[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 189 (Monday, September 30, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 61321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-24781]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Alaska Department of Fish & Game, 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: 02-034. Applicant: Alaska Department of Fish & Game, 
Anchorage, AK 99518. Instrument: (Two) Digital Fish Measuring Boards, 
Model FMB IV/64/10. Manufacturer: Limnoterra Ltd., Canada. Intended 
Use: See notice at 67 FR 52944, August 14, 2002. Reasons: The foreign 
instrument provides measurement and recording of fish length and weight 
which can be downloaded to a field-operated PC after a sample of fish 
has been measured. Advice received from: National Institutes of Health, 
August 27, 2002.
    Docket Number: 02-038. Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
Fargo, ND 58105. Instrument: Q Pix Colony Picker System, Model QPix2. 
Manufacturer: Genetix Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 
67 FR 55198, August 28, 2002. 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. Advice received from: 
National Institutes of Health, August 27, 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. 02-24781 Filed 9-27-02; 8:45 am]
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