[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 2, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5487-5488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-1986]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute: Joint Industry 
Project for Fluid Properties Meter Development and Support

    Notice is hereby given that, on November 30, 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''), the Southwest Research 
Institute: Joint Industry Project for Fluid Properties Meter 
Development and Support (``SwRI: Fluid Properties Meter'') has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties 
to the venture 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 
to the venture are: Columbia Gas Transmission, Charleston, WV; 
ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX; Duke Energy Gas Transmission 
Corporation, Houston, TX; Panhandle Energy, Houston, TX; Questar Gas 
Company, Salt Lake City, UT; Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, Houston, 
TX; and Transcanada Pipelines Limited, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA. The 
general area of SwRI: Fluid Properties Meter's planned activity is to 
advance the development of the Fluid Properties meter from an 
experimental, proof-of-concept prototype to a production-ready pilot

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unit. The Fluid Properties meter, developed by SwRI: Fluid Properties 
Meter, is used to determine properties of natural gas, such as density, 
molecular weight and calorific value. The program will include the 
development of requirements and specifications for the system, 
subsystems and components, and the transfer of knowledge required to 
implement the fluid properties meter algorithm. The program will also 
include the actual development and testing of the Fluid Properties 
meter. Several reviews, such as a system requirements review, system 
functional review, preliminary design review, critical design review, 
and test readiness review will be performed during this project.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-1986 Filed 2-1-05; 8:45 am]
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