[Federal Register: August 8, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 154)]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

 
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Biotechnology Research and Development 
Corporation (``BRDC'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on June 30, 2008, pursuant to section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (the ``Act''), Biotechnology Research and 
Development Corporation (``BRDC'') 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, Global Protein Products, Inc., Winslow, ME 
has been added 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 BRDC intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April 13, 1988, BRDC 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 12, 
1988 (53 FR 16919).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on September 
23, 2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on October 14, 2003 (68 FR 59197).

Patricia Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. E8-18184 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]

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