43184 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 155 / Tuesday, August 12, 1997 / Notices

United States also proposes that the

Consent Judgment be amended to

permit ASCAP to collect home taping

royalties collected by foreign performing

rights societies on behalf of ASCAP

members. The proposed modifications

have no effect on other provisions of the

Consent Judgment, which will remain in

effect: (1) Requiring ASCAP to hold

musical performing rights on a nonexclusive basis; and, (2) prohibiting

ASCAP from interfering with an ASCAP

member’s right to license directly.

The United States has filed with the

Court a memorandum setting forth the

reasons why it believes that

modification of the Consent Judgment

serves the public interest. Copies of the

United States’ application to Modify the

Consent Judgment, Memorandum in

Support, Stipulation and Order, and

proposed Order Modifying the Consent

Judgment, and all further papers filed

with the Court in connection with this

motion will be available for inspection

at Room 200, Antitrust Division,

Department of Justice, 325 Seventh

Street, NW., Washington DC 20530,

(202.514.2481), and at the Office of the

Clerk of the United States District Court

for the Southern District of New York,

300 Quarropas Street, White Plains,

New York 10601–4150. Copies of any of

these materials may be obtained from

the Antitrust Division upon request and

payment of the copying fee set by

Department of Justice regulations.

Interested persons may submit

comments regarding the proposed

modification of the consent judgment to

the Department of Justice, Antitrust

Division. Such comments must be

received by the Division within sixty

(60) days and will be filed with the

court. Comments should be addressed to

Mary Jean Moltenbrey, Antitrust

Division, Department of Justice, 325

Seventh Street, NW., Room 300,

Washington, DC 20530 (202.616.5935).

Rebecca P. Dick,

Deputy Director of Operations.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993: Appliance Industry—

Government CFC Replacement

Consortium

Notice is hereby given that, on June

27, 1997, 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

Appliance Industry-Government CFC

Replacement Consortium, Inc.

(‘‘Corporation’’) filed notifications

simultaneously with the Attorney

General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing changes in its

participants’ 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, the following have become

additional participants of the

Corporation: Marvel Industries, a

division of Northland Corporation,

Richmond, IN; Goldschmidt Chemical

Company, Hopewell, VA; Air Products

& Chemicals, Elburn, IL; and Witco

Corporation, Greenwich, CT. In

addition, Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh,

PA has acquired the styrenics business

unit of Monsanto Corporation,

Springfield, MA (effective January 3,

1996), with Bayer Corporation being the

sole surviving corporation. As a request

of the acquisition, the rights and

obligations of Monsanto as a participant

in the Corporation have been transferred

to Bayer as of that date.

No other changes have been made in

either the membership or planned

activity of the Corporation.

On September 19, 1989, the

Corporation 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 November 1, 1989 (54 FR 46136).

The last notification was filed with

the Department on July 1, 1993. A

notice was published in the Federal

Register on August 17, 1993 (58 FR

43655).

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1933—ECC Development

Program

Notice is hereby given that, on June

27, 1997, pursuant to § 6(a) of the

National Cooperative Research and

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C.

§ 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), ECC

Development Program (the ‘‘Program’’)

has filed written notifications

simultaneously with the Attorney

General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing (1) the identities

of the parties and (2) the nature and

objectives of the venture. The

notifications were filed for the purpose

of invoking the Act’s provisions limiting

the recorder of antitrust plaintiffs to

actual damages under specified

circumstances. Pursuant to § 6(b) of the

Act, the identities of the parties are:

Cygnus Solutions, Sunnyvale, CA;

Matsushita Electronics Corporation,

Nagaokakyo, Kyoto 617, Japan; Toshiba

Corporation, Kanagwa-ken 210, Japan;

Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA.

The ECC Development Program’s area

of planned activity is to develop and

promote open standard technologies for

embedded software. The ECC

Development Program hopes to

contribute to the growth of

microncontrollers and industries that

depend on microcontrollers. The ECC

Development Program participants plan

to engage in all necessary activities to

accomplish the goal and objectives

described above, including without

limitation: (1) Developing and refining

software specifications; (2) conducting

cooperative research on and testing

these specifications, (3) publishing and

certifying these specifications; (4)

disseminating these specifications to

interested parties for their use in

designing and producing compatible

products; (5) developing publications

and informational materials relating to

the activities of this Program; and (6)

engaging in other activities to promote

the technology.

Membership in the ECC Development

Program will remain open and ECC will

file additional written notifications

disclosing all changes in membership.

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993—Financial Services

Technology Consortium, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on June

25, pursuant to § 6(a) of the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. § 4301 et seq.

(‘‘the Act’’), the Financial Services

Technology Consortium, Inc.

(‘‘Consortium’’), has filed written

notifications simultaneously with the

Attorney General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing changes in its

membership and area of planned