[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 27559]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12673]
[[Page 27559]]
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--National Automated Highway System Consortium
Notice is hereby given that, on February 7, 1995, pursuant to
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), General Motors Corporation
has filed on behalf of the National Automated Highway system Consortium
(NAHSC) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) 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 venture. 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 General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI; Parsons
Brinckerhoff, Washington, DC; Caltrans, Sacramento, CA; Carnegie Mellon
University--Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA; Bechtel, Gaithersburg,
MD; Delco Electronics (a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation),
Kokomo, IN; Hughes Aircraft Company (a subsidiary of General Motors
Corporation), Fullerton, CA; Martin Marietta Technologies In.,
Littleton, CO; and University of California--Berkeley--PATH, Berkeley,
CA. The NAHSC was established in response to a U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) request for application initiated to implement a
provision of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of
1991. The objective of the resultant cooperative agreement between the
NAHSC and DOT is to make major improvements in the safety, productivity
and environmental quality of the U.S. surface transportation system.
The NAHSC intends to promote enhanced international competitiveness of
U.S. industry and encourage the civilian sector to capitalize on
decades of public investment in defense technologies, focussing on
systems designed feasibility, definition and prototyping of a safe,
reliable, cost-effective automated highway system capable of
substantially improving throughput, safety and air quality along high-
demand travel corridors.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 95-12673 Filed 5-23-95; 8:45 am]
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