[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 93 (Friday, May 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 30613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12039]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Water Heater Industry Joint Research and 
Development Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 3, 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''), the Water Heater Industry 
Joint Research and Development Consortium (``the Consortium'') 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, A. O. Smith 
Water Products Company, a division of A.O. Smith Corporation, Irving, 
TX 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 the Consortium intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 28, 1995, the Consortium 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 27, 1995 (60 FR 15789).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 17, 
1999. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on October 1, 1999 (64 FR 53416).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-12039 Filed 5-11-00; 8:45 am]
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