[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 50 (Friday, March 14, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 12341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-6183]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Missouri--Kansas City; 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: 03-001. Applicant: University of Missouri, Kansas 
City, MO 64108. Instrument: (2) each Scanning Acoustic Microscopes, 
Models SAM 2000 and WINSAM 100. Manufacturer: Kramer Scientific 
Instruments GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 6415, 
February 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) Resolution 
to 0.1 [mu]m, (2) operation at frequencies to 2 GHz and (3) analysis of 
surface waves by the V(z)-curve technique for acoustic subsurface 
analysis of novel dental materials and composites. The National 
Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum of January 29, 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. 03-6183 Filed 3-13-03; 8:45 am]
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