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equipment used by the Defense,

Commercial Airline, Automobile,

Trucking, Railroad, Satellite, Maritime

Shipping, Medical Device,

Telecommunications and Computer

industries.

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 00–15600 Filed 6–20–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993—VSI Alliance

Notice is hereby given that, on

January 27, 2000, pursuant to section

6(a) of the National Cooperative

Research and Production Act of 1993,

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), VSI

Alliance has filed written notifications

simultaneously with the Attorney

General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing changes in its

membership status. 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, 3Com Corporation, Santa

Clara, CA; Jean-Paul Calvez (individual

member), Nantes, France; Pai Chou

(individual member), Irvine, CA;

ControlNet, Inc., Milpitas, CA; DSP

Group, Inc., Herzlia, Israel; Element 14,

Inc., Cambridge, United Kingdom; and

IDEC (IC Design Education Center),

Taejon, Republic of Korea have been

added as parties to this venture. Also,

Analog Circuit Technology, San Diego,

CA; The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA;

Chip & Chip, Inc., Santa Clara, CA;

IMS—Integrated Measurement Systems,

Inc., Beaverton, OR; Iprias Ltd., Bristol,

United Kingdom; Maingate Electronics,

Inc., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; Metis

Associates, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA;

NeoParadigm Labs, Inc., San Jose, CA;

Sagantec North America, Inc., Fremont,

CA; Silicon Access Technology, San

Jose, CA; SiPCore, Inc., San Jose, CA;

Stellar Semiconductor, San Jose, CA;

and VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA

have been dropped 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 VSI Alliance

intends to file additional written

notification disclosing all changes in

membership.

On November 29, 1996, VSI Alliance

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 March 4, 1997 (62 FR

9812).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on October 8, 1999. A

notice has not yet been published in the

Federal Register.

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention

[OJP (OJJDP)–1276]

Program Announcement for Training

and Technical Assistance for National

Innovations To Reduce

Disproportionate Minority Confinement

(The Deborah Ann Wysinger Memorial

Program)

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs,

Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention, Justice.

ACTION: Notice of solicitation.

SUMMARY: The Office of Juvenile Justice

and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is

requesting applications for Training and

Technical Assistance for National

Innovations to Reduce Disproportionate

Minority Confinement. The purpose of

the training and technical assistance is

to assist States as they plan, implement,

and monitor their disproportionate

minority confinement (DMC) initiatives.

Addressing DMC is the fourth core

protection in the State plan

requirements under the Formula Grants

program established in Part B of the

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention (JJDP) Act of 1974, as

amended (Pub. L. 93–415; 42 U.S.C.

5663). Section 223(a)(23) provides that

States participating in the Formula

Grants program must take steps to

address the issue of DMC if it is found

to exist in the State. OJJDP is issuing

this competitive solicitation for

innovative proposals to implement a

national planning, training, technical

assistance, and information

dissemination initiative to assist States

and local jurisdictions to address DMC

as required by the JJDP Act.

DATES: Applications must be received

by August 7, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Interested applicants can

obtain an application kit from the

Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse at 800–

638–8736. The application kit is also

available at OJJDP’s Web site at

www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/grants/

about.html#kit. (See ‘‘Format’’ and

‘‘Delivery Instructions’’ later in this

announcement for instructions on

application standards and the address to

which applications must be sent.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gail

Olezene, Program Manager, Office of

Juvenile Justice and Delinquency

Prevention; Phone: 202–305–9234 [This

is not a toll-free number].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose

The purpose of this program is to

provide States, territories, and the

District of Columbia with training and

technical assistance support to address

disproportionate minority confinement

(DMC), the subject of the fourth core

protection of the Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention (JJDP) Act of

1974, as amended. The other core

protections are deinstitutionalization of

status offenders, removal of juveniles

from adult jails and lockups, and sight

and sound separation of juveniles from

adult offenders in secure institutions.

Background

The 1992 amendments to the Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention

(JJDP) Act of 1974, as amended, required

States to take steps to address DMC as

a condition for receipt of 25 percent of

the State’s Formula Grants program

allocation, thus creating the fourth core

protection of the JJDP Act (Section

223(a)(23)). The Office of Juvenile

Justice and Delinquency Prevention

(OJJDP) issued regulations (28 CFR

31.303 (j)) requiring States participating

in the Formula Grants program to

collect and analyze data on DMC. States

participating in the Formula Grants

program address the DMC issue in three

phases: identifying the extent to which

DMC exists, assessing the reasons for

DMC, and developing intervention

plans to address those identified

reasons. An OJJDP grant program was

developed in 1991 to demonstrate

model approaches in five competitively

selected pilot States (Arizona, Florida,

Iowa, North Carolina, and Oregon).

Funds were also awarded to a national

contractor to provide technical

assistance to the pilot States and other

States, to evaluate their efforts, and to

share relevant information nationwide.

By 1995, awards had been made to

support 12 demonstration projects to

test innovative interventions designed

by States and local communities to

address DMC.