[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 218 (Wednesday, November 12, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 64125]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-28244]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Shipbuilding Research Program

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 9, 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''), Advanced Technology 
Institute has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
the project status of the National Shipbuilding Research Program 
(``NSRP''). 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 general 
area of planned activity of the NSRP is to establish collaborative 
research efforts of limited duration to manage and focus national 
shipbuilding research and development funding on technologies that will 
reduce the cost of warships to the Navy, and establish U.S. 
international shipbuilding competitiveness. This includes the 
assessment of product design and material technologies, and provides a 
collaborative forum to improve business and acquisition processes. In 
addition to the member shipyards, some research and development work 
under the collaboration's charter may include the participation of 
other companies, universities and government personnel.
    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 Advanced Technology Institute 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On March 13, 1998, Advanced Technology Institute 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 of January 29, 1999 (64 FR 4708).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on September 
12, 2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on October 6, 2003 (68 FR 57709).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-28244 Filed 11-10-03; 8:45 am]
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