03-26658. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Portland Cement Association

Notice is hereby given that, on September 26, 2003, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Portland Cement Association (“PCA”) has filed written notification simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing a change in its membership status. 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, Expanded Shale Clay and Slate Institute, Salt Lake City, UT has been dropped 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 PCA intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.

On January 7, 1985, PCA 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 February 5, 1985 (50 FR 5015).

The last notification was filed with the Department on July 21, 2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on August 7, 2003 (68 FR 47090).

Dorothy B. Fountain,

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.