[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15971-15972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8864]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANTITRUST DIVISION
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Clean Heavy Duty Diesel Engine II
Notice is hereby given that, on March 5, 1996, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research Institute
(``SwRI'') has filed 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 venture. The
notifications were filed for the purpose of involving 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 Allied Signal, Torrance, CA;
Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, IN; Hino Motors, Ltd., Tokyo JAPAN;
IVECO SpA, Torino, ITALY; John Deere Product Engineering Center, Deere
and Company, Waterloo, IA; Renault Vehicules Industriels, Saint-Priest,
FRANCE, joined by its subsidiary Mack Trucks, Inc., Hagerstown, MD; Van
Doorne's Bedrifswagenfabriek DAF B.V., Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS;
Volvo Truck Corporation, Goteborg, SWEDEN; and Zexel Corporation,
Saitama, JAPAN. Its general areas of planned activities are to develop
technologies for the reduction of exhaust emissions in NoX and PM
to levels of 1.0 gm/hp-hr and 0.035 gm/hp-hr, respectively, through a
systems approach focusing on advanced applications in diesel engines of
exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) high injection pressure, small nozzle
holes, real-time water emulsions, passive particulate traps, injection
timing and rate control and fuel reformation and to develop design
alternatives which efficiently use these key technologies in the
various participants' product lines, to transfer such know-how and
design alternatives to the participants and to build a working system
incorporating the Key technologies.
Membership in the program remains open, and SwRI intends to file
additional written notifications
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disclosing all changes in the membership or planned activities.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8864 Filed 4-9-96; 8:45 am]
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