[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 65 (Thursday, April 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 16124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-8095]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Auto Body Consortium, Inc.: ``Hot Metal Gas 
Forming '' (``HMGF'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on March 8, 2002, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Auto Body Consortium, Inc.: ``Hot 
Metal Gas Forming'' (``HMGF'') 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, Alcoa, Alcoa 
Center, PA has acquired Reynolds Metals Company, Chester, VA and 
assumed its membership in the venture. Also, the following member has 
changed its name: Cooperweld, Piqua, OH to LTV Copperweld, Piqua, OH. 
In addition, Hydrodynamics Technologies, Inc., Auburn Hills, MI has 
been dropped as a party 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 Auto Body Consortium, Inc.: ``Hot 
Metal Gas Forming'' (``HMGF'') intends to file additional written 
notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On December 21, 1998, Auto Body Consortium, Inc.: ``Hot Metal Gas 
Forming'' (``HMGF'') 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 February 
18, 1999 (64 FR 8124).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on July 31, 
2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on October 3, 2000 (65 FR 59017).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 02-8095 Filed 4-3-02; 8:45 am]
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