[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 34 (Friday, February 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 8445]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-3961]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute (``SwRI''): 
Advanced Reciprocal Engine Systems (``ARES'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 25, 1999, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research 
Institute (``SwRI''): Advanced Reciprocal Engine Systems (``ARES'') has 
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, Cummins 
Engine Company, Inc., Columbus, IN has been added as a party to this 
venture.
    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 Southwest Research Institute 
(``SwRI''): Advanced Reciprocal Engine Systems (``ARES'') intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On February 9, 1999, Southwest Research Institute (``SwRI''): 
Advanced Reciprocal Engine Systems (``ARES'') 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 May 26, 1999 (64 FR 28521).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on June 30, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-3961 Filed 2-17-00; 8:45 am]
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