[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 25, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61603-61604]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E5-5893]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


State University of New York, Stony Brook, 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 5:00 P.M. in Suite 4100W, Franklin Court 
Building, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1099 14th Street, NW, 
Washington, D.C.
    Docket Number: 05-032. Applicant: State University of New York, 
Stony Brook. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-2200FS. 
Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan. Intended Use: See notice at 70 FR 
48372, August 17, 2005. Order Date: September 2, 2003.
    Docket Number: 05-034. Applicant: The University of Southern 
Mississippi, Hattiesburg. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-
2100. Manufacturer: JEOL, Ltd., Japan. Intended Use:See notice at 70 FR 
48372, August 17, 2005. Order Date: October 13, 2004.
    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

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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 
application by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program ManagerStatutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E5-5893 Filed 10-24-05; 8:45 am]
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