[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 6, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 512-513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-33267]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical 
Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in Eagle Ford Formation and 
Equivalent Boquillas Formation, South-Central and West Texas (Eagle 
Ford II)

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 7, 2015, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Cooperative Research Group 
on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in Eagle Ford 
Formation and Equivalent Boquillas Formation, South-Central and West 
Texas (``Eagle Ford II'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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, BHP Billiton Petroleum (Americas) Inc., 
has changed its name to BHP Billiton Petroleum (Deepwater) Inc., 
Houston, 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 Eagle Ford II intends to file 
additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On July 1, 2015, Eagle Ford II filed its original notification 
pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal

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Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on July 29, 2015 (90 FR 
45234).

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2015-33267 Filed 1-5-16; 8:45 am]
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