[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 101 (Thursday, May 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31040-31041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12579]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical 
Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in Eagle Ford Formation and 
Equivalent Boquillas Formation, South-Central and West Texas

    Notice is hereby given that, on April 25, 2012, 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--
Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural 
Deformation in Eagle Ford Formation and Equivalent Boquillas Formation, 
South-Central and West Texas (``Eagle Ford'') 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

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antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, Pioneer Natural Resources Co., Irving, TX, has been added 
as a party 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 Eagle Ford intends to file 
additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On February 23, 2012, Eagle Ford 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 15, 2012 (77 FR 15395).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-12579 Filed 5-23-12; 8:45 am]
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