[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 117 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 33419]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16217]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--National Center for Manufacturing Sciences,
Inc.
Notice is hereby given that, on April 10, 1998, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the National Center for
Manufacturing Sciences, Inc. (``NCMS'') 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, the following
companies were accepted as active members of NCMS: Dow-United
Technologies Composite Products, Inc., Wallingford, CT; OG Technology,
Inc., Ann Arbor, MI; Preco Industries, Inc., Lenexa, KS; Steel Products
Division (United Defense Systems, L.P.), Anniston, AL; MicroDexterity
Systems, Inc., Carbondale, CO. Also approved for affiliate membership
in NCMS were: Alberta Research Council, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA;
Interconnection Technology Research Institute, Austin, TX; Industry
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA; Materials and Manufacturing Ontario,
Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA; National Research Council, Ottawa,
Ontario, CANADA.
The following companies recently resigned from membership in NCMS:
Angle, Inc., Springfield, VA; SDL, Inc., San Jose, CA; American
Foundrymen's Society, Des Plains, IL; Gear Research Institute,
Evanston, IL.
No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned
activity of the group research project. membership remains open, and
NCMS intends to file additional written notification disclosing all
changes.
On February 20, 1987, NCMS 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 17, 1987 (52 FR 8375).
The last notification was filed with the Department on October 20,
1997. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 28, 1997 (62 FR 63388).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-16217 Filed 6-17-98; 8:45 am]
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