[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 16473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8239]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Kentucky; 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: 03-004.
    Applicant: University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506.
    Instrument: IR Image Furnace, Model SCII-MDH-11020.
    Manufacturer: NEC Machinery Corporation, Japan.
    Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 8210, February 20, 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 a dual mirror image 
furnace with a homogeneous temperature gradient around the horizontal 
plane with a simultaneous steeper temperature gradient along the 
vertical portion for growth of various large single crystals. The 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration advised May 8, 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 (comparable case).
    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. 03-8239 Filed 4-3-03; 8:45 am]
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