Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare Combustion Efficiency

---
identifier: "/us/fr/2016-24717"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare Combustion Efficiency"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2016-24717"
section_name: "Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare Combustion Efficiency"
positive_law: false
currency: "2016-10-13"
last_updated: "2016-10-13"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Justice Department"
document_number: "2016-24717"
document_type: "notice"
publication_date: "2016-10-13"
agencies:
  - "Justice Department"
  - "Antitrust Division"
fr_citation: "81 FR 70704"
fr_volume: 81
---


#  Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993—Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare Combustion Efficiency

Notice is hereby given that, on September 1, 2016, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 *et seq.* (“the Act”), Petroleum Environmental Research Forum Project No. 2014-10, Direct Monitoring of Flare Combustion Efficiency (“PERF Project No. 2014-10”) 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, Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc., 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 PERF Project No. 2014-10 intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.

On February 18, 2016, PERF 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 17, 2016 (81 FR 14486).

Patricia A. Brink,

Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.