04-3986. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (“PERF”)

Notice is hereby given that, on January 22, 2004, pursuant to section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (“PERF”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes 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 Specifically, TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation, Apeldoorn, THE NETHERLANDS has withdrawn from membership in PERF.

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 Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (“PERF”) intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.

On February 10, 1986, Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (“PERF”) 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 March 14, 1986 (51 FR 8903).

The last notification was filed with the Department on March 25, 2002. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on April 22, 2002 (67 FR 19588).

Dorothy B. Fountain,

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.