[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 221 (Wednesday, November 17, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Page 67320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E4-3202]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Texas A&M Research Foundation; 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: 04-019.
    Applicant: Texas A&M Research Foundation.
    Instrument: Scanning Hall Probe Microscope.
    Manufacturer: NanoMagnetics Instruments, Ltd., The United Kingdom.
    Intended Use: See notice at 69 FR 62435, October 26, 2004.
    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: characterization of 
micron and submicron scale magnetic structures under changing magnetic 
fields and temperatures with operability to 7T and to 2K.
    A domestic manufacturer of similar equipment advises 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. E4-3202 Filed 11-16-04; 8:45 am]
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