[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 155 (Friday, August 10, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42238-42239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20092]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Steering Committee for Certain University of 
Houston Sewer-Main Collection System Research Projects

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 13, 2001, 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 Steering Committee for 
Certain University of Houston Sewer-Main Collection System Research 
Projects (``Steering Committee'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties and (2) the 
nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications were filed for 
the purpose of invoking the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of 
antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties are 
American Concrete Pipe Association, Irving, TX; Fiberglass Tank & Pipe 
Institute, Houston, TX; National Clay Pipe Institute, Lake Geneva, WI; 
Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association, Dallas, TX; Pate Engineers, Inc., 
Houston, TX; Black & Veatch, Kansas City, MO; Parsons Brinckerhoff, New 
York, NY; BRH-Garver, Inc., Houston, Tx; City of Montgomery, AL; City 
of Conroe, TX; City of Victoria, TX, City of Houston, TX; the 
University of Houston, Houston, TX; and the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency Office of Waste Water Management, Washington, DC. The 
nature and objectives of the venture are to provide input and oversight 
with respect to certain sewer-main collection system research projects 
to be conducted by the University of Houston under grants from the 
United States Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA''). These projects 
include: (1) The determination, through controlled laboratory testing, 
of infiltration leak-rates for large diameter (i.e., 30-inch and 
greater) sewer-main joints, manhole-to-pipe joints, and manhole joint 
construction areas; (2) the identification and collection of relevant 
cost data for typical infiltration-leak prone areas; and (3) the 
development of a family of life cycle cost models for different 
infiltration rates of large diameter sewer-main collection system 
joints (i.e., piping and manholes) and costs incurred as a result of 
infiltration over the life of the system. The activities of

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the Steering Committee will include: (1) Providing overall research 
project guidance and recommendations to help achieve product goals; (2) 
reviewing and developing Steering Committee consensus approval of the 
infiltration test protocols developed by the Civil & Environmental 
Department of the University of Houston for pipe joints, manhole-to-
pipe joints, and manhole joint testing; (3) reviewing draft project 
task reports, offering comments and developing a Steering Committee 
consensus approval of final reports released to the EPA and other 
interested parties; and (4) meeting three to four times per year at the 
University of Houston testing facility for on-site updates on research 
project status.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-20092 Filed 8-9-01; 8:45 am]
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