[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 170 (Friday, August 31, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 45964]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-22067]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Yale University; 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, N.W., Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 01-016. Applicant: Yale University, New Haven, CT 
06520-8202. Instrument: (2) High Pressure Presses, Models TRY10ES and 
Drickamer Cell. Manufacturer: Okaya & Co., Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: 
See notice at 66 FR 39490, July 31, 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 revolving Drickamer cell with pressures to 
30 GPa, temperature to 2000 deg. K and rotational rate from 0.00001 to 
0.01 rpm and (2) a sliding guide block type multi-anvil apparatus 
capable of 1000 ton pressure. A university research laboratory advised 
August 24, 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. 01-22067 Filed 8-30-01; 8:45 am]
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