[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 6, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 8113]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-04009]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--HEI Industry Group

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 28, 2019, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), HEI Industry Group 
(``HIG'') 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 identity of the parties to 
the venture are: Chevron North America Exploration and Production 
Company, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Houston, TX; ConocoPhillips 
Company, Houston, TX; Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving, TX; Halliburton 
Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX; Noble Energy, Inc., Houston TX, 
SWEPI LP (SWEPI), Houston, TX; Schlumberger Technology Corporation, 
Houston, TX; BHP, Houston, TX; Statoil Gulf Services LLC, Houston, TX; 
and Schlumberger Limited, N.V., Houston, TX. The general area of HIG's 
planned activity is to commence a joint industry-government research 
initiative entitled HEI's Energy Research Program to (1) evaluate the 
existing health and exposure literature related to potential impacts 
from onshore oil and natural gas operations; and possibly (2) conduct a 
study to assess potential exposures from those operations. The industry 
sponsors have created the HEI Industry Group (HIG) to facilitate 
coordinated input to HEI. HEI is a nonprofit organization chartered in 
1980 as an independent research institute to provide high-quality, 
impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution. 
The HEI-managed program represents a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive 
collaboration between the oil and gas industry and government to assess 
exposure to chemical stressors associated with onshore unconventional 
oil and natural gas operations. Part 1 of the research program will 
last for approximately one year and will evaluate the existing health 
and exposure literature as well as conduct workshops to inform the 
literature reviews and frame research needs. Part 2 (an exposure study) 
is being considered and will be informed by the results of the Part 1 
literature review. If Part 2 goes forward, future studies will be 
considered as warranted by the Part 2 results.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2019-04009 Filed 3-5-19; 8:45 am]
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