[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 98 (Friday, May 22, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 24036]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-11819]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Shipbuilding Research Program 
(``NSRP'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 16, 2009, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), National Shipbuilding Research 
Program (``NSRP'') 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 circumstances. The 
following members have changed their names: Newport News Shipbuilding 
and Dry Dock Co. to Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Newport News, 
VA; Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. (Ingalls Operation) to Northrop 
Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc.--Gulf Coast Operations (Pascagoula Shipyard) 
Pascagoula, MS; and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. (Avondale 
Operations) to Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc.--Gulf Coast 
Operations (Avondale Shipyard), Avondale, LA.
    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 NSRP intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On March 13, 1998, NSRP 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 January 
29, 1999 (64 FR 4708).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 20, 
2007. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on February 8, 2008 (73 FR 7591).

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E9-11819 Filed 5-21-09; 8:45 am]
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