[Federal Register: November 22, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 224)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project 
No. 2002-13

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 20, 2004, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Petroleum Environmental 
Research Forum Project No. 2002-13 (``PERF Project No. 2002-13'') has 
filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General 
and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the 
parties to the venture 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 
to the venture are: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, 
Fairfax, VA; ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX; and Unocal, 
Sugarland, TX. The nature and objectives of the venture are to create a 
forum for sharing information regarding the industry's water management 
practices. This may include water reuse solutions in practice, rejected 
reuse solutions, case studies in the area of water reuse/minimization/
optimization, produced water reclamation, wastewater recovery, and 
tools used to develop these solutions. The program will be carried out 
through compiling, presenting and exchanging of individual research 
projects, including identification of methods to improve water 
management for industry.

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-25853 Filed 11-19-04; 8:45 am]

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