[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 112 (Wednesday, June 11, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34907-34908]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-14778]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of California, Berkeley; 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: 03-019.
    Applicant: University of California--Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-
2020.
    Instrument: Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography Apparatus.
    Manufacturer: Institute of Applied Physics RAS, Russia.
    Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 23979, May 6, 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.

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    Reasons: The foreign instrument provides suitability for studying 
the smaller eyes of animal rather than human subjects by allowing (1) 
use of a stereotaxic apparatus for head stabilization, (2) higher in-
depth and transverse resolutions and (3) the option of sequential 
sampling. The National Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum 
of April 28, 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. 03-14778 Filed 6-10-03; 8:45 am]
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