[Federal Register: March 19, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 53)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1933; Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project 
No. 95-04

    Notice is hereby given that, on December 30, 1997, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1933, 15 U.S.C. 4301, et seq. (``the Act''), the participants in the 
Petroleum Environmental Research Forum (``PERF'') Project No. 95-04, 
titled ``Risk Assessment Cooperative Research Program,'' have filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and with 
the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the 
parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the Project. 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 current parties in PERF Project No. 95-04 
are: American Association of Railroads, Washington, DC; Amoco 
Corporation, Naperville, IL; Brookhaven National Laboratory,Upton, NY; 
Elf Aquitaine, Washington, DC; Exxon Biomedical Sciences, Inc., East 
Millstone, NJ; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; 
Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies Company, Idaho Falls, ID; Los Alamos 
National Laboratories, Los Alamos, NM; Phillips Petroleum Company, 
Bartlesville, OK; Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX; Sandia National 
Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM: Texas Group, Inc., Bellaire, TX; and 
Unocal Corporation, Brea, CA.
    The nature and objectives of the research program to be performed 
in accordance with PERF Project No. 95-04 are aimed at developing/
improving methods, data and models for measuring or estimating the fate 
and transport of contaminants in support of risk assessment activities 
as applied to site cleanup efforts at petroleum, petrochemical, and 
chemical industry facilities. The results should fill gaps in the 
science of risk assessment allowing technically defensible and cost 
effective measurement or estimation of concentrations at potential 
points of exposure to contaminants.
    Participation in this project will remain open to interested 
persons and organizations until issuance of the final Project Report, 
which is presently anticipated to occur approximately May 31, 1998. The 
participants intend to file additional written notification(s) 
disclosing all changes in project membership.
    Information regarding participation in this project may be obtained 
from Dr. Bruce Krewinghaus, Shell Oil Products Company, P.O. Box 1380, 
Houston, Texas 77251-1380, telephone: (281) 544-8970.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 98-7147 Filed 3-18-98; 8:45 am]
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