[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1744 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1744

   To permit duty free treatment for certain structures, parts, and 
            components used in the Gemini Telescope Project.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 13, 1996

 Mr. Inouye (for himself and Mr. Akaka) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To permit duty free treatment for certain structures, parts, and 
            components used in the Gemini Telescope Project.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CERTAIN STRUCTURES, PARTS AND COMPONENTS USED IN THE GEMINI 
              TELESCOPES PROJECT, MAUNA KEA, HAWAII.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and 
directed to admit free of duty after March 31, 1997, the following 
articles for the use of the Association of Universities for Research in 
Astronomy, Inc. in the construction of the Gemini North Telescope, 
Mauna Kea, Hawaii, as part of the international Gemini 8-Meter 
Telescopes Project:
            (1) The telescope enclosure, produced by Coast Steel 
        Fabricators, Ltd., Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada.
            (2) The telescope structure assemblies, produced by G.I.E. 
        Telas, Cannes le Bocca, France.
            (3) The telescope mirror coating plant, produced by the 
        Royal Greenwich Observatories, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
            (4) The telescope primary mirror, polished by REOSC, Saint-
        Pierre-du-Perray, France.
            (5) The telescope secondary mirror, produced by Carl Zeiss, 
        Oberkochen, Germany.
            (6) The telescope acquisition, guiding, and wavefront 
        sensing equipment, produced by the Royal Greenwich 
        Observatories, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
    (b) Reliquidation.--If the liquidation of the entry of any article 
described in subsection (a) has become final before April 1, 1997, the 
entry shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be 
reliquidated on April 1, 1997, in accordance with the provisions of 
this section and the appropriate refund of duty made at the time of 
such reliquidation.
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