[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 238 (Monday, December 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77345-77346]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-31403]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration, Commerce


Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of Issuance of an Amended Export Trade Certificate of 
Review, Application No. 89-8A016.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce issued an amended Export Trade 
Certificate of Review to The Geothermal Energy Association (``GEA'') on 
November 13, 2000. Notice of issuance of the original Certificate was 
published in the Federal Register on February 9, 1990 (55 FR 4647).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Morton Schnabel, Director, Office of 
Export Trading Company Affairs, International Trade Administration, 
(202) 482-5131. This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of the Export Trading Company Act 
of 1982 (15 U.S.C. Sections 4001-21) authorizes the Secretary of 
Commerce to issue Export Trade Certificates of Review. The regulations 
implementing Title III are found at 15 CFR part 325 (1998).
    The Office of Export Trading Company Affairs (``OETCA'') is issuing 
this notice pursuant to 15 CFR 325.6(b), which requires the Department 
of Commerce to publish a summary of a Certificate in the Federal 
Register. Under Section 305(a) of the Act and 15 CFR 325.11(a), any 
person aggrieved by the Secretary's determination may,

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within 30 days of the date of this notice, bring an action in any 
appropriate district court of the United States to set aside the 
determination on the ground that the determination is erroneous.

Description of Amended Certificate

    Export Trade Certificate of Review No. 89-8A016, was issued to 
Geothermal Energy Association on February 5, 1990 (55 FR 4647, February 
9, 1990), and last amended on November 20, 1996 (61 FR 60092, November 
26, 1996).
    GEA's Export Trade Certificate of Review has been amended to:
    1. Add each of the following companies as a new ``Member'' of the 
Certificate within the meaning of section 325.2(1) of the Regulations 
(15 CFR 325.2(1)): Power Engineers, Inc., PO Box 1066, 3940 Glenbrook 
Drive, Hailey, ID 83333; BIBB & Associates, Inc., 201 South Lake Ave., 
Suite 300, Pasadena, CA 91101;
    2. Change the listing of the company name for the current Member 
``Maxwell Laboratories'' to the new listing ``Maxwell Technologies, 
Inc.''.
    3. Delete the following as members of the Certificate: Air Drilling 
Services, Inc.; American Line Builders, Inc.; Ballew Tool Company; 
Bridwell Controls; Dames & Moore, Inc.; Baker Hughes Oilfield 
Operations, Inc., d.b.a. Baker Hughes Inteq; Exergy, Inc.; Geothermal 
Power Company, Inc.; H & H Oil Tool Company, Inc.; C.E. Holt Company; 
Ingram Cactus Company; Kern Steel Fabrication, Inc.; Nabors Drilling 
USA, Inc.; Resource Group; Union Oil of California, d.b.a. UNOCAL and/
or UNOCAL Corporation; M-I Drilling Fluids L.L.C., and its controlling 
entity, Smith International Acquisition Corp. and Smith International, 
Inc.
    4. Remove the following restriction from the Certificate: Any 
exchange or discussion of the types of information set forth in 
Paragraph C. 13 (b),(c),(d) and (e) that would involve (1) drill bits, 
roller reamers, stabilizers, hole enlargers, pilot mills, watermelon 
mills, scrapers or wellhead changing equipment and (2) Smith 
International Inc. (including entities controlled by it: M-I Drilling 
Fluids L.L.C. and Smith International Acquisition Corp.) and Baker 
Hughes Oilfield Operations, Inc. (formerly Baker Hughes INTEQ, Inc.), 
shall be subject to the following limitations:
    1. The exchange or discussion shall take place only to meet the 
requirements of an actual or potential bona fide export transaction; 
and
    2. Each exchange or discussion shall take place in the presence of 
legal counsel who will advise participants on antitrust matters and who 
shall take notes (or arrange to have notes taken) of the exchange or 
discussion. Upon request of the Secretary of Commerce on his own behalf 
or on behalf of the Attorney General, such notes shall be made 
available to the Secretary of Commerce and/or the Attorney General.
    5. Add the following term and condition to the Certificate: 
Membership in this Certificate is terminated when a company ceases to 
be a member of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), written notice 
of which GEA shall promptly transmit to the Secretary of Commerce and 
the Attorney General. A Member may also withdraw from coverage under 
this Certificate at any time by giving written notice to GEA, a copy of 
which GEA shall promptly transmit to the Secretary of Commerce and the 
Attorney General.
    A copy of the amended certificate will be kept in the International 
Trade Administration's Freedom of Information Records Inspection 
Facility, Room 4102, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and 
Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230.

    Dated: December 1, 2000.
Morton Schnabel,
Director, Office of Export Trading Company Affairs.
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