[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 15 (Monday, January 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3666-3667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-1655]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of North Carolina; 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: 99-025. Applicant: University of North Carolina, 
Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Instrument: Nose Only Inhalation System. 
Manufacturer: ADG Developments Ltd., United Kingdom.

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Intended Use: See notice at 64 FR 63788, November 22, 1999.
    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 delivery of 
drug aerosols by nose-only exposure to mycobacterium infected guinea 
pigs to evaluate novel therapies for the treatment of tuberculosis in 
animal models. The National Institutes of Health advises in its 
memorandum of December 10, 1999 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. 00-1655 Filed 1-21-00; 8:45 am]
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