[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 8 (Friday, January 11, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 2005]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-332]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration


University of Utah, 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 Room 2104, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue., NW., Washington, DC.

    Docket Number: 07-068.
    Applicant: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model Nova NanoSEM 430.
    Manufacturer: FEI Company, Czech Republic.
    Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 71360, December 17, 2007.

    Docket Number: 07-069.
    Applicant: The Children's Hospital, Denver CO 80218.
    Instrument: Electron Microscope, Model H-7650.
    Manufacturer: Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Japan.
    Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 71360, December 17, 2007.
    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 an electron microscope and is 
intended for research or scientific educational uses requiring an 
electron microscope. We know of no electron microscope, or any other 
instrument suited to these purposes, which was being manufactured in 
the United States at the time of order of each instrument.

    Dated: January 8, 2008.
Faye Robinson,
Director, Statutory Import Programs Staff, Import Administration.
[FR Doc. E8-332 Filed 1-10-08; 8:45 am]
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