[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 144 (Friday, July 26, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48880-48881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-19012]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Vanderbilt University, 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 Suite 4100W, Franklin Court 
Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1099 14th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 02-020. Applicant: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 
TN 37232. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 F30 TWIN 
Helium. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See 
notice at 67 FR 44424, July 2, 2002. Order Date: December 12, 2001.

    Docket Number: 02-022 Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-5766. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai 
TF30T. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. Intended Use: See 
notice at

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67 FR 44424, July 2, 2002. Order Date: March 20, 2002.

    Docket Number: 02-023. Applicant: University of California, Los 
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 F30 TWIN. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The 
Netherlands. Intended Use: See notice at 67 FR 44425, July 2, 2002. 
Order Date: December 14, 2001.
    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.
[FR Doc. 02-19012 Filed 7-25-02; 8:45 am]
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