94-13948. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993 the Compressor Crankshaft Failure Control Survey Project

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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
Antitrust Division

 

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993 the Compressor Crankshaft Failure Control Survey 
Project

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 13, 1994, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research Institute 
(``SwRI'') has filed 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 CNG Transmission 
Corporation, Clarksburg, WV; Consumers Power Company, Jackson, MI; El 
Paso Natural Gas Company, El Paso, TX; Natural Gas Pipeline Company of 
America, Lombard, IL; Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA; 
Southern Natural Gas Company, Birmingham, AL; and Tennessee Gas 
Pipeline Company, Houston, TX. The general area of planned activity 
include studying the industry's experiences in failures of 
reciprocating compressor crankshafts by developing a survey designed to 
document the causes and costs of recent crankshaft failures and 
assembling responses to the survey; preparing a database based on the 
survey responses and analyzing the data; and producing a list of 
potential solutions and a technical plan addressing the problem and 
presenting the plan to the industry for implementation.
    Membership in this venture remains open, and SwRI intends to file 
additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 94-13948 Filed 6-8-94; 8:45 am]
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