Notice is hereby given that, on February 24, 2023, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (“the Act”), Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (“CREaTe”) has filed written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in its membership. 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, AECOM Process Technologies, Austin, TX; GridMatrix, Cupertino, CA; HII, Fairfax, VA; Illinois State Geological Survey, Champaign, IL; and Strategic Marketing Innovations, Washington, DC, have been added as parties 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 CREaTe intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
On April 22, 2022, CREaTe 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 May 13, 2022 (87 FR 29384).
The last notification was filed with the Department on November 10, 2022. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on January 24, 2023 (88 FR 4210).
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director, Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2023–07957 Filed 4–14–23; 8:45 am]
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