[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 109 (Wednesday, June 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28596-28597]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14068]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--National Center for Manufacturing Sciences,
Inc. (NCMS)
Notice is hereby given that, on May 9, 1996, pursuant to section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301
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et seq. (``the Act''), the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences,
Inc. (``NCMS'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in
its membership and providing information on the status of its research
projects. 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 company was accepted as an active member of NCMS: Vacuum
Instrument Corporation, Ronkonkoma, NY. The following organizations
were also approved for affiliate membership: Forging Industry
Association, Cleveland, OH; Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Michigan
State University, E. Lansing, MI; ORTECH Corporation, Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada and The University of Michigan, College of Engineering,
Ann Arbor, MI. The following companies have resigned from active
membership in NCMS: AlliedSignal Inc., Morristown, NJ; Franklin
Consulting, Ltd., Troy, MI; Groupe Procycle Inc., St. Georges, Quebec,
Canada and Labbe Designers & Inc., Montreal, Quebec. The following
organization has resigned from affiliate membership in NCMS: Texas
State Technical College, Waco, TX.
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 NCMS intends to file additional
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
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 February 16,
1996. This notice was published in the Federal Register on April 8,
1996 (61 FR 15521).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-14068 Filed 6-4-96; 8:45 am]
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