[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 178 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 55284]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23415]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petroleum Environmental Research Forum 
(``PERF'') Project No. 98-04

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 8, 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''), Petroleum Environmental Research 
Forum (``PERF'') Project No. 98-04, titled ``Understanding, Predicting 
and Treating Water Soluble Organic Contaminants in Produced Water 
Discharges'', has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing a change 
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, Marathon Oil Company, Littleton, CO 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 PERF No. 98-04 intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 4, 2000, PERF 98-04 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 June 21, 2000 (65 FR 38597).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
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