[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 74 (Tuesday, April 19, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 20400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-7747]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Joint Research and Development Program for the 
Advancement of in Situ Bioremediation Technologies

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 11, 2005, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Joint Research and Development 
Program for the Advancement of In Situ Bioremediation Technologies (the 
``Program'') 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 parties to 
the Program are: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and company, Wilmington, DE; 
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY; GeoSyntec Consultants Inc., 
Boca Raton, FL; ICI Chemicals and Polymers, Runcorn, United Kingdom; 
Shell Research Ltd., London, United Kingdom; Terra Systems, Inc., 
Wilmington, DE; Golder Associates, Atlanta, GA; Environmental 
Simulations International Ltd., Shrewsbury, United Kingdom; Acetate 
Products Limited, Derby, United Kingdom; W.S. Atkins Consultants Ltd., 
Epsom, United Kingdom; and Scientifics Ltd., Derby, United Kingdom. 
These parties collectively are the Bioremediation Consortium. 
Additional parties to the Program are: University of Edinburgh, 
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom; University of Sheffield, 
Sheffield, United Kingdom; and The Natural Environmental Research 
Council, Nottingham, United Kingdom. The general areas of the Program's 
planned activities are as follows: The Bioremediation Consortium's 
goals include sharing existing research regarding the techniques of 
bioremediation for the remediation of chlorinated solvent contaminants 
in soil or ground water; working collectively to demonstrate the 
treatment systems in the field of hazardous waste sites; and ultimately 
advancing the technologies to the point of public and regulatory 
acceptability. Additional goals of the Program include having one or 
more members of the Bioremediation Consortium enter into a Cooperative 
Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, and having the Bioremeditation Consortium enter into 
a LINK Collaboration Agreement with the additional parties to the 
Program and the British Geological Survey.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-7747 Filed 4-18-05; 8:45 am]
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