[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 28, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 36829]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-5735]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Appliance Research Corporation (Formerly Known 
as Appliance Research Consortium, Inc.)

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 24, 2006, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Appliance Research Corporation 
(``the ARC'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
its membership and in its nature and objectives. 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 Association of Home Appliance 
Manufacturers, Washington, DC; GE Consumer & Industrial, Louisville, 
KY; Whirlpool Corporation, Benton Harbor, MI; Electrolux, Home Care 
Products NA, Peoria, IL; Marvel Industries, Div of Northland Corp.; 
Richmond, IN; Sub-Zero Freezer Company, Inc., Madison, WI; Sanyo E & E 
Corporation, San Diego, CA; W.C. Wood Company Limited, Guelph, Ontario, 
Canada; and Viking, Greenwood, MS have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    The purpose of the ARC is to conduct research to promote the 
general welfare of the home appliance industry, and specifically to 
evaluate environmentally preferable alternatives to ozone depleting 
substances.
    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 the ARC intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On September 19, 1989, the ARC 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 November 1, 1989 (54 FR 46136).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on March 9, 
2001. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on April 9, 2001 (66 FR 18512).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-5735 Filed 6-27-06; 8:45 am]
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