[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 167 (Monday, August 30, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 52931]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-19767]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petroleum Environmental Research Forum 
(``PERF'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 4, 2004, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Petroleum Environmental Research 
Forum (``PERF'') 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, Champion Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX has become a 
member of PERF.
    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 Petroleum Environmental Research 
Forum (``PERF'') intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 10, 1986, Petroleum Environmental Research Forum 
(``PERF'') 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 14, 1986 (51 FR 
8903).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 28, 
2004. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on March 4, 2004 (69 FR 10263).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-19767 Filed 8-27-04; 8:45 am]
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