[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 116 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33051-33052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-16102]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


North Carolina State 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, NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 98-020. Applicant: North Carolina State University,

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Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Mini 4-Pocket E-Beam Evaporator, 
Model EGC04. Manufacturer: Oxford Applied Research, United Kingdom. 
Intended Use: See notice at 63 FR 19715, April 21, 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: (1) four 
pockets for evaporation of four elements and (2) small size for 
mounting on a photo-electron emission microscope. The National 
Institute of Standards and Technology advised May 28, 1998 that (1) 
these capabilities are 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. 98-16102 Filed 6-16-98; 8:45 am]
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