[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 70 (Wednesday, April 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15971-15972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8864]



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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ANTITRUST DIVISION

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Clean Heavy Duty Diesel Engine II

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 5, 1996, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. Sec. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research Institute 
(``SwRI'') has filed 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 involving 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 Allied Signal, Torrance, CA; 
Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, IN; Hino Motors, Ltd., Tokyo JAPAN; 
IVECO SpA, Torino, ITALY; John Deere Product Engineering Center, Deere 
and Company, Waterloo, IA; Renault Vehicules Industriels, Saint-Priest, 
FRANCE, joined by its subsidiary Mack Trucks, Inc., Hagerstown, MD; Van 
Doorne's Bedrifswagenfabriek DAF B.V., Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS; 
Volvo Truck Corporation, Goteborg, SWEDEN; and Zexel Corporation, 
Saitama, JAPAN. Its general areas of planned activities are to develop 
technologies for the reduction of exhaust emissions in NoX and PM 
to levels of 1.0 gm/hp-hr and 0.035 gm/hp-hr, respectively, through a 
systems approach focusing on advanced applications in diesel engines of 
exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) high injection pressure, small nozzle 
holes, real-time water emulsions, passive particulate traps, injection 
timing and rate control and fuel reformation and to develop design 
alternatives which efficiently use these key technologies in the 
various participants' product lines, to transfer such know-how and 
design alternatives to the participants and to build a working system 
incorporating the Key technologies.
    Membership in the program remains open, and SwRI intends to file 
additional written notifications

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disclosing all changes in the membership or planned activities.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 96-8864 Filed 4-9-96; 8:45 am]
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