[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 11, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 26075]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-10663]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Colorado, Boulder., et al; Notice of Consolidated 
Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments

    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.
    Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of 
equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, 
for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured 
in the United States.
    Docket Number 04-002. Applicant: University of Colorado, Boulder, 
CO 80309-0425. Instrument: Fiber Laser System, Model E5. Manufacturer: 
Koheras A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 69 FR 9301, February 
27, 1904. Order Date: December 1, 2003. Reasons: The foreign instrument 
provides (1) linewidth of 1 kHz, (2) thermal tunability of 38 Ghz and 
Piezo tunability of 38 Ghz. Advice received from: A domestic 
manufacturer of similar equipment.

    Docket Number: 04-003. Applicant: Research Foundation of the City 
of New York, 555 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019. Instrument: 
Femtosecond Fiber Laser, Model Femtolite C-20-SP. Manufacturer: IMRA 
America, Inc., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 69 FR 9301, February 
27, 2004.
    Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a source of THz radiation 
on a 100 fs scale for investigation of THz time-domain spectroscopy and 
THz time-resolved spectroscopy.
    Advice received from: A domestic manufacturer of similar equipment.
    Domestic manufacturers of similar equipment advise that (1) the 
capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are 
pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) they know of no 
domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the 
intended use of each instrument.
    We know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in 
the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to any of the 
foreign instruments.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. 04-10663 Filed 5-10-04; 8:45 am]
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