[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 138 (Thursday, July 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 42977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-17230]


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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 June 5, 2013, 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 antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Anadarko Petroleum 
Corporation, The Woodlands, TX; and Eagle Ford TX LP, Houston, TX, have 
been added as parties 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).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on November 2, 
2012. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on December 11, 2012 (77 FR 73676).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-17230 Filed 7-17-13; 8:45 am]
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