[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 48 (Friday, March 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14040-14041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05203]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute-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 February 14, 2022, 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 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, Noble Energy, Inc. changed its name to Chevron U.S.A. 
Inc.
    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

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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 January 10, 
2020. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on January 31, 2020 (85 FR 5719).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-05203 Filed 3-10-22; 8:45 am]
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