[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 133 (Wednesday, July 12, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39364-39365]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6134]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Water Heater Industry Joint Research and 
Development Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 2, 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''), Water Heater Industry Joint 
Research and Development Consortium (``the Consortium'') has filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing a change in its membership, nature 
and objective. the notifications were filed for the purpose of 
extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, A.O. Smith Corporation, Irving, TX has purchased GSW Inc. 
Also, the term of the Consortium has been changed from eleven years 
beginning February 27, 1995, to a period of twelve years beginning 
February 27, 1995. Thus, the Consortium will be in operation no longer 
than February 27, 2007.
    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 Consortium intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 28, 1995, the Consortium 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 27, 1995 (60 FR 15789).

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    The last notification was filed with the Department on February 14, 
2005. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on March 14, 2005 (70 FR 12501).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-6134 Filed 7-11-06; 8:45 am]
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