54170 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 182 / Thursday, September 18, 2008 / Notices 

National Cooperative Research and 

Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 

et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Semiconductor Test 

Consortium, Inc. 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, National Instruments, 

Austin, TX has been added as a party to 

this venture. Also, SEPT.Europe, 

Munich, GERMANY; Reid-Ashman 

Mfg., St. George, UT; Q–Star Test, HR 

Erugge, BELGUIM; Rood Technology 

GmbH Co., Nordlingen, GERMANY; 

BitifEye Digital Solutions GmbH, 

Boeblingen, GERMANY; Manufacturing 

Technology Center Semiconductor 

Company, Nagaolcakyo City, Kyoto, 

JAPAN; and Zhou Feng (individual 

member) Hougang, SINGAPORE have 

withdrawn as parties to this venture.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 

Semiconductor Test Consortium, Inc. 

intends to file additional written 

notifications disclosing all changes in 

membership. 

On May 27, 2003, Semiconductor Test 

Consortium, Inc. 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 June 17, 2003 (68 FR 35913). 

The last notification was filed with 

the Department on June 4, 2008. A 

notice was published in the Federal 

Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the 

Act on July 16, 2008 (73 FR 40883). 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E8–21741 Filed 9–17–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993 Wireless Industrial 

Technology Konsortium Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on August 

August 8, 2008, pursuant to Section 6(a) 

of the National Cooperative Research 

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

5 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Wireless 

Industrial Technology Konsortium Inc. 

(‘‘WITK’’) 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: Airsprite Technologies, 

Inc., Marlborough, MA; Freescale 

Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX; 

Pepperl + Fuchs GmbH, Mannheim, 

GERMANY; Emerson Process 

Management LLLP, Eden Prairie, MN; 

Endress + Hauser Process Solutions AG, 

Reinach, SWITZERLAND; Software 

Technologies Group, Westchester, IL; 

Siemens AG, Karisruhe, GERMANY; 

and ABE Automation Products GmbH, 

Alzenau, GERMANY. 

The general areas of WITK’s planned 

activity are to develop, implement, 

promote and distribute on a nonprofit 

basis one or more software 

communication stacks and supporting 

products, the first of which will be the 

WirelessHART Specification (HART 7) 

published by the HART Communication 

Foundation, and to encourage the use of 

such communications stacks and 

products on a standardized basis within, 

for example, the process control and 

factory automation communities 

worldwide, provided, however, WITK 

shall not carry on any activity not 

permitted to be carried on by a 

corporation that is exempt from federal 

income tax under Section 501(a) of the 

Code as an organization described in 

Section 501(c)(6) of the Internal 

Revenue Code. 

Patricia A. Brink, 

Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E8–21742 Filed 9–17–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Office of the Secretary 

Submission for OMB Review: 

Comment Request 

September 12, 2008. 

The Department of Labor (DOL) 

hereby announces the submission of the 

following public information collection 

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Management and Budget (OMB) for 

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the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

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Agency: Employment Standards 

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Type of Review: Extension without 

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