[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 41 (Thursday, March 2, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 10650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-2987]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


Villanova University, 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: 05-058. Applicant: Villanova University, Villanova, Pa. 
Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model H-7600-2 TEM. Manufacturer: 
Hitachi High-Technologies Corp., Japan Intended Use: See notice at 71 
FR 4895, January 30, 2006. Order Date: February 23, 2005.
Docket Number: 05-062. Applicant: University of Texas Medical Branch at 
Galveston, Galveston, TX. Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model JEM-
2200FS. Manufacturer: JEOL Ltd., Japan.Intended Use: See notice at 71 
FR 2024, January 12, 2006. Order Date: February 23, 2005.
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 application by U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection.

Gerald A. Zerdy,
Program Manager, Statutory Import Programs Staff.
[FR Doc. E6-2987 Filed 3-1-06; 8:45 am]
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