[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 24, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 14192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-6260]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Joint Venture Under Tip Award No. 70NANB10H014 
To Perform Project Entitled: Automated Nondestructive Evaluation and 
Rehabilitation System (ANDERS) for Bridge Decks

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 28, 2010, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (the Act''), the Joint Venture under TIP 
Award No. 70NANB10H014 to Perform Project Entitled: Automated 
Nondestructive Evaluation and Rehabilitation System (``ANDERS'') for 
Bridge Decks 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: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New 
Brunswick, NJ; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; PD-LD, INC., 
Pennington, NJ; Mala GeoScience USA, Inc., Charleston, SC; and Pennoni 
Associates Inc., Philadelphia, PA. The general area of ANDERS' planned 
activity is to provide a uniquely comprehensive tool that will 
transform the manner in which bridge decks are assessed and 
rehabilitated, and to provide a unique tool that enables the 
sustainable management of aging bridge stock through (1) a much higher 
evaluation detail and comprehensiveness of detection at an early stage 
2 deterioration for far less cost and time than traditional approaches 
or fragmented NDE, (2) comprehensive condition and structural 
assessment (including the understanding of effects of local 
deterioration on global performance) at all stages of deterioration, 
and (3) integrated assessment and rehabilitation that will be 
nondestructive, rapid, cost effective and implementable at all stages 
of deterioration.

Patricia A. Brink,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2010-6260 Filed 3-23-10; 8:45 am]
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