[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 18, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 19920]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-9636]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Argonne National Laboratory; 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: 00-042. Applicant: Argonne National Laboratory, 
Argonne, IL 60439-4874. Instrument: Track Mounted Cone Penetrometer 
Vehicle and Associated Equipment, Model COSON 200. Manufacturer: A. P. 
Van Den Berg, Inc., The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 66 FR 
7626, January 24, 2001.
    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 is a track mounted 
vehicle capable of driving probes with electronically and seismically 
sensitive cones into the soil over large areas for geotechnical 
surveys. The U.S. Department of Agriculture advised March 20, 2001 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 Program Staff.
[FR Doc. 01-9636 Filed 4-17-01; 8:45 am]
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