[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 240 (Monday, December 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69659-69660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-30901]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 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: 03-048. Applicant: Whitehead Institute for 
Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142. Instrument: Electron 
Microscope, Model JEM-2200FS. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended 
Use: See notice at 68 FR 61189, October 27, 2003. Order Date: May 17, 
1999.
    Docket Number: 03-049. Applicant: National Institutes of Health, 
Bethesda, MD 20892-8008. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Tecnai 
G2 Polara. Manufacturer: FEI Company, The Netherlands. 
Intended Use: See notice at 68 FR 61189, October 27, 2003. Order Date: 
June 18, 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 either at the time of order of each 
instrument OR at the time of receipt of

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application by the U.S. Customs Service.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 03-30901 Filed 12-12-03; 8:45 am]
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