[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 208 (Thursday, October 28, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 58035]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-28242]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


National Institutes of Health, 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 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 99-020. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Bethesda, MD 20892. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1010. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 64 FR 
50058, September 15, 1999. Order Date: July 13, 1999.
    Docket Number: 99-021. Applicant: University of Kentucky, 
Lexington, KY 40506-0046. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-
2010F. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 64 
FR 50058, September 15, 1999. Order Date: June 30, 1999.
    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 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. 99-28242 Filed 10-27-99; 8:45 am]
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