[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 27, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 81831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-32985]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


International Trade Administration Washington University School 
of Medicine; 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: 00-035. Applicant: Washington University School of 
Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110. Instrument: Motorized Manipulator. 
Manufacturer: Luigs and Neumann, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 
65 FR 68981, November 15, 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 positional 
accuracy of 0.1 microns to place microelectrodes for patch clamp 
studies of synaptic transmission in neurons. The National Institutes of 
Health advises in its memorandum of October 30, 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. 00-32985 Filed 12-26-00; 8:45 am]
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