[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 2, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 44424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-16656]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Saskatchewan, et al.; Notice of Consolidated 
Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    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 Suite 4100W, Franklin Court 
Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1099 14th Street, NW, 
Washington, DC.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, 
for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured 
in the United States.
    Docket Number: 02-013. Applicant: University of Saskatchewan. 
Saskatoon, SK, Canada S7N 5C9. Instrument: Photoelectron Emission 
Microscope, Model PEEM III. Manufacturer: ELMITEC GmbH, Germany. 
Intended Use: See notice at 67 FR 35960, May 22, 2002. Reasons: The 
foreign instrument provides: (1) A lateral spatial resolution of 7 nm 
and (2) upgradeability for aberration corrected imaging. Advice 
received from: National Institutes of Health, June 5, 2002.

    Docket Number: 02-017. Applicant: Emory University, Atlanta, GA 
30322. Instrument: Micromanipulator Assembly for Slice Physiology 
Setup. Manufacturer: Luigs & Neumann, Germany. Intended Use: See notice 
at 67 FR 3776, May 30, 2002. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: 
(1) Customized design for the type of electrophysiological experiments 
being performed and (2) computer control of microscope and manipulator 
positioning. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, June 
5, 2002.

    The National Institutes of Health advises in its memoranda that (1) 
the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are 
pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) it knows of no 
domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the 
intended use of each instrument.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in 
the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to any of the 
foreign instruments.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
 Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 02-16656 Filed 7-1-02; 8:45 am]
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