[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 55 (Friday, March 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 13598]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7247]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institutes of Health, et al.; Notice of Consolidated 
Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes

    This is a decision consolidated pursuant to Section 6(c) of the 
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 
(Pub. L. 89-651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be 
viewed between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 96-133. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Bethesda, MD 20892. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model CM120. 
Manufacturer: Philips, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 62 
FR 4032, January 28, 1997. Order Date: August 20, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-135. Applicant: Medical University of South 
Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
JEM-1210. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 
62 FR 4032, January 28, 1997. Order Date: October 17, 1996.
    Docket Number: 96-140. Applicant: Associated Universities, Inc., 
Upton, NY 11973. Instrument: Electron Microscope with Accessories, 
Model JEM-3000F. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See 
notice at 62 FR 5619, February 6, 1997. Order Date: September 24, 1996.
    Comments: None received.
    Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to 
the foreign instrument, for such purposes as these instruments are 
intended to be used, was being manufactured in the United States at the 
time the instruments were ordered.
    Reasons: Each foreign instrument is a conventional transmission 
electron microscope (CTEM) and is intended for research or scientific 
educational uses requiring a CTEM. We know of no CTEM, or any other 
instrument suited to these purposes, which was being manufactured in 
the United States at the time of order of each instrument.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-7247 Filed 3-20-97; 8:45 am]
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