[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 117 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 33419]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16217]


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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.

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 10, 1998, 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'') filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership 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 
companies were accepted as active members of NCMS: Dow-United 
Technologies Composite Products, Inc., Wallingford, CT; OG Technology, 
Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; Preco Industries, Inc., Lenexa, KS; Steel Products 
Division (United Defense Systems, L.P.), Anniston, AL; MicroDexterity 
Systems, Inc., Carbondale, CO. Also approved for affiliate membership 
in NCMS were: Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA; 
Interconnection Technology Research Institute, Austin, TX; Industry 
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Materials and Manufacturing Ontario, 
Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA; National Research Council, Ottawa, 
Ontario, CANADA.
    The following companies recently resigned from membership in NCMS: 
Angle, Inc., Springfield, VA; SDL, Inc., San Jose, CA; American 
Foundrymen's Society, Des Plains, IL; Gear Research Institute, 
Evanston, IL.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. membership remains open, and 
NCMS intends to file additional written notification disclosing all 
changes.
    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 October 20, 
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 28, 1997 (62 FR 63388).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-16217 Filed 6-17-98; 8:45 am]
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