[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 6 (Thursday, January 9, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 1184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-00157]


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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 the Permian Strata of Texas and 
New Mexico: Implications for Exploitation of the Permian Basin--Phase 2

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 4, 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''), Cooperative Research Group 
on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in the Permian 
Strata of Texas and New Mexico: Implications for Exploitation of the 
Permian Basin--Phase 2 (``Permian Basin--Phase 2'') 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, Diamondback E&P 
LLC, Midland, 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 Permian Basin--Phase 2 intends to 
file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On August 15, 2019, Permian Basin--Phase 2 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 September 13, 2019 (84 FR 48377).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 29, 
2019. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 25, 2019 (84 FR 64923).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-00157 Filed 1-8-20; 8:45 am]
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