[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 41 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11038-11039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-4918]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Department of Energy; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-
Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

    This decision is made pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational,

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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 am and 5:00 pm in Room 4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 99-033. Applicant: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, 
IA 50011-3020. Instrument: UHV Surface Analysis System, Model 
Multiprobe S. Manufacturer: Omicron Vakuum Physik GmbH, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 65 FR 284, January 4, 2000.
    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 an ultra-high 
vacuum chamber with compatible scanning tunneling, scanning electron 
and scanning Auger microscopes with the following: (1) An operating 
temperature of 50 to 1500 degrees K, (2) adequate internal and external 
vibration isolation and (3) a sample manipulator that can be heated or 
cooled. A university center for advanced microstructural devices and 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology advise that (1) 
these capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose 
and (2) they know 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. 00-4918 Filed 2-29-00; 8:45 am]
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