2022-24253. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Utility Broadband Alliance, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on September 22, 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”), Utility Broadband Alliance, Inc. (“UBBA”) 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, Lockard & White, College Station, TX; PowerTrunk, Jersey City, NJ; One-Layer, Lexington, MA; Ubiik, Santa Clara, CA; Select Spectrum, McLean, VA; Sentient Energy, Frisco, TX; Florida Power & Light, Jupiter, FL; Pacific Gas & Electric, Fresno, CA; Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Oklahoma City, OK; Digi, Hopkins, MN; and Druid Software, Bray, IRELAND, have been added as parties to this venture.

Also, Blinq Network, Markham, CANADA; ATT Business, Dallas, TX; K and A Engineering, White Plains, NY; and Aetheros Inc., San Francisco, CA, have withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 UBBA intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On May 4, 2021, UBBA 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 June 10, 2021 (86 FR 30981).

The last notification was filed with the Department on June 24, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on August 1, 2022 (87 FR 47005).

Catherine Reilly,

Counsel for Civil Operations, Antitrust Division.