[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 23, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3236-3237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1563]


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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 December 18, 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, General Pattern Company, Blaine, MN has been added as 
a party to this venture.
    Also, Electronic Data Systems, Troy, MI; Interconnection Technology 
Research Institute (ITRI), Austin, TX; Softzone Engineering, Inc., 
Plymouth, MI; Johnson Manufacturing Company, Inc., Princeton, IA; 
Tecumseh Products Company, Tecumseh, MI; and University of New Orleans, 
New Orleans, LA 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 August 22, 
2001. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the

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Act on September 25, 2001 (66 FR 49044).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-1563 Filed 1-22-02; 8:45 am]
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