[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 100 (Friday, May 23, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28197-28198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-13026]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


North Carolina State University; 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: 03-015. Applicant: North Carolina State University,

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Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Electron Beam Melting Machine, 
Model EBM S12. Manufacturer: Arcam AB, Sweden. Intended Use: See notice 
at 68 FR 16472, April 4, 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) Melting or 
sintering of powdered materials with an electromagnetically controlled 
energy source, (2) maintaining the heat of a part during construction 
sufficiently to avoid thermally induced stress concentrations in the 
part and (3) fabrication in a vacuum to minimize porosities and 
impurities. Sandia National Laboratories advised May 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. 03-13026 Filed 5-22-03; 8:45 am]
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