[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 153 (Thursday, August 8, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51545-51546]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-20078]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Associated Universities, Inc.; 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: 02-016. Applicant: Associated Universities, Inc., 
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA 22903. 
Instrument: Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) Radio Telescope. 
Manufacturer: Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See 
notice at 67 FR 35961, May 22, 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: (1) Extremely 
high surface precision (25.0 m) and pointing accuracy (0.6 
arcseconds), (2) a structure immune to changes in temperature, (3) high 
speed motion and (4) operation from 30-950 GHz. The Harvard-Smithsonian 
Center for Astrophysics advised July 30, 2002 that (1) these 
capabilities are pertinent to the applicant's intended purpose and (2) 
it knows of no domestic instrument or

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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. 02-20078 Filed 8-7-02; 8:45 am]
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