[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 31617]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-14800]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Virginia, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision 
on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron Microscopes

    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
    Docket Number: 01-009. Applicant: University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model 
JEM-1010. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 
66 FR 20637, April 24, 2001. Order Date: October 30, 2000.
    Docket Number: 01-010. Applicant: University of Colorado, Boulder, 
CO 80309-0347. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai F20. 
Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 
66 FR 21742, May 1, 2001. Order Date: December 21, 2000.
    Comments: None received.
    Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to 
the foreign instrument, for such purposes as these instruments are 
intended to be used, was being manufactured in the United States at the 
time the instruments were ordered. Reasons: Each foreign instrument is 
a conventional transmission electron microscope (CTEM) and is intended 
for research or scientific educational uses requiring a CTEM. We know 
of no CTEM, or any other instrument suited to these purposes, which was 
being manufactured in the United States at the time of order of each 
instrument.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
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