[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 38244]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15524]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Michigan; 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, NW., Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 00-011. Applicant: University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, MI 48109-1055. Instrument: Electron Beam Evaporator, Model EGN4. 
Manufacturer: Oxford Applied Research, United Kingdom. Intended Use: 
See notice at 65 FR 26583, May 8, 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: (1) Capability 
to evaporate four different materials and (2) an interface to a vacuum 
chamber via a 2\3/4\ inch CF flange. Two domestic manufacturers of 
similar equipment 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.
    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. 00-15524 Filed 6-19-00; 8:45 am]
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