[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 24447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10416]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Michigan Technological 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 p.m. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 00-004. Applicant: Michigan Technological 
University, Houghton, MI 49931. Instrument: Automatic Thin Section 
Machine. Manufacturer: Dansk Beton Teknik A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: 
See notice at 65 FR 11986, March 7, 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 a horizontally 
mounted rotating diamond impregnated drum under which specimens are 
repeatedly passed on a sliding platform to minimize damage to cement 
and asphalt concrete thin sections for microscopic examination. The 
Federal Highway Administration advises 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. 00-10416 Filed 4-25-00; 8:45 am]
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