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[Federal Register: July 26, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 143)]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE



Antitrust Division



 

Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993--Nanoparticle Benchmarking Research Project



    Notice is hereby given that, on June 21, 2006, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Nanoparticle Benchmarking 

Research Project (``Project'') has filed written notifications 

simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing (1) The identities of the parties to the venture 

and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. 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 parties 

to the venture are: E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, 

DE; Procter & Gamble Company, West Chester, OH; The Dow Chemical 

Company, Midland, MI; Cabot Corporation, Boston, MA; Air Products and 

Chemicals Incorporated, Allentown, PA; Rohm & Haas Company, Spring 

House, PA; PPG Industries Incorporated, Pittsburgh, PA; Intel 

Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Degussa Corporation, Parsippany, NJ; and 

United Kingdom Health & Safety Executive, London, UNITED KINGDOM. The 

general area of Project's planned activity is to undertake research and 

development in the areas of health, safety, and environmental 

considerations raised by the exposure of workers to airborne 

nanoparticles in the production of goods. Specifically, Project's 

objectives include: (1) Design and development of portable workplace 

monitoring instrumentation; and (2) development and testing of 

protective clothing fabrics as a barrier to an aerosol of 

nanoparticles. This work is being jointly funded by DuPont, and the 

other entites names above, as sponsors who are interested in 

nanoparticle research.



Dorothy B. Fountain,

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 06-6469 Filed 7-25-05; 8:45 am]



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