[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 167 (Tuesday, August 30, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 53006]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18676]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies

    Notice is hereby given that, on August 2, 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''), Consortium for Rare Earth 
Technologies (``CREaTe'') 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, ABS, Spring, TX; Aequor, Inc., San Diego, CA; Ames 
Laboratory, Ames, IA; APL Engineered Materials, Inc., Urbana, IL; 
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH; BD Consulting and 
Investigations, Inc., San Jose, CA; Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, VA; 
Cambria County Association for the Blind and Handicapped, Johnstown, 
PA; Christopher Wnuk, Reston, VA; College of Earth and Mineral 
Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA; 
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; Concurrent Technologies 
Corporation, Johnstown, PA; Cornerstone Research Group, Miamisburg, OH; 
EGOR R&D, Inc., Corsicana, TX; ENIF Consulting LLC, Potomac, MD; EWI, 
Columbus, OH; Exergy Systems, Inc., Irvine, CA; Freedom Technologies, 
Inc., Arlington, VA; General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems, San 
Diego, CA; Ginkgo Bioworks, Boston, MA; GlobalNow and VERSO, Dallas, 
TX; Greentech Minerals Advisory Group, Alexandria, VA; Guided Particle 
Systems, Inc., Pensacola, FL; ICD Alloys and Metals LLC, Winston-Salem, 
NC; II-VI Aerospace & Defense, Murrieta, CA; IM Technologies LLC, 
Shoreham, NY; J.A. Green & Company, Washington, DC; Katz Water 
Technologies, Houston, TX; Kearney, Dallas, TX; Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Leonardo DRS, Fitchburg, MA; Life 
Cycle Engineering, Inc., North Charleston, SC; Lynntech, Inc., College 
Station, TX; Materials Research LLC, Palo Alto, CA; Materion Corp., 
Mayfield Heights, OH; Messaginglab, Brooklyn, NY; Minerva Lithium, 
Greensboro, NC; Molten Salt Solutions, Santa Fe, NM; MP Materials 
Corp., Las Vegas, NV; NGC, Plymouth, MN; NuMat Technologies, Skokie, 
IL; Orbital Sidekick, Inc., San Francisco, CA; Parallax Advanced 
Research, Beavercreek, OH; PerkinElmer, Austin, TX; Physical Sciences, 
Inc., Andover, MA; Polaris Alpha Advanced Systems, Inc., 
Fredericksburg, VA; Polykala Technologies LLC, San Antonio, TX; 
Powdermet, Inc., Euclid, OH; PRD Tech, Inc., Cincinnati, OH; QuesTek 
Innovations, Evanston, IL; REECCycling, Inc., Boone, IA; Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Savengy Technologies LLC, Orlando, FL; 
SimBlocks LLC, Orlando, FL; Skuld LLC, London, OH; Smardt Chiller 
Group, Inc., Plattsburgh, NY; SMI, Inc., Washington, DC; SNJ LLC, Johns 
Island, SC; Southern Company Services, Inc., Birmingham, AL; SRI 
International, Menlo Park, CA; Strategic Control Sciences, Inc., 
Gaithersburg, MD; ThREE Consulting, St. Louis, MO; Tusaar Corp., 
Westminster, CO; UNandUP, Saint Louis, MO; Universal Achemetal Titanium 
LLC, Butte, MT; University of North Dakota, College of Engineering and 
Mines, Grand Forks, ND; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, 
TN; Urban Mining Company, San Marcos, TX; VPI Technology, Draper, UT; 
Weinberg Medical Physics, Inc., North Bethesda, MD; Western Rare 
Earths, Phoenix, AZ; Wyonics, Laramie, WY; Xlight Corporation, Mendham, 
NJ; and XSB, Inc., Setauket, NY, 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 CREaTe intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 22, 2022, CREaTe 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 
May 13, 2022 (87 FR 29384).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2022-18676 Filed 8-29-22; 8:45 am]
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