard that measures the potential for step-
skirt entrapment and a viable methodology for measurement and 
verification of the standard; (2) develop a methodology and tool(s) 
suitable for field use that will measure the potential of step-skirt 
entrapment; and (3) perform proof-of-concept experiments to validate 
the measurement methodology and performance standard.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-2849 Filed 2-4-98; 8:45 am]
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