[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 151 (Friday, August 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42922-42923]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20346]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Texas, 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, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 99-013. Applicant: University of Texas, Houston, TX 
77030. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1010. Manufacturer: 
JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 64 FR 35127, June 30, 
1999. Order Date: April 26, 1999.
    Docket Number: 99-017. Applicant: The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, 
CA 92037. Instrument: Cryo Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai 12 Twin. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
64 FR 36338, July 6, 1999. Order Date: December 11, 1998.
    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

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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 at the time 
of order of each instrument.
Frank W. Creel,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 99-20346 Filed 8-5-99; 8:45 am]
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