[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 42877]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20529]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Spray Drift Task Force

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 20, 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''), Spray Drift Task Force 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, BASF Corp., Mt. 
Olive, NJ transferred the membership formerly held by American Cyanamid 
Co., Princeton, NJ to K-1 Chemicals USA, Inc., White Plains, NY; and 
Syngenta Crop Protection Corp., Greensboro, NC transferred the 
membership formerly held by Merck, Inc., Rahway, NJ to Cedar Chemical 
Corp., Memphis, TN.
    No 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 Spray Drift Task Force intends to 
file additional written notification disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On May 15, 1990, Spray Drift Task Force 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 5, 1990 (55 FR 27701).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 1, 2001. 
A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) 
of the Act on June 1, 2001 (66 FR 29836).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-20529 Filed 8-14-01; 8:45 am]
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