[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 182 (Tuesday, September 19, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 56533]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-24037]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Yeshiva 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: 00-023. Applicant: Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY 
10461. Instrument: Q Pix Colony Picker. Manufacturer: Genetix Ltd., 
United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 65 FR 49966, August 16, 
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 picking of 
clones containing DNA of interest from subclone libraries of bacterial 
artificial chromosomes with a picking rate of 3500 clones per hour and 
gridding of 100,000 samples per hour. The National Institutes of Health 
advises in its memorandum of August 10, 2000 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.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-24037 Filed 9-18-00; 8:45 am]
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