[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 136 (Monday, July 18, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41237-41238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14031]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute: Validation of 
Methodology for Assessing Defect Tolerance of Welded Reeled Risers

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 28, 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''), Southwest Research Institute 
(``SwRI''): Validation of Methodology for Assessing Defect

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Tolerance of Welded Reeled Risers has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership. The notifications were 
filed for the purpose of extending the Act's provisions limiting the 
recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified 
circumstance. Specifically, Technip Offshore UK Limited, Aberdeen, 
Scotland, United Kingdom; Tenaris Connections AG, Vaduz, Liechtenstein; 
and Total E&P Services, LaDefense, FRANCE have been added 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 SwRI: Validation of Methodology for 
Assessing Defect Tolerance of Welded Reeled Risers intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On August 12, 2004, SwRI: Validation of Methodology for Assessing 
Defect Tolerance of Welded Reeled Risers 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 September 7, 2004 (69 FR 54155).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 05-14031 Filed 7-15-05; 8:45 am]
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