[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 42 (Monday, March 4, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 9651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-5108]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 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 p.m. in Suite 4100W, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, Franklin Court Building, 1099 14th Street, NW., Washington, 
DC.
    Docket Number: 01-025. Applicant: University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801. Instrument: QPix Colony Picker with 
Gridding and Rearraying packages. Manufacturer: Genetix Limited, United 
Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 67 FR 4393, January 30, 2002.
    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 unique multi-
tasking robotic system for picking, gridding and rearraying specific 
cell colonies with a rapid picking rate of 3500 colonies per hour and 
very high throughput useful for large scale DNA sequencing projects. 
The National Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum of December 
3, 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 Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-5108 Filed 3-1-02; 8:45 am]
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