[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 192 (Tuesday, October 3, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 59018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-25308]


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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''): Joint 
Industry Program--Development of an Instrument for Corrosion Detection 
in Insulated Pipes Using a Magnetostrictive Sensor

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 12, 2000, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301, et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research 
Institute (``SwRI''): Joint Industry Program--Development of an 
Instrument for Corrosion Detection in Insulated Pipes Using a 
Magnetostrictive Sensor has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
changes in its membership/project 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, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co., 
Ltd., Yokohama, Japan has been added as a party to this venture; 
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX has been dropped as a 
party to this venture; and the period of peformance has been extended 
to September 30, 2000. In addition, Chinese Petroleum Corporation, 
Taipei, Taiwan, Japan Energy Corporation, Niizo-Minami, Japan and TOA 
nondestructive Inspection Co., Ltd., Kitakyuushu, Japan have been 
participants in this group research project since December 11, 1998, 
December 1, 1997 and April 28, 1998 respectively, but due to an 
administrative oversight were inadvertently not noted as such in 
previous notices to the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of 
Justice.
    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''): Joint Industry Program--Development of an Instrument for 
Corrosion Detection in Insulated pipes Using a Magnetostrictive Sensor 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On October 25, 1995, Southwest Research Institute (``SwRI''): Joint 
Industry Program--Development of an Instrument for Corrosion Detection 
in Insulated Pipes Using a Magnetostrictive Sensor 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 February 23, 1996 (61 FR 7020).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 6, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on July 11, 2000 (65 FR 42727).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 00-25308 Filed 10-2-00; 8:45 am]
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