[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 148 (Monday, August 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 41228]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20652]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Stanford 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: 98-030. Applicant: Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
94305. Instrument: Crystal Growth Furnace, Type FZ-T-10000-HVP-II-S. 
Manufacturer: Crystal Systems, Inc., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 
63 FR 33052, June 17, 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 rod to produce a single uncontaminated crystal along a moving 
float zone on the rod. The National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration advised February 8, 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 (comparable case).
    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. 98-20652 Filed 7-31-98; 8:45 am]
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