[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 21 (Friday, January 31, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5719-5720]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-01853]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Southwest Research Institute--Cooperative 
Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and Natural Deformation in 
the Permian Strata of Texas and New Mexico: Implications for 
Exploitation of the Permian Basin--Phase 2

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 10, 2020, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Southwest Research 
Institute---Cooperative Research Group on Mechanical Stratigraphy and 
Natural Deformation in the Permian Strata of Texas and New Mexico: 
Implications for

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Exploitation of the Permian Basin--Phase 2 (``Permian Basin--Phase 2'') 
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, Marathon 
Oil Company, Houston, TX, 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 Permian Basin--Phase 2 intends to 
file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in 
membership.
    On August 15, 2019, Permian Basin--Phase 2 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 September 13, 2019 (84 FR 48377).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on December 4, 
2019. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on January 9, 2020 (85 FR 1184).

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Unit, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-01853 Filed 1-30-20; 8:45 am]
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