[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 18 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 4220]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2061]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Notice of Decision on 
Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made 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, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 97-091. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: Upgrade and Replacement Parts 
for Asphalt Testing Equipment. Manufacturer: Industrial Process 
Controls Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 62 FR 62287, 
November 21, 1997.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instrument, for such 
purposes as it is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the 
United States. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a 
pneumatically-driven triaxial pressure cell which can monitor the 
properties of asphalt composites under field conditions at construction 
sites. A university-based highway research laboratory and the Federal 
Highway Administration advised December 23, 1997 that (1) this 
capability is pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose and (2) 
they know of no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument for the applicant's intended 
use.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus of equivalent 
scientific value to the foreign instrument which is being manufactured 
in the United States.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 98-2061 Filed 1-27-98; 8:45 am]
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