[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: 03-18749]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


The University of Texas Health Science Center, et al.; Notice of 
Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Electron 
Microscopes

    This is a decision consolidated 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, Franklin Court 
Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1099 14th Street, NW., 
Washington, DC.
    Docket Number: 03-025.
    Applicant: The University of Texas Health Science Center at San 
Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-7750.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-1230.
    Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan.
    Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 36770, June 19, 2003.
    Order Date: May 1, 2003.

    Docket Number: 03-027.
    Applicant: Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, OR 97006.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai G2 12 
BioTWIN.
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands.
    Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 36770.
    Order Date: March 28, 2003.

    Comments: None received.
    Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to 
the foreign instrument, for such purposes as these instruments are 
intended to be used, was being manufactured in the United States at the 
time the instruments were ordered.
    Reasons: Each foreign instrument is a conventional transmission 
electron microscope (CTEM) and is intended for research or scientific 
educational uses requiring a CTEM. We know of no CTEM, or any other 
instrument suited to these purposes, which was being manufactured in 
the United States at the time of order of each instrument.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-18749 Filed 7-22-03; 8:45 am]
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