94-1513. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993 Gas-Fueled Railway Research Program Demonstration Project

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division

 

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993 Gas-Fueled Railway Research Program 
Demonstration Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 30, 1993, 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 (``SwRI'') has filed written notifications simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
(1) The identities of the parties and (2) The nature and objectives of 
the project. 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 identities of the parties are Gas Research Institute, 
Chicago, IL; General Motors Corporation, Electro-Motive Division, La 
Grange, IL; South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, 
CA; Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA; and Southern 
California Regional Rail Authority, Los Angeles, CA. The project's 
general areas of planned activities are to develop and demonstrate 
natural gas locomotive engines as low cost, low pollution alternatives 
to diesel powered locomotive engines through the quantification of 
emissions benefits and performance trade-offs associated with existing 
natural gas engines conversion technologies utilizing a single-cylinder 
engine; applying technology derived from use of the single-cylinder 
engine to a multi-cylinder EMD locomotive engine; integrating the 
locomotive engine with on-board control and support systems in a fully 
operational locomotive; testing the durability of a developed prototype 
natural gas locomotive engine to minimize fuel system failures which 
may occur in planned field demonstrations both on urban passenger and 
cross country freight locomotives; and evaluating advanced exhaust 
aftertreatment technologies such as catalytic aftertreatment and 
electronic NOx suppression system originally developed for diesel 
fuel systems. Membership in the project remains open, and the parties 
intend to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership to the project.
Joseph H. Widmar,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-1513 Filed 1-21-94; 10:00 am]
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