[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 175 (Friday, September 8, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54495-54496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23126]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Washington; 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: 00-016. Applicant: University of Washington, 
Seattle, WA 98195-1560. Instrument: Scanning Tunneling Microscope. 
Manufacturer: Omicron Associates, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 
65 FR 47404, August 2, 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) A scanning 
tunneling microscope with atomic resolution over a range of 50-1000K, 
(2) continuous heating of silicon samples to 1500K, (3) scanning force 
and tunneling microscopes with a scan of 10 m  x  10 
m area over a range of 10mm and (4) operation under ultra-high 
vacuum ( 1 x 10-10 Torr). The Center for Advanced 
Microstructure Devices and the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology

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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.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-23126 Filed 9-7-00; 8:45 am]
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