[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 35 (Monday, February 23, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 8957]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4540]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Princeton University; 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, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 97-096. Applicant: Princeton University, Princeton, 
NJ 08544-0033. Instrument: Crystal Growth Furnace, Model FZ-T-10000-
HVP-II-P. Manufacturer: Crystal Systems Inc., Japan. Intended Use: See 
notice at 63 FR 809, January 7, 1998.
    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 optical melting 
of a polycrystalline rod to produce a single uncontaminated crystal 
along a moving float zone on the rod. The National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration advised on February 3, 1998 that (1) this 
capability is pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose and (2) it 
knows 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. 98-4540 Filed 2-20-98; 8:45 am]
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