[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 237 (Tuesday, December 10, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 75847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-31154]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Department of Agriculture--Albany, CA; 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: 02-039.
    Applicant: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710.
    Instrument: Automated Robotic Colony Picking and Replicating 
System, Model QPixII.
    Manufacturer: Genetix Limited, United Kingdom.
    Intended Use: See notice at 67 FR 58355, September 16, 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 high performance robotic 
system for automated microbial colony picking and replicating on the 
basis of various features with additional capabilities of halo 
recognition and rearraying selected clones from one microplate to 
another. The National Institutes of Health advised in its memorandum of 
September 11, 2002, 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. 02-31154 Filed 12-9-02; 8:45 am]
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