DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993 -- Consortium for Rare Earth
Technologies
Notice is hereby given that, on April 12, 2024,
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, CF Technologies, Boston, MA; Forge Nano,
Thornton, CO; Strogen Strategic Sustainability, LLC,
Washington, DC; and Evergreeneers, Morristown, NJ, 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
October 23, 2023.

A notice was published in the Federal

Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on December
15, 2023 (88 FR 86933).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations,
Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2024-14306 Filed: 6/27/2024 8:45 am; Publication Date: 6/28/2024]