[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 163 (Thursday, August 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Page 48258]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-16692]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


North Carolina State University; Notice of Decision on 
Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument

This decision is pursuant to section 6(c) of the Educational, 
Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-
651, as amended by Pub. L.106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). 
Related records can be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 
2104, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14\th\ and Constitution Ave, NW., 
Washington, DC.
Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. Potential domestic 
manufacturers declined to bid on producing the scientific instrument. 
No domestic instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign 
instruments described below, for such purposes as each is intended to 
be used, was being manufactured in the United States at the time of its 
order.
Docket Number: 07-001. Applicant: North Carolina State University. 
Instrument: Cryogen-Free Magnetic System. Manufacturer: Cryogenic 
Limited, UK. Intended Use: See notice at 71 FR 4895, January 30, 2006 
(Comparable case). Reasons: The foreign instrument, the first of its 
kind, provides complete superconducting magnet operation in a cryogen-
free mode using a dilution refrigerator and a persistent 
superconducting switch which provides long-term magnetic field 
stability of at least 1 ppm/hr and can maintain the sample in the 
millikelvin range. Domestic magnets operating in cryogen-free mode do 
not provide long term field stability better than 10ppm/hr, nor do they 
offer a devoted cryo-cooler and cryogen-free dewar, thus providing a 
room temperature bore. Three potential domestic manufacturers of 
similar equipment declined to bid.

    Dated: August 20, 2007.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-16692 Filed 8-22-07; 8:45 am]
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