[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 22 (Monday, February 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 5274]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-2447]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 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: 02-049. Applicant: Howard Hughes Medical Institute 
at New York University, New York, NY 10003. Instrument: Multisync 
Clinton Monoray monitor and FE-1 Goggles. Manufacturer: Cambridge 
Research Systems Ltd., United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 67 
FR 77749, December 19, 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 special goggles 
with rapid response time and a matched CRT display with very fast 
phosphors to obtain right eye/left eye image extinction values below 
0.1% for study of stereopsis. The National Institutes of Health advises 
in its memorandum of December 10, 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. 03-2447 Filed 1-31-03; 8:45 am]
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