[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Page 43492]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-18748]



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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: 03-023. Applicant: University of Missouri--Kansas 
City, Kansas City, MO 64110. Instrument: OptoTOP He 3-D Digitizing 
System. Manufacturer: Breuckmann GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See 
notice at 68 FR 34907.
    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) Digitized 
video images for constructing very precise three-dimensional replicas, 
(2) imaging accuracy to 2.0 microm, (3) image acquisition times on the 
order of several seconds and (4) portable operation. The National 
Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum of June 9, 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. 03-18748 Filed 7-22-03; 8:45 am]
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