[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 6415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-3082]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


National Institutes of Health--Bethesda, MD; 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: 02-048. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-0135. Instrument: (2) each Multi-Tasking 
Radiosynthesis Devices with Accessories. Manufacturer: Synthia Lab 
System Sweden AB, Sweden. 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 computer 
driven, robotically controlled modular reactors for producing more than 
15 \11\C-labeled radiopharmaceutical compounds for research in human 
and primate brain chemistry and radiochemical compound development. The 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory advised January 27, 2003, 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. 03-3082 Filed 2-6-03; 8:45 am]
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