[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 186 (Tuesday, September 25, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 49044]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-23956]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 
Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 22, 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''), National Center for 
Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. 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, Industrial Technology Center, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 
CANADA; PricewaterhouseCoopers AUTOFACTS, Detroit, MI; and SeeBeyond 
Technology Corporation, Redwood City, CA have been added as parties to 
this venture.
    Also, Focused Research, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; Gougeon Brothers, 
Inc., Bay City, MI; H.R. Krueger Machine Tool, Inc., Farmington, MI; 
Kingsbury Corporation, Keene, NH, MAPAL, Inc., Piscataway, NJ; OMNEX 
Engineering & Management, Ann Arbor, MI; Six Sigma Qualtec, Tempe, AZ; 
Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX; and Winco, Inc., LeCenter, MN have 
been dropped as parties 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 National Center for Manufacturing 
Sciences, Inc. intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 20, 1987, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 
Inc. 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 March 17, 1987 (52 FR 
8375).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 15, 
2001. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on July 30, 2001 (66 FR 39336).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-23956 Filed 9-24-01; 8:45 am]
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