[Federal Register: October 6, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 193)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--National Shipbuilding Research Program

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 12, 2003, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Advanced Technology 
Institute has filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
the membership of the Executive Council of the National Shipbuilding 
Research Program (``NSRP'') and in the nature and objectives of the 
program. 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,

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VT Halter Marine, Inc., Gulfport, MS, a subsidiary of Vision 
Technologies, Inc., has been removed as a party from this venture. The 
general area of planned activity of the NSRP is to establish 
collaborative research efforts of limited duration to manage and focus 
national shipbuilding research and development funding on technologies 
that will reduce the cost of warships to the Navy, and establish U.S. 
international shipbuilding competitiveness. This includes the 
assessment of product design and material technologies, and provides a 
collaborative forum to improve business and acquisition processes.
    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 Advanced Technology Institute 
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes 
in membership.
    On March 13, 1998, Advanced Technology Institute filed its original 
notification for the National Shipbuilding Research Program 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 January 
29, 1999 (64 FR 4708).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on January 13, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on March 3, 2003 (68 FR 10033). A Correction 
Notice was published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2003 (68 FR 
20174).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 03-25206 Filed 10-3-03; 8:45 am]

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