[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 41 (Monday, March 3, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9984-9985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-4930]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


The University of Texas at Austin; 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: 02-050.
    Applicant: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
    Instrument: ``Helimak'' Custom Magnetized Plasma Turbulence 
Apparatus.
    Manufacturer: Academia Sinica Institute of Plasma Physics, Peoples 
Republic of China.

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    Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 742, January 7, 2003.
    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) A magnetized plasma 
embedded in a 0.1 T field with a temperature of approximately 10 eV and 
a density in the range of 1017 m-3 and (2) an 
externally applied and controlled sheared flow. The U.S. Department of 
Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory advised February 13, 2003 
that (1) these capabilities are 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. 03-4930 Filed 2-28-03; 8:45 am]
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