Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993; Open Platform for NVF Project, Inc., 68301-68302 [2014-26942]

Download as PDF mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 220 / Friday, November 14, 2014 / Notices (collectively ‘‘Defendants’’) Civil Action No.2:12–cv–01141–RDP. The Plaintiffs in this case are the United States on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Alabama Department of Environmental Management (‘‘ADEM’’) (collectively referred to as ‘‘Plaintiffs’’). This Decree represents a settlement of claims against the Defendants for failure to comply with administrative orders issued pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (‘‘RCRA’’) and the Clean Water Act (‘‘CWA’’), for violations of the Solid Waste Disposal Act (‘‘SWDA’’), as amended by RCRA, 42 U.S.C. 6901– 6992k, and, pursuant to Section 311 of the CWA, 33. U.S.C. 1321, for the recovery of costs incurred by the United States Coast Guard in responding to the discharge or threat of discharge of oil at the Defendants’ facility in Jefferson County, Alabama. The Consent Decree provides for the injunctive relief sought by the United States that Plaintiffs submit is necessary to address the Defendants’ violations to protect human health and the environment. The injunctive relief that the Defendants must perform is set forth in Section VI. (Work to be Performed) of the Consent Decree, and in Appendix B to the Consent Decree (Statement of Work). The work set forth in the Statement of Work includes: (1) Providing site security; (2) removing and disposing/ recycling of all free liquids or sludges from any containers on site; (3) removing or permanently closing all above-ground storage tanks (‘‘ASTs’’) at the facility; (4) permanently closing the underground storage tanks (‘‘USTs’’) at the facility in accordance with Alabama Department of Environmental Management (‘‘ADEM’’) Admin. Code Chapter 335–6–15 (40 CFR Part 280 (Subpart G)); (5) performing a site assessment of soil and groundwater contamination at and around the facility or off-site, as necessary; (6) excavating oil-contaminated soils and disposing of all waste materials; and (7) performing all necessary remediation activities to address contamination exceeding applicable screening or cleanup levels. The Consent Decree requires financial assurance in the form of an escrow account, trust fund, surety bond, letter of credit, or insurance in an amount sufficient to cover the cost of the work outlined in the Statement of Work. The Consent Decree also requires the Defendants to reimburse the United States Coast Guard for costs incurred in the amount of $239,285.47. In addition, the Consent Decree requires the payment of a $20,000 penalty, to be VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:37 Nov 13, 2014 Jkt 235001 divided equally between the Plaintiffs. The Consent Decree contains provisions for stipulated penalties for failure to comply with the requirements of the Decree. The publication of this notice opens a period for public comment on the Consent Decree. Comments should be addressed to the Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, and should refer to United States and State of Alabama v. Bessemer Petroleum, Inc., et al, Civil Action No. 2:12–cv–01141–RDP, D. J. Ref. No. 90–7–1–09700. All comments must be submitted no later than thirty (30) days after the publication date of this notice. Comments may be submitted either by email or by mail: To submit comments: Send them to: By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@ usdoj.gov. Assistant Attorney General, U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044–7611. By mail ......... During the public comment period, the Consent Decree may be examined and downloaded at this Justice Department Web site: https:// www.usdoj.gov/enrd/Consent_ Decrees.html. We will provide a paper copy of the Consent Decree upon written request and payment of reproduction costs. Please mail your request and payment to: Consent Decree Library, U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 20044–7611. Please enclose a check or money order for $12.00 (25 cents per page reproduction cost) payable to the United States Treasury for the Consent Decree and Exhibits thereto. Henry S. Friedman, Assistant Section Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division. [FR Doc. 2014–26888 Filed 11–13–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4410–15–P DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Antitrust Division Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993; Open Platform for NVF Project, Inc. Notice is hereby given that, on October 17, 2014, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Open Platform for NVF Project, Inc. (‘‘Open PO 00000 Frm 00093 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 68301 Platform for NVF Project’’) 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: 6Wind SA, Montigny-leBretonneux, FRANCE; Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ; ARM Limited, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; AT&T, Dallas, TX; Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA; Brocade Communications, San Jose, CA; Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO; Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA; CenturyLink, Monroe, LA; China Mobile Communication Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Beijing, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Ciena Corporation, San Jose, CA; Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA; Citrix, Santa Clara, CA; ClearPath Networks, El Segundo, CA; Contextream, Inc., Mountain View, CA; Coriant GmbH, Munich, GERMANY; Cyan, Inc., Petaluma, CA; Dell USA, LP, Round Rock, TX; Dorado Software, Inc., El Dorado Hills, CA; Ericsson AB, Kista, SWEDEN; Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; International Business Machines Corporation, New York, NY; Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Ixia, Calabasas, CA; Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; Metaswitch Networks, Ltd., Enfield, UNITED KINGDOM; Mirantis, Inc., Mountain View, CA; NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Nokia Networks, Espoo, FINLAND; NTT DOCOMO, Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; Ooredoo Group, Doha, QATAR; Orange S.A., Paris, FRANCE; Overture Networks, Inc., Morrisville, NC; Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC; Sandvine Incorporated ULC, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS; Telecom Italia S.p.a., Torino, ITALY; Vodafone Group PLC, Newbury, UNITED KINGDOM; and Wind River Systems, Alameda, CA. The general area of Open Platform for NVF Project’s planned activity is to drive the evolution of Network Function Virtualization (‘‘NFV’’) by (a) developing an integrated and tested open software platform (including interfaces to hardware) capable of providing NVF functionality (the ‘‘Platform’’); (b) contributing changes to and influencing upstream projects leveraging the Platform; (c) building E:\FR\FM\14NON1.SGM 14NON1 68302 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 220 / Friday, November 14, 2014 / Notices new open source components within the Platform where needed; (d) leveraging open implementations to drive an open standards and opensource-based ecosystem for NFV solutions; (e) supporting and maintaining the strategic framework of the Platform through the technologies made available by the organization to make the Platform a success; (f) promoting the Platform worldwide as the preferred NFV reference platform; (g) coordinating the promotion of the Platform among members and nonmembers; and (h) undertaking such other activities as may from time to time be appropriate to further the purposes and achieve the goals set forth above. Patricia A. Brink, Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division. [FR Doc. 2014–26942 Filed 11–13–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Antitrust Division mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993; Telemanagement Forum Notice is hereby given that, on October 3, 2014, pursuant to Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), Telemanagement Forum (‘‘The Forum’’) 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, the following parties have been added as members to this venture: Telecom, Giza, EGYPT; AISSI TECH Ltd., Moulineaux, FRANCE; OPT ´ Nouvelle Caledonie, New Caledonia, FRANCE; Righteous Technologies, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA; Persistent Systems Ltd., Pune, INDIA; Mastercom TechServices Pvt Ltd., Karnataka, INDIA; TEO LT, AB, Vilnius, LITHUANIA; Telenor Montenegro, Podgorica, MONTENEGRO; Urbatech Group FZE, Casablanca, MOROCCO; Northpower Fibre, Whangarei, NEW ZEALAND; one2tribe Sp. z o.o., Warsaw, POLAND; NOS Comunicacoes, ¸˜ Lisboa, PORTUGAL; SATEC GROUP, Madrid, SPAIN; Netka System, Bangkok, THAILAND; Jastorrie.com, Maidenhead, UNITED KINGDOM; BearingPoint, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Kaiser VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:37 Nov 13, 2014 Jkt 235001 Permanente, Pleasanton, CA; PCCW Global, Herndon, VA; Fulcrum Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA; Velocity, San Francisco, CA; Tonex, Inc., Richardson, TX; and Integrated Research, Inc., Denver, CO. The following members have changed their names: Telecom Corporation of New Zealand to Spark New Zealand, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND; AsiaInfoLinkage, Inc. to AsiaInfo, Inc., Beijing, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; National Communication System to Office of Emergency Communications, McLean, VA; Eastek Pty Ltd to ArenaCore Pty Ltd., Melbourne, AUSTRALIA; and Wataniya Telecom Maldives Private Limited to Ooredoo Maldives Pvt Ltd., Male, MALDIVES. The following members have withdrawn as parties to this venture: Empresa De Telecomunicaciones De Bogota S.A. E.S.P, Bogota, COLOMBIA; BI Telecom, Moscow, RUSSIA; PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, London, UNITED KINGDOM; Bakcell LTD, Baku, AZERBAIJAN; O2 Czech Republic, a.s., Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC; ServiceFrame, Dublin, IRELAND; Computaris, Essex, UNITED KINGDOM; MTN SA (Pty) Ltd., Randburg, SOUTH AFRICA; New Generation Management Consulting Pty Ltd., Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA; Abiba Systems Private Limited, Bangalore, INDIA; MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd., Lagos, NIGERIA; MTN Cameroon, Douala, CAMEROON; Telefonica Moviles Soluciones y Aplicaciones S.A., Santiago, CHILE; Finserve Africa Limited, Nairobi, KENYA; Phone Wave, Ontario, CANADA; ACBIS, Quebec, CANADA; Scancom Ltd., Ridge-Accra, GHANA; Gilgamesh OSS Services, Weybridge, UNITED KINGDOM; AIRCOM International Ltd., Leatherhead, UNITED KINGDOM; Comware C&C International, Corp., Taiwan, PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; GFI INFORMATIQUE, SaintOuen, FRANCE; GTA Teleguam, Tamuning, GUAM; Perform IT Limited, Dublin, IRELAND; Telefonica Ireland, Dublin 2, IRELAND; Meditelecom, Casablanca, MOROCCO; Spark New Zealand Limited, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND; Suntech S.A., Warszawa, POLAND; Asteros Labs, Moscow, RUSSIA; Bercut LLC, Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA; O2 Slovakia, Bratislava, SLOVAK REPUBLIC; Pictor Consulting, Danderyd, SWEDEN; KIBO FZC, Ras Al Kaimah, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; A&K Telecoms Consulting Services (UK) Limited, Slough, UNITED KINGDOM; Neul Ltd., Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; e*Tezeract, Inc., Murrieta, CA; ETI Software Solutions, Norcross, PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 GA; Guavus, San Mateo, CA; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD; Model Advisors, West Linn, OR; Orchestral Networks, Atherton, CA; Stamey Consulting, LLC, Seattle, WA; Valtira LLC, Minneapolis, MN; Ventraq, Inc., Mount Laurel, NJ; Bank of America, New York, NY; and ComScore, Reston, VA. 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 The Forum intends to file additional written notifications disclosing all changes in membership. On October 21, 1988, The Forum 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 December 8, 1988 (53 FR 49615). The last notification was filed with the Department on September 16, 2014. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act on October 22, 2014 (79 FR 63167). Patricia A. Brink, Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division. [FR Doc. 2014–26941 Filed 11–13–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P LABOR DEPARTMENT Employment and Training Administration Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Program: Certifications for 2014 Under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act Employment and Training Administration. ACTION: Notice. AGENCY: The Secretary of Labor signed the annual certifications under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, 26 U.S.C. 3301 et seq., thereby enabling employers who make contributions to state unemployment funds to obtain certain credits against their liability for the federal unemployment tax. By letter, the certifications were transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury. The letter and certifications are printed below. SUMMARY: Signed in Washington, DC, October 31, 2014. Portia Wu, Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training Administration. October 31, 2014 E:\FR\FM\14NON1.SGM 14NON1

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Open Platform for NVF Project, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 17, 2014, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open Platform for NVF 
Project, Inc. (``Open Platform for NVF Project'') 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: 6Wind SA, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, FRANCE; Alcatel-
Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ; ARM Limited, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; AT&T, 
Dallas, TX; Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA; Brocade Communications, 
San Jose, CA; Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO; 
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA; CenturyLink, Monroe, LA; China Mobile 
Communication Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 
OF CHINA; Ciena Corporation, San Jose, CA; Cisco Systems, Inc., San 
Jose, CA; Citrix, Santa Clara, CA; ClearPath Networks, El Segundo, CA; 
Contextream, Inc., Mountain View, CA; Coriant GmbH, Munich, GERMANY; 
Cyan, Inc., Petaluma, CA; Dell USA, LP, Round Rock, TX; Dorado 
Software, Inc., El Dorado Hills, CA; Ericsson AB, Kista, SWEDEN; 
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 
Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; International Business Machines 
Corporation, New York, NY; Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Ixia, 
Calabasas, CA; Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; Metaswitch Networks, 
Ltd., Enfield, UNITED KINGDOM; Mirantis, Inc., Mountain View, CA; NEC 
Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Nokia Networks, Espoo, FINLAND; NTT DOCOMO, 
Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; Ooredoo Group, Doha, QATAR; Orange S.A., Paris, 
FRANCE; Overture Networks, Inc., Morrisville, NC; Red Hat, Inc., 
Raleigh, NC; Sandvine Incorporated ULC, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; 
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS; Telecom Italia S.p.a., Torino, 
ITALY; Vodafone Group PLC, Newbury, UNITED KINGDOM; and Wind River 
Systems, Alameda, CA.
    The general area of Open Platform for NVF Project's planned 
activity is to drive the evolution of Network Function Virtualization 
(``NFV'') by (a) developing an integrated and tested open software 
platform (including interfaces to hardware) capable of providing NVF 
functionality (the ``Platform''); (b) contributing changes to and 
influencing upstream projects leveraging the Platform; (c) building

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new open source components within the Platform where needed; (d) 
leveraging open implementations to drive an open standards and open-
source-based ecosystem for NFV solutions; (e) supporting and 
maintaining the strategic framework of the Platform through the 
technologies made available by the organization to make the Platform a 
success; (f) promoting the Platform worldwide as the preferred NFV 
reference platform; (g) coordinating the promotion of the Platform 
among members and non-members; and (h) undertaking such other 
activities as may from time to time be appropriate to further the 
purposes and achieve the goals set forth above.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-26942 Filed 11-13-14; 8:45 am]
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