[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 39 (Friday, February 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 10040]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5013]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 15, 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''), the Advanced Lead-Acid 
Battery Consortium (``ALABC''), a program of International Lead Zinc 
Research Organization, Inc., filed written notification simultaneously 
with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing 
changes in its membership. The notification was filed for the purpose 
of extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Dowa Mining Co., 
Tokyo, JAPAN, FIAMM SpA, Montecchio, ITALY; Industrial Technical 
Research Institute, TAIWAN, R.O.C.; Matsushita, Osaka, JAPAN; 
Metaleurop Recherche, Fontenay-sous-Bois Cedex, FRANCE; Mitsubishi 
Materials Corp., Saitma, JAPAN; Nippon Mining & Metals, Tokyo, JAPAN; 
Shin Kobe Electric Machine, Tokyo, JAPAN; and Teledyne Continential 
Motors, Redlands, CA have withdrawn from the ALABC.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the Consortium. Membership in the Consortium remains open 
and ALABC intends to file additional written notification disclosing 
any future changes in membership.
    On June 15, 1992, the ALABC 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 July 29, 1992, 57 FR 33522. The last notification was filed 
with the Department on July 24, 1997. A notice was published in the 
Federal Register on October 16, 1997, 62 FR 62074.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-5013 Filed 2-26-98; 8:45 am]
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