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###### Department of Justice

###### Antitrust Division

                    Notice is hereby given that, on October 23, 2023, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301*et seq.*                     (“the Act”), Consortium for Rare Earth Technologies (“CREaTe”) 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, Beacon Industries, Inc., Newington, CT; Blue Technology LLC, Lindenhurst, NY; Capitol Integration, Bradenton, FL; Corinne Young LLC, Duxbury, MA; Cornerstone Government Affairs, Washington, DC; Creative Engineers, Inc., New Freedom, PA; GE Chaplin, Flemington, NJ; Infinite Elements, El Paso, TX; Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM; Montana Technological University, Butte, MT; Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC; Rare Earth Technologies, Inc., Cincinnati, OH; Raytheon Technologies, Cambridge, MA; ReElement Technologies, Fishers, IN; South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; Tetramer Technologies, Pendleton, SC; and, The Process Group LLC, Chesterfield, MO have been added 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 CREaTe intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

                    On April 22, 2022, CREaTe 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 13, 2022 (87 FR 29384).                

                    The last notification was filed with the Department on May 1, 2023. A notice was published in the                     **Federal Register**                     pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on June 13, 2023 (88 FR 38540).                

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Suzanne Morris,

Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 2023-27608 Filed 12-14-23; 8:45 am]

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