[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 83 (Wednesday, April 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23433-23434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-11170]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, 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 p.m. in room 4211, US Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 97-004. Applicant: Brooklyn College of the City 
University

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of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
JEM-2010. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 
62 FR 8928, February 27, 1997. Order Date: August 24, 1994.

    Docket Number: 97-018. Applicant: Ohio University, Athens, OH 
45701. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1010. Manufacturer: 
JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 13600, March 21, 
1997. Application accepted by Commissioner of Customs: February 13, 
1997.
    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 either at the time of order of each 
instrument or at the time of receipt of application by the U.S. Customs 
Service.

Frank W. Creel,

Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 97-11170 Filed 4-29-97; 8:45 am]
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