[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 154 (Friday, August 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51869-51870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20141]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute: Diesel 
Aftertreatment Sensitivity to Lubricants (DASL) and Non-Thermal 
Catalyst Deactivation (N-TCD)

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 2, 2002, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4310 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research Institute: 
Diesel Aftertreatment Sensitivity to Lubricants (DASL) and Non-Thermal 
Catalyst Deactivation (N-TCD) 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 current identities of the 
parties are Caterpillar, Inc., Mossville, IL; Chevron Oronite Company 
LLC, Richmond, CA; Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY; Exxon Mobile 
Research and Engineering, Clinton, NJ; Infineum International Limited, 
Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Lubrizol Corporation, Wickliffe, 
OH; and NGK-Locke, Inc., Southfield, MI. The nature and objectives of 
the venture are to investigate the potential for lubricating oils to 
degrade or poison emissions control systems for diesel and gasoline 
engines. The DASL portion of the investigation is a parametric study 
which is designed to expose various diesel emissions controls systems 
to oil combustion byproducts. The effects of the lubricating oil 
components, such as sulfur, phosphorus, zinc, calcium, and boron will 
be determined by measuring the deactivation of the emissions control 
systems as a consequence of oil exposure. The N-TCD portion of the 
investigation is a research/mechanistic study intended to explore the 
mechanisms of emissions control system deactivation as a result of oil 
exposure; for example, phosphorus poisoning of three-way catalysts.
    Membership in this research group remains open, and the 
participants intend to file additional written

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notification disclosing all changes in membership and planned 
activities.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-20141 Filed 8-8-02; 8:45 am]
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