[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 123 (Monday, June 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39427-39428]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16000]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Advance Lead-Acid Battery Consortium 
(``ALABC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 3, 2000, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Advanced Lead-acid Battery 
Consortium (``ALABC'') 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, Amerace Microporous Products, LP, Piney Flats, TN; 
Borregaard Lignotech, Sarpsborg, NORWAY; Electric Transportation 
Applications, Phoenix, AZ; Furukawa Battery Co., Ltd., Iwaki-City, 
Fukushima-pref. JAPAN; Hangzhou Narada Battery Co., Ltd., Hangzhou, 
Zhejiang, PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Voltmaster Co., Inc., Corydon, IA; 
and Westvaco Corporation, Charleston, SC have been added as parties to 
this venture. Also, Entertec Mexico, Monterrey, N.L. MEXICO; GNB 
Technologies, Inc., Lombard, IL; ITRI, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UNITED 
KINGDOM; Japan Storage Battery, Kyoto, JAPAN; Mitsui Mining & Smelting 
Co., Ltd. Tokyo, JAPAN; Norvic Traction, Inc., Mississuga, Ontario, 
CANADA; Technical Fibre Products, Kendall, Cumbria, UNITED KINGDOM; 
Toho Zinc Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JAPAN; and Virginia Power, Richmond,

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VA have been dropped as parties 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 Advanced Lead-Acid Battery 
Consortium (``ALABC'') intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On June 15, 1992, Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (``ALABC'') 
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 July 29, 1992 (57 FR 33522).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8, 
1999. A notice has not yet been published in the Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-16000 Filed 6-23-00; 8:45 am]
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