[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 26, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 42417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-6469]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Nanoparticle Benchmarking Research Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 21, 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''), Nanoparticle Benchmarking 
Research Project (``Project'') 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: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, 
DE; Procter & Gamble Company, West Chester, OH; The Dow Chemical 
Company, Midland, MI; Cabot Corporation, Boston, MA; Air Products and 
Chemicals Incorporated, Allentown, PA; Rohm & Haas Company, Spring 
House, PA; PPG Industries Incorporated, Pittsburgh, PA; Intel 
Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Degussa Corporation, Parsippany, NJ; and 
United Kingdom Health & Safety Executive, London, UNITED KINGDOM. The 
general area of Project's planned activity is to undertake research and 
development in the areas of health, safety, and environmental 
considerations raised by the exposure of workers to airborne 
nanoparticles in the production of goods. Specifically, Project's 
objectives include: (1) Design and development of portable workplace 
monitoring instrumentation; and (2) development and testing of 
protective clothing fabrics as a barrier to an aerosol of 
nanoparticles. This work is being jointly funded by DuPont, and the 
other entites names above, as sponsors who are interested in 
nanoparticle research.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 06-6469 Filed 7-25-05; 8:45 am]
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