[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 165 (Friday, August 24, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44600-44601]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-21471]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


St. Louis Science Center; 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-

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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: 01-001R. Applicant: St. Louis Science Center, St. 
Louis, MO 63110. Instrument: Universal Planetarium, Universarium Model 
IX. Manufacturer: Carl Zeiss, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 66 
FR 34154, June 27, 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 provides: (1) A unique 
fiber-optic system for projecting stars with high brightness, (2) 
ability to project the night sky in an environment with ambient 
lighting and (3) naturally appearing star scintillation. The National 
Air and Space Museum advised July 20, 2001 that (1) these capabilities 
are 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. 01-21471 Filed 8-23-01; 8:45 am]
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