[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 224 (Monday, November 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 69735]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-29632]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Emory University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on 
Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    This is a decision consolidated 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.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, 
for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured 
in the United States.
    Docket Number: 00-027. Applicant: Emory University, Atlanta, GA 
30322. Instrument: Slice Physiology Setup. Manufacturer: Luigs and 
Neumann, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 65 FR 58046, September 
27, 2000. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides superposition of 
recorded fluorescent images with positional information from a 
microscope for precise positioning of tissue structures in the field of 
interest in the microscope. Advice received from: National Institutes 
of Health, October 30, 2000.
    Docket Number: 00-031. Applicant: University of Georgia, Athens, GA 
30602. Instrument: (Two) Plant Growth Chambers, Model GC8-2H. 
Manufacturer: Enconair Ecological Chambers, Canada. Intended Use: See 
notice at 65 FR 59175, October 4, 2000. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides: (1) Capability to diagnose malfunction of chamber via 
telephone modem connection and (2) automatic notification of laboratory 
personnel of chamber malfunction by factor monitoring using synthesized 
voice messages. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
October 30, 2000.
    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda that (1) 
the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are 
pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows of no 
domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the 
intended use of each instrument. We know of no other instrument or 
apparatus being manufactured in the United States which is of 
equivalent scientific value to either of the foreign instruments.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 00-29632 Filed 11-17-00; 8:45 am]
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