[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16552-16553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8268]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Global Climate and Energy Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 12, 2003, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Global Climate and Energy Project 
has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney 
General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identifies 
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 Leland Stanford Junior 
University, Stanford, CA; Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, TX; General 
Electric Company, Fairfield, CT; and Schlumberger Technology 
Corporation, Sugarland, TX. The nature and objectives of the venture 
are to conduct long-term pioneering research to identify options for 
commercially viable, technological systems for energy supply and use 
with substantially reduced net greenhouse emissions; to identify 
presently existing barriers to commercializing those options (barriers 
such as cost, performance, safety, regulation, and consumer 
acceptance); to identify

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potential solutions to those barriers; to conduct pre-commercial 
research to explore those options, barriers, and potential solutions; 
and to publicize such options, barriers, solutions, and research, 
including fundamental science and pre-commercial research in the 
following topics: low greenhouse gas electric power production, 
storage, and distribution, advanced transportation techniques; 
production, distribution, and use of hydrogen; production, distribution 
and use of biomass fuels; advanced nuclear technologies; renewable 
energy supplies; carbon sinks, carbon dioxide separation and storage; 
coal utilization; enabling infrastructure; materials, and combustion 
and systems science; and geo-engineering.

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-8268 Filed 4-3-03; 8:45 am]
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