[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 25906]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-11955]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


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

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 16, 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''), The National Center for 
Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. (``NCMS'') 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, The Boeing 
Company, St. Louis, MO; Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc., 
Endicott, NY; Four Rivers Associates, LLC, Mequon, WI; and General 
Electric Co., Cincinnati, OH have been added as parties to this 
venture. Also, CoCreate Software, Inc., Ft. Collins, CO; Concurrent 
Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, PA; Defense Modeling & Simulation, 
Alexandria, VA; Ferro Corporation, Washington, PA; Johnson Controls, 
Plymouth, MI; Kestrel Aircraft Company, Norman, OK; Laser Fare, 
Narragansett, RI; Masco Machine, Inc., Cleveland, OH; Perceptron, 
Plymouth, MI; Precision Optical Manufacturing, Auburn Hills, MI; Sandia 
National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM; SeeBeyond Technology Corporation, 
Monrovia, CA; Star Cutter Company, Farmington, MI; Sulzer Metco (US) 
Inc., Lawrence, MI; WebEx Inc., San Jose, CA; and West Virginia 
University, Morgantown, WV 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 The National Center for 
Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 20, 1987, The 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 November 27, 
2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on December 27, 2002 (67 FR 79150).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-11955 Filed 5-13-03; 8:45 am]
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