[Federal Register: November 2, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 211)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Center for Waste Reduction Technologies 
(``CWRT'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 11, 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''), Center for Waste Reduction 
Technologies (``CWRT'') has 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, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a division of 
Midwest Research Institute, Inc., Kansas City, MO; Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Toledo, OH; 
Salutia, Inc., St. Louis, MO; Celanese Ltd., a subsidiary of HNA 
Holdings, Inc., Bridgewater, NJ; Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., Cambridge, 
MA; and Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC have been added 
as parties to this venture. Also, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., 
Allentown, PA; AM-RE Services, Inc., Princeton, NJ: Bechtel Group, 
Inc., San Francisco, CA; The BOC Group, Murray Hill, NJ; Gas Research 
Institute, Chicago, IL; Hoechst Celanese Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ; 
and Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Pennington, NJ have 
been dropped as parties to this venture.
    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 Center for Waste Reduction 
Technologies (``CWRT'') intends to file additional written notification 
disclosing all changes in membership.
    On March 14, 1995, Center for Waste Reduction Technologies 
(``CWRT'') 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 April 24, 1995 (60 FR 
20119).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on April 18, 
1996. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on May 14, 1996 (61 FR 24331).
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-29208 Filed 10-30-98; 8:45 am]
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